RFSim test for 10 UEs/process
This MR adds a testcase and changes required to run 10 UEs in a single
process with RFSim
- Added deregistration for all connected UEs
- Refactored MAC/RRC instance handling
- made map_current_symbol thread safe
- made opeanir0_cfg thread safe and local
- Added 10UE/process testcase
- Replaced ITTI message queues with notifiedFIFO for RRC to MAC communication in UE.
- Enables correct message delivery to multiple MAC instances running in parallel threads.
- Introduced `nr_mac_rrc_message_t` union for MAC-RRC messages.
- Updated all relevant message handling and initialization code to use notifiedFIFO.
- Use MAX_NUM_NR_UE_INST in NR UE MAC to control number of MAC instances.
- Modify the MAC interface slightly so that nr_l2_init_ue only initializes one instance
Use MAX_NUM_NR_UE_INST for number of NR UE RRC instances. Change the RRC
interface slightly so nr_rrc_init_ue initializes only one RRC instance pointed
to by the id given to the function
RF emulator and improvements of the timers
RF emulator:
Add an RF library emulating a real device without the need of a real
device. This is thought to enable using phy-test without requiring a
radio device or channel simulation. The library synchronizes on the
real time clock, drops TX and generate noise on RX. Noise generation
can be disabled and the noise level configured.
Timers improvements:
- Fix standard deviation for merged timers
- Add display of ULSCH decoding timers
- Add decoding timer in AAL
2 functions with same name as static to make it clearer they are separate.
remove unused copy of log_level global var.
remove threequarter sampling variable from the radio board general
configuration. The decision of sampling rate is made above. A better
behavior can be done later, like ask to the radio board what sampling
rate it can do,then use it to decide the appropiate sampling rate from
the gNB configuration. In UE case, it is another issue, as the sampling
rate would change after we decode SIB1, but also it is not developped
yet.
Remove the --usim-test option: to my knowledge, it's not used by users,
and is misleadingly placed in various places where there should not be a
difference w.r.t. USIM configuration.
When making the changes, I assumed that --usim-test would be 0 (the
default), which is the case in all executables when not specified in
options except for the nr_dlsim, nr_pbchsmi, nr_ulsim simulators.
The only exception is the initialization of PDCP from the MAC, which is
not correct (the PDCP is in the CU, so it does not make sense to call it
from the MAC which is in the DU). Instead, always initialize from main,
even in the NSA case (NSA was covered by the incorrect initialization
from MAC).
This in turn let to some more cleanup around function du_rlc_data_req().
After receiving GTP packets at the DU, they were given to the PDCP to
enqueue the packet at RLC. This does not work anymore, since the PDCP is
not initialized; it also does not seem necessary, as this enqueue
functionality is necessary to decouple PDCP and RLC to avoid deadlocks
in monolithic, but in split-mode, this cannot happen. Instead, call
directly into the RLC when receiving GTP packets.
NR UE: Enable additional PDU session
- fix a bug with wraparound of buffer_remain_ep
- Add --extra-pdu-id command line option
Testing procedure:
1. Start cn in openairinterface5g/doc/tutorial_resources/oai-cn5g with
docker compose up
2. Start gnb:
sudo ./nr-softmodem -O ../../targets/PROJECTS/GENERIC-NR-5GC/CONF/gnb.sa.band78.fr1.106PRB.usrpb210.conf --gNBs.[0].min_rxtxtime 6 --rfsim --rfsimulator.server_address server
3. Monitor extra interfaces being created:
watch -n 0.5 "ifconfig | grep tun"
4. Start UE:
sudo ./nr-uesoftmodem -C 3619200000 -r 106 --numerology 1 --ssb 516 --band 78 --rfsim --uicc0.imsi 001010000000001 --extra-pdu-id 11
5. An extra tun interface oaitun_ue1p11 should be created. Observe in
the terminal from step 3
6. Ping the core network from both interfaces, e.g., ping -I
oaitun_ue1p11 10.0.0.1, ping -I oaitun_ue1 10.0.0.1. This should
generate traffic on the gNB on different LCIDs.
RF simulator: Fix concurrency issues during new client connections
- Fix concurrency issues happening when a new client connects, sometimes
leading to a total softmodem deadlock.
- trace in 4G RAR processing to debug ci result
Improvements to the FHI for enabling further use cases
These changes to the FHI were primarily thought to enable the integration of
the intel ACC ( !3344 ) in parallel of the FHI.
I preferred to make a separate MR because I believe this topic is orthogonal
enough to be handled separately and because I wanted to bring even further
improvements.
The improvements that it actually brings are:
- Enable compiling and running xran F release with DPDK 21+
- Enable including a BBDEV device in addition of the ethernet device for the
FHI when performing EAL init, which is necessary for using the intel ACC
with the FHI.
- Fix an issue in usage of pkgconfig in xran E and F release. This enables to
reliably build xran with the version of DPDK requested to pkgconfig while
before this fix xran was always selecting the headers installed in /usr/local.
Get xran stats in the trx_oran_get_stats function
and use trx_oran_get_stats upon stopping and ending RF.
Co-authored-by: Romain Beurdouche <romain.beurdouche@eurecom.fr>
continuously update SIB19 information for rfsim NTN LEO scenarios
Contains mainly these changes:
- gNB: add function nr_update_sib19() allowing to update SIB19
information
- rfsimulator: update SIB19 contents every frame for LEO channel
simulations
- NR UE: improve initial timing advance calculation from SIB19
Before, we only considered ta_Common_r17 and the SAT position from SIB19
to compute the initial timing advance value. This is good enough if the
satellite does not move too fast (e.g. GEO satellite).
Now we also consider ta_CommonDrift_r17, ta_CommonDriftVariant_r17 and
the SAT velocity together with the epoch time from SIB19. This improves
the accuracy of the initial TA computation, esp. for LEO satellite
scenarios.
Update/refine gNB MAC stats, update L1
Only applicable with -q option.
Print a number of statistics, e.g., rx_ulsch_sdu to track UL MAC stats
timing. Remove unused time_meas_t definitions, and fix the name for the
total gNB scheduler time.
Print the RU stats in nrL1_stats.log, as some are already there, and do
not "pollute" the periodic logs when -q is enabled.
I used this to see why there are sometimes late slots with Aerial. I
used the above stats to get a general overview. This additional patch
shows that at least in RFsim, the RLC indication in rx ulsch sdu can
take up to 20us on my machine. Given that we can have multiple PDUs in
UL (10?), this can amount to a sizeable amount of time. While this is
for another MR, I thought the cleanup would be nice to have.
Do not pollute periodic output, and rather print those into
nrL1_stats.log. A number of them are already there anyway, so transfer
the rest. Note: ru->ifdevice.tx_fhaul is omitted, as we don't have any
IF5 split in 5G.
The implementation is limited to epoch times that are not more than 5.12 seconds in the future (allowed are up to 10.24 seconds)
and ntn-UlSyncValidityDuration < 5.12 seconds (allowed are up to 90 seconds).
To fix this limitation, the hyper frame number HFN has to be introduced at the OAI UE!
Before, we only considered ta_Common_r17 and the SAT position from SIB19 to compute the initial timing advance value.
This is good enough if the satellite does not move too fast (e.g. GEO satellite).
Now we also consider ta_CommonDrift_r17 and the SAT velocity together with the epoch time from SIB19.
This improves the accuracy of the initial TA computation, esp. for LEO satellite scenarios.
During reestablishment the UE goes back to not synchronized state.
While the synchronizatin is running, we trash frames using the function readFrame().
And when we successfully synchronize, we skip samples to align with the start of the frame using syncInFrame().
In rfsimulator mode, both of these functions send dummy data using the function dummyWrite().
Unfortunately, the writeTimestamp provided to that function was always assuming a duration from RX to TX of NR_UE_CAPABILITY_SLOT_RX_TO_TX.
But in NTN mode, this value is changed when receiving SIB19.
Therefore we have to consider this changed value instead of the static one.
Using the USIM interface in the MAC is non-sensical (violates layer
separation). Add header include in nr-softmodem.c, which previously came
through nr_mac_gNB.h -> usim_interface.h.
Jaroslava Fiedlerova