Add CLI parameter rfsimulator.beam_ids which uses a list of beam ids instead of a
beam map. The beam map API is still present and can be used interchangably.
Add telnet command setbeamids which has similar semantics
Allow arbitrary order of beam ids in set_beams2 function. This
allows the application to select any arbitrary order of beam ids.
The underlying transport mechanism still uses beam_map so the beam_ids
are ordered before sending.
Also replaced tx_beam_map/rx_beam_map into beam_map.
Also fixed an issue where --rfsimulator.enable_beams required an argument.
- Added first beam optimization to combine_tx_buffers.
- Added first beam & first peer optimization to rfsimulator_read_internal
This results in significant speed up for the first rx beam, first tx
beam and first peer which is the base case with beam simulation disabled.
In rfsim, received packets are dynamically allocated and freed when no longer
needed, which is dependent on the channel model, packet timestamp and packet
size (number of samples carried).
This commit fixes the packet age check for channels with nonzero channel offset
(most notalby NTN channels).
Also present:
- extract the NTN satellite position update code to a separate function and
call it once per trx_read call instead of once per rx beam.
Add a set of macros with designated initializers to simplify using
paramdef_t arrays in C++ source code. Fix clang error with
RFSIMULATOR_PARAMS_DESC using mixed designated and non-designated
initializers.
- Received packets are dynamically allocated and kept in a
queue for as long as they are needed.
- The layout of the packets was changed from interleaved antennas
to non-interleaved antennas.
- Generate a contiguous buffer from saved packets as needed.
There is extra work caused by this change due to recv() call no
longer saving data directly into the circular buffer, however further
processing is easier due to contiguous nature of the tx antenna buffers
prepared. The impact on performance was not measured.
A simplified beam switching simulation for rfsimulator. This works
mainly in 1 gNB - N UEs scenarios. This is not a real beamformer with
antenna, channel and propagation model. The way it works is that the
peers inform each other about the beams they transmit in, and on
reception before channel modelling, the beam data is combined based on
preconfigured rx_beam/tx_beam gain matrix.
Usage:
- Add --rfsimulator.enable_beams to enable beam simulation
- Add --rfsimulator.beam_gains <comma separated Toepliz form matrix of gains in dB>.
Example list: 0,-5,-10
Resulting matrix:
[[0, -5, -10]
[-5, 0, -5]]
[-10, -5, 0]]
- Add --telnetsrv if you want to control the beams manually. The command in telnet
is "rfsimu setbeam <beam_map>", where beam_map is a uint64_t controling the
reception beam and transmission beam. If the application is switching the beams
automatically the beams will be overwritten as soon as the application chooses to
switch beams.
Co-authored-by: Laurent Thomas <laurent.thomas@open-cells.com>
This function is to be called by the application to switch beams
on reception and transmission. When receiving new samples using
trx_read/trx_write the application is expected to be able to
determine which beam the samples belong to.
In perfrom_channel_modelling, do convolution in batches which allows
vrtsim to write the channel samples as they are being produced instead
of waiting for the last sample in the slot to be ready.
Limit sample history to 256 samples and copy it into each channel modelling
task instead of relying on globally available buffer. This simplifies the code
and addressing into the saved samples buffer as well as enabling further
optimizations without sacrificing thread safety.
Add two new functions for calculation symbol timestamp and symbol
duration for NR_DL_FRAME_PARMS. These functions are not using
the existing indirection mechanism via function pointers as this
prevents the compiler from properly optimizing the code.
Set the subcarrier_spacing field in nfapi_nr_ue_pusch_pdu_t from MAC
to PHY. This has no consequence for the NR UE Softmodem operation as this
field is never read, but prevents a potential future bug in case L1 was
modified to read it.
1. Refactor PDCCH PHY functions to take rxdataF of one OFDM symbol and
produce LLR for each search space. The modified functions take
rxdataF in a different format than that produced by nr_slot_fep(). So
for now a memcpy is used to change the array structure. Once
nr_slot_fep() is modified, this memcpy will no longer be needed and
will be removed.
2. Modify DCI functions to decode DCI in the last PDCCH symbol and
inidcate to MAC once.
3. Fix PDCCH monitoring for start symbol > 0.
4. Fix multiple PDCCH monitoring within slot.
Co-authored-by: Sakthivel Velumani <mail@sakthi.me>
- 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
Replace the unwieldy unix socket implementation of peer information
exchange with an authorative connection descriptor file that
informs the client of the connection method an number of antennas
on the server.
This allows the server to run without the client and allows the
client to reconnect as long as the server is running, as many times
as needed.
Move the channel state management outside the channel implementation.
This simplifies the channel implementation but forces users of the
channel to manage it's state manually.
Add handling for error states in vrtsim which allows to close the
softmodems with CTRL+C without hanging, improving user experience
- Client detection of stale timer.
- Abort state for client and server
Added a libary that can connect to a channel emulator and provide taps
as they are generated.
- Enable connection from vrtsim to channel emulation server
- Depends on flatbuffers definition file from raytracing-channel-emulator
- Depends on libanomsg-dev and flatbuffers-compiler (Ubuntu) or equivalent
- Added a compile time option ENABLE_TAPS_CLIENT to prevent other users
from being affected by additional dependencies
- Allow client to exit cleanly if server is down
- Ensure timing_thread is joined only once avoiding exit_function loop
- Free noise_device
- Save previously sent samples for channel modelling
Fixed a data race between DL processing of RAR and UL scheduler, which
might result in dropping MSG3.
It was possible that the UL scheduler for the UL slot which RAR
indicates as MSG3 slot was already run by the time the RAR was decoded.
Therefore when DCI for RAR is decoded, assume worst case and halt the
earliest corresponding UL scheduler call until RAR is decoded solving
the data race. This also in turn halts all later scheduling due to
sequential nature of the UL scheduler calls.
Due to different processing requirements on different CPUs it might
be beneficial to enable the users to set the number of UL/DL actors.
Allow disabling UL/DL actor frameworks and processing inline or
setting the number of DL/UL threads with --num-ul-actors/num-dl-actors
This was tested to work with 0 UL/DL actors with rfsim.
Replace the FD <-> buffer_t hashtable with epoll_event_t mapping.
This simplifies the code, reduces the probability of memory leaks and removes a
possible data race on the hashtable during rfsimulator shutdown.
SRI-PUSCH-PowerControl is not implemented at this point but its enough
to warn about incorrect power control behavior rather than assert on the
configuration.
Disable the PRACH workaround in NR UE. With the MIB/SIB delay
implemented on the gNB there is no longer a need to delay first
NR UE random access attempt.
This commit introduces a delay mechanism for the first MIB/SIB transmission
in the gNB scheduler to allow PRACH noise estimate to converge stabilize
before first PRACH preamble reception.
Key changes:
- Added the `num_scheduled_prach_rx` variable to gNB_MAC_INST to keep track
of total number scheduled of PRACH receptions. Using uint64_t type to avoid
overflow.
- Updated the `gNB_dlsch_ulsch_scheduler` function to conditionally schedule
MIB/SIB transmissions if `num_scheduled_prach_rx` is at least 100.
The value comes from OAIs implementation of PRACH noise estimate.
This commit refactors the TUN interface management by moving its creation
and configuration from the PDCP layer to the SDAP layer for UE.
Key changes include:
- Introduced `tun_generate_ue_ifname` and `tun_destroy` functions for better
TUN interface lifecycle management.
- Added support for creating and destroying UE-specific TUN interfaces in SDAP.
- Refactored `nr_pdcp_module_init` to remove TUN-related logic and moved it
to SDAP.
- Updated NAS and SDAP layers to handle PDU session-specific TUN interface
creation and configuration.
- Enhanced SDAP entity management to include TUN socket handling and thread
lifecycle.
- Updated NAS message handling to initialize default PDU session TUN
interfaces in NOS1 mode.
- Use a single SDAP thread function for gNB and UE
- Allow noS1 mode also in SA on gNB
These changes improve modularity by isolating TUN interface management within
the SDAP layer, aligning with the 3GPP architecture, and simplifying the PDCP
layer.
Co-Authored-By: Robert Schmidt <robert.schmidt@openairinterface.org>
This commit introduces support for concurrent UL slot processing
Key changes:
- Increased number of UL actors from 1 to 2
- fix several issues related to writing to global variables inside
processSlotTX
- Ensure in-order execution of if_module calls by utilizing the
preexisting dynamic_barrier structure.
Remove memset of the UE TX time domain samples array after trx_write in
RU_write()
This memset is unnecessary and can break openair0 libraries. Some
functionalities, e.g. usrp_lib write_thread expect the samples to be
present in the array after trx_write returns.
The array is always set before being sent either in idft or using memset
so there is no risk of sending the same data twice.
Avoid access to mac->current_DL_BWP structure when scheduling DCI for
SIBs other than 1. This is not needed and can cause NULL pointer access
which can happen if the UE has released MAC configuration or has not
started RA yet.
Realtime and near-realtime RFSimulator alternative without channel modelling.
The purpose of this library is to allow realtime simulation of gNB and nrUE.
The library is loaded using --device.name shm_radio. The server side (gNB) should also
configure --shm_radio.role server and --shm_radio.timescale <timescale> according to requirements.
Limitations:
- Only 1UE-to-1gNB connection supported
Future work:
- Channel modelling
- Telnet API
- Histogram of the TX time budget
This implements a server-client bidirectional time domain IQ channel via
shared memory.
The server creates the channel and should be aware of the client
receiver configuration (num rx/tx antennas).
Server shall be the time source and should call shm_iq_channel_produce_samples
at regular intervals
Handle N_TA_offset update the same way timing advance changes are handled:
modify writeBlockSize to ensure continuous transmission. Also address possible
data races by making sure the new timing_advance/N_TA_offset is only read
once from global memory.
Bartosz Podrygajlo