Supported Features and Configurations
This release of the Aerial cuBB supports the following configurations and features. These features are verified with test vectors in a simulated environment using TestMAC and RU emulator.
SU-MIMO layers: up to 4
MU-MIMO layers: up to 8
Modulation and coding rates: MCS 0 – MCS 27
Optimized LDPC decoder
UCI on PUSCH (HARQ up to 11 bits + CSI part 1 + CSI part 2 up to 11 bits)
Time-interpolated channel estimation and equalization
SINR reporting to L2
MMSE-IRC receiver
Early HARQ in UCI.indication
Format 0 + DTX detection
Format 1 + DTX detection
Format 2 (unsegmented payload) + DTX detection
Format 3 (unsegmented payload) + DTX detection
SINR / confidence level reporting to L2
Format 0
Format B4 (multiple per slot in FDM)
Interference level reporting
SU-MIMO layers: up to 4
MU-MIMO layers: up to 16
Modulation and coding rates: MCS 0 – MCS 27
Supports Cat-A O-RAN split and Cat-B O-RAN split. For Cat-A O-RAN split, PDSCH is implemented up to modulation and precoding (identity matrix precoder) For Cat-B O-RAN split, PDSCH is implemented up to the rate matching block.
Precoding (4 layers)
Interleaved and non-interleaved mode
Aggregation level (AL) 1, 2, 4, 8, 16
1, 2, 3 symbol CORESET
Precoding (1 layer)
PSS, SSS generation
DMRS and PBCH generation and time-frequency mapping
Precoding (1 layer)
NZP-CSI-RS
ZP-CSI-RS
Precoding (1 layer)
Support SRS reporting for upto 64T64R BB Antenna ports.
Support SRS reporting according to 5G FAPI 222.10.04 for beamManagemnt, codebook and non-codebook SRS usage.
Support SRS reporting according to 5G FAPI 222.10.02 for SINR reporting.
Support 64 Transmit and Receive antenna ports
Support SRS-based channel estimation, buffering and FAPI-compliant reporting to L2
Support PUSCH and PDSCH Dynamic beamforming weight (BFW) calculation from SRS channel estimates (regularized zero-forcing)
Support up to 8 layers multi-user MIMO PUSCH
Support up to 16 layers multi-user MIMO PDSCH
Support of upto 3 cells with multi-user MIMO configurtion
Standalone LDPC decoder
Support for C++
std::format
syle logging likestd::format("{} {}!", "Hello", "world", "something");
Support for C
(printf)
style formatted strings.