this is a rather large commit that is hard to split because
it touches quite a few components.
It's a preparation patch for adding NR split bearers in the next
step.
We realized that managing RLC and PDCP bearers for both NR and LTE
in the same entity doesn't work. This is because we use the LCID
as a key for all accesses. With NR dual connectivity however we
can have the same LCID active at the same time for both LTE and NR
carriers.
The patch solves that by creating a dedicated NR instance for RLC/PDCP
in the stack. But then the question arises for UL traffic on, e.g. LCID 4
what PDCP instance the GW should use for pushing SDUs. It doesnt' know
that. And in fact it doesn't need to. It just needs to know EPS
bearer IDs. So the next change was to remove the knowledge of what
LCIDs are from the GW. Make is agnostic and only work on EPS bearer IDs.
The handling and mapping between EPS bearer IDs and LCIDs for LTE
or NR (mainly PDCP for pushing data) is done in the Stack because
it has access to both.
The NAS also has a EPS bearer map but only knows about default and
dedicated bearers. It doesn't know on which logical channels they
are transmitted.
the issue let to unwanted log warning at the end of the UE
execution when the PHY was still pushing DL PDUs while MAC
was already stopped.
This fixes#3003
general-purpose method for lower layers to signal protocol
failures to higher layers, i.e. RRC.
In the current case, implement a direct release of the UE (enb) or
a reestablishment (UE).
in the mac_test the tb_decoded() method was called twice for
the 2nd codeword, causig TSAN to complain about an unlocked mutex
being unlocked.
The patch resolves the potential issue only calling tb_decoded
for a grant/tb thas has a non-zero MCS.
The patch also adjusts the reset function to have a safe and "unsafe"
version to be called from inside the class, similar to other
classes where we do the same.
this is an attempt to fix#2850 by defering the transmission of
the connection setup complete until the PHY has applied
the dedicated config in the connection setup.
the low timout of 10ms was:
1) causing too frequent measurement reports
2) causes a MO ping test to fail where the ICMP request
was sent on the LTE carrier but never got a reply because
the MCG addition was inbetween
this commit adds a complete DL HARQ entity to the MAC of the UE.
It also refactors demux into an own class and adapts the PHY-MAC
interface to use the new MAC capabilities.
this patch adds a basic UL HARQ entity for NR.
The patch also updates some interfaces between MAC/RA/HARQ,
i.e. get_temp_crnti().
It also adds a Msg3 unit test.
building on the previous refactor this patch now adds support
for peridoic BSR reporting (using short BSR). It furthermore does
the following changes:
* add BSR packing
* add proc_bsr_nr unit test
* move mac_nr test code into test folder under src (needs to be done with other test code too)
* refactor some common methods to mac_common.cc
* add common mux_base class
* move UL PDU generation to mux class
* add logical channel registration to MAC, MUX, BSR
* add initial proc BSR
* add basic MAC NR test
* rework MAC interfaces