Initialize ru_info structure with beam information, and set beams on TX
direction. Initialize the number of antennas for both RX/TX in both
cases for completeness.
Doing this before using set_master_clock_rate() on the B200 seems to
invalidate clock settings:
[HW] USRP clock set to 1759836386.000000 sec
[...]
[HW] current pps at 3.286750, starting streaming at 4.286750
In other words, the current time setting was reset. With this change
now, we see
[HW] USRP clock set to 1759929873.000000 sec
[...]
[HW] current pps at 1759929873.000000, starting streaming at 1759929874.000000
This is because changing clock sources (I assume setting the master
clock rate impacts the clock) can result in changing the time. From the
documentation of set_time_next_pps() [1]:
> Note: When changing clock sources, a previously set time will most
> likely be lost. It is recommended to set the time after changing the
> clock source. Otherwise, an unexpected time may line up with future PPS
> edges.
[1] https://files.ettus.com/manual/classuhd_1_1usrp_1_1multi__usrp.html#a75b1c5375549e6a446d686ee7d9b4e14
These libraries have an (indirect) dependency on T, either by using the
logging module (which in turn depends on T), or through other includes.
The easiest is to depend on the logging module, which will fulfil also
the T dependency.
It would equally be feasible to use the utils target (which in turn
depends on log_headers), but this would necessitate to compile, and does
not seem to be necessary.
Introduced a parameter start_up_timing which indicates if PM activation is supported during the start-up
procedure. We initialize this parameter, based on the vendor.
Notification interval is set to 10s.
Definition in o-ran-uplane-conf.yang model:
"Gain correction of RF path linked with array element or array layers.
Common part of overall gain_correction.
gain_correction = common array-carrier gain-correction + eAxC gain correction."
RF emulator and improvements of the timers
RF emulator:
Add an RF library emulating a real device without the need of a real
device. This is thought to enable using phy-test without requiring a
radio device or channel simulation. The library synchronizes on the
real time clock, drops TX and generate noise on RX. Noise generation
can be disabled and the noise level configured.
Timers improvements:
- Fix standard deviation for merged timers
- Add display of ULSCH decoding timers
- Add decoding timer in AAL
Taps client for vrtsim
The MR allows vrtsim to connect to the Raytracing Channel Emulator (CE later).
https://gitlab.eurecom.fr/oai/raytracing-channel-emulator
Additional Ubuntu packages required:
- libnanomsg-dev
- flatbuffers-compiler
- libflatbuffers-dev
Everything was tested on the same host. Follow the steps below to
successfully replicate:
1. Build nr-softmodem dependencies
2. Build nr-softmodem for (gNB, nrUE) with OAI_VRTSIM_TAPS_CLIENTset to ON.
3. Start the core network (Optional) follow this tutorial
4. Start the gNB
sudo ./nr-softmodem -O ../../../targets/PROJECTS/GENERIC-NR-5GC/CONF/gnb.sa.band78.fr1.106PRB.usrpb210.conf --gNBs.[0].min_rxtxtime 6 --device.name vrtsim --vrtsim.role server --vrtsim.timescale 0.5 --vrtsim.taps-socket ipc:///tmp/ru_socket_0
5. Start the nrUE
sudo ./nr-uesoftmodem -C 3619200000 -r 106 --numerology 1 --ssb 516 --band 78 --device.name vrtsim --vrtsim.taps-socket ipc:///tmp/ue_socket_0
6. Start the CE Server, once the UE and gNB are running properly, so the
server can connect to IPC sockets
7. Start CE client; the binaries can be downloaded from a pipeline run
or from this link
8. Move the UE in the CE client to generate a new taps array and
populate the taps in softmodems
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
2 functions with same name as static to make it clearer they are separate.
remove unused copy of log_level global var.
remove threequarter sampling variable from the radio board general
configuration. The decision of sampling rate is made above. A better
behavior can be done later, like ask to the radio board what sampling
rate it can do,then use it to decide the appropiate sampling rate from
the gNB configuration. In UE case, it is another issue, as the sampling
rate would change after we decode SIB1, but also it is not developped
yet.
- 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
Add a simple RF emulator library with no real RF.
It only synchronizes the gNB with the real time clock.
It is to be used for stress test or benchmarking in phy-test mode.
LDPC BBDEV/AAL rework
This branch aims to generalize the existing LDPC T2 implementation to support
other DPDK BBDEV accelerators, e.g., Intel ACC100/200.
Differences from the current T2 implementation include:
1. relax CMakeLists.txt checking for custom dpdk-t2 implementation,
technically, any DPDK BBDEV should work
2. BBDEV capability checks during init
3. llr_scaling to scale the input llr accordingly for better decoding
performance on the Intel ACC100/200
4. self-managed harq buffers for the ACC200, as internal harq memory is not
available
Tested BBDEV devices:
1. Intel ACC100
2. Intel ACC200/VRB1
T hacks: add new tracer ant0 and a tool to plot ofdm data from usrp or rfsim
(output or input)
The tool ant0 dumps IQ data to a file (or stdout) as float complex or short.
It is needed for a student's project. (Well, we could use record/extract, but
it's simpler.) The tool ofdm-plot is used to plot output or input signal from
gnb in the frequency domain. May be useful to debug, why not.
bridge->nb_cnx++ is done before calling snprintf(modelname,... in the function,
so we take the model name of the next channel. This commit corrects the issue by
using bridge->nb_cnx - 1, ensuring that the model name corresponds to the currently
connected client.
This bug was introduced by MR !3455.
Co-authored-by: Bartosz Podrygajlo <bartosz.podrygajlo@openairinterface.org>
Co-authored-by: Laurent THOMAS <laurent.thomas@open-cells.com>
RF simulator: Fix concurrency issues during new client connections
- Fix concurrency issues happening when a new client connects, sometimes
leading to a total softmodem deadlock.
- trace in 4G RAR processing to debug ci result
Improvements to the FHI for enabling further use cases
These changes to the FHI were primarily thought to enable the integration of
the intel ACC ( !3344 ) in parallel of the FHI.
I preferred to make a separate MR because I believe this topic is orthogonal
enough to be handled separately and because I wanted to bring even further
improvements.
The improvements that it actually brings are:
- Enable compiling and running xran F release with DPDK 21+
- Enable including a BBDEV device in addition of the ethernet device for the
FHI when performing EAL init, which is necessary for using the intel ACC
with the FHI.
- Fix an issue in usage of pkgconfig in xran E and F release. This enables to
reliably build xran with the version of DPDK requested to pkgconfig while
before this fix xran was always selecting the headers installed in /usr/local.
E release had the same issue of not using pkgconfig properly as F release.
This issue was fixed in F release when enabling its compatibility with DPDK 21+.
This commit brings this fix to E release.
