Extends the partner search from 1 partner to up to MAX_MU_MIMO_PARTNERS=3 partners, totalling 4 UEs per slot — one per orthogonal x2 class of the 4-port Type I rank-1 codebook. Orthogonality test relaxed: any distinct x2 (with same x1) is accepted. The 4 codewords w_(x1,n) for n=0..3 are mutually orthogonal because they share spatial vector v_x1 and differ only in co-phasing j^n; <w_a, w_b> = 0 for any a != b. Each partner gets a distinct DMRS port: leader -> port 1000 (CDM group 0, mask 0x1) partner 0 -> port 1001 (CDM group 0, mask 0x2) partner 1 -> port 1002 (CDM group 1, mask 0x4) partner 2 -> port 1003 (CDM group 1, mask 0x8) numDmrsCdmGrpsNoData=2 reserves both DMRS groups. Class-uniqueness tracked via classes_used bitmask: each successive partner must be from an unused x2 class. Pair log: "[nakaolab MU-MIMO] F.S N-way pair RNTI A (x2=0) + RNTI B (x2=1) + ... on RBs [..]" Result on rfsim with 9 UEs cycling 4 classes: 8069 total pairings observed 920 4-way (all 4 classes co-scheduled) 2756 3-way 4404 2-way
OpenAirInterface License
The source code is distributed under CSSL v1.0. Some files, such as for orchestration, are distributed under MIT license(MIT.txt). Documentation is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
All the files without an explicit copyright header have an implicit "Copyright of OpenAirInterface Authors".
Please see NOTICE for other licenses which are used in the software.
In the past OAI source code has been re-licensed sometimes, here is the history:
- CSSL v1.0 starting tag 2026.w14
- OAI Public License v1.1 starting tag v1.0 till
af4b0d53 - OAI Public License v1.0: starting tag v.04 till v1.0
- GPL 3: starting tag v.0 till v.04 (only initial implementation of 4G)
Where to Start
- General overview of documentation
- The implemented features
- System Requirements for Using OAI Stack
- How to build
- How to run the modems
Not all information is available in a central place, and information for specific sub-systems might be available in the corresponding sub-directories. To find all READMEs, this command might be handy:
find . -iname "readme*"
RAN repository structure
The OpenAirInterface (OAI) software is composed of the following parts:
openairinterface5g
├── charts
├── ci-scripts : Meta-scripts used by the OSA CI process. Contains also configuration files used day-to-day by CI.
├── CMakeLists.txt : Top-level CMakeLists.txt for building
├── cmake_targets : Build utilities to compile (simulation, emulation and real-time platforms), and generated build files.
├── common : Some common OAI utilities, some other tools can be found at openair2/UTILS.
├── doc : Documentation
├── docker : Dockerfiles to build for Ubuntu and RHEL
├── executables : Top-level executable source files (gNB, eNB, ...)
├── maketags : Script to generate emacs tags.
├── nfapi : (n)FAPI code for MAC-PHY interface
├── openair1 : Layer 1 (3GPP LTE Rel-10/12 PHY, NR Rel-15 PHY)
├── openair2 : Layer 2 (3GPP LTE Rel-10 MAC/RLC/PDCP/RRC/X2AP, LTE Rel-14 M2AP, NR Rel-15+ MAC/RLC/PDCP/SDAP/RRC/X2AP/F1AP/E1AP), E2AP
├── openair3 : Layer 3 (3GPP LTE Rel-10 S1AP/GTP, NR Rel-15 NGAP/GTP)
├── openshift : OpenShift helm charts for some deployment options of OAI
├── radio : Drivers for various radios such as USRP, AW2S, RFsim, 7.2 FHI, ...
├── targets : Some configuration files; only historical relevance, and might be deleted in the future
└── tools : Tools for use by the developers/ci machines: code analysis and formatting
How to get support from the OAI Community
You can ask your question on the mailing lists.
Your email should contain below information:
- A clear subject in your email.
- For all the queries there should be [Query] in the subject of the email and for problems there should be [Problem].
- In case of a problem, add a small description.
- Do not share any photos unless you want to share a diagram.
- OAI gNB/DU/CU/CU-CP/CU-UP configuration file in
.confformat only. - Logs of OAI gNB/DU/CU/CU-CP/CU-UP in
.logor.txtformat only. - In case your question is related to performance, include a small description of the machine (Operating System, Kernel version, CPU, RAM and networking card) and diagram of your testing environment.
- Known/open issues are present on GitLab, so keep checking.
Always remember a structured email will help us understand your issues quickly.
