Let's have a short and consistent naming for both ACCH repetition
and temporary ACCH overpower structures, like it's done in osmo-bts.
Change-Id: Ia12c83ad1af4744ce28ba655ac806784f746e88a
Related: Ib1d51f91139b4c2fe794e37fc8543b2d7a9b9c07
Same as all_allocated:{sdcch,tch}, but already trigger when all
non-dynamic timeslots are allocated.
Related: SYS#4878
Related: Ib3997a827c9cc43d1361bb0cf3bfab9f6d91bf82 (osmo-ttcn3-hacks)
Change-Id: I2fa14531f16d3f07085620f1c50eb839c420da6a
Add chan_counts_for_trx() and chan_counts_for_bts(). Drop
bts_count_free_ts() and trx_count_free_ts().
Rationale:
The bts_count_free_ts() and trx_count_free_ts() always returned the
number of free lchans, not timeslots. Hence, passing the pchan type as
argument never really matched the semantics.
Especially, when looking for free SDCCH, there is no clear match on a
gsm_phys_chan_config enum value: SDCCH8_SACCH8C, CCCH_SDCCH4,
CCCH_SDCCH4_CBCH, SDCCH8_SACCH8C_CBCH? -- GSM_LCHAN_SDCCH is clear.
==> Rather count free lchans by enum gsm_chan_t.
Counting lchans of distinct types required separate iterations for each
lchan type.
==> Rather compose an array of counts for all types, in one go.
I need to count the amount of free SDCCH lchans in an upcoming patch to
implement the performance indicator allAvailableAllocatedSDCCH (cumulate
time for which no SDCCH are available).
To implement allAvailableAllocated{SDCCH,TCH}, I need a count of both
the used as well as the total lchans for a type: it does not make sense
to flag "all available allocated" if none are ever available.
To properly count dynamic ts, I need the maximum total that can be
possible at any time. And to count currently free lchans, I need the
current total. This may seem counter intuitive, but consider, e.g.:
- Obviously, if a cell has only static TCH/F timeslots, it does not make
sense to flag that all available TCH/H are occupied, because no TCH/H
are available ever. Just stating this as contrast to dyn TS.
- If a cell has OSMO_DYN timeslots, I *do* want to flag that all TCH/H
are occupied when all dyn timeslots are fully occupied.
- If those OSMO_DYN however are all used as TCH/F, the current total of
TCH/H becomes zero, and it seems like TCH/H should not be considered.
- To count the nr of currently free lchans, I need the currently
possible total of lchans and the nr of occupied lchans.
So return both a maximum total and a current total of lchans. In above
example, the maximum total shows that there would be TCH/H possible.
BTW, it would be nice to keep a chan_counts array on trx, bts and bsc
level and update as channels are allocated and released, instead of
counting them all over periodically. But it's less error prone this way.
Related: SYS#4878
Change-Id: I2fb48c549186db812b1e9d6b735a92e80f27b8d3
We have lots of counters for intra-BSC handover *away from* a given BTS,
but still missing are counters indicating how many handovers *targeted*
a given BTS. Also count incoming HO.
Related: SYS#4878
Related: Iba229313d73fa20266f6d4eac5820579fb14c604 (osmo-ttcn3-hacks)
Change-Id: Id9f2c6e2865ebe680879018fff08d283ce24c983
The value ncc_permitted is preset in osmo_bsc_main.c from
bootstrap_bts(). It is a constant value that also cannot be changed via
the VTY. Therefore it should be set from bts_alloc(). This also fixes
the problem that when the BTS is added at runtime from the VTY. BTSs
added at runtime would have an all zero ncc_permitted until the next
restart of osmo_bsc.
Change-Id: I9f02277d7b4b4bcb383e749435416a0b22efd5e8
Related: SYS#5369
The acs value is currently set from bootstrap_bts() in osmo_bsc_main.c.
The value is set to 0. Since the BTS object is allocated using
talloc it is guaranteed to be 0 from the beginning. Lets set it from
bts_alloc anyway so that we have a place holder that is easy to find.
Change-Id: Idc4e08c471e15c36b4ea7eb3981254e179115765
The pwrc value is currently set from bootstrap_bts() in osmo_bsc_main.c.
The value is set to 0. Since the BTS object is allocated using
talloc it is guaranteed to be 0 from the beginning. Lets set it from
bts_alloc anyway so that we have a place holder that is easy to find.
Change-Id: Id76879a94cf8cf8c07e8fc7e8aa399cd50e04e9a
At the moment we set the R99 flag from bootstrap_bts() in
osmo_bsc_main.c. However this constant flag should be set together
with the many preinitalized chan_desc values in bts_alloc
Change-Id: I5b78c4e25616ab552c37ba8b7c9948cf7052bad4
Controversy: this duplicates bts.N.rsl_connected. I would like to add
this duplication for consistency, since we now have these counters:
bsc.0.num_trx:rsl_connected
bsc.0.num_trx:total
bts.N.num_trx:total
and the old
bts.N.rsl_connected
which does not fit well with above naming scheme. Any user will be
justified to expect a stat named bts.N.num_trx:rsl_connected as well.
Determine bts.N.num_trx:rsl_connected in the new function
bsc_update_connection_stats(), where the other num_trx:* are set.
Related: SYS#5542
Related: I5be1cb470930354c4561cbed301bc50a32484ed9 (osmo-ttcn3-hacks)
Depends: I137992a5479fc39bbceb6c6c2af9c227bd33b39b (libosmocore)
Change-Id: I55b55159fe13d937e441d8c2ed915734463e1154
This is similar to bsc.0.num_trx:total but per single BTS.
Related: SYS#5542
Related: I5be1cb470930354c4561cbed301bc50a32484ed9 (osmo-ttcn3-hacks)
Depends: I137992a5479fc39bbceb6c6c2af9c227bd33b39b (libosmocore)
Change-Id: I283d38e7a8c032e274a5bd2fa150ec2c9a7157b4
Increase the reaction time at the expense of more stable loop with less
temporary oscillations.
See updated user manual documentation in this commit for a larger
description.
Related: SYS#5371
Change-Id: I46be244a5e01a74086e3a977ec3ea139742a0074
Usual allocation mechansim, when some signalling channel is needed,
first tries to reserve an SDCCH, and if all of them are exhausted, then
attempts to reserve a TCH as a last resort.
This, however, may cause TCH starvation under certain situations, for
instance if there high load on other services (LU, SMS, etc.).
Hence, it may be desirable for the operator to forbid reservation
of TCH slots once SDCCH become exhausted. This commit is thus adding a
VTY command which allows forbidding it. The default behavior (allow using
TCH timeslots when SDCCHs are exhausted) is kept as before.
The above mentioned prohibition is applied only to non-voicecall related
signalling services. That's because voicecall services will end up
requiring a TCH anyway, and forbidding reservation of TCH straighaway
when SDCCHs are exhausted would mean no voice calls could be initiated
while still TCHs would be available.
Related: SYS#5548
Change-Id: Ib08027125145df26602069bfb51847063b0ccc0c
Adds gsm_bts_stats_reset() to clear the stats and calls it from the
different models.
Change-Id: Ic42687cd73e3546edaa99fb1268a5960ffa43b12
Related: SYS#5541
The VTY defun already indicates BSC_VTY_ATTR_RESTART_ABIS_OML_LINK
correctly, but so far we would immediately start using the new values
internally, and wrongly interpret interference levels. Fix that.
Have bts->interf_meas_params twice: interf_meas_params_cfg for the VTY
configured values, and interf_meas_params_used for the values that the
BTS actually knows about, after they were sent via OML.
In a running BSC, when changing the interference level boundaries on the
telnet VTY, the BTS is not immediately told about the change. That would
require a BTS restart. Hence store the cfg values separately in
interf_meas_params_cfg. For comparing/printing interference levels in a
running BTS, only employ the values that were actually sent via OML and
placed in interf_meas_params_used.
Related: SYS#5313
Change-Id: Iad8cf4151ff7f86dc0549158ed5d91d788d40b1f
They will gain support to be activated as SDCCH/8 soon too.
Related: OS#5309
Depends: libosmocore.git I56dcfe4d17899630b17f80145c3ced72f1e91e68
Change-Id: Id5b89fe589a52ff88486435ac43809edb4b80f98
BS Power Control is not allowed on the BCCH/CCCH carrier, unless
the BTS is operating in the BCCH carrier power reduction mode.
Allow constrained BS power reduction (up to 6 dB) on active logical
channels iff BCCH carrier power reduction mode is enabled.
Take into account that the maximum power difference between a timeslot
used for BCCH/CCCH and the timeslot preceding it shall not exceed 3 dB.
Change-Id: I2cc6a86731984f586ef35b43a8d3de631f7d8a2f
Related: SYS#4919, SYS#4918
The BCCH carrier (sometimes called C0) of a BTS shall maintain
discontinuous Downlink transmission at full power in order to
stay 'visible' to the mobile stations. Because of that, early
versions of 3GPP TS 45.008 prohibited BS power reduction on C0.
However, starting from version 13.0.0 (2015-11) there is a feature
called 'BCCH carrier power reduction operation'. This is a special
mode of operation, where the variation of RF level for some
timeslots is relaxed for the purpose of energy saving.
In BCCH carrier power reduction operation, for timeslots on the
C0 carrier, except timeslots carrying BCCH/CCCH, the output power
may be lower than the output power used for timeslots carrying
BCCH/CCCH. In this case the maximum allowed difference in output
power actually transmitted by the BTS is 6 dB.
Introduce a VTY command to turn on and off the BCCH carrier power
reduction operation. Also introduce a CTRL command. On the
A-bis/RSL, abuse the BS POWER CONTROL message by setting
the Channel Number IE to 0x80 (RSL_CHAN_BCCH).
Currently, only osmo-bts-trx is supported. A value greater than
zero makes it reduce the power on *inactive* timeslots of the
BCCH carrier. Sending zero disables the BCCH power reduction
mode completely.
For more details, see 3GPP TS 45.008, section 7.1, and 3GPP TR 45.926.
Change-Id: I047fce33d4d3e4c569dd006ba17858467a2f4783
Related: SYS#4919
According to 3GPP TS 45.008, the BSS shall monitor the levels of
interference on its IDLE traffic channels. The actual measurements
are performed in the BTS and then reported to the BSC over the
A-bis/RSL link(s) in RF RESource INDication messages.
3GPP TS 45.008 defines the following measurement parameters:
* Intave: Interference Averaging period (see table A.1),
* Interference level Boundaries (see table A.1).
Both parameters are sent to the BTS over the A-bis/OML, and can
now be configured via the VTY interface. Only those BTS models
which 'speak' the OML protocol defined in 3GPP TS 52.021 will
actually get the configured parameters, others will keep using
the hard-coded parameters.
Change-Id: I99ebf57aac1f3ca7e0497c3b4f6b0738c6ed7e47
Related: SYS#5313, OS#1866
This message periodically appears in the logs with subsys=DNM and
level=INFO for every disconnected BTS. I find this message useless
and even annoying, so I propose to remove it in this patch.
Change-Id: I7e2498cc61d311ca08585b2f1c49de021b17a5a1
This patch caused major breakage in my setup, with BSC printing at
startup: "(bts=0,trx=0) Failed to generate System Information".
And bts-trx printing all the time:
"sysinfo.c:162 PH-RTS-IND: Unable to determine actual BS_AG_BLKS_RES
value as SI3 is not available yet, fallback to 1"
This reverts commit c1a5310a3e.
Change-Id: I5da365c93aedc6668a77b82ee9b68cbec64967e3
The effects of the neighbor configuration depend on the LAC, Cell
Identity, ARFCN, BSIC configuration of neighbor cells. Make sure that
the neighbor ARFCN list in the System Information is updated.
This may seem rather aggressive: updating the SI of all BTS if only one
config item changed. But indeed even modifying one config item of one
BTS may cause a change in the neighbor relations that many other BTS may
have to the changed BTS. For example, if many BTS configure a
'neighbor lac-ci 42 23', and this cell's config changes to LAC 43, all
of those other BTS need to update their neighbor ARFCNs.
Also update the system information even before the BTS are connected and
started up. The main benefit here is that the VTY 'show bts N' command
then already lists the correct neighbor ARFCNs.
In gsm_bts_trx_set_system_infos(), make sure that the updated SI is only
sent to TRXes that are actually usable, otherwise abis_rsl_sendmsg()
spams the log with complaints that a message's dst == NULL. Still return
an error rc in case a TRX is not connected, so that the CTRL command
bts.N.send-new-system-informations accurately returns whether SI were
actually sent to all TRXes.
The desire to have the ARFCNs listed in the VTY before starting up BTSes
came during analysis for Ifb54d9a91e9bca032c721f12c873c6216733e7b1,
which fixes a bug that is now much easier to verify being fixed.
Change-Id: I2222e029fc225152e124ed1e8887f1ffd4a107ef
It is observed that a CHANnel ReQuireD with access delay
greater than 63 can be received from the Ericsson RBS.
This results in osmo-bsc sending back a CHANnel ACTIVation with
a Timing Advance IE containing the access delay value.
The RBS NACKs this, leading to a BORKEN Channel.
This patch makes the maximum acceptable access delay vty-configurable
and Ignores CHANnel ReQuireD RSL Messages with Access Delay IE greater
than that configured. Default value is 63.
Related: OS#5096
Change-Id: Ie8987bcc0e43921bc753162b77a0efc68799b3ce
The neighbor configuration storage is fundamentally broken: it requires
all local cells to be configured before being able to list them as
neighbors of each other. Upon config write-back, the neighbor config
however is placed back inline with the other config, and hence a
written-out neighbor config no longer works on program restart.
The cause of this problem is that the config is stored as explicit
pointers between local cells (struct gsm_bts), which of course requires
the pointer to exist before being able to reference it.
Instead, store the actual configuration that the user entered as-is,
without pointers or references to objects that need to be ready. Resolve
the neighbors every time a neighbor is needed.
Hence the user may enter any config at any place in the config file,
even non-working config (like a BTS number that doesn't exist), and the
relation to actual local or remote neighbor cells is made at runtime.
Abort program startup if the initial neighbor configuration contains
errors.
Related: OS#5018
Change-Id: I9ed992f8bfff888b3933733c0576f92d50f2625b
So far the list of penalty timers was stored for an opaque target
pointer. That was either a gsm_bts pointer for a local BTS, or a cell
identifier list pointer for a remote-BSS cell.
Reasons to refactor penalty timers:
- The cell identifier list pointer came from the neighbor configuration
storage, but the way cell neighbor config is stored will change in a
subsequent patch. There will be no more cell identifier lists there.
- Storing object pointers is inherently unsafe -- if an object gets
removed and another gets allocated, the penalty timer could
theoretically remain in force for an unrelated object.
Rather store penalty timers for specific Cell IDs. Since remote-BSS
neighbors can be requested by a cell identifier *list*, use a
gsm0808_cell_id_list2 as key in the list of penalty timers.
Fix handover_test.c: have different CI for each local BTS. So far it was
the same LAC+CI for all BTSes, which now would make the test fail,
because any penalty timer would appear to apply to all local cells.
Related: OS#5018
Change-Id: I72dd6226a6d69c3f653a3174c6f55bf4eecc6885
Increase the number of values saved in the FIFO from 16 to 60, so there
is more time to read them out.
Related: SYS#4877
Change-Id: Ic5fd7c0fa030004fd88fee74f0028fb93c9f2d10
Changing the BTS type is not supported, so don't allow it.
For example, Changing from type sysmobts to type rbs2000
may hit an OSMO_ASSERT in om2k_bts_fsm_alloc()
The default BTS type if osmo-bsc is started with an empty
configuration and the operator issues config terminal->network->bts 0
will be "unknown". This type and only this type can be
changed from the vty config node.
Change-Id: I0df97ef128a1bbd84c787654d1d842dce4dad819
So far osmo-bsc would enable Uplink DPC (Dynamic Power Control) only
for osmo-bts, and the 'static' mode for all other BTS models. This
decision dates back to the time when ip.access specific encoding for
dynamic power control parameters was not implemented, and the MS
Power Parameters IE was sent empty in the RSL messages.
Let's make a step forward by enabling Uplink DPC by default for
all BTS models which declare the API for vendor-specific encoding
of the power control parameters. Currently this includes osmo-bts
and nanoBTS, both supporting ip.access specific format.
Change-Id: If86d27d4332af3d82f862737340d061e42e34eba
Related: SYS#4918
This new CTRL interface allows users of this BSC (such as attached PCU)
to gather neighbor information.
This interface is needed for PCU to translate ARFCN+BSIC keys provided
by MS in the Um side into CGI + RAC keys used to identify target cells
in RIM procedures against SGSNs on the Gb interface.
This patch extends the already existing neighbor information storage in
the VTY by allowing storage of CGI + RAC (RAC couldn't be stored
beforehand).
Related: SYS#4909
Depends: libosmocore.git Change-Id If48f412c32e8e5a3e604a78d12b74787a4786374
Change-Id: Ib07c9d23026332a207d4b7a0f7b4e76c0094e379
This allows a given BTS model driver to initialize data structures
specific cor this BTS instance (or a TRX for this BTS instance).
Change-Id: Icbad9cdc12221c9ad997267d77e5414edcbac538
Before the recent changes, the MS Power Parameters IE would always
be included empty in RSL CHANnel ACTIVation messages iff the BTS
type is 'osmo-bts'. Then this behavior was changed, so the user
would need to enable dynamic power control explicitly.
This is a regression, let's revert it back to the old behaviour.
Change-Id: Idb453fc894584ccf4f5f8b45a24421db958e9478
Related: SYS#4918
The only real 1-1 relationship between BTS NM objects is the one between
GPRS Cell and BTS (which is actually a BTS cell).
In our current osmo-bts implementation we don't care much since we only
handle 1-cell BTSses, but let's make the data structure organization
more generic.
Implementation notes:
The gsm_bts_sm is moved to its own file, APIs to allocate are added and
the new public object is hooked correctly in the allocation process of
osmo-bsc.
Change-Id: I06461b7784fa2a78de37383406e35beae85fbad8
To be able to control the FACCH/SACCH repetition behavior inside the
BTS a one byte flag is sent to the BTS together with the
RSL_IE_OSMO_REP_ACCH_CAP IE. This patch adds the necessary VTY commands.
The sending of the flag is implemented in a follow-up patch.
See also: I39ae439d05562b35b2e47774dc92f8789fea1a57
Related: SYS#5114, OS#4796, OS#4794, OS#4795
Depends: libosmocore I6dda239e9cd7033297bed1deb5eb1d9f87b8433f
Change-Id: I083eaa2c30478912426e9c24a506f0b88836e190
A header file should only contain declarations, not entire definitions.
The fact that we have 'static const struct ...' definitions in a header
file means that very C file including this header file will get its own
private copy of the entire definition.
The header file should only include declarations, while the actual
non-static definitions should go to a *.c file. Let's fix this.
Also, take a chance to improve readability and apply more consistent
formatting (similar to 'struct hf_register_info[]' in Wireshark).
Change-Id: Ib5949879902acbe1edda577477d9d51a2cc425d1
Closes: OS#4816
when an emergency call arrives while all TCH are busy, the BSC should
pick an arbitrary (preferably the longest lasting) call / lchan and
release it in favor of the incoming emergancy call.
The release of the existing call is a process that can not be done
synchronously while the ChanRQD is handled sonce multiple messages are
exchanged between BTS and MSC and multiple FSMs need to do their work.
To be able to release one lchan while handling a ChanRQD a queue is
implemented in which the incomming channel requests are collected. If
an emergency call is established while all channels are busy, an
arbitrary lchan is picked and freed. When freeing the lchan is done,
the queue is checked again and the emergency call is put on the free
lchan (TCH/H or TCH/F).
Change-Id: If8651265928797dbda9f528b544931dcfa4a0b36
Related: OS#4549
Currently the counters don't distinguish between intra-cell and
intra-bsc handover.
Add _CTR_INTRA_CELL_HO_ and _CTR_INTRA_BSC_HO_ counters to track
intra-cell/bsc handover separately.
Change-Id: I3a1195640b99813036c9f1426ee5f07548e26547
Related: SYS#4877
See updated documentation section in manuals/chapters/bts.adoc regarding
an explanation on how the system works.
Related: SYS#4911
Change-Id: I952c9eeae02809c7184078c655574ec817902e06
The function initializes the struct owned by a bts, so it makes sense to
have it done there instead of somewhere else later.
It was most probably put in bsc_vty when it was initially introduced
because of all the data structure and object file mess I untangled
during last set of patches.
Change-Id: I66c4b208583e92070793183b83b3a7b7edf6ba00
In the big mess of gsm_data we reached a point where we have multiple
functions doing the same thing, most probably because it's hard finding
stuff in there. Let's drop one of them (the one which less callers) and
move it to bts.*, where it belongs.
Change-Id: I9071a0ab250844619280fbe2be63ed99f2c87eb1
Place all code related to the object into the related file.
Having all the data model in one file made sense in early stage of
development to make progress quickly, but nowadays it hurts more than
helps, due to constantly growing size and more and more bits being
added to the model, gaining in complexity.
Currently, having lots of different objects mixed up in gsm_data.h is a hole
of despair, where nobody can make any sense were to properly put new stuff
in, ending up with functions related to same object in different files
or with wrong prefixes, declarations of non-existing functions, etc.
because people cannot make up their mind on strict relation to objects
in the data model.
Splitting them in files really helps finding code operating on a
specific object and helping with logically splitting in the future.
Change-Id: I00c15f5285b5c1a0109279b7ab192d5467a04ece
Vadim Yanitskiy
Neels Hofmeyr
Philipp Maier
Pau Espin
Daniel Willmann
Neels Hofmeyr
Keith Whyte
Oliver Smith
Harald Welte