Even though the Abis/OML message flow looks the way it should look
on the wire, it does not actually reflect the sequence/flow of events
and actions in the NM FSMs. For example (extracted from a PCAP):
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) State Changed Event Report
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Software Activate Request
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Software Activate Request ACK
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Activate Software
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Activate Software ACK
[a] GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) State Changed Event Report
[b] GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Software Activated Report
[c] GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Get Attributes
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Get Attributes Response
[d] GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) IPA Set Attributes
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) IPA Set Attributes ACK
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Change Administrative State
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Change Administrative State ACK
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) State Changed Event Report
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Opstart
GPRS Cell(00,00,ff) Opstart ACK
A follow-up patch [1] changes the logic generating message [d],
so that the IPA Object Version of the GPRS Cell MO is taken into
account when adding the attributes.
The problem is that both messages [c] and [d] are generated and
queued for transmission on the receipt of message [a], but *before*
message [b] has been processed. So the IPA Object Version is not
known and assumed to be 0 at that point in time.
This patch delays configure_loop() until message [b] is received.
So far only for nanoBTS and only for those MOs, for which Figure 2
in 3GPP TS 52.021 explicitly mentions that the SW downloading and
activation procedures may be required, plus for the ip.access
specific MOs which all seem to support the SW activation.
osmo-bts does send SW Activated Report only for a subset of MOs,
which does not include Baseband Transceiver, Radio Carrier, and
Radio Channel. 3GPP TS 52.021 is not clear on whether this
message shall be sent by all MOs either, so we consider it
optional and delay configure_loop() only for nanoBTS.
Change-Id: I3953a5e41eb27165f9ff203cac7447ee9d311abf
Related: [1] Ie0fb3eaf76e1f70e5a19bb088e1674b7e553d32a
"enum lchan_select_reason" gets a new selection reason: "SELECT_FOR_VGCS"
The selection "direction" can also be changed via VTY.
Change-Id: I6b96d0a1df68efa5858b98297ebe0944b1473aaf
Related: OS#4852
This adds the vty commands and respective logic to allow the user to
specify the NCH (notification channel) position in the SI1 rests octets.
Change-Id: Iefde0af44a663f22462a54d68a58caa560eceb2f
Related: OS#5781
Requires: libosmocore.git I24a0095ac6eee0197f9d9ef9895c7795df6cdc49
This function is used to check if the BTS is using the IPA Abis-IP
transport, and not whether its manufacturer/vendor is ip.access.
Let's use a less confusing name.
Change-Id: I202c58341c1536489064d2671c0842c6f70b5429
If power saving is enabled for a BTS, it should remain enabled even
if the BTS is restarted for whatever reason. This persistence can be
achieved by re-sending the configured power reduction value whenever
the BTS NM FSM enters the ENABLED state again (i.e. reconnects).
Separate gsm_bts_send_c0_power_red() from gsm_bts_set_c0_power_red()
and call the former from st_op_enabled_on_enter(). All we need to do
is to send the value that was configured before, per-timeslot power
reduction limits remain and need not to be updated.
Take a chance to move logging from BTS specific to the generic code.
Change-Id: Ic3f8a2ab0ffd049a8ed84361a3a588c1e1b23ac6
Related: SYS#6435
The current PCU implementation has never been tested with multiple BTS
attached to it. This is due to the fact that it has been used
exclusively in an BTS co-located setup where naturally only one BTS is
present. The PCU sock protocol supports multiple BTSs in theory and we
should handle this correctly.
Related: OS#5198
Change-Id: I0b42c2c130106f6ffca2dd08d079e1a7bda41f0b
At the momemnt we use is_ericsson_bts() to check if the BTS uses a BSC
co-located PCU, this is a bit ambiguous, lets have a function that
explicitly checks for a BSC co-located PCU and nothing else.
Change-Id: I23ed4219e5ebd188867c17f387ca877efa9bc3b0
Related: OS#5198
The check functions that we use to distinguish between the various types
of BTSs return an integer that can be 0 or 1. Let's change the return
type to bool
Change-Id: I3de957f228452c9d3aa4fed342f73bfb17363b40
This allows tracking each BTS active paging request queue length over
time, and evaluate CPU load based on the number of active paging
requests queued.
Related: SYS#6200
Change-Id: I6d296cdeba1392ef95fc31f6c04210c73f1b23e5
This way all paging related stats can be grouped (more will be added in
follow-up commits).
Related: SYS#6200
Change-Id: Iede1b6f68df468c7a3b3bf5fce7f68bb08b78832
Prevent BSC overloading in the event of too many BTS try to connect.
E.g. a network outage between the BSC and BTS.
The BSC will accept incoming OML connection, but will delay sending
any BSC originated messages.
Change-Id: Id56dde6d58f3d0d20352f6c306598d2cccc6345d
This feature allows pinning each BTS to a specific MGW from the
configured pool. The pinning can be soft or hard (strict). If strict
pinning is not set, the configured MGW is selected with priority, but
other MGWs can still be selected during each call setup if the
preferred MGW is found not available at that time, hence avoiding denial
of service for the entire BTS if that MGW goes down.
If strict mode is selected, the call will be refused if the configured
preferred MGW is not available at the time the call is set up.
It is useful to use this feature when Osmux is configured between
the BTS and the BSC and an MGW pool is in use. This way the BSC is
capable of grouping all the calls of a BTS towards one MGW, hence taking
advantage of the Osmux trunking optimizations to reduce link data usage
(AMR payload of several concurrent calls ending up sharing the same
underlaying UPD packet).
Furthermore, this allows the operator to intelligently spread load over
the MGW pool in order to avoid ending up with more than 256 concurrent
Osmux circuits on any of the co-located MGWs in the pool (maximum supported
at the moment).
Related: SYS#5987
Depends: osmo-mgw.git 5d8b5b093595e1203e288c3175c163c0994b1102
Change-Id: I9a7a5af72795faed0d12d9d73b59951b6a0e9c7d
This change implements an additional channel allocation mode, which
can be employed during a TCH channel allocation for assignment.
Selection between ascending and descending order is performed
depending on pre-configured parameters:
* Uplink RxLev threshold and number of samples for averaging,
* C0 (BCCH carrier) channel load threshold.
This is useful in setups where Tx power of the RF carriers cannot be
adjusted +dynamically at run-time and thus BS Power Control cannot
be performed. In such setups the BCCH carrier is transmitting at
relatively higher power than the other RF carriers. The key idea
is to allocate channels in a smarter way, so that UEs with poor signal
would get channels on carriers with high Tx power, while UEs with good
signal could use carriers with lower Tx power.
Change-Id: I1b7a0d706976b73cc5c30a8714b830811addfe8d
Related: osmo-ttcn3-hacks.git Ia522f37c1c001b3a36f5145b8875fbb88311c2e5
Related: SYS#5460
A follow-up patch implements a special channel allocation mode, which is
only working for assignment (basically TCH selection for a voice call).
This mode cannot be employed for initial CHANNEL REQUEST or handover due
to the absence of an already established lchan.
Adding this mode to the existing VTY command syntax would be confusing:
channel allocator (ascending|desscending|dynamic)
^^^^^^^
so this patch extends the VTY syntax in a way that it becomes possible
to configure different channel allocator modes for different cases:
OsmoBSC(config-net-bts)# channel allocator mode ?
set-all Set a single mode for all variants
chan-req Channel allocation for CHANNEL REQUEST (RACH)
assignment Channel allocation for assignment
handover Channel allocation for handover
The old command syntax, which is basically 'set-all', is kept for
backwards compatibility, but marked as deprecated.
Change-Id: I3ae73b36ee9433cc768376b56f0765e5f416162f
Related: SYS#5460
When calculating average lchan duration based on the new stats for
BTS_CTR_CHAN_{TCH,SDCCH}_ACTIVE_MILLISECONDS_TOTAL there are
discrepancies which emerge. Specificially in bandwidth-constrained
environments, there are still-unknown failure states which can
occur that cause the TCH or SDCCH activity count to increment but
zero milliseconds of activity on the lchan to accumulate. This
portrays a failure as a success.
These new fully-established stats are intended to provide a more
accurate denominator when calculating average lchan duration as
they are incremented in proximity to the duration timestamp
initialization.
Change-Id: I417940ad9479719f5324fb12d45883cd3cb2c578
For statistical clarity and site tuning, it is sometimes
desirable to completely disable the use of TCH for signaling.
In the existing version of this VTY command, there is no way to
accomplish this. We can only restrict TCH for signaling non-voice
related actions.
This patch deprecates 'allow-tch-for-signalling (0|1)' and
adds 'tch-signalling-policy (never|emergency|voice|always)' to
provide more options.
Change-Id: I4459941ddad4e4a3bec8409b180d9a23a735e640
The all_allocated_update_bsc() does inefficient iterating to count
active/inactive lchans, which scales badly for high numbers of TRX
managed by osmo-bsc.
We need to update the all_allocated flags immediately (periodic counting
alone would suffer from undersampling), so, until now, we are calling
this inefficient function every time a channel state changes.
Instead of iterating all channels for any chan state changes anywhere,
keep global state of the current channel counts, and on channel state
change only update those ts, trx, bts counts that actually change.
A desirable side effect: for connection stats and handover decision 2,
we can now also use the globally updated channel counts and save a bunch
of inefficient iterations.
To get accurate channel counts at all times, spread around some
chan_counts_ts_update() calls in pivotal places. It re-counts the given
timeslot and cascades counter changes, iff required.
Just in case I missed some channel accounting, still run an inefficient
iterating count regularly that detects errors, logs them and fixes them.
No real harm done if such error appears. None show in ttcn3 BSC_Tests.
It is fine to do the inefficient iteration once per second; channel
state changes can realistically happen hundreds of times per second.
Related: SYS#5976
Change-Id: I580bfae329aac8d4552723164741536af6512011
Reduce some code dup in all_allocated accounting and cosmetically
prepare for upcoming performance fix.
Have a struct all_allocated, allow easy re-use of function
all_allocated_update().
Rename function to all_allocated_update_bsc(). Upcoming patch will also
add all_allocated_update_bts().
Related: SYS#5976
Change-Id: Id7a82c65d56a87818fc35bbeedf67e2af2f89f11
This patch adds two stats which track cummulative lchan lifetime by
type TCH and SDCCH. These new counters will accomplish two things:
1) Provide a glanceable way to see if lchan durations look healthy. When
examining a site, short-lived (<5s) and long-lived (>30s) TCH lchans
are difficult to tell apart. If we only see short-lived TCH lchans,
there is most likely an RF or signaling problem to investigate. This
new counter will expose channel ages in the VTY output
2) Provide a more accurate count for Erlangs per site. Currently, we
are basing Erlangs on active TCH channel counts per stats period. This
method skews high very quickly. Each active TCH in that period
translates into the full 10s of activity. This counter should improve
accuracy by two orders of magnitude.
Change-Id: Ie3771233ecbd4bc24a24fb22c1064a18e7b8b2b0
This reverts commit 5e2ac29703.
This patch was found to be a troublemaker regarding osmo-bsc
performance, since it's scheduling one timer every 100ms for each
channel. On a BSC with dozens of BTS, each with several TRX, this ends
up in a huge amount of timers scheduled in a tight timeframe, which ends
up in osmo-bsc spending CPU time getting in and out of the poll() main
loop.
Related: SYS#5922
Change-Id: Ibd5123e7f04ae8f4eb8f08b63525527f526f0b2c
This allows external monitoring to see where the T3113 timer has been
adjusted to, in case it is set dynamically.
Change-Id: I533f2ca3c8e66c143154cbf03b827c9cbbacccdf
Reaching this point will only make system load (CPU, mem) grow, making
it hard for the process to keep up with work to do, with no benefit
since the requests will anyway be scheduled too late.
Related: SYS#5922
Change-Id: I6523c6816a4d16b71084d004e979be40cf0aeeb0
This patch adds two stats which track cummulative lchan lifetime by
type TCH and SDCCH. These new counters will accomplish two things:
1) Provide a glanceable way to see if lchan durations look healthy. When
examining a site, short-lived (<5s) and long-lived (>30s) TCH lchans
are difficult to tell apart. If we only see short-lived TCH lchans,
there is most likely an RF or signaling problem to investigate. This
new counter will expose channel ages in the VTY output
2) Provide a more accurate count for Erlangs per site. Currently, we
are basing Erlangs on active TCH channel counts per stats period. This
method skews high very quickly. Each active TCH in that period
translates into the full 10s of activity. This counter should improve
accuracy by two orders of magnitude.
Change-Id: I1b0670c47cb5e0b7776eda89d1e71545ba0e3347
* Don't copy features for osmo-bts and nanobts initially, wait until
BTS reported its features
* Checks for BTS features in VTY cmds: pass if features are not known
(not yet reported by the BTS), fail if the feature is missing
* Once BTS reports its features, check relevant VTY config parts again
Related: SYS#5922, OS#5538
Change-Id: I7fca42a39a4bc98a6ea8b9cfab28c4bad3a6a0aa
Only if we store data like the CBSP message_id and serial_number
we are able to later (in a subsequent patch) match a CBSP KILL
for ETWS/PWS and stop emergency broadcast.
Change-Id: Ide74638880d7e3c6a7c774bf6320d3dce4b11c74
Related: OS#5540
Let all changes of the bts model go through this function, so we can in
a future patch copy over the bts model's features to the bts.
Related: SYS#5922, OS#5538
Change-Id: I8475c8c20eb72411e8ca820181d1c8603c22a56d
The range used for this variable is 0-100, so no need to use a signed
integer. Morever, uint8_it is enough for the range.
Change-Id: I863d9531baf5308b45a2ebe60266ba02d1041cc3
Now that we have separate header/code files for the power control,
let's move the related definitions there. This change makes the
code consistent with osmo-bts, where it's already done this way.
Change-Id: I1cb3f6bfba0306e8f371dcd5162d1813beb3a088
At the moment the BTS configuration is checked, but the check does not
have much consequence other than that some initialization that is not
executed. The BTS will go into the OML bootstrap phase anyway and most
likely fail at some later point due to the invalid configuration. To
reduce noise and unexpected behaviour of the BTS lets make sure that the
OML boostrap phase can only proceed when the BSC conciders the
configuration as valid.
Change-Id: I42c1c26a9b800600787b1266a871f95f2114c26e
Related: SYS#5369
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: I39b98dcd14219402959646524315d5afea7c08cf
Related: Ib1d51f91139b4c2fe794e37fc8543b2d7a9b9c07
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
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
To configure temporary overpower, new VTY commands are added. This patch
also addes the logic needed to attach the temporary overpower IE to the
RSL CHANNEL ACTIVATE message.
Change-Id: I488a91bb4ed86f630db56564a0cd293f39f0f690
Related: SYS#5319
Matan Perelman
Vadim Yanitskiy
Harald Welte
Philipp Maier
Pau Espin
Neels Hofmeyr
Oliver Smith