Integration `2026.w11`
* !3864 remove xran_fh_tx_send_slot_BySymbol() and xran_fh_rx_read_slot_BySymbol()
* !3967 Harmonize the use of definition for number of symbols per slot
* !3971 Limit dl_DataToUL_ACK values to 15 as per standard
* !3414 Added NTN-FR2 FDD bands defined in release 18 in Ka-band range
* !3919 Reduce number of mutex locking in MAC->RLC direction
* !3923 XNAP: Add encode/decode and unit tests for Xn Setup Request/Response/Failure
* !3965 Enable BladeRF support in gNB Docker image
* !3904 add multi-ue support to vrtsim
* !3980 SDR reordering: correct warning, and USRP: return samples written
* !3834 Use flat buffer for txdataF in gNB L1
* !3981 Bugfix: make longer telnet cmdfunc names
* Reduce timing reference value for feptx_total in 40 MHz phytest
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3976
Bugfix: make longer telnet cmdfunc names
The maximum number of cmdfunc names is 20, which IMO is too low. Worse, if it's
longer, nothing will warn us because C will just fill the array to it's end
(without \0 at the end). To remedy this:
- Allow longer names till 64 bytes (I hit the previous limit of 20)
- Check that the name is within the length limit: if somebody wants a very long
name, the strnlen() will return the maximum length, hitting that assertion.
- When reading a command during runtime, allow the corresponding maximum length.
On that occasion, also increase total number of permitted cmdfuncs.
Use flat buffer for txdataF in gNB L1
This MR changes txdataF buffer format to hold freq domain data starting from
PRB0 instead of circular buffer that starts from PRB N/2. The motive is to
simplify RE mapping function in L1 and copying data to xran lib.
- Add num_ues and ue_id parameters for server and client configuration
- Implement ul combining and dl distribution to all ues
- Each ue uses dedicated antenna offsets based on ue_id
- Works with no-chanmod mode only and with uniform antenna dimensions across all ues
The maximum number of cmdfunc names is 20, which IMO is too low. Worse,
if it's longer, nothing will warn us because C will just fill the array
to it's end (without \0 at the end). To remedy this:
- Allow longer names till 64 bytes (I hit the previous limit of 20)
- Check that the name is within the length limit: if somebody wants a
very long name, the strnlen() will return the maximum length, hitting
that assertion.
- When reading a command during runtime, allow the corresponding maximum
length.
On that occasion, also increase total number of permitted cmdfuncs.
The original error was simply "failed to write to RF", which is not very
precise. Update with sample numbers for context, and add it in another
similar case for consistency.
Co-authored-by: Sagar Arora <sagar.arora@openairinterface.org>
At least writerProcessWaitingQueue() checks for the exact number of
samples written. In many other places, we check that the return is
non-zero.
The usrp-tx-write-thread functionality returned 0, which triggers
various problems. Return the number of samples, as in the "direct write"
case (if-block before else-block).
Co-authored-by: Sagar Arora <sagar.arora@openairinterface.org>
XNAP: Add encode/decode and unit tests for Xn Setup Request/Response/Failure
This MR adds complete support for the following in accordance with
3GPP TS 38.423 v16.2.0
- Add Xn Setup Request, Response, and Failure message type definitions
- Implement ASN.1 encode/decode for all Xn Setup messages
- Add equality checks and memory management helpers
- Create XNAP unit test infrastructure
Co-author: @venkatareddy
Acknowledgement
This work was carried out as part of research and development at Indian
Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
Reduce number of mutex locking in MAC->RLC direction
Currently, the scheduler locks RLC for each operation. Concretely
- for RLC status indication (to get amount of bytes per LC), it locks per LC
- for RLC indication (UL traffic), it locks for each MAC SDU of which there can
be multiple in a TB
- for RLC data req (getting data from RLC to put into a transport block), it
locks for each LCID and PDU to get.
This can have a certain overhead, because we need to re-lock RLC multiple times
instead of once (per operation above). In this MR, rework the interfaces such
that it is possible to get all information/data in a single lock-unlock cycle,
which should also help with "spikes" of scheduler times (in some scenarios, it
seems the scheduler takes longer than 0.5ms, and while it's not only locking,
re-locking might contribute), and an increase of number of UEs (e.g., instead
of doing 3 * N UEs lock cycles for getting status of SRB1, SRB2, DRB1, we do
only N times). Concretely, for each UEs RLC status indication, we lock once,
only once per LCID when filling a TB (in particular for LCID 4, on high
throughput, it might be many times), and only once per UL TB (for the common
case of UL data).
Minor fixes include the increase of the Aerial VNF thread priority, and reducing
the maximum RLC indication size to reduce excessive computation (we can't have
1MB in one TB, it is too much).
Adds the API, which will always prepend a 3 byte header before writing a
PDU. This can be used to call less often into RLC, and avoid potential
locking.
The API is used at the gNB DLSCH scheduler. Also, this removes the
"overhead" calculation: since we fill the entire TB at once, RLC will
leave space for headers as necessary.
- Add Xn Setup Response message type definitions
- Implement encoder and decoder for Xn Setup Response
Xn Setup Response (3GPP TS 38.423v16.2.0 §9.1.3.2)
- Global NG-RAN Node ID (M)
- TAI Support List (M)
- Add equality check and memory management helpers
- Extend XNAP library unit tests to cover Setup Response
- Add initial XnAP library structure under openair2/XNAP/lib
- Implement common XnAP helper utilities (xnap_lib_common)
- Add gNB interface management module for Xn Setup procedures
- Introduce XnAP message type definitions in xnap_messages_types.h
- Integrate XnAP library into build system (CMakeLists.txt)
- Add standalone XnAP library unit test (xnap_lib_test)
- Implement encoder, decoder + test for Xn Setup Request
Xn Setup Request (3GPP TS 38.423v16.2.0 §9.1.3.1)
- Global NG-RAN Node ID (M)
- TAI Support List (M)
- AMF Region Information (M)
- Extend conversions.h with MACRO_BIT_STRING_TO_GNB_ID utility
Co-authored-by: Sreeshma Shiv <sreeshmau@iisc.ac.in>
Added NTN-FR2 FDD bands defined in release 18 in Ka-band range
* NTN-FR2 bands 510, 511, 512 added. TS 38.101-5 v 18.9 defines these 3 FR2-FDD
bands for NTN operation.
* These bands are defined in Ka band range (17.3Ghz - 31Ghz).
* Tested using the added conf files using RFSIM and GEO configuration.
* There were some inconsistencies observed when testing with RFSimulator before UE
Syncs to the gNB in terms of samples being written for FR2 configurations. Once
the UE syncs, the inconsistencies disappear.
* this is the problem - UE writes incorrect number of samples and gNB complains
about getting samples in past
* The above inconsistencies were also fixed in this merge request.
* These commits solving above inconsistencies were removed from this MR and a
different MR was raised. MR with those commits: !3928.
So far txdataF buffer has DC RE as the first element. This was prefered
most likely to avoid memcpy before iFFT but comes with a small
complexity in RE mapping functions.
Instead, we use a flat buffer that holds freq domain data starting from
first negative SC. After resource mapping is done on all channels, each
OFDM symbol is shifted before iFFT so that the buffer start with DC RE.
This reduces complexity in mapping functions and later on when passing
beam IDs to 7.2 split RU especially when a beam is associated to
interleaved RB and/or REs.
There is already a memcpy in place to copy txdataF from gNB stuct to RU
struct. So this change does not introduce new memcpy.
Limit dl_DataToUL_ACK values to 15 as per standard
If min feedback time is high enough otherwise we might fail to encode/decode
pucch-Config
Assertion (enc_rval.encoded > 0 && enc_rval.encoded <= max_buffer_size * 8) failed!
In encode_cellGroupConfig() /home/francesco/openairinterface5g/openair2/LAYER2/NR_MAC_gNB/nr_radio_config.c:4029
ASN1 message encoding failed (dl-DataToUL-ACK, 18446744073709551615)!
remove xran_fh_tx_send_slot_BySymbol() and xran_fh_rx_read_slot_BySymbol()
We have separate functions ran_fh_tx_send_slot_BySymbol() and
xran_fh_rx_read_slot_BySymbol() for liteon. This MR is to remove those separate
functions.
Main author: Teodora Vladić
Co-author: Mario Joa-Ng
Changes:
xran_fh_tx_send_slot() is using if then else to handle per slot and per symbol
logic. xran_fh_rx_read_slot() is straightforward.
Testing:
- Liteon: Verified end-to-end.
- Benetel: (per slot without beam_id): Verified end-to-end.
- Microamp: (per slot with beam_id): Verified end-to-end. The branch
microamp_F_harmonize is used instead as microamp could not be run with develop
branch.
Even though the NR ARFCN uses a 15 kHz raster until 24250 MHz,
the ssb_offset_point_a is still scaled by 60 kHz for FR2.
So we need two different scaling factors.
NTN-FR2 bands 510, 511, 512 added.
TS 38.101-5 v 18.9 defines these 3 FR2-FDD bands for NTN operation.
These bands are defined in Ka band range (17.3Ghz - 31Ghz)
UL STEPSIZE, UL NOFFS added into band table
Integration `2026.w10`
* !3946 UE L1 cleanup
* !3929 UE: Fix if target cell during handover has SSB at a different offset as in source cell
* !3961 Remove Ubuntu 20 and RHEL/Rocky 8 support, increase cmake min version
* !3884 Integrate NRPPA and NGAP messages required for positioning
* !3784 CI: Create new pipeline for testing with Aerial and Jetson
* !3697 fix: issue 911 - OAI gNB hangs when AMF connection goes down
* !3914 Fix dB_fixed() function
* !3800 Add tracer to record configured events to database
* !3954 UHD streamer thread priorities in nrUE
* !3846 rename with distinct names structs and related typedefs, remove spread struct keyword
* !3958 Remove unused function arguments
Closes#911
See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3962
Remove unused function arguments
Some of them, because there are hundreds if not thousands. Warnings at compilation time can be enabled using -Wunused-parameter.
Fix dB_fixed() function
- dB_fixed(0) returns 0 in develop branch;
- 0 in dB is -INF, but since we're dealing with integer variables, we'll put
20*log10(2^-15) in the output of dB_fixed() function, instead of 0.
- make all users use signed variables
fix: issue 911 - OAI gNB hangs when AMF connection goes down
Once the AMF is down, based on the AMF UE NGAP ID and RAN UE NGAP ID,
the UE associated with the AMF is found
All the contexts related to the UE are released and the timer is started
in the NGAP to look up for the SCTP association. The AMF-gNB reconnection
is made if an SCTP connection is found, also the registration of multiple
UE is triggered
These actions are based on the reference from 4.2.6 AN release Specs
TS 123 502 V16.7.0 (2021-01)
When the NG-AP signalling connection is lost due to (R)AN or AMF failure,
the AN release is performed locally by the AMF or the (R)AN as described
in the procedure flow below without using or relying on any of the signalling
shown between (R)AN and AMF. The AN release causes all UP connections of the UE
to be deactivated.
closes#911
Integrate NRPPA and NGAP messages required for positioning
This MR integrates NRPPA and NGAP messages required for positioning.
The following NGAP messages are integrated (3GPP 38.413 Version 16.0.0):
NGAP UPLINK UE ASSOCIATED NRPPA TRANSPORT
NGAP UPLINK NON UE ASSOCIATED NRPPA TRANSPORT
NGAP DOWNLINK UE ASSOCIATED NRPPA TRANSPORT
NGAP DOWNLINK NON UE ASSOCIATED NRPPA TRANSPORT
The following NRPPA messages are integrated (3GPP 38.455 Version 16.7.1):
TRP Information Request
TRP Information Response
Positioning Information Request
Positioning Information Response
Positioning activation request
Positioning Activation Response
Measurement Request
Measurement Response
This MR tests these messages via a standalone tester nr-cu-nrppa-test that
connects to the AMF to perform NGAP enc/dec and NRPPA enc/dec
Core Network:
To pull the docker images:
docker pull oaisoftwarealliance/ims:latest
docker pull oaisoftwarealliance/oai-amf:develop
docker pull oaisoftwarealliance/oai-nrf:develop
docker pull oaisoftwarealliance/oai-smf:develop
docker pull oaisoftwarealliance/oai-udr:develop
docker pull oaisoftwarealliance/oai-upf:develop
docker pull oaisoftwarealliance/oai-udm:develop
docker pull oaisoftwarealliance/oai-ausf:develop
docker pull oaisoftwarealliance/oai-lmf:develop
openairinterface5g$ cd doc/tutorial_resources/oai-cn5g
To deploy:
openairinterface5g/doc/tutorial_resources/oai-cn5g$ docker compose -f docker-compose-positioning.yaml up -d
To undeploy:
openairinterface5g/doc/tutorial_resources/oai-cn5g$ docker compose -f docker-compose-positioning.yaml down -t 0
RAN:
To compile:
openairinterface5g$ mkdir build
openairinterface5g$ cd build
openairinterface5g/build$ cmake .. -GNinja
openairinterface5g/build$ ninja nr-cu-nrppa-test
To run:
openairinterface5g/build$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./tests/nr-cu-nrppa/nr-cu-nrppa-test -O ../tests/nr-cu-nrppa/nr-nrppa-test.conf
To initiate positioning procedure:
openairinterface5g$ cd doc/tutorial_resources/positioning/
openairinterface5g/doc/tutorial_resources/positioning$ curl --http2-prior-knowledge -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "@InputData.json" -X POST http://192.168.70.141:8080/nlmf-loc/v1/determine-location
Robert Schmidt