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O-DU High

Primary Goals: 

O-DU new Feature Development

1. HARQ framework support and scheduler enhancement to prioritize retransmission

2. Enhancement of Scheduler

3. Mobility mode Support (Intra-CU handover)

4. Support for Idle Mode Paging

Feature verification

1. Closed-Loop Automation

2.16QAM and 64 QAM (Spillover from D release)

End to End Integration support

1.TDD/Mu1/100MHz

2.FDD/Mu0/20MHz * (Spillover from D/E release)

Enhancement

1.E2 AP upgrade 2.0

F Feature Scope: 

  • HARQ framework support

  • Scheduler enhancement
  • Mobility (Inter-DU handover) support
  • Idle mode paging support
  • E2AP upgrade to v2.0
  • End to end integration support

F Feature Achievement:

  • HARQ framework support - Added
  • Scheduler enhancement - Added to support HARQ retransmissions
  • Mobility (Inter-DU handover) support - Added
  • Idle mode paging support - Added
  • E2AP upgrade to v2.0 - Aligned
  • End to end integration support - Deferred to future release due to lab setup issues

Status on

JIRA REFERENCE

1) Implementation of HARQ feature
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-402
Status:Completed

2) Scheduler enhancement to support multiple UEs per slot
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-403
Status: To be done in a future release (E2E testing for one UE per slot to be done in the lab)

3) Support for E2AP version 2.0
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-404
Status: Completed

4) Intra CU Handover
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-405
Status: Completed

5) Idle mode paging
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-406
Status: Completed

Intra CU Handover
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-407: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-423: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-427: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-420: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-425: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-414: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-434: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-435: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-437: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-443: Done

Idle mode paging
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-408: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-419: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-415: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-438: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-442: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-446: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-452: Done

Implementation of HARQ
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-410: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-417: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-418: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-424: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-436: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-444: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-445: Done
https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-453: Done

HCL's updates

O1 Enhancements

https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-430: Done

https://jira.o-ran-sc.org/browse/ODUHIGH-431: In Progress

Dependency/Blockers:

 Blocked for PTP grandmaster at the OSC lab to start the end to end integration activities

F release maintenance source code, container images, and deployment instructions

TODO

Code coverage: To be planned as UT framework is not available to provide code coverage.



O-DU Low

Primary Goals:  

Implementation of the O-DU Low Physical Layer functions for a 5G Open Access Radio Network allowing the flexibility of a software implementation coupled with the ability of incorporating hardware accelerators on a selective basis and meets the O-RAN architecture goals of scalablity, mix and match multi-vendor modules that are interoperable and that can be upgraded as the standards evolve by software updates.

The O-DU Low physical layer functions follow the 3GPP TS 38 series recommendations for 5G and the 3GPP TS 36 series recommendations for LTE with the 3GPP 7.2 functional split between O-DU Low and O-RU. In 3GPP terms the O-DU Low is referred to HIGH-PHY in the functional split for 5G.

Implementation of the Open Front Haul interface to the O-RU per O-RAN WG4 CUS specifications.

Integration of this component with multi-vendor implementations of O-DU High and O-RU modules for end to end interoperability and compatibility verification.


F Release Feature Scope:

The O-DU Low F release adds support for Massive MIMO, URLLC and it is based on the commercial FlexRan 21.11 release. This release is an incremental improvement over the E-maintenance reelase code released on March of this year and that still needs to be integrated with the RSYS O-DU High code.

The F release can be used for end to end testing and it is based on the E maintenance release that was used for the 2021 November US O-RAN Plugfest and tested in conjuction with 2 stack partners and 2 different Test equipment vendors. The Front Haul Interface was also tested for compliance using Keysight's Front Haul Test equipment.

Container images and deployment instructions TBD

E Release Feature Scope: 

O-DU Low  E maintenance release was provided in March, 2022 and it is based on the code used in the November 2021 US O-RAN Plugfest. There are additional changes in the vendor specific portion of the API to support Massive MIMO and URLLC.

Since the code was deployed in the US O-RAN Plugfest using the commercial versions of the stack partners O-DU High code, the open source version from the partners need to be integrated as well. 

The validation done prior to the release used the timer-mode and the test-mac to check all the new features.

Provided O-DU Low E-Maintenance Release on March 2022 to the O-RAN gerrit repo, documentation was updated. Binary blobs for the FlexRan L1 and testmac codes were also provided in github in March.


PTL: Luis Farias , Alternate: @Chenxi Yue
  • E Maintenance O-DU Low code was provided and expecting integration with RSYS.

E release source code, container images and deployment instructions

Source code and documentation including deployment instructions have been provided to the O-RAN documentation siite

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