Integration 2024 week 51

* !3155 UL BLER vs SNR plot
* !3170 Replace AssertFatal with static_assert for cmdline arguments check
* !3172 A script to run CI tests locally.
* !3151 Optimize PHY_ofdm_mod CYCLIC_PREFIX in case of incidentally aligned pointers
* !3164 Fix and refactor channel average
* !3154 Fix TPMI for UL retransmissions

Integration week 2024 week 50

* !3159 CI: Add FHI7.2 test with Metanoia RU
* !3111 Enable USRP Tx thread in nrUE
* !3144 UE data race fix
* !3149 Fix several issues in ulsch_mmse_2layers
* !3158 GTP: use direct call instead of ITTI
* !3160 FHI-72: initialize mask, find correct libxran
* !3019 SIB19 utilization on UE
* !3162 Add Rocky 9.5 to list of distributions
* !3163 NGAP-Initial Context Setup Failure
* !2952 New LDPC coding library interface for decoding and encoding complete slots in one call to the library
* !3125 Add support for O1 in O-DU via telnet
* !3161 Cmd line option for sync in frames for iqrecorder

Integration 2024 week 49

* !3065 NAS Service Request enc/dec implementation
* !3129 Refactor UL MAC PDU decoding
* !3136 Use ninja -k option in CI
* !3137 T tracer: add macpdu traces for the NR UE
* !2392 Documentation: add multi-UE deployment with RFsimulator
* !3145 a lib has been added but missed dependancies
* !3050 doc: Add instructions for 5G NR gNB frequency configuration
* !3141 CI: Allow restart of the container if deployment fails
* !3138 Align YAML config getlist with libconfig implementation
* !3140 remove un-necessary global variables
* !3146 Updates to match more fapi-compliant tx_data.request
* !3025 New threadpool, fixed in NR UE
* CI: Remove USRP mgmt_addr from LTE-2x2 conf files
* !3147 Fronthaul xran library update to F release (2. and final step towards M-plane integration)
* !3142 Add CI test to trigger RLF with high pathloss in channelmod

Integration 2024 week 48

* !2951 Integrate Tracy with NR UE
* !2985 E1AP Bearer Context Setup encoding/decoding library and unit tests
* !3115 T2: minor fix for 4x4 processing
* !3117 F1AP lib: minor fixes
* !3126 NR MSG3 scheduling improvements
* !3128 NR UE RRC T304 in phy-test mode
* !3132 Run the last job of gNB pusch channel estimation inline
* !3133 NR UL HARQ handling improvements
* !3091 Update NR UE threading model
* !3030 Imscope updates
* !3131 FAPI P7 Refactoring and unitary test creation
* !3033 Increase the number of UE supported at gNB by having more than 1 PUCCH2 frequency occasion per slot

Integration 2024 week 47

* !2972 Parallelize PUSCH channel estimation
* !3105 Fix a small bug with total_res in gNB PUSCH symbol processing
* !2996 Ue monitoring stats
* !3122 Avoid assert on non-implemented SM write callback
* !3110 Fronthaul 7.2 improvements (1. step towards M-plane integration)
* !2966 Refactor of includes in gNB/UE for improved header management
* !3123 Reduce double-usage of CI XML files
* !3029 NR UE RRC reconfiguration improvements
* !2670 chore(ci): adding Flexric-RAN integration test
* !3124 CI: use OC CN in aerial pipeline

Integration 2024 week 46

* !3095 UE: Set default SSB config
* !2991 fix BSR report malformed, add SHORT BSR when it can (instead of LONG BSR)...
* !3104 Trigger deregistration only in SA mode → small fixup?
* !3107 Clip the input for -32768 because this will make different result in...
* !3109 T tracer: support float types in traces
* !2777 NR UE trigger for re-establishment
* !3108 Prevent segfaults in gNB stack
* !3059 Test for init_RA
* CI: increase UE thread pool size
* !3036 Further improvements in analog beam management for CSI-RS
* !3093 Added NTN FDD FR1 bands defined in 3GPP TS 38.101-5
* !3113 Reformulate section on standalone mode
* Release notes for v2.2.0

Release v2.2.0

General 5G improvements (both gNB and UE):
- Make standalone mode (SA) the default (see doc/RUNMODEM.md)
- Experimental support for FR2 operation
- Support for GEO NTN and simulation of GEO satellite channel in RFsimulator
  (see doc/RUNMODEM.md)
- Support 2-step RA
- Add optional LTTng logger in logging module (see
  common/utils/LOG/DOC/lttng_logs.md)
- Support for YAML-based config files (alongside libconfig) (see
  ci-scripts/conf_files/gnb.sa.band78.106prb.rfsim.yaml and
  ci-scripts/conf_files/nrue.uicc.yaml)
- Add new L1 scope based on Dear ImGui (see openair1/PHY/TOOLS/readme.md)
- Allow cross-compilation on ARM (via SIMDE SIMD emulation library)
- Allow to build and run with clang
- Support/check for Linux capabilities, allow to run without sudo (see
  doc/tuning_and_security.md)
- OAI does not modify CPU frequency and networking stack
  (doc/tuning_and_security.md)
- Bugfixes in the entire stack (e.g.  #547, #663, #674, #687, #712, #736, #739,
  #741, #756, #762, #773, ...)

5G gNB:
- Support for FR2 interoperability with COTS UE (no beam switching supported yet)
- Add 4-layer DL MIMO (experimental)
- Add gNB Neighbour configuration and Mobility over F1 interface (see
  doc/handover-tutorial.md)
- Enhance O-RAN FHI 7.2: (see doc/ORAN_FHI7.2_Tutorial.md)
  * Support different bandwidths (40/60/80/100MHz) and antenna configs (1x1 up
    to 4x4) for Benetel/VVDN/LITEON RUs
  * Add support for multi-RU support (single-cell/distributed antenna)
- Support AMD T2 Telco card look-aside L1 accelerator (see
  doc/LDPC_T2_OFFLOAD_SETUP.md)
- Support Nvidia Aerial/ARC in-line L1 accelerator (see
  doc/Aerial_FAPI_Split_Tutorial.md)
- Various fixes for multi-UE operation: by default support of up to 16 UEs concurrently
- Documentation for
  - 5G MAC (see doc/MAC/mac-usage.md)
  - 5G RRC (see doc/RRC/rrc-usage.md)
  - E1 (see doc/E1AP/E1-design.md)
  - F1 (see doc/F1AP/F1-design.md)

5G UE:
- Basic interoperability with COTS gNB (Nokia gNB)
- Implement PHR reporting
- Implement RRC re-establishment
- Implement PUCCH/PUSCH/SRS power control
- Implement UCI on PUSCH and aperiodic CSI reporting
- Support of cell search (within the selected UE bandwidth) (see doc/RUNMODEM.md)
- Enhance connection control: implement timers, resync
- A lot of internal cleanup

This release also includes many fixes and documentation updates. See
doc/README.md in the repository for an overview of documentation.

Integration 2024 week 45

* Support for RHEL 9.5
* !3048 Cleanup and refactoring at gNB initialization
* !3077 Address most thread safety issues in NR UE
* !3089 Improve cross-compile documentation
* !3092 Remove Interop-F1/Accelleran-CU testing pipeline
* !3096 Remove x86-specific instructions from telnet server
* !2949 Better polar decode
* !3070 CI: Add test with 4 DL layers, 60 MHz BW to SA-2x2 pipeline
* !3098 nr rlc: hotfix: test allocation valid before use
* !3090 Add UL PRBs Blacklist section to NR_SA_Tutorial_COTS_UE.md
* !3082 fix blocking bugs in command nr_dlsim -n100 -e27 -s35 -b 273 -R273 -x4 -y4 -z4
* !3100 CI: Remove 5g_l2sim files
* !3024 Set SA mode as default
* !3087 Remove some usage of the old CI sshConnection class
* !3074 CI: cleanup of cls_physim.py

Integration 2024 week 44

* !2988 Add functional DFT test
* !3072 snow3g: fix array size
* !3073 small fix for 3 digit mnc usage in sib1
* !3040 Update pbchsim to work with other numerologies
* !3078 Simplify logs in gNB&UE
* !3080 Add Fedora 41, build_oai cleanup
* !3061 RLC optimization
* !3008 Fix regression 4g
* !3084 Fix a typo in nrue.uicc.yaml file
* !3085 chore(ci): creating a develop tag on top of develop-commit-id tag for the local private registry

Integration 2024 week 40

* !2886 (doc): Added a new doc on hardware requirements
* !2955 dockerized clang-format error detection tool
* !3005 Fix symbol size in nr_dlsch_mmse
* !2930 SRS tx power
* SA-B200-Module-SABOX pipeline: improve radio
* SA-AW2S-CN5G: accept 5% ping packet loss
* !3003 Resolve "SEGFAULT in L1_rx_thread" - CI
* !3016 fix tests for log2_approx and log2_approx64
* patch to move RFsim-4G to cacofonix
* !2890 F1AP encoding/decoding library
* !2969 Time domain samples scope for NR UE & gNB
* !2998 warmup RF board in UE
* !3009 Fix the ratio of PDSCH EPRE to DM-RS EPRE
* !2965 Refactoring of prepare_scc in gNB config
* !3002 CI: Change frequency used by AW2S pipeline
* !3007 Enable gNB configuration through YAML file
* !3001 Minor ue fixes
* !2971 Use getaddrinfo() when connecting to rfsimulator

Integration 2024 week 41

* !3006 Fix some sizeof and switch-case issues
* !3028 Add CMakePresets.json
* !3011 Aerial: cleanup unused code, avoid superfluous memcpy(), avoid L1 structures
* !3022 NR CSI-RS L1 refactoring
* !2935 Improvements in handling the beamforming procedure via FAPI
* !3026 NR ULSCH scheduler fix when using transform precoding
* !3031 CI: Increase test bitrates for 100 MHz scenario in SA-2x2 pipeline
* !3017 Fix SRS
* !2731 Implementation of 2-Step RA
* !3027 Add dockerized include what you use tool

Integration 2024 week 43

* !3058 CI: remove unused code, clean up imports
* !2994 Refactor file descriptor handling in rfsimulator
* !3010 Fix heap overflow in websrv
* !3043 CI: Update RAN-gNB-N300-Timing-Phytest-LDPC test cases
* !3060 process registration reject in UE
* !3062 fix nr rlc tests
* !3067 Bugfix: Fill QFI for N3 GTP messages
* !3057 Bugfix in ue pusch mac pdu creation
* !3068 getopt() returns int
* !3056 F1AP Enc/Dec Library follow-up
* !3064 T: don't check argument in optimized version of T IDs
* !2786 Add F1 Handover procedures
* !2980 Refactor NAS 5GS PDU Session Establishment Accept handling and other NAS improvements
* !3063 Update yaml-cpp dependency handling
* !2989 NR gNB scheduler improvements for BWP operation

Integration 2024 week 42

* !3047 Resolve compilation warnings on ARM
* !3052 Optimize T_ID() macro.
* !3045 CI: Reduce tested DL throughput on Aerial
* !3039 fix for Other SI reception when BWP start != 0
* !2997 websrv regression
* !3041 Update NR SA Tutorials
* !3042 Update TESTBenches.md to reflect current testbench
* !3004 Hotfix to remove an unwanted TX power reduction when using multiple TX antenna ports.
* reduce ssPBCH_BlockPower in gNB config of FHI7.2 pipeline
* !3046 A testsuite and a benchmark for RLC AM mode
* !3038 Various bugfixes for gNB stability, cleanup
* !3051 PUCCH2 DTX detection
* nr_psbchsim: fix segv by providing correct get_nrUE_params()
* !3049 Improve PUSCH and PUCCH SNR stability
* !3054 Allocate and add sD to DRB NSSAI in case sD != 0xffffff

Integration 2024 week 40

* !2718 Added Jenkins job for Colosseum testing integration
* !2901 Fix log2_approx
* !2983 fix(docker): making tini download platform specific to support ARM64 native builds
* !2919 Add E2 SM in the target dockerfiles
* !2981 NR gNB fix PMI report evaluation
* !2979 NR-UE: Merging different UE NR SLOT FEP procedures into one.
* !2899 SIB19 initialization and scheduling on gNB
* !2953 Remove unnecessary c includes
* !2926 Fix SRS FAPI at gNB
* !2987 fix for variable power in PDSCH REs in case of 25 PRBs Bandwidth
* !2993 remove DRX from UE capabilities: not supported yet
* !2711 NR UE UL time alignment handling improvements
* !2995 some small fixes for 5G NR
* !2992 cleaner faster nr_pdcch_demapping_deinterleaving() inner loop
* !2986 NR PDCP ticks for F1 split
* !2982 CI framework cleanup

Integration 2024 week 38

* !2932 Minor: Set correct USRP flags when not transmitting
* !2961 prevent UE to declare RLF in phy-test mode
* !2962 prevent UE to print HARQ processing error log for MSG2
* !2958 Automatic selection of SSB bitmap length
* !2967 bugfix: reject malformed rrcSetupComplete message
* !2947 Add 5G/NR MAC documentation
* !2959 nr rlc: fix standalone tests
* !2704 nr pdcp: add support for nea1
* !2800 UE improvements
* !2920 Receive SIB19 on nrUE
* !2975 Remove hardcoding of CPU measurements (respect option `-q`)
* !2976 Update latest SIMDE version
* !2957 T: increase max number of args
* !2916 NR UE PUSCH resource mapping optimization
* !2787 CI: increase max number of concurrent workers to 64
* !2974 fhi_72: allow to provide dpdk_mem_size to xran
* !2964 CI: Replacing the UE on Aerial setup
* !2973 CI: remove unused code and files

Integration 2024 week 36

* !2770 : CI framework deployment/undeployment refactoring
* !2869 : YAML as a drop-in replacement for libconfig
* !2871 : NR UE & gNB imscope
* !2914 : Minor improvements to NR documentation
* !2918 : NR common LLR function
* !2929 : Aligning all rockylinux-9 Dockerfiles with the RHEL9 ones
* !2942 : Fix memory leaks in NR UE
* !2944 : Workaround for PUSCH TX power not applied in PHY
* !2945 : Removing rhsm certificates
* !2946 : CI Removing the workspace creation for the LicenceAndFormattingCheck method
* !2950 : Preparation for F1 Handover

Integration 2024 week 35

* !2181 ULSCH power computation
* !2915 benchmark for rotate_cpx_vector
* !2936 Avoid complete rebuild on cmake run with git info change
* !2855 NR UE replace phy_config_request_sent
* !2937 small fixes for rfsim
* !2925 CI: Increase tested throughput in SA 2x2 pipeline
* !2934 Run optimized parity check in ldpc encoder only on supported Zc values
* !2912 changes for multi-RU support in fhi72
* !2928 Distribution check: check for F40, remove old U/RHEL releases
* !2913 NR gNB cleanup
* !2927 Update Aerial docs to reference current version
* !2940 remove double define with nr_common.h

Integration 2024 week 34

* !2906 mod: Improve signal processing speed of rotate_cpx_vector function
* !2909 NR UE SIB1 free fix
* !2917 Cleanup NR UE NAS instance handling
* !2924 Fix misalignment issues in TLVEncoder macros ENCODE_U16, ENCODE_U24
* !2907 CI: add new testcases to RFSim-5G pipeline, reduce ping and iperf test time
* !2893 LEO satellite delay and Doppler simulation and adjusted NR_UE time sync

Integration 2024 week 33

- !2784 Reworking beam structures at NR MAC gNB
- !2889 Fix delta for PUSCH DMRS type 2
- !2908 NR MAC UE CSI improvements
- !2896 Fix for llr functions reading/writing outside buffers
- !2902 nr rlc: reduce "SDU rejected" logging
- !2884 NR UE: Cleanup global variables used for command line parameter storage
- !2910 NR gNB DMRS symbol race
- CI: Update phytest-timing test threshold

Integration 2024 week 32

* !2810 add harqid in wireshark traces, refactor the trace_pdu parameters
* !2897 nr rlc: add a lock to protect access to time variables
* !2903 remove some openair1 headers included in opeinair2 files
* !2876 Enable 32 HARQ Processes in DL, UL
* !2849 Fix UE SRS crash
* !2898 Fix memory leaks in OAI gNB and OAI UE