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As a side effect, we have to sacrifice a unit test (TC_inval_dummy)
because it becomes impossible to pass a dummy or invalid SACCH block
to lchan_bs_pwr_ctrl().
Change-Id: I937117cf26fb718d57920382f6972390ad498c51
Related: SYS#4918
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Related: SYS#4917
Change-Id: Ib33a94eba92004f9327c91e020a506dfa9a957c3
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This test showcases the current issue where the loop keeps bouncing
between 2 good MS Power Level values due to the loop "accepting" and
"reporting back" the previously considered good MS Power Level
announced/used by the MS. Hence, upon report back from the network, the
MS will switch to this new MS Power Level, and same thing will ocurr
over and over.
Related: SYS#4917
Change-Id: I16ed7fe8a123b99008e0c041d2f3e4232057d55c
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Similar to what is already provided for power control loops. However,
there's no existing way to communicate TA control parameters from the
BSC to the BTS, so implement them locally in BTS vty.
Related: SYS#5371
Change-Id: I9fa71f836bb9a79b0ef2567bfcfdf38ff217840b
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TS 45.008 section 4.7.1:
"""
Upon receipt of a command from an SACCH to change its power level on the corresponding uplink channel, the MS
shall change to the new level at a rate of one nominal 2 dB power control step every 60 ms (13 TDMA frames), i.e. a
range change of 15 steps should take about 900 ms. The change shall commence at the first TDMA frame belonging to
the next reporting period (as specified in subclause 8.4). The MS shall change the power one nominal 2 dB step at a
time, at a rate of one step every 60 ms following the initial change, irrespective of whether actual transmission takes
place or not.
"""
Since the reported MS_PWR in L1 SACCH Header is, according to specs, the
one used for the last block of the previous SACCH period, it becomes
clear the first SACCH block after a requested MS Power Level change by
the network may contain mismatches between the announced MS_PWR by the
MS and the measured Rxlev/RxQual. Hence, let's better use a
P_CON_INTERVAL of 1 which retriggers the MS Power Control Loop every second
SACCH block.
Change-Id: If6cb8945645a2031f2b2ee65d9b9f51e75cd9af1
Related: SYS#5371
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As per 3GPP TS 45.008 sec 4.2, the ms_pwr received in L1 SACCH Header is
the value used over previous measurement period. Hence, we need to feed
the algo with the measurements taken over that same period.
Related: SYS#4917
Change-Id: I13c0014fdd73f823ae5b1256c35bfa7d97cfa334
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Field is renamed to look similar to similar fields in power control
loop. This is a preparation commit, next one will add functionality to
skip SACCH blocksi (P_CON_INTERVAL).
Related: SYS#5371
Change-Id: I169ce58ab827e38b64f4b15f935097a9118fa118
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From TS 45.010 5.6.1 (delay tracking for circuit switched channels):
"""
Restricting the change in timing advance to 1 symbol period at a time
gives the simplest implementation of the BTS. However the BTS may use
a larger change than this but great care must then be used in the BTS design.
"""
In general 1 TA at a time (every 480ms of SACCH block) should be enough,
since section 5.6.3 states:
"""
The control loop for the timing advance shall be implemented in such a way that it will cope with MSs moving at a
speed up to 500 km/h
"""
Which is ~140 m/s, and 1 TA step around 500m, so most of the time we
should be save and no steps of more than 1 TA should be required.
However, unlikely changes from reflected to direct signal or vice versa
could produce higher increments, so let's increase the maximum step size
allowed to 2 in order to give more room.
Change-Id: I9e48faabf3090588233e274b2b39065cf85fbec7
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First step improving and reworking TA loop:
Move trigger of the loop to similar place done by BS/MS Power Control
Loop, that is, upon receivial of UL SACCH block, which contains
information about the TA used to transmit the block encode in L1SACCH
Header. Hence, from computed received TOA and TA used when transmitting
from the MS, we can infer the desired TA to be used by the MS, which
will send back to it later during DL SACCH block.
The values taken are actually the ones calculated for the previous SACCH
block and stored in lchan->meas.ms_toa256. That's because L1SACCH
contains the TA used for the previous reporting period, similarly to
what's specified for MS Power Control loop (TS 45.008 sec 4.2):
"""
The MS shall confirm the power control level that it is currently employing
in the SACCH L1 header on each uplink channel. The indicated value shall
be the power control level actually used by the mobile for the last burst
of the previous SACCH period.
"""
(The reader may observe that currently this is not properly done for MS
Power Control loop when calling lchan_ms_pwr_ctrl(): this is a bug.)
This new method also permits changing TA quicker, since we have more
confidence that the TA we request is aligned with the one used to
transmit, and we don't simply increment/decrement based on the value we
request to transmit.
Related: SYS#5371
Change-Id: I2d0f128c8dcac93ee382283a1c91fca76623b8fc
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Tests have shown that even a delay of 0, i.e. a simple defer until the
next select() loop, makes the difference from failing to working early
IA. So set the default to 0, achieving such defer.
Related: SYS#5559
Change-Id: I95365649edd51114bcf6028f0dc3bbe4186f96d2
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During live testing, it has become apparent that some IMM ASS still fail
when sending the RR IMM ASS directly upon the target channel becoming
active.
Add a bit of delay after activation, to give some time for the channel
to light up for the MS. Default is 50ms.
Related: OS#5559
Change-Id: Ia1e63b98944dc840cde212fc732e20277cdc5585
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The bug showed up in previous commit and is fixed in this commit. It can
be seen how rounding error is carried over time in the average
measurement, and affects final values.
Change-Id: I680d1c94bd4bae179b14b26662a819fa1462a5c8
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RxLevels
Before this comits, averaging and delta calculation was done in RSSI,
but stored the averaging cached state in variables named "rxlev", which
was really confusing. Let's keeping averaging and delta calculations
based on RxLevels.
Some of the tests change results due to test passing RSSI -45, which is
an invalid Rxlev (only up to -47 is supported).
Others fail due to an unrelated bug showing up now. Basically the averaging algo
is doing rounding the wrong way when downscaling the values. It will be
fixed in a follow-up commit.
Change-Id: I4cff8394f22b5d47789163051364ff594b2bcd74
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params->rxqual_meas.upper_thresh is left unchecked in
lchan_bs_pwr_ctrl() on this commit on purpose, to keep this
commit with old behavior wrt to algo logic.
Change-Id: If7e3987df89d680cfa443195ab2f225681d0e6cf
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lchan_ms_pwr_ctrl()
This commit reworks the code in function lchan_bs_pwr_ctrl()
and logging to look similar to that of lchan_ms_pwr_ctrl(), so that
reader can easily spot similarities between both and add simillar
features more easily.
This commit is also a preparation to add EWMA avg support for RxQual
measurements. Logging is also reworked now to look similar to that of MS
Power Control Loop, because having several parameters driving the algo
(RxLev and RxQual), it becomes more suitable to log all of them together instead
of intermediate info only aplicable to one param such as "delta".
Change-Id: Ida76b55f0da722135eb61ed06ea2b3a1862df600
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Change-Id: I8babd42566c41935079fd414d930ebf2d737892e
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This commit extends existing MS Power Control Loop algorithm to take
into account computed C/I values on the UL, received from MS. The
related C/I parameters used by the algorithm are configured at and
provided by the BSC, which transmits them to the BTS similar to already
existing parameters.
Using C/I instead of existing RxQual is preferred due to extended
granularity of C/I (bigger range than RxQual's 0-7).
Furthermore, existing literature (such as "GSM/EDGE: Evolution and Performance"
Table 10.3) provides detailed information about expected target values,
even different values for different channel types. Hence, it was decided
to support setting different MS Power Parameters for different channel
types.
These MS Power Parameters are Osmocom specific, ie. supported only by
newish versions of osmo-bts. Older versions of osmo-bts should ignore
the new IEs added just fine. The new IEs containing the MS POwer
Parameters are not send for non osmo-bts BTSs, hence this commit is
secure with regards to running osmo-bsc against an ip.access BTS such
as nanoBTS.
Related: SYS#4917
Depends: libosmocore.git Change-Id Iffef0611430ad6c90606149c398d80158633bbca
Change-Id: I5dfd8ff9ab6b499646498b507624758dcc160fb6
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The AMR transmission phase directly depends on the frame number. The
transmission phase is used to tell if a received AMR frame contains a
CMI (frame type that is currently used) or CMR (frame type that the
receiver should use) codec identifier. The formulas in the present
implementation seem to be correct but they do not reflect the numbers in
the spec very well, nor do they have unit-tests. Lets replace them with
more readble functions and test those functions with unit-tests.
Change-Id: I94a934a6b3b397b4cd0e9da3577325de58814335
Related: SYS#5549
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We have two osmocom specific timers used in the BTS, X1 and X2. Expose
those on the VTY configuration, as timer group 'bts'.
This prepares for a subsequent patch, where I would like to add another
configurable timer. This provides the basic infrastructure for that.
Related: SYS#5559
Change-Id: I0f56f9425134679219884b0c3c2f29e77aff5e64
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This is not as trivial as with OsmoBSC or OsmoMSC, because normally the
osmo-bts process exits right away when there is no BSC. Hence add
--vty-test option to main.
Use 'osmo-bts-virtual --vty-test' for testing. The other BTS models
require dependencies / configure switches to be built.
Essentially copied from osmo-bsc.git:
configure.ac: add --enable-external-tests
tests/Makefile.am: add 'vty-test' target
Add osmo-bts.vty, some trivial VTY node testing.
This prepares for adding VTY tests for T timer configuration added in a
subsequent patch.
Related: SYS#5559
Change-Id: I730daf548a3a9bb116aa8b6d5772ca9af0ada08f
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Change-Id: Ib8e04fe79f30b443a54c38f395a7a3626ff97c45
Related: SYS#5324
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Ensure that we check the PHY capabilities in both cases:
* RSL CHANnel ACTIVation, and
* RSL CHANnel MODE MODIFY,
by calling bts_supports_cm() from rsl_handle_chan_mod_ie().
Modify bts_supports_cm() to accept a 'struct rsl_ie_chan_mode',
so we can handle VAMOS enabled channel modes and CSD later on.
Change-Id: I31a444592436705ec9d6ddade3cbfa7f8cb4bb91
Related: SYS#5315, OS#4940
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Change-Id: I0c92dfd05bf2ae40887980ef10b7e4c679213b6a
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gsm_bts_trx_alloc() already does initialize some fields of the
allocated 'struct gsm_bts_trx' instance, and having an additional
function for initializing the other fields makes no sense.
Note that I intentionally didn't merge a call to bts_model_trx_init()
into gsm_bts_trx_alloc(), because this would break some assumptions
regarding the order of initialization and cause regressions.
This also allows us to not call bts_model_trx_init() from tests.
Change-Id: I4aefaf47b05a67ec0c4774c1ee7abcc95e04cc13
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First of all, there is no reason to use a void pointer because
it's always 'struct phy_instance'. Also, no need to encapsulate
this pointer into 'role_bts' because there are no other roles in
osmo-bts (we used to have shared headers years ago).
This commit also fixes a bug in test_sysmobts_auto_band(), where a
pointer to 'struct femtol1_hdl' was directly assigned to trx.pinst.
Change-Id: I9bd6f0921e0c6bf824d38485486ad78864cbe17e
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Change-Id: Ifd1ee307252d19ae535d2234523036c319e4c0ec
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Let's disable category here since we don't care about its formatting here.
In any case, every test relying on logging output validation should
always explicitly state the config to avoid issues in the future if
default values change.
Change-Id: I8713f4e04e92b4d7e211c499fc6e78983edfb139
Related: OS#5034
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The only reason why it was not 'const' is that in lchan_new_ul_meas()
we may need to overwrite 'ulm->is_sub'. This can still be done after
memcpy()ing a new set of samples to the destination buffer.
Change-Id: I0cabf75f8e0bf793c01225a4a8433e994c93f562
Related: OS#5024
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Change-Id: Ibf9956b2c6d829b38e9fda7d1f29790036219f42
Related: SYS#4918
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One part of the algorithm simply provides a _suggested_ 'delta' that
needs to be applied to the current power level, while the other part
ensures that this suggested value does not exceed the limits. Thus
it's possible that some logging messages would state that the power
reduction value remains unchanged, while the 'detla' != 0.
Change-Id: I7496a158b9ac6074a965056d708d8078a98cb1aa
Related: SYS#4918
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Change-Id: Ic2d4e144b0319d86daa9fbe38727b892081f0c37
Related: SYS#4918
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Change-Id: I178df05c1a4cb982279b21d07bd69f75b44928da
Related: SYS#4918
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This makes the logging messages easier to read and understand.
Change-Id: I5f8c987054b2b01acdb9f525d06ca15bbc577070
Related: SYS#4918
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This change makes BS power control loop:
- take the lower RxQual threshold (L_RXQUAL_XX_P) into account, so
the BS power is increased only if RxQual exceeds this threshold;
- apply the configured increase step size instead of reducing the
current attenuation by half.
MS power loop is not affected, it does not even handle RxQual yet.
Change-Id: Ib3c740b9a0f3ba5dfb027e144dc13f456cb26ae2
Related: SYS#4918
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It makes more sense to use a reduce step size that is smaller than
the increase step size. This way both MS/BS power control loops
would be able to react quickly of the signal gets weaker, while
the good signal would not trigger radical power reduction.
Change-Id: Ie358fd828a68bfa1d23559197e8df8478fb4535e
Related: SYS#4918
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This way EWMA based filtering can also be applied to RxQual.
Change-Id: I439c00b394da670e314f217b3246cc85ce8213c6
Related: SYS#4918, SYS#4917
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In change [1] the new power control structures and default params
were introduced. In change [2], the existing VTY commands for MS
power control in the BTS were deprecated and changed to use the
new structures as storage. Finally, in change [3], handling of
the power control parameters on the A-bis/RSL was implemented.
This change is the final logical step in the mentioned chain: it
makes both MS/BS power control loops use the new parameters, and
removes the old structures. The actual implementation of both
power control loops remains the same, however the expected output
of some unit tests for the Downlink loop needs to be changed:
- TC_fixed_mode: disabling dynamic power control becomes a separate
step of the test script since the field 'fixed' is removed;
- TC_rxlev_target: RxLev thresholds are printed 'as-is'.
Not all of the new parameters are used by the power control loops
yet. Further improvements to be done in the follow up commits.
[1] I6d41eb238aa6d4f5b77596c5477c2ecbe86de2a8
[2] Icbd9a7d31ce6723294130a31a179a002fccb4612
[3] I5a901eca5a78a0335a6954064e602e65cda85390
Change-Id: Ib18f84c40227841d95a36063a6789bf63054fc2e
Related: SYS#4918
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Change-Id: Ic37742f46f533865043b3dbcf16ea702e1746f98
Related: SYS#4918
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Change-Id: Icb059ca1f555397be116a424800e4536883b9106
Related: SYS#4918
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We already have MS Power Control, which according to 3GPP 45.008
shall be implemented in the MS to minimize the transmit power in
the Uplink direction. The BS Power Control may optionally be
implemented by the network side for the same purpose.
Using Downlink signal measurements reported by the MS, the BSS
(either BSC, or BTS) may control Downlink attenuation in a way
that the transmit power remains as low as possible, or remains
in a specific range corresponding to good RxLev values on the
MS side. This change implements autonomous BS Power Control,
that can optionally be enabled by the BSC.
BS Power Control re-uses parts of the MS Power Control code,
so all parameters can be configured in the same way - via the
VTY interface or a configuration file. This basically means
that features like hysteresis and EWMA based filtering are
also available for BS Power Control.
The only difference is that RxQual values higher than 0 would
trigger the logic to reduce the current attenuation twice.
Note that one of the unit tests ('TC_rxlev_max_min') fails,
as the power step limitations for raising and lowering look
wrong to me, and the related discussion is still ongoing.
Change-Id: I5b509e71d5f668b6b8b2abf8053c27f2a7c78451
Related: SYS#4918
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Similar to I3c07cb6e14acd5a988761bbc51a9c3b60fb22d87, this change
is another step towards separating the common delta calculation
logic from lchan_ms_pwr_ctrl(), since this function will loose
access to the averaged values.
On the one hand, the affected logging statements are getting
less precise; on the other, logging the averaged value as the
actual value ('rx-current') may be even more confusing.
Change-Id: I07007e45c859b4080fbbe520ffb5ccc0bb9c4244
Related: SYS#4918
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This change would allow to separate the common logic from
lchan_ms_pwr_ctrl() and re-use it for Downlink power control.
The logging statement was quite useful during early stages
of development and testing of hysteresis and filtering,
but now we can sacrifice it.
Change-Id: I3c07cb6e14acd5a988761bbc51a9c3b60fb22d87
Related: SYS#4918
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This would allow to pass only two pointers:
- 'struct bts_power_ctrl_params', and
- 'struct lchan_power_ctrl_state',
and get rid of 'struct gsm_lchan' dependency. The later is
exactly where all state variables are supposed to be kept.
Change-Id: Idfefca30f4944bc722b4e9d8f1685eb77670a9db
Related: SYS#4918
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Change-Id: I8c6ad8d14349e8a05084c2912644c5202f951f52
Related: SYS#4918
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There will also be bs_power_loop test soon.
Change-Id: I3f58eb85e44825a159af58948f01d9ffd75bceec
Related: SYS#4918
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Change-Id: I724f661e9ce5dd75f95fb7b270a89b2e2a73c951
Related: SYS#4918
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Change-Id: I580512eea1d329a4d25ccbd6fc2ab98b083ec51d
Related: SYS#4918
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Change-Id: I3886c7aedf3870536f1750f864cf698302ddf2df
Related: SYS#4918
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The logic in measurement.c checks the amount of collected measurement
values. This is done for the total amount of measurements and the amount
of SUB blocks measurements.
The functions that return the expected number of measurement values
currently do not take into account that the mode of a TCH/F or TCH/H has
an effect on the number of expected SUB blocks. (In signalling channels
all blocks count as SUB). Also a TCH/H in signalling mode generates only
half the amount of measurements because the blocks in signalling mode
are sepreded over 6 bursts instead of 4. This also needs to be taken
into account.
Change-Id: I01c7b6cc908c647263ab88f6b6281c4732f88779
Related: OS#4799
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Recently we've introduced EWMA based uplink power filtering, that
should reduce Uplink power oscillations. However, the power loop
is still quite sensitive to small deviations from the target power
level: even such an insignificant deviation like 2-5 dBm triggers
the loop to increase or decrease the MS power level. Even if the
EWMA based filtering is enabled with 80% smoothing (alpha = 0.2).
This change introduces a new configuration parameter - 'hysteresis':
uplink-power-target <-110-0> hysteresis <1-25>
that together with the 'uplink-power-target' defines a range:
[target - hysteresis .. target + hysteresis]
in which the MS power loop would not trigger any power changes.
This feature is now *enabled* by default, so given that:
- default 'uplink-power-target' is -75 dBm, and
- default 'hysteresis' is 3 dBm,
the default target Uplink power range is: -78 dBm ... -72 dBm.
Change-Id: Iacedbd4d69d3d74e2499af5622a07a8af0423da0
Related: SYS#4916
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