This section provides a description of supported delta features and capabilities in the current minor release.
Current Version: 23-4
NVIDIA is the global leader in GPU accelerated computing and is enabling a fully cloud-native virtual 5G RAN solution to support a wide range of next-generation edge AI and RAN services using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers.
NVIDIA Aerial SDK provides 5G wireless radio access network solution, with inline L1 GPU acceleration for 5G NR PHY processing. It supports a full stack framework for a gNB integration L2/L3 (MAC, RLC, PDCP), along with manageability and orchestration. Aerial SDK also supports non 5G signal processing use cases. The NVIDIA Aerial SDK package simplifies building programmable and scalable software defined 5G RAN PHY with the following components:
CUDA Baseband (cuBB): The NVIDIA cuBB SDK provides GPU accelerated 5G signal processing pipeline including cuPHY for Layer 1 5G PHY, delivering unprecedented throughput and efficiency by keeping all physical layer processing within the high-performance GPU memory
DOCA GPUNetIO: A new library to enable GPU-initiated communications so a CUDA kernel can invoke the CUDA device functions in the DOCA GPUNetIO library to instruct the GPUDirect-capable network cards (Mellanox BlueField-3, ConnectX-6 DX or AX800/A100X converged card) to send or receive packets.
23-4
Support Grace Hopper platform
20 light load cells with BFP9 (pattern 61)
Support FOSS and upstreamed drivers
Cutover to DMA-buf, Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules (OpenRM) and inbox driver
Support Multi-L2 with single cuphycontroller per GPU
Support M-plane Hybrid Mode
Using ORAN YANG data models to pass RU capabilities, C/U–plane transport, U-plane config to L1
32T32R Massive MIMO (Direct Access / DA release)
1 peak 100MHz cell with 8DL and 4UL layers
Cat-B O-RU with beamforming method 2 (BFm2)
SRS / reciprocity-based dynamic beamforming weights, both UL and DL
4T4R new feature support:
SRS in S-slot
NB 10MHz cells and multi symbol CORESET
4T4R multicell improvements:
Allow multiple cell operation without issuing dummy config.req
Deliver multicell capacity with UCI OCC disabled
HARQ UCI.indication latency improvement
23-3
Support for 32T32R Massive MIMO (Early Access):
1 peak 100MHz cell with 8DL and 4UL layers
SRS / reciprocity-based dynamic beamforming weights, both UL and DL
New features supported for 4T4R:
Removed PDU ordering limitations
Reduced max startup time to less than 30 sec
Improved robustness and error handling
O-RAN fronthaul features:
32T32R / Massive MIMO Cat-B O-RU with beamforming method 2 (BFm2)
AX800 converged accelerator card features:
Simultaneous use of both Ethernet ports for fronthaul
Multicell capacity improvements:
23-3 Traffic model (23-3TM): 4 UL streams from RU, 7 beam-ids, BFP14 FH compression
AX800 with Dell R750 supports 15 peak and 16 average cells of 4T4R @ 40MHz w/ 23-3TM