About OpenPHY

OpenPHY is a LTE UE receiver implementation for real-time test, decoding, and network diagnostic purposes. Alternatively the implementation can serve as the basis for a full software UE implementation when combined with uplink and MAC/RRC layer functionality.

Implemented Functionality

General:

• LTE Release 8
• UE Category 3 (75 Mbps downlink)
• FDD mode

LTE specifications:

• 3GPP TS 36.211 "Physical channels and modulation"
• 3GPP TS 36.212 "Multiplexing and channel coding"
• 3GPP TS 36.213 "Physical layer procedures"

Physical Layer:

• Bandwidth: 1.4, 3, 5, 10, and 20 MHz (automatic detection)
• Channels: PSS, SSS, RS, PBCH, PCFICH, PDCCH, PDSCH
• PDCCH formats (DCI): 0, 1, 1A, 1C, 1D, 2, 2A
• Modulation: QPSK, QAM-16, QAM-64
• MIMO: 2x2 or 2x1 transmit mode 2 (diversity)

Decoding (TurboFEC):

• Turbo decoding for PDSCH (SIMD optimized)
• Convolutional decoding for PBCH and PDCCH (SIMD optimized)
• Turbo and convolutional rate matching

RF device support:

• Ettus Research USRP B200/B210
• Ettus Research USRP X300/X310

Processor Support:

• Intel SSE3, SSE4, and AVX2 instruction support is automatically detected and enabled at build time if available.

Dependencies

The following dependencies are required:

FFTW for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT).

http://www.fftw.org

USRP Hardware Driver for Ettus radio device support

http://uhd.ettus.com

Reference Clock

OpenPHY will resolve the RF frequency offsets between the local device and the remote eNodeB within a range of approximately +/-2.5 kHz.

Use of GPSDO module or external frequency reference is recommended for RF frequencies above 1 GHz.

Wireshark

Wireshark output of decoded LTE MAC frames is available on port 6666.

Compile

$ autoreconf -i
$ ./configure
$ make

Install

$ sudo make install

Run

LTE signal decoding is command line driven.

$ lte_decode -h

Options:
  -h    This text
  -a    UHD device args
  -c    Number of receive channels (1 or 2)
  -f    Downlink frequency
  -g    RF receive gain
  -j    Number of PDSCH decoding threads (default = 1)
  -b    Number of LTE resource blocks (default = auto)
  -r    LTE RNTI (default = 0xFFFF)
  -x    Enable external device reference (default = off)
  -p    Enable GPSDO reference (default = off)

The following command will enable receive MIMO on RF frequency of 751 MHz with a gain setting of 40 dB. Default RNTI (SI-RNTI) will be used to decode eNodeB system information blocks (SIB) on the PDSCH channel.

$ lte_decode -c 2 -f 751e6 -g 40

21:55:05:212 PDCCH : DCI Length 27, CRC 65535, Agg. Level 8, Block 0
21:55:05:212 PDCCH : DCI Format 1A:
                     Format 0/1A differentiation              1
                     Local/distributed VRB assignment         0
                     Resource block assignment                100
                     Modulation and coding                    7
                     HARQ process number                      0
                     New data indicator                       0
                     Redundancy version                       1
                     TPC command for PUCCH                    0
21:55:05:212 FRAME : SFN 0414, Ns 05
21:55:05:212 PDSCH : RIV 100, start 0, N_step -1, L_crbs 3
21:55:05:212 PDSCH : Transport block size A=224, Physical bits G=720
21:55:05:212 PDSCH : RNTI 65535, Modulation 2, Redundancy version 1
21:55:05:213 PDSCH : CRC Segmentation block r=0
21:55:05:213 PDSCH :     Rate match length E=720
21:55:05:213 PDSCH :     Rate match length D=252
21:55:05:213 PDSCH :     Turbo decode length K=248
21:55:05:213 PDSCH : Decoded transport block:
                     48 4c 46 90 11 f0 15 0d 77 18 92 98 23 21 03 10 8a c2 16 26 
                     36 fd 80 d9 00 00 00 0d 
21:55:05:226 PDCCH : DCI Length 27, CRC 65535, Agg. Level 8, Block 0
21:55:05:226 PDCCH : DCI Format 1A:
                     Format 0/1A differentiation              1
                     Local/distributed VRB assignment         0
                     Resource block assignment                1000
                     Modulation and coding                    8
                     HARQ process number                      0
                     New data indicator                       0
                     Redundancy version                       0
                     TPC command for PUCCH                    0
21:55:05:227 FRAME : SFN 0416, Ns 00
21:55:05:227 PDSCH : RIV 1000, start 0, N_step -1, L_crbs 21
21:55:05:227 PDSCH : Transport block size A=256, Physical bits G=5040
21:55:05:227 PDSCH : RNTI 65535, Modulation 2, Redundancy version 0
21:55:05:227 PDSCH : CRC Segmentation block r=0
21:55:05:227 PDSCH :     Rate match length E=5040
21:55:05:227 PDSCH :     Rate match length D=284
21:55:05:227 PDSCH :     Turbo decode length K=280
21:55:05:227 PDSCH : Decoded transport block:
                     00 81 01 f2 b7 ec 93 74 ab 42 53 40 04 00 04 01 60 29 dc aa 
                     f1 dd c8 01 c2 14 63 c4 50 a4 00 06 

Authors

OpenPHY was written by Tom Tsou tom.tsou@ettus.com.