Cedric Roux
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The discard timer is used by the PDCP layer to discard packets that were not transmitted to RLC after some time. We don't really need it for the moment, maybe never for the default bearer which is a best-effort bearer passing all kind of IP traffic. Maybe for voice over IP kind of traffic it's important, or realtime applications. I ran an iperf UDP uplink test and saw no error on the PHY layer but still lots of packets lost in the iperf logs, which was very surprising. By analyzing the logs in wireshark I saw that, with the current scheduler, an IP packet sent by the UE took 40ms to be sent piece by piece to the gNB, and then the next uplink IP packet was never sent at all because the discard timer was expired, leading to the high count of packets lost in the iperf logs. So let's put infinity for the moment for the discard timer. From my understanding of the moment it's not a problem. If for some reason we should set it to some non-infinity value, then we can change later.
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The OpenAirInterface (OAI) software is composed of the following parts:
openairinterface5g ├── ci-scripts : Meta-scripts used by the OSA CI process. Contains also configuration files used day-to-day by CI. ├── cmake_targets : Build utilities to compile (simulation, emulation and real-time platforms), and generated build files. ├── common : Some common OAI utilities, other tools can be found at openair2/UTILS. ├── doc : Contains an up-to-date feature set list and starting tutorials. ├── executables : Top-level executable source files. ├── LICENSE : License file. ├── maketags : Script to generate emacs tags. ├── nfapi : Contains the NFAPI code. A local Readme file provides more details. ├── openair1 : 3GPP LTE Rel-10/12 PHY layer / 3GPP NR Rel-15 layer. A local Readme file provides more details. │ ├── PHY │ ├── SCHED │ ├── SCHED_NBIOT │ ├── SCHED_NR │ ├── SCHED_NR_UE │ ├── SCHED_UE │ └── SIMULATION : PHY RF simulation. ├── openair2 : 3GPP LTE Rel-10 RLC/MAC/PDCP/RRC/X2AP + LTE Rel-14 M2AP implementation. Also 3GPP NR Rel-15 RLC/MAC/PDCP/RRC/X2AP. │ ├── COMMON │ ├── DOCS │ ├── ENB_APP │ ├── F1AP │ ├── GNB_APP │ ├── LAYER2/RLC/ : with the following subdirectories: UM_v9.3.0, TM_v9.3.0, and AM_v9.3.0. │ ├── LAYER2/PDCP/PDCP_v10.1.0 │ ├── M2AP │ ├── MCE_APP │ ├── NETWORK_DRIVER │ ├── NR_PHY_INTERFACE │ ├── NR_UE_PHY_INTERFACE │ ├── PHY_INTERFACE │ ├── RRC │ ├── UTIL │ └── X2AP ├── openair3 : 3GPP LTE Rel10 for S1AP, NAS GTPV1-U for both ENB and UE. │ ├── COMMON │ ├── DOCS │ ├── GTPV1-U │ ├── M3AP │ ├── MME_APP │ ├── NAS │ ├── S1AP │ ├── SCTP │ ├── SECU │ ├── TEST │ ├── UDP │ └── UTILS └── targets : Top-level wrappers for unitary simulation for PHY channels, system-level emulation (eNB-UE with and without S1), and realtime eNB and UE and RRH GW.