Robert Schmidt
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CI: Generalize PhySim tests, run PhySims on Gracehopper This changeset generalizes/harmonizes the CI infrastructure for physim testing, and adds a new pipeline for physim tests on Gracehopper machines. Specifically: - Refactor the existing CI code for running and analyzing physical simulators. The existing code assumed those tests are deployed using OpenShift. Instead, OpenShift/Helm-specificities (e.g., running a "release") have been removed, and instead of hardcoding the deployment of the physical simulators using a script for Helm, the function takes any script that can deploy using Helm/docker/from source. The overall appearance is the same. - Add a new pipeline RAN-PhySim-GraceHopper-5G that executes physical simulators on gracehopper. Reporting is done in the same way as for existing physical simulators (e.g., like in the RAN-PhySim-Cluster-5G pipeline), but deployed in docker instead of helm. -> some tests don't work reliably on ARM yet and are skipped - the RAN-gNB-N300-Timing-Phytest-LDPC pipeline has been reworked to use the same code for testing T2 offload, with ctest, and the same reporting. - the CUDA LDPC test XML has been removed, as these tests don't work reliably. - add a new macro add_timed_physim_test() that allows to define thresholds to be checked, so that ctest will check for them. see the documentation for more information
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OpenAirInterface documentation overview |
This is the general overview page of the OpenAirInterface documentation.
This page groups links to general information, tutorials, design documents, radio integration, and special-purpose libraries.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Before reading this documentation, we strongly advise you to keep your own repository rebased on develop
or at least to checkout the documentation on the version of the repository you are using.
Then the documentation will better reflect the features available in your repository so that you may avoid some errors.
Beware if you previously pulled the develop branch that your repository may be now behind develop.
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General
- FEATURE_SET.md: lists supported features
- GET_SOURCES.md: how to download the sources
- BUILD.md: how to build the sources
- code-style-contrib.md: overall working practices, code style, and review process
- cross-compile.md: how to cross-compile OAI for ARM
- clang-format.md: how to format the code
- sanitizers.md: how to run with ASan/UBSan/MemSAN/TSan
- environment-variables.md: the environment variables used by OAI
- tuning_and_security.md: performance and security considerations
There is some general information in the OpenAirInterface Gitlab Wiki
Tutorials
- Step-by-step tutorials to set up 5G:
- RUNMODEM.md: Generic information on how to
- Run simulators
- Run with hardware
- Specific OAI modes (phy-test, do-ra, noS1)
- (5G) Using SDAP and custom DRBs
- IF setups and arbitrary frequencies
- MIMO
- How to run OAI with O-RAN 7.2 FHI
- How to run a 5G-NSA setup
- How to run a 4G setup using L1 simulator Note: we recommend the RFsimulator
- How to use the L2 simulator
- How to use the OAI channel simulator
- How to use multiple BWPs
- How to run OAI-VNF and OAI-PNF: how to run the FAPI/nFAPI split, including some general remarks on FAPI/nFAPI.
- How to use the positioning reference signal (PRS)
- How to use device-to-device communication (D2D, 4G)
- How to run with E2 agent
- How to run the physical simulators
- How to setup OAI with Nvidia Aerial and Foxconn
- How to setup OAI with LDPC accelerators (Xilinx T2/Intel ACCs)
- How to do a handover
- How to setup gNB frequency
Legacy unmaintained files:
L2NFAPI_NOS1.md,L2NFAPI_S1.md: old L2simulator, not valid anymoreSystemX-tutorial-design.md: old, high-level documentationUL_MIMO.txt: UL-MIMO specific notes
Designs
- General software architecture notes: SW_archi.md
- Information on E1
- Information on F1
- Information on how NR nFAPI works
- Flow graph of the L1 in gNB
- L1 threads in NR-UE
- Information on gNB MAC
- Information on gNB RRC
- Information on analog beamforming implementation
- Information on the UE 5G NAS implementation
Building and running from images
- How to build images
- How to run 5G with the RFsimulator from images
- How to run 4G with the RFsimulator from images
- How to run physical simulators in OpenShift
Libraries
General
- The T tracer: a generic tracing tool (VCD, Wireshark, GUI, to save for later, ...)
- OPT: how to trace to wireshark
- The configuration module
- The logging module
- The shared object loader
- The threadpool used in L1
- The LDPC implementation is a shared library
- The time management module
Radios
Some directories under radio contain READMEs:
The other SDRs (AW2S, LimeSDR, ...) have no READMEs.
Special-purpose libraries
- OAI has two scopes: one based on Xforms and one based on imgui, described in this README
- OAI comes with an integrated telnet server to monitor and control
- OAI comes with an integrated web server
Testing
- UnitTests.md explains the unit testing setup
- Component tests are under
tests/. Currently, there is a simple CU-UP tester, see the corresponding README.md. - TESTBenches.md lists the CI setup and links to pipelines
- The CI setup uses a custom framework to run end-to-end tests.
Developer tools
- formatting is a clang-format error detection tool
- iwyu is a tool to detect
#includeerrors - docker-dev-env is a ubuntu24 docker development environment