16 Commits (6827c2df21a2d74df4109ff06aced8ebe350540e)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andre Puschmann a7911f0dab pdcp,rlc: refactor SDU queueing policy
this patch refactors the SDU queuing and dropping policy of the RLC and PDCP layer.
the previous design had issues when packets have been generated at a higher
rate above the PDCP than they could be consumed below the RLC.

When the RLC SDU queues were full, we allowed two policies, one to block on the write
and the other to drop the SDU. Both options are not ideal because they either
lead to a blocking stack thread or to lost PDCP PDUs.

To avoid this, this patch makes the following changes:

* PDCP monitors RLC's SDU queue and drops packets on its north-bound SAP if queues are full
  * a new method sdu_queue_is_full() has been added to the RLC interface for PDCP
* remove blocking write from pdcp and rlc write_sdu() interface
  * all writes into queues need to be non-blocking
  * if Tx queues are overflowing, SDUs are dropped above PDCP, not RLC
* log warning if RLC still needs to drop SDUs
  * this case should be avoided with the monitoring mechanism
4 years ago
Francisco Paisana 1a9c04bf2f use of task scheduler handle in pdcp 4 years ago
Francisco Paisana f0874b780b add radio_base/null classes 4 years ago
Pedro Alvarez 9c1a7d2cf1 Removed get_bearer_status in PDCP. Renamed get_state/set_state to
get_bearer_state/set_bearer_state.
4 years ago
Pedro Alvarez 208a539499 Split PDCP tx_count state variable into tx_hfn and next_pdcp_tx_sn
variables.
4 years ago
Pedro Alvarez 08578a7331 Switched to use a struct to hold the PDCP entity state variables. Deleted some unecessary setters. 4 years ago
Francisco Paisana 30ae2226c1 common interface for stack multiqueue tasks, background tasks and timers 5 years ago
Francisco Paisana 344eaf49ec use logmap in the whole enb and ue 5 years ago
Xavier Arteaga e832769ae6 Updated copyright 5 years ago
Pedro Alvarez 96c82b3fc6 Moved PDCP configs to pdcp_config.h. Added `as_security_cfg_t` structure to hold access stratum keys.
Refactored PDCP, RRC and USIM accordingly.
5 years ago
Andre Puschmann 9e113f8b27 pdcp: allow to configure security for rx/tx seperately
previously PDCP security (integrity and ciphering) could only
be enabled for both Rx and Tx at the same time.

this, however, caused an issue during the conformance testing in which,
in TC_8_2_1_1() for example, the eNB sends a SecModeCommand and a
RRC Reconfiguration in the same MAC TB. In this case, the eNB
needs to be able to enable DL security right after sending the SecModeCmd
in order to send the RRCReconfig encrypted. However, enabling UL security needs
to be postponed until after the SecModeComplete is received.

This patch allows to enable PDCP security for rx/tx independently if
that is needed. The default way is like before, enabling it for tx/rx at
the same time.
5 years ago
Pedro Alvarez 5dd081846b Removed unnecessary macro and some newlines. 5 years ago
Pedro Alvarez aecfb151ce Apply clang-format to the lib in preperation for PR. 5 years ago
Pedro Alvarez 940626108b Fix PDCP DRB test. Enabled encryption on PDCP LTE tests. Tests passing now. 5 years ago
Pedro Alvarez dbb5c6c06c Adding PDCP LTE SRB1 test. Test failing for now. 5 years ago
Pedro Alvarez 284a0f7b4e Starting to add PDCP LTE unit tests. Test failing for now. 5 years ago