Long PRACH extends beyond a slot. Changes necessary to mark future slots
that may contain prach in ru, phy and mac functions.
In RU, the PRACH IDFT is done only after receiving last slot and marks
for L1 to start processing. The L1 processes at the last prach slot and
reports to MAC with the first slot index.
In MAC scheduler, the VRB for future slots are also marked as used.
PRACH scheduler is called in advance one frame minus num prach slots.
function returns mu of UL BWP if msg1-SubcarrierSpacing absent instead
of asserting. The mu retured by this function is used to compute the
slot number of PRACH. In case of long format, the slot number is as per
UL mu.
Fix "Received Nack" log for Msg4/MsgB and minor improvement in RA logs
Fix "Received Nack" log for Msg4/MsgB, in 4-Step RA. When there is a Msg4 NACK,
we have this log:
[NR_MAC] (UE 91db) Received Nack in MsgB, preparing retransmission!
This MR fixes the message and now works correctly both in 4-Step RA and 2-Step RA.
Other additional but minor improvement in RA logs.
During re-establishment we still have a valid SIB1 so we don't decode it
again. Then the UE never moves out of UE_RECEIVING_SIB, making
re-establishment impossible. This fixes addresses this.
Fixes: 11b87d8744 ("NR UE: RRC layer now explicitly tells MAC layer
when the RA procedure can be started)"
fix NTN LEO scenarios
- gNB: add support for NTN parameter ta-CommonDrift-r17
- NR UE: fix application of NTN TA information
- NR UE: add command line parameter ntn-initial-time-drift to compensate
time drift during initial sync
- NR UE: fix writeTimestamp inconsistencies
- NR UE: add MAC state UE_RECEIVING_SIB ensuring to start RA only after
successfully receiving SIBs
- rfsimulator: update earth radius for LEO simulation to match UE
position in ue.conf file
- update conf files for NTN LEO scenario
- update description how to run NTN scenarios in RUNMODEM.md
- fix: ta-Common is a round-trip-time, not a one-way delay
- NR UE: simplify calculation of next_tx_slot_and_frame by moving up
assignment of duration_rx_to_tx
- cellbarredNTN indicates notbarred in SIB1 if NTN access is available
- Removed b66 NTN and enabled B254 NTN conf file in CI
- NR UE: RRC layer now explicitly tells MAC layer when the RA procedure
can be started
- move NTN LEO config to band 254 and update doc/RUNMODEM.md
Closes#901
The aggregation level search order for PDCCH candidates is modified:
- the search starts from desired_agg_level_index, which is a value from 0 to 4
proportial to pdcch_cl_adjust.
- pdcch_cl_adjust is a value between 0 and 1 that indicates PDCCH channel quality
by averaging HARQ DTX rate. A value of 0 means perfect channel, a value o 1 means
impaired channel.
E1AP enc/dec lib improvements
This MR is including some fixes and improvements for the E1AP library,
focusing mostly on Bearer Context Management:
- struct reorganization: split setup and modification request messages
into distinct structures, ensuring compliance with 3GPP TS 38.463
specifications
- add encoding/decoding sub-functions for different IEs
- improvements to Bearer Context Management: Implemented various
improvements to the E1 Bearer Context Setup Response and Request,
including the adoption of encoding/decoding sub-functions for
different IEs
- use lib functions whenever need (e.g. cp_bearer_context_setup_request
in cucp_cuup_e1ap.c)
- handle optional struct members as pointers
- updated copy/equality check utility functions
EDIT: The MR is also including the changes from !3222 (closed):
> While testing E1 with security enabled for DRBs, it was found that
> data traffic was not functional.
>
> The problem was that security settings were modified in the PDCP
> reestablishment happening when receiving Bearer Context Modification
> Request.
>
> So some restructuring was done.
>
> The actual fix is in 18176297, the others are for support. Basically
> we introduce a boolean to check if the security settings are present in
> Bearer Context Modification Request and we change PDCP security settings
> only if they are.
>
> (Note that in OAI CU security settings are not sent in Bearer Context
> Modification Request, so we could also remove all this, but we need to
> be compatible with other cu-up and/or cu-cp.)
Added Support of 35Mhz,45Mhz,70Mhz Bandwidth
Added Support of 35Mhz,45Mhz,70Mhz Bandwidth for 30Khz Subcarrier
Spacing, Also added 35Mhz, 45Mhz bw for 15Khz Subcarrierspacing.
Referred Spec TS 38.101 v18.6.0 section 5.3.2, table 5.3.2-1
Reset E1 UE contexts after E1 Setup Response
38.463 sec. 8.2.3 says
> This procedure also re-initialises the E1AP UE-related contexts (if
> any) and erases all related signalling connections in the two nodes
> like a Reset procedure would do.
Hence, delete all contexts after reception of E1 Setup Response. This
minimizes a risk of receiving an E1 bearer setup req for an existing UE,
which currently leads to an assert [we trust the CU-CP does not send the
same UE ID twice, as we only "mirror" the existing UE ID]. After this
MR, this is what happens if these entities fail:
- CU-CP fails: all context lost implicitly, upon reconnection, both DU
and CU-UP reset all contexts (like "start from zero")
- DU fails: CU-CP triggers NGAP UE context release request immediately
(radio connection with UE lost), all UE contexts attached to this DU
cleared (like "start from zero" for affected DU)
- CU-UP fails: initially, nothing (UE has no user plane); upon
reconnection of CU-UP, CU-CP triggers NGAP UE context release request
(cause radio connection with UE lost) and sends F1 Reset to DU, all UE
contexts associated to this DU cleared (like "start from zero")
for the last case, a possible improvement could be to use the F1 Reset
message to only clear affected UE conetxts. I chose not to do this,
because this MR is very big now already, and possible "victim" UEs
that were not at that CU-UP will reconnect as well
If the Bearer Context Modification Request does not contain security
information, the PDCP entity shall keep the currently configured security
settings.
Passing -1 for ciphering_algorithm and integrity_algorithm is the way
to implement this logic.
francescomani