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SIB19 utilization on UE

Following SIB19 initialization and scheduling on gNB (!2899 - merged)
and Receive SIB19 on nrUE (!2920 - merged), this merge request aims to
introduce the actual use of the SIB19 provided parameters by gNB in UE.
Changes needed for utilization include: initialization of position
coordinates parameters for UE (which are needed to calculate propagation
delay between UE and SAT), propagation delay calculations and timing
advance adjusts. Moreover, this change removes the now unused arguments
for ntn_koffset, ntn_ta_common and ntn_ta_commondrift

FHI-72: initialize mask, find correct libxran

See commits for more information

GTP: use direct call instead of ITTI

Using ITTI calls for user plane implies (1) a memory allocation, (2)
mutexes, and (3) queueing messages for each user plane packet, which is
heavy. Use a direct API call instead to reduce overhead.

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/fix-type-remove-assert-2layer-mmse' into integration_2024_w50 (!3149)

Fix several issues in ulsch_mmse_2layers

Fix incorrect array type of determ_fin which was set to int32_t while the
array holds the results of simde_mm_abs_epi32 which produces unsigned
values.

Remove assert on right-shifting negative integers as it is impossible for
determ_fin to hold negative values.

Change type of sum_det to uint32_t to prevent possible overflow.  Fix
the type cast (int -> uint32_t) to prevent casting before shift in
nr_ulsch_comp_muli_sum which might have resulted in right shifting
negative integers.

Closes: #753

UE data race fix

When a new sync request is sent to PHY, we clear harq buffer and start
synchronization process. This could lead to unexpected behavior or segv
because DL actors might be using the buffer we just cleared. To avoid
this, the DL actors are shutdown and re initiated before clearing harq
info.

Enable USRP Tx thread in nrUE

The option usrp-tx-thread-config 1 was not taking effect in UE. This MR fixes it.

CI: Add FHI7.2 test with Metanoia RU

Replace VVDN RU by Metanoia RU in the RAN-SA-FHI72-CN5G pipeline.

Some users copy libxran.so to a system directory (e.g., /usr/local/lib).
At the same time, we require xran_LOCATION to be set to find the build
directory. Use HINTS to prefer the location passed through
xran_LOCATION.

Also, use NO_DEFAULT_PATH to outright disallow global scope, to prevent
"accidentally" finding libxran.so in global scope (this is for
multi-user systems that are used in development, and where people have
different version of libxran for testing purposes). To still use
packages in e.g., /usr/local/, it would be possible to set xran_LOCATION
to this directory. (there is a problem that the version information will
likely not be read correctly, so this might not be enough)

1 needs to be marked as long long, to allow shifting numbers >= 32.
Otherwise, 1 is an int, limited to 32 bits.

fix the case when writeBlockSize is greater than samples/slot
by sending samples from the same buffer instead of out-of-bounds memory read

Set the number of barriers to 512 and implement proper slot and frame
based selection. Now the dynamic barriers should not be overwritten in
case the rx-to-tx offset is high. The maximum offset supported is 512.

Update 5g_rfsimulator_ntn_geo docker file and configs used for test to exclude unused parameters and add ntn related values.

position_coordinates will be allocated and populated upon receiving SIB19
Co-authored-by: Robert Schmidt <robert.schmidt@openairinterface.org>

   - Removed ntn_koffset, ntn_ta_common, ntn_ta_commondrift arguments in order to be used directly from SIB19
   - Removed global NTN_UE_Koffset variable and it's use
   - Introduced getter functions for ntn related parameters

See parent commit for more information.

LTE PDCP uses GTP, so need to link GTP into the corresponding library.

See parent commit for more information.

Using ITTI calls for user plane implies (1) a memory allocation, (2)
mutexes, and (3) queueing messages for each user plane packet, which is
heavy. Use a direct API call instead to reduce overhead.

   - Renamed position coordinates function (better readability)
   - Introduced large timing advance compensation mechanism

   - Added new structure to hold timing advance parameters
   - Made SIB19 related calculation to save to this struct
   - Modified in ra to get ta struct values

Added a flush mechanism to actor thread. This is used to wait for all
waiting jobs in the queue to be completed.

Move handling of sync request from MAC from UE_dl_preprocessing(). This
will process the sync request before receiving the samples of current
slot from radio so we don't 'lose' the slot.

from point A.

Add const to function input pointer.

Integration: `2024.w49`

See merge request oai/openairinterface5g!3148

* !3065 NAS Service Request enc/dec implementation
* !3129 Refactor UL MAC PDU decoding
* !3136 Use ninja -k option in CI
* !3137 T tracer: add macpdu traces for the NR UE
* !2392 Documentation: add multi-UE deployment with RFsimulator
* !3145 a lib has been added but missed dependancies
* !3050 doc: Add instructions for 5G NR gNB frequency configuration
* !3141 CI: Allow restart of the container if deployment fails
* !3138 Align YAML config getlist with libconfig implementation
* !3140 remove un-necessary global variables
* !3146 Updates to match more fapi-compliant tx_data.request
* !3025 New threadpool, fixed in NR UE
* CI: Remove USRP mgmt_addr from LTE-2x2 conf files
* !3147 Fronthaul xran library update to F release (2. and final step towards M-plane integration)
* !3142 Add CI test to trigger RLF with high pathloss in channelmod

Add CI test to trigger RLF with high pathloss in channelmod

 - Use a uint64_t
 - move shift after the sum
 - add bias before shifting to reduce rounding error