Basically, build_helper has been adapted so that:
./buil_oai -I -w USRP
works for Ubuntu 17.04 and 17.10.
Concerning those systems:
- compilation with "--eNB --UE -w USRP" works
- the enb softmodem runs on 17.04 (not tested on 17.10)
- nothing else has been tested.
Users should report any problem.
The problem is the following (as reported by an user):
"one UE is attached to OAI system. UE is near the antenna. Try to detach
the UE and attach again. Repeat this procedure for 5-6 times. OAI system
does not work and any the UE can not attach to this system. I use TEMS
software and I can see MIB signaling on this UE but UE can not decode SIB1
and SIB2."
What happens is that the DCI for SIB1 and SIB2 is not cleared before
use. That is the bits in the 'padding' field keep the values that were
set before. If the structure has been used to transmit other DCIs
(eg. for UEs) in the past, it may be reused with some of those bits set
to 1. When receiving this DCI, the UE won't accept it because it
gets some bits at 1 where it expects them to be 0.
The short-term/quick solution is to clear the 'padding' field.
A better solution would be to rewrite this part of the code,
which is way too complicated for what it does. But this takes
too much time.
In dci.h the field 'dummy' of some structures was renamed to 'padding'.
The fields 'padding32' and 'padding64' were also renamed to 'padding'
for consistency.
Some structures (DCI2B_1_5MHz_TDD, DCI2B_10MHz_FDD, DCI2D_1_5MHz_FDD,
DCI2D_5MHz_FDD, DCI2D_10MHz_FDD) had a 'padding' field at the end, which
was renamed to 'padding0'. I don't know if this field should be here at all.
To me this field looks very suspicious. When we test DCIs 2B and 2D we
should be careful.
physicalConfigDedicated may be legitimately NULL at some places
with the current code.
A cleaner solution is needed (we should always have a dedicated
config, initialized with values from the 3GPP specs, not have
a NULL as we do now).
Summary of changes:
- minor changes in RA code (functionality not changed, only notation)
- automatic indentation of some files (with indent -kr)
- bugfixes for TDD in RRU (IF4p5) and timing statistics of fronthaul and
compression
Xu Bo