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.
(cherry picked from commit c5ca2bd862)
Summary of changes:
- fix dlsim/ulsim
- fix centOS compilation
- Move the accounting phase of the DL pre-processor in a separate procedure
and fix some issues
- additional Mac stats and Improvements
- minor fix in test setup v2
With value 4 when connecting one UE and doing some downlink
iperf TCP there is a crash. Probably due to the multiple wrong
RA detected leading to uplink failure of fake UE that never
sends Msg3 (because, well, there is no other UE).
This is another problem that will be fixed at some point.
Anyway, this value 4 fails. Let's put back 3.
eNB should be keep UE context longer than T311 timer after UL failure is detected in layer2.
Configuration file(GENERIC-LTE-EPC) sets T311 to 10s, so eNB keep UE context up to 20s.
naoi