this rather large patch changes the way cells are handled in the SS.
It moves RLC and PDCP entities to the cell map of the SS, such that each cell
has its own entities. This allows to support HO operation, for example,
in which two cells need to send SRB messages.
It also extends most of the syssim interface to include the cell name
in all commands so they can be applied on the specified cell only.
before epoll can handle signals, the calling thread needs to block
them. the blocking needs to happen before any other threads get
spawned so they inherit the mask.
* remove single line MAC PDU subheader logging in favor
of to_string() helper that prints entire MAC header in single line
* log MAC PDU after parsing and packing
the Tx SDU has been set to 128 PDUs because this gives approx.
150kByte UL buffer state (max value for Rel 8 BSR).
Previously, however, we've always reported too much pending UL
data because we weren't subtracting the transmitted data from
the reported data.
with this newer BSR reporting, however, even with full buffers we would
never report full buffers because the queues size is too short.
This seems to cause issues for iperf TCP sessions not resulting
in full DL rate, see isse #1703. It seems that the TCP bandwitdh
probing works better with larger buffers (in our case this can
only be achieved with more PDUs in the pool).
This should fix#1703
when removing a user from the eNB we iterated over all possible LCIDs
and set the buffer state to zero in the scheduler.
this resulted in following log entries:
13:57:23.856334 [RRC ] [I] Received Release Complete rnti=0x46
13:57:23.856352 [MAC ] [W] [ 5149] The provided lcid=6 is not valid
13:57:23.856362 [MAC ] [W] [ 5149] The provided lcid=7 is not valid
13:57:23.856368 [MAC ] [W] [ 5149] The provided lcid=8 is not valid
13:57:23.856371 [MAC ] [W] [ 5149] The provided lcid=9 is not valid
13:57:23.856376 [MAC ] [W] [ 5149] The provided lcid=10 is not valid
we now check if the bearer exits at RLC and only report those to the MAC.
stopping the UE in ZMQ mode caused a dead-lock because the Stack was
stopped before the PHY causing the sync queue to overflow. Since we
use a queue-length of 1 in ZMQ, mode, the PHY sync thread was blocking to
push a new sync event while the stack thread was already stopped.
this patch makes sure no new sync events are queued after the stack has
been terminated.
this patch fixes the UL BSR as per TS 36.321, it includes following
main changes:
* report UL buffer state to reflect the UEs transmit buffer after
the MAC UL PDU containing the BSR has been built.
In other words, if the UE, for example, can transmit all outstanding
data in an UL grant, it will not report any pending data to transmit.
* refactor MUX routines and subheader space calculation
this patch refactors the MAC PDU class, the main changes are:
* add to_string() method to pretty print PDU and subheaders
This allows to have a single log entry per MAC PDU with all its
contents.
It removes the C-style fprint() method
* Simplity payload vs. w_payload_ce
Before we've used payload when reading the PDU and w_payload_ce
as a buffer when writing. In all getters we needed to differentiate
between both. Now payload points to w_payload_ce initially and is
only updated when parsing a new PDU.
* add various helpers, e.g. to get subheader index, update a BSR, ..
* fix PDU test to use new to_string() method
* split existing BSR test into dedicated test for short, long, and trunc
BSR tests
* update MAC tests that include packing UL BSR.
(After checking TS 36.321 again it seems we have reported old UL buffer states)