Due to some unknown bug in the eNB (or UE, or both), the first frames
are not correctly generated (or handled), which leads to a bad behavior
of the simulator in some cases (seen with 100 RBs: the UE reads a bad
MIB and switches to 25 RBs, which results in a deadlock in the
tcp_bridge_oai driver).
Let's "fix" this problem by skipping (in the driver) some frames at the
beginning of the simulation.
Not much has been changed in the driver (that used libbladerf 1.0).
Some bugs have been fixed. Documentation has been added. A configuration
file has been added too, put in the directory ./configuration/bladeRF.
To use a bladeRF device, see documentation in targets/ARCH/BLADERF/README.
Only the BladeRF x40 has been tested.
Performance is not too bad at 5MHz, a bit worse at 10MHz and on the test
machine I used I face realtime problems at 20MHz when I push downlink
throughput.
So, there is still some work to do to have a good support of bladeRF.
In TDD mode the eNB does not output data all the time,
only in downlink and special subframes.
The basic simulator needs a continuous stream of samples.
So let's fill the blank with silence.
TODO: Currently the driver picks the two first RX and TX channels when nb_tx and nb_rx are both set to 2. If a developers wants to force usage of two devices, 'set_rx_subdev_spec' and 'set_tx_subdev_spec' can be used to indicate to the driver so that antennas from separate devices will be used. To rephrase: until 4 antennas are supported by OAI, testing with two devices, so that antennas from both devices are used, requires manual configuration of which subdevices' antennas are used.
Conflicts:
targets/ARCH/USRP/USERSPACE/LIB/usrp_lib.cpp
The power estimation of the UE has to be debugged (calibrated?).
In the meantime, using "--ue-rxgain 140" lets the UE and eNB
talk to each other in the basic simulator.
This commit introduces a 'basic simulator'.
This basic simulator is made of:
- the standard eNB code using a special driver that mimics the USRP driver
- the standard UE code using a special driver that mimics the USRP driver
- no channel simulation
- some special code to deal with faster-than-realtime behaviour of this
basic simulator
It connects one UE to one eNB. It requires an EPC, populated with the
correct configuration for the UE.
This is the initial release and may contain bugs (most probably race
conditions due to the faster-than-realtime behaviour).
To use it, see the documentation at:
targets/ARCH/tcp_bridge/README.tcp_bridge_oai.
It has been tested with 25, 50 and 100 RBs, FDD mode.
(No check at all has been done to know if it could work in TDD mode.)
This commit fixes issues introduced by the previous commit.
Summary of work:
- cleanup:
- fix LOG_XX to be less verbose
- fix cmake_targets/CMakeLists.txt
- fix oaienv
- remove dead code
- bug fixes:
- in openair1/SCHED/fapi_l1.c we had:
eNB->pdcch_vars[subframe&1].num_dci = number_dci;
should be:
eNB->pdcch_vars[subframe&1].num_dci = 0;
This bug let the PHY send more DCIs than what should have been
sent because num_dci is incremented later on in the code.
This fix may be a problem for fapi mode, to be checked.
- add new T VCD traces
- revert openair1/PHY/TOOLS/file_output.c to 'develop' version
- remove thread_id in logRecord/logRecord_mt
- revert (and adapt) configuration files
- be careful when doing frame++, we need to % 1024
- revert target_rx_power in openair2/LAYER2/MAC/eNB_scheduler_ulsch.c
- NFAPI:
- the open-nFAPI code has been included in the repository. See nfapi/README.
Maybe we should "git clone" the Cisco repository instead. We have to be
careful of availability though.
What has been tested:
- monolithic eNB FDD 5/10MHz with one UE, iperf UDP/TCP uplink/downlink
Anything else may fail to work, especially the FAPI mode, which has not
been tested at all.
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