[srslte-users] srsRAN BER Problem with LDPC Decoding for version avx512 (layered)

[Leonardo Lo Schiavo]

Hi Xavier,  

yes, I have tried all the implementations and observed that those
implementations with 8-bits LLRs (avx512, avx2, and basic 8bits) yield
the issue that I mentioned in the last email. The other implementations
(16bits LLRs and float LLRs) do not yield such issue, and are giving
much more reasonable BLER performances. 

I am attaching some plots showing the avx512 layered implementation and
float LLRs implementation performance in terms of number of decoding
iterations needed to successfully decode the codeblock. White points
indicate that for the specific SNR-MCS pair it was not possible to
decode within 10 iterations and three different scaling factors were
tested (0.5, 0.8 and 1.0). 

I would appreciate if you had further suggestion to investigate this
issue. Many thanks in advance. 

Best Regards,

Leonardo Lo Schiavo
PhD Student @ IMDEA Networks Institute
Leganes, Madrid, Spain 

On 15-06-2021 09:45, Xavier Arteaga wrote:

> Hi Leonardo, 
> First of all, many thanks for sharing your findings with us. 
> 
> Have you tried if the AVX2 and generic implementations have the same BLER? 
> 
> What scaling factor are you using? I observed that for 64QAM and 256QAM the scaling factor had to be 0.8, see https://github.com/srsran/srsRAN/blob/master/lib/src/phy/phch/sch_nr.c#L275. Otherwise, code blocks could systematically fail. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Xavier 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 18:52, Leonardo Lo Schiavo <leonardo.loschiavo at imdea.org> wrote: 
> 
>> Dear srsRAN community, 
>> 
>> I am writing this email to report an issue with BER performance in LDPC Decoding tests for the 8-bit version avx512 (.exe file in srsRAN/build/lib/src/phy/fec/ldpc/test/ldpc_dec_avx512_test) 
>> 
>> Basically I am generating the input LLRs for the LDPC Decoder with a MATLAB pipeline by using different parameters, namely PRB allocation, SNR and MCS.
>> The problem is that for a given SNR value, I am getting BER=0 for higher MCS and BER > 0 for lower MCS with 10 decoding iterations, while the behaviour should be the opposite. 
>> 
>> I did the tests for both the 8-bits and 16-bits version by using the same input LLRs (just changing the quantization) and I am not getting the above issue for the 16-bits LLRs version (.exe file in srsRAN/build/lib/src/phy/fec/ldpc/test/ldpc_dec_s_test).
>> Considering the above, I am assuming there is some kind of systematic error when decoding using the 8-bit version for the input LLRs. 
>> 
>> In order to replicate the tests, I am attaching:
>> 1) The modified source files for 8-bit and 16-bit version 
>> 2) The input folders for 8-bit and 16-bit version (each one containing input LLRs for each codeblock and source bits per codeblock) 
>> 
>> And this is an example of a test reporting the above issue:
>> - In srsRAN/build/lib/src/phy/fec/ldpc/test/ , run:
>> 
>> 1) ./ldpc_dec_avx512_test -f LDPC_srsRANq_Files/Simulation_1/ldpc_BG1_K7744_PRB50_SNR20.00_mcs15_4_/ -i 10
>> 2) ./ldpc_dec_avx512_test -f LDPC_srsRANq_Files/Simulation_1/ldpc_BG1_K8448_PRB50_SNR20.00_mcs16_4_/ -i 2
>> 3) ./ldpc_dec_s_test -f LDPC_srsRANq16_Files/Simulation_1/ldpc_BG1_K7744_PRB50_SNR20.00_mcs15_4_/ -i 2
>> 4) ./ldpc_dec_s_test -f LDPC_srsRANq16_Files/Simulation_1/ldpc_BG1_K8448_PRB50_SNR20.00_mcs16_4_/ -i 2 
>> 
>> From the above tests, only the test 1) will give a BER > 0 (even with 10 iterations), which is not expected considering that with an higher MCS (16) I am getting BER = 0. 
>> 
>> Please be aware that the same issue appears also with other configurations of PRB, SNR and MCS. 
>> 
>> Could you please investigate on the above issue? Many thanks in advance. 
>> 
>> Best Regards, 
>> 
>> Leonardo Lo Schiavo
>> PhD Student @ IMDEA Networks Institute
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