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In some cases we'd like to run multiple instances of osmo-bts on a
single machine. This is the case where we a multi-TRX PHY is to be used
for several BTSs, or in case osmo-bts-trx has multple SDRs attached.
This wa currently prevented by having a hard-coded PCU socket path
and telnet port, which are now configurable via VTY / config file
itself.
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At the time the phy link / phy instance level VTY configuration
commands are parsed, we did not yet call l1if_open() and thus
pinst->u.{lc15,sysmobts}.hdl == NULL.
PHY or PHY instance specific configuration must thus be stored inside
the phy_link or phy_instance itself, and not inside the (not yet
existing) handle.
We solve this by moving around some parameters:
* clk_use_eeprom/clk_cal/clk_src/calib_path get replicated in
phy_instance
* min_qual_{rach,norm} are moved into the generic part (which means
that osmo-bts-octphy and osmo-bts-trx should also implement them)
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It seems the right thing to do: Once we know a PHY link is established,
the associated OML managed objects should change their state
accordingly. However, given all the hackery we do with MO states, this
actually breaks things, rather than helping. So I'm disabling that part
for now, but this needs to be re-visited at some point.
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This way we can model a flexible mapping between any number of PHYs,
each having multiple instances, and then map BTSs with TRXx on top of
those PHYs.
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When the oml_link is down or not yet established, we currently lost
any OML messages that were scheduled for transmission to the BSC. Let's
prevent that by keeping a queue of OML messages, which is drained at the
time the OML link comes up again.
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There's no need to use memcpy(), which adds the risk that the types of
source and destination are not the same (see previous commit). Iterating
over the array and assigning each element is more robust.
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by using a talloc pool, we avoid having to go back to the libc
malloc pool all the time. The msgb allocations and libortp allocations
happen quite frequently during processing and show up as one of the
high priority items in osmo-bts profiles on sysmoBTS with 14 concurrent
TCH/H calls (highest load scenario).
talloc still consumes significant CPU, this is mostly due to the
zero-initialization of all the associated buffers. Strictly speaking
we shouldn't need this, but any change there would require lots of
testing, as there might be hidden assumptions in the code?
In some percentage of cases, talloc still seems to fall back on malloc
for msgb allocations, which is currently a bit of a mystery. The pools
certainly are large enough, talloc_reprt() rarely reports more than a
few tens of kilobytes used by the msgb pool.
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sysmocom-bts model shuts down on link loss, but other models may not want
this, so shutdown is moved tor bts_model_abis_close of osmo-bts-sysmo.
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MS uplink power control is required in pretty much any BTS, and we
cannot assume that they PHY / L1 will always take care of it by
itself. So the correspondign code is moved to common/power_control.c
and called from the generic part of L1SAP.
The corresponding VTY paramter has been moved from the sysmobts-specific
trx VTY node to the common BTS VTY node.
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Currently the DSP is instructed to achieve a given uplink
power target but there are circumstances (e.g. EMV testing)
where we need more control over it. The "manual/software/osmo"
power control can only be implemented per TRX and not per
lchan. Add a very very basic control that checks the MS Power
used by the phone, the actual receive level and then adjust
the power.
The code doesn't take the history into account, if the phone
can not reach the requested power level the code will be stuck
(e.g. no timeout based on multiframes). It has a mode for a
fixed power control but no way to set it yet.
The change of the mode requires a restart of the software.
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* CBCH load indications are not yet sent
* The queue length is not yet limited!
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We would never transition the sitemanager to anything. Our SW
does not support SW activation's so we are always ready.
Related: ONW#1330
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OsmoBSC> show bts 0
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GPRS NSVC1: Oper 'Disabled', Admin 'unknown 0x0', Avail 'Off line'
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In order to support transmit power reduction by thermal management
as well as the variety of new internal / external PA configurations
of BTSs, we need a slightly more complex system.
Also, as at high power a single dB can be quite a big difference,
we are now doing all computations in milli-dB(m), i.e. 1/10000 bel.
Ramping is now used both for up and down ramping, as that is useful in
cases where you want to gracefully shut down a cell by shrinking its
radius, gradually handing over subscribers to neighboring cells.
Furthermore, this code is becoming part of the 'common' codebase, as it
is not really specific to how sysmobts is working.
The user can specify a single aggregate value for external system
gain/attenuation. Let's say you have 1dB loss of antenna cable, so you
can put that as 'user-gain -1' into the config, which means that a
'transmit power of 20dBm' will be compensatet for that and the TRX is
instructed to output 21dBm to compensate the cable loss. Similarly,
external PAs can be described by a positive user-gain.
One of the next steps will be to communicate those values and the
nominal power capability of the specific BTS to the BSC, so the BSC will
automatically show correct signal levels in the VTY and log files.
The code includes provisions for future extensions regarding
* an external and an internal PA with calibration tables
* a thermal attenuation setting to be controlled by the site manager
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Use of configuration variables has already been implemented here, so
the TODO comment is removed.
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
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Introduce the handover.h/handover.c and initialize handover parameters
in OML and remember the activation through RSL.
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This patch implements merging of IMMEDIATE ASSIGN REJECT messages as
suggested in GSM 08.58, 5.7. When a new IMM.ASS.REJ is to be appended
to the AGCH queue and the last message in that queue is of the same
type, the individual entries (up to 4 per message) of both messages
are extracted, combined and stored back. If there are less than 5
entries, all entries fit into the old message and the new one is
discarded. Otherwise, the old message will contain 4 entries and the
remaining ones are stored into the new one which is then appended to
the queue.
Ticket: SYS#224
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
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Currently, the AGCH queue length is not limited. This can lead to
large delays and network malfunction if there are many IMM.ASS.REJ
messages.
This patch adds two features:
- Don't accept msgs from the RSL layer when the queue is way too
full (safety measure, mainly if bts_ccch_copy_msg() is not being
called by the L1 layer, currently hard coded to 1000 messages)
- Selectively drop IMM.ASS.REJ from the queue output depending on the
queue length
Ticket: SYS#224
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
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This patch extends paging_gen_msg() by adding an output parameter
is_empty that is true, if only a paging message with dummy entries
has been placed into buffer. This feature is then used by
bts_ccch_copy_msg() to insert an AGCH message if is_empty is true.
Ticket: SYS#224
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
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Counters are added for the following events (use VTY show to query):
- Dropped IMMEDIATE ASSIGN REJECT messages
- Merged IMMEDIATE ASSIGN REJECT messages
- Rejected AGCH messages
- Use of PCH (non-reserved) for AGCH messages
- Use of AGCH (reserved) for AGCH messages
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
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This patch adds a function bts_update_agch_max_queue_length()
to compute a limit of the AGCH queue. This is based on the idea,
that the AGCH queue has a limited drain rate and that CHANNEL
REQUESTs must be answered within a certain time frame, given
by the minimum value of T3126 (see GSM 04.08). When the AGCH queue
reaches that limit, the last message would be delivered in time if
there were no other delays involved (which is not the case).
The calculation is based on the ratio of the number RACH slots and
CCCH blocks per time:
Lmax = (T + 2*S) / R_RACH * R_CCCH
where
T3126_min = (T + 2*S) / R_RACH
R_RACH is the RACH slot rate (e.g. RACHs per multiframe)
R_CCCH is the CCCH block rate (same time base like R_RACH)
The value depends control_channel_desc.ccch_conf and
rach_control.tx_integer (both from SYSINFO_TYPE_3) and should
therefore by called at least each time after one of these is changed.
For this reason, a signal callback is registered under
SS_GLOBAL/S_NEW_SYSINFO which invokes bts_update_agch_max_queue_length().
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
Based-On: "bts: Calculate length of agch queue" by Ivan Kluchnikov
<kluchnikovi@gmail.com>
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This patch adds a common function bts_ccch_copy_msg() that provides
and schedules AGCH and PCH messages. It is basically a frontend to
paging_gen_msg() and bts_agch_dequeue() and contains refactored code
from l1_if.c.
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
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This patch adds and updates btsb->agch_queue_length to keep track of
the queue length.
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
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libosmoabis has a BTS-side implementation of the IPA protocol for years,
and osmo-bts should have used that all the time. Unfortunately it had
its own local hack, this patch is migrating to the libosmocore
implementation.
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Instead of calling oml_mo_state_chg() [which transmits OML STATE CHG]
during bts_init(), we use a new oml_mo_state_init() function which
simply sets the state.
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If the shutdown timer is already running do not deactivate the RF and
do not close the trx. This is addressing another instance of the following
warning:
[ERROR] : DeviceMng_ValidateL1Handle() => Invalid layer 1 handle
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Chapter 5.2 applies to MS procedure, but 5.3 (BSS procedure) defines no
exact criterion, so I decided to use the procedure equivalent to MS.
The criterion is based on a counter S, which is initialized to a preset
RADIO_LINK_TIMEOUT, which can be configured via VTY. Whenever a received
SACCH block is bad, S is counted down by one. If SACCH block is
successfully decoded, S is counted up by two, but never above initial
RADIO_LINK_TIMEOUT value. If S reaches 0, an RSL Connection Failure
Indication with cause RF Radio Link Failure is sent to BSC, which then
aborts channel.
Use link timeout value from BSC via OML attribute.
How to test:
- Set "debug" for "meas" logging.
- Start silent call to an attached mobile.
- Remove battery from mobile or shield mobile.
- Watch S count down.
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Issue the RfDeactivate.REQ before sending the MphClose.REQ. Ideally
we would issue MphClose.REQ after the RfDeactivate.CNF but this is
not possible right now.
The current approach makes the following warning of the DSP go away
on shutdown. This was tested with my E71 and an active silent-call
using a SDCCH.
DSP Warning:
[ERROR] : DeviceMng_ValidateL1Handle() => Invalid layer 1 handle
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This was found and debugged by Sylvain. The BTS will always support
A5/0 so we do not keep track of that, the first bit of the flags is
used for A5/1, second for A5/2... but for RSL there is an offset to
go from RSL to A5(x). Add a testcase and change the code.
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Address the compiler warning and truncate the value by hand.
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This may be adding bells and whistles that nobody wants to touch, but at
least for current analysis/optimiziation they are useful to have. Later
on they should probably be removed again and/or obsoleted by OML
messages for configuration of paging behaviour by the BSC.
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A special command line option "-P" is used to enable socket interface
and signal available GPRS MO object to BSC.
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During init process, signals might be sent. PCU receives these signals and
requires that BTS instance is already in the list.
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We now bring the GPRS related MO up in DEPENDENCY state and parse
the various NS, BSSGP and RLC parameters as set by the BSC via 12.21/OML.
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As the careful commitlog reader Andreas points out: When the BSC does
not sent NM_ATT_MAX_TA, then it would be zero instead of the specified
default value of 63.
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The TODO item still applies to somehow limit the queue of incoming
messages and drop older ones first. A sane limit would be the number
of channels (+ or * 2).
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We have to either lapdm_exit() both DCCH and ACCH (not 2x ACCH) or
rather call lapdm_channel_exit() which does that for us.
Thanks to Holger Freyther for spotting this bug.
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this deals with unused cocde, unused variables and undeclared symbols in
various places.
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there's one global setting for the BTS default value, plus an
interactive command to change the buffer of an active lchan on the fly
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this config file allows configuration of unit id, oml ip,
and local rtp bind IP.
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Using osmo-bts-sysmo and this code, it is now possible to do FR and AMR
based voice calls on TCH/F.
A lot of CPU is wasted in the conversion between the RTP formats and the
L1 specific formats for the codec frames. All data needs to be shifted
by four bits, and the order of bits needs to be reversed in every byte.
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