Release Notes

• GraceHopper integration

  • OAI ARM CPU support

  • Hopper GPU cuBB support

• CBRS O-RU

• Multi-UE support

• Multi-UE CSI dataset blueprint (using Aerial Data Lake and PyAerial)

• Developer Extension Updates

  • OSC RIC tutorial update

• Developer Plugins

  • CBRS RU Interop

  • Open5GC

• New blueprints section added in the Product Brief

KPI Improvements

• MIMO layers

  • DL: 2 layers -> 4 layers

• Peak throughput

  • SMC-GH

    • DL: ~460Mbps -> ~1.03Gbps

    • UL: ~112Mbps -> ~125Mbps

  • Dell R750 / Gigabyte Edge E251-U70

    • DL: ~460Mbps -> ~800Mbps

• Full support for master gitlab repo gitlab.eurecom.fr/oai/ making it available for use, modification and distribution. Refer to the Licensing page for the OAI license.

  • OAI_Aerial private branch is deprecated and will no longer be maintained.

• Developer extension - Sterling k8 service management and monitoring (refer to this document for more details)

KPI Improvements

• Frame structure and slot format

  • DDDSU -> DDDSU + DDDDDDSUUU

• Bi-directional UDP Traffic

  • > 3.5 hours exercised -> > 4.0 hours exercised

• Support for the Dell R750 platform to host gNB

• Support for converged cards A100X

• Continued support for Gigabyte and the discrete cards A100, CX6-DX

• Kernel cmdline configuration updated.

• Updates to the core assignment in the Aerial configuration.

• Updates to PTP and phc2sys core assignment.

• Changes to phc2sys cmdline.

• Changes to the L2 Docker run cmd to use all non isolated cores.

• Changes to the L2 configuration, max DL MCS defaults to 25.

• Removal of unnecessary ORU firmware installation step because of Foxconn firmware default updates.

• OAI_Aerial_v2.0 updated to OAI_Aerial_v2.2.1 throughout.

ARC-OTA A1.0 included the following OPENAIR-CN-5G network elements:

• Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF)

• Authentication Server Management Function (AUSF)

• Location Management Function (LMF)

• Network Exposure Function (NEF)

• Network Repository Function (NRF)

• Network Slicing Selection Function (NSSF)

• Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF)

• Policy Control Function (PCF)

• Session Management Function (SMF)

• Unified Data Management (UDM)

• Unified Data Repository (UDR)

• User Plane Function (UPF) with 2 variants:

  • Simple Implementation (with a eBPF option) (UPF)

  • VPP-Based Implementation (UPF-VPP)

• Unstructured Data Storage Function (UDSF)

256 QAM is not supported on ARC-OTA. You must disable 256 QAM support by issuing the following command at the gNB command license:

            

            
--gNBs.[0].force_256qam_off
        

The CUDA Accelerated RAN PHY developer guide can be found here.