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| Luis Farias | dc60302 | 2019-11-12 17:45:28 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | Front Haul Interface Library Release Notes |
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| Luis Farias | 9d66fca | 2020-05-28 19:01:58 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | Version ORAN-seedcode_v1.3, May 2020 |
| 23 | -------------------------------------- |
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| 25 | * Third version released to ORAN in support of Release B |
| 26 | * Add scripts to run refPHY in Docker* containers, Kubernetes* clusters, Multus*, and Data Plane |
| 27 | Development Kit-Single-Root Input/Output Visualization (DPDK-SRIOV) plugin. |
| 28 | * Integration and optimization of block floating point compression and decompression. |
| 29 | * Category B support |
| 30 | * Add support for alpha and beta value when calculating SFN based on GPS time. |
| 31 | * Support End to End integration with commercial UE with xRAN/ORAN RRU for both mmWave and |
| 32 | sub-6 scenarios |
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| Luis Farias | dc60302 | 2019-11-12 17:45:28 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | Version ORAN-seedcode_v1.2, 1 Nov 2019 |
| 35 | -------------------------------------- |
| 36 | * Second version released to ORAN in support of Release A |
| 37 | * Incorporates support for 5G NR sub 6 and mmWave |
| 38 | * Support for Application fragementation under Transport features was added |
| Luis Farias | 9d66fca | 2020-05-28 19:01:58 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | * This release has been designed and implemented to support the following numerologies defined in the 3GPP |br| |
| 40 | specification |
| Luis Farias | dc60302 | 2019-11-12 17:45:28 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | * Numerology 0 with bandwidth 5/10/20 MHz with up to 12 cells |
| 42 | * Numerology 1 with bandwidth 100MHz with up to 1 cell |
| 43 | * Numerology 3 with bandwidth 100MHz with up to 1 cell |
| 44 | * The feature set of xRAN protocol should be aligned with Radio Unit (O-RU) implementation |
| 45 | * Inter-operability testing (IOT) is required to confirm correctness of functionality on both sides |
| 46 | * The following mandatory features of the ORAN FH interface are not yet supported in this release |
| 47 | * RU Category Support of CAT-B RU (i.e. precoding in RU) |
| 48 | * Beamforming Beam Index Based and Real Time BF weights |
| 49 | * Transport Features QoS over FrontHaul |
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| 52 | Version ORAN-seedcode_v1.1, 25 Jul 2019 |
| 53 | --------------------------------------- |
| 54 | * This first version supports only mmWave per 5G NR and it is not yet |
| 55 | * optimized |
| 56 | * It is a first draft prior to the November 2019 Release A |
| 57 | * The following mandatory features of the ORAN FH interface are not yet |
| 58 | * supported in this initial release |
| 59 | * RU Category Support of CAT-B RU (i.e. precoding in RU) |
| 60 | * Beamforming Beam Index Based and Real Time BF weights |
| 61 | * Transport Features QoS over FrontHaul and Application Fragmentation |
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