The LAC value currently configured is now printed as hexadecimal value
too.
It can still be entered as a decimal value in order to keep backward
compatibility, though the hexadecimal one is now preferred.
Related: OS#5631
Depends: libosmocore.git Ia2b7fbbf5502c28374c21dbff548232680da27d4
Change-Id: I9090d73ae9d39244b79b9dbafa1b164faebabc52
It is really difficult right now to find out where all the different
stuff relative to operation and lifecycle of an lchan is. Let's move
everything to its own file to have all the related defines and logic
together.
Change-Id: Idd855d126c43ac6576c5f3ba7e0b8014127a65e1
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
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
When using 'check_PROGRAMS', autoconf/automake generates smarter
Makefiles, so that the test programs are not being compiled during
the normal 'make all', but only during 'make check'.
Change-Id: I030c88545cdc71b3ad9e83f9c2ba7b27177c2ac8
When bad RxQual causes handover to a cell with weaker RxLev, then
handover oscillation *will* happen, as shown in test_rxqual.ho_vty.
Introduce a penalty timer for a cell where we had bad RxQual.
This delays handover back to the cell with stronger RxLev by the penalty
timeout; hopefully the interference is gone after the timeout.
Usually, we set new configuration elements so that osmo-bsc behaves the
same as before the config item was added. In this instance, this makes
no sense, because no-one ever wants handover oscillation from bad
RxQual, which is guaranteed to happen without the new penalty timer. Set
it to 60 seconds by default, same as other penalty timers.
Related: SYS#5911
Change-Id: I057b156604a104a26a7ce45d1c7adadbf452c932
I find it weird that we store the A5 algorithm ID in a format that
is used on the wire: N + 1 (valid for both A-bis and A interfaces).
What confused me even more is that in some functions we print it
as if it was in a normal, human-readable format. And this is
also why one can see weird constructions like:
if (lchan->encr.alg_id > ALG_A5_NR_TO_RSL(0)) { ... }
Let's ensure that our internal structures use the A5/N format:
alg_id=0: A5/0 (0x01 on the A-bis/A interface)
alg_id=1: A5/1 (0x02 on the A-bis/A interface)
alg_id=2: A5/2 (0x03 on the A-bis/A interface)
...
alg_id=7: A5/7 (0x08 on the A-bis/A interface)
so that we can print and compare the value of alg_id without using
additional arithmetics. Let's also rename 'alg_id' to 'alg_a5_n'
as it most clearly indicates which representation it is storing.
This is how the above code snippet would look like:
if (lchan->encr.alg_a5_n > 0) { ... }
Change-Id: Ieb50c9a352cfa5481aebac2379e0a461663543ec
Properly implement the separate conn release stages in separate FSM
states:
x) sent Clear Request, wait for a Clear Command from the MSC.
Timeout after a configurable 60s.
y) after a Clear Command and sending a Clear Complete, wait for the SCCP
RLSD. Timeout after a configurable 60s.
z) terminate after the RLSD is received / after timeout.
handover_test.c needs a little tweak to make the MGCP release work with
its fake MGCP client, because cleanup now ensures to invoke
gscon_forget_mgw_endpoint() in all cases.
Related: I680ec4ed866aa5f0b1ff29e7e98322615cfb288d (osmo-ttcn3-hacks)
Related: OS#5337
Change-Id: Ie975117d37f38ba853589dc7f8d3e94f8f9586b2
These are not needed anymore since we re-introduced libbsc, specially to
avoid all this churn.
Some specific methods are explicitly required to be overwritten by
tests, so we specificially mark those with __attribute__((weak)) in
order to be able to overwrite them.
This is the last step towards fixing interdependency mess of symbols and
stubs, and requires previous patches in order to have tests apssing
fine.
Change-Id: Ic7401b8a6eb903882e30fda1cf091ac99a254ef0
This allows having it initialized automatically, as we usually do with
this type of code. As a result, tests or other apps importing libbsc
don't need to take care of calling it.
NOTE: This fix is required by follow-up patches where some stubs are removed
and hence some tests start using FSMs internally. Since tests were not
using those FSMs before, there was no need to call ts_fsm_init().
This is one further step towards fixing interdependency mess of symbols
and stubs.
Change-Id: I0e4b95b5e73fbb3844d83ba33e66786831088e1f
This is used inside group of files forming libbsc (shared files used by
several apps). Let's instantie only once inside a file from libbsc
instead of doing so on each binary.
This is one further step towards fixing interdependency mess of symbols
and stubs.
Change-Id: I9b287aa492ca6aae5fc56133e1510aff3146fe25
Since the libosmo-mgcp-client now supports MGW pooling, lets use this
feature in osmo-bsc. Large RAN installations may benefit from
distributing the RTP voice stream load on multiple media gateways.
Depends: osmo-mgw Icaaba0e470e916eefddfee750b83f5f65291a6b0
Change-Id: I8f33ab2cea04b545c403a6fe479aa963a0fc0d0d
Related: SYS#5091
Allow resetting the BSSMAP link from VTY, for BSC_Tests.ttcn.
In the field, detecting that an MSC is lost is done by getting three
connection failures in a row. For the BSC_Tests, it is easier to just
provide a VTY command to reset an MSC's link status.
I want to add tests that verify the stat items reflecting the MSC
connection status. To be able to run a test expecting fewer connected
MSC after a test that launched more MSCs requires the links to be reset.
Related: SYS#5542
Related: Ice3056dc46c94f9399f8379db7aeb7193782f2f2 (osmo-ttcn3-hacks)
Change-Id: I1975941b790d2b30d0904d41e456220cba26ecff
Every time a new file is added in osmo-bsc, it ends up being a pain
because its .o file has to be included to other tests/util binaries, or
stubs need to be added.
Let's instead bundle all .o files together in an .la file and pass that
around.
Change-Id: If91dc589ea1e476da105b58846d1c3e720a439e1
The VTY handover_vtc.c offers a large number of handover specific
settings. Those settings are (with one exception) auto generated using
macros. Lets add an equivalent for the control interface that uses the
same auto generation mechanisms.
Change-Id: I12f143906818fd6b16e8783157cbb1eb51e49ffc
Depends: libosmocore I53fc207677f52b1dc748b01d58424839cdba807c
Related: SYS#5369
Clarify that filling half-used TCH/H first only happens on dynamic
timeslots, not static ones.
Related: SYS#5313
Change-Id: I5213459fb7fb201361ce0d6198fc0c2c745deee1
In a discussion about the effect of interference levels, I noticed that
there is not sufficient clarity about how strongly the preference of
static timeslots is ranked. This test helps to show what we have.
Related: SYS#5313
Change-Id: I0911cd74613045d9fbe29d04eaef036d32049b92
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
Hold off re-assignment after an intra-cell re-assignment due to low
rxqual.
Adjust test_amr_tch_h_to_f_rxqual.ho_vty to show the changed behaviour.
Related: SYS#5198
Change-Id: Id00a07313fe04eec509b336c0637b59c707760e0
First add a handover test script that shows the behavior without the
low-rxqual-assignment penalty timer implemented. When implemented, the
changes to this test script will show the change in behavior.
Related: SYS#5198
Change-Id: I799fce709c86401546ccfe41b9f57fd579bcd987
With recent addition of fake time in handover_test ('wait cmd'), show
how a penalty timeout in handover decision 2 passes and allows a
handover again after due time.
Related: SYS#5198
Change-Id: I65e59cc7309778cf9d71612669ce84d101c8135e
Use recently added fake-time 'wait' command to show how the lchan in
LCHAN_ST_WAIT_AFTER_ERROR recovers as soon as timer X3111 has passed.
This prepares for also waiting for the penalty timeout to pass.
Related: SYS#5198
Change-Id: I8f7668b6d08a0dac9e90d2358955f9d5099d39fa
Add a 'wait' cmd that lets (fake) time pass.
An ucoming patch will show the
first use of this: "test_penalty_timer.ho_vty: show lchan recovery"
I8f7668b6d08a0dac9e90d2358955f9d5099d39fa
My actual original reason to add this follows in patches
- "handover tests: test passing of penalty timeout"
I65e59cc7309778cf9d71612669ce84d101c8135e
- "hodec2: add low-rxqual-assignment penalty timer (2/2)"
Id00a07313fe04eec509b336c0637b59c707760e0
Related: SYS#5198
Change-Id: Ia6b5696adef7e7bf649473b4d79b96acf3aa59e3
In expect-ts-use, indicate a busy lchan with letter '!'.
The code is a bit complex because of the choice made earlier to show two
TCH/H subslots as "TCH/HH", "TCH/H-" or "TCH/-H" depending on the
subslot states:
- show "-" as a shorthand for "all subslots UNUSED"
- show a "TCH/" prefix only when there is any "H" or "F" following, i.e.
when any subslot is actually established
- if a subslot is busy (any other state besides ESTABLISHED and UNUSED),
indicate the subslot as '!'.
The spectrum of reported state strings for TCH/F is:
TCH/F ! -
For TCH/H:
TCH/HH TCH/H- TCH/-H TCH/H! TCH/!H !- -! -
The only current test affected is test_penalty_timer.ho_vty, where a
failed handover leaves an lchan in LCHAN_ST_WAIT_AFTER_ERROR. Adjust
that test.
Rationale: I will soon add tests to verify the accurate timeout of a
handover2 penalty timer. While implementing, I noticed that immediate
retry of the handover ends up in timeslot 2, because timeslot 1 is still
in WAIT_AFTER_ERROR. Instead of working around that, I would like to
explicitly show the error state in the test -- it is an important
aspect.
Related: SYS#5198
Change-Id: I735ce7e2c3e0e450d3f76047d7e47691fe889cad
Fix for:
handover_test.c: In function 'res_ind':
handover_test.c:1094:30: error: 'ts_str' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
char subslot_val = ts_str[lchan->nr];
Fixes: f76424 ("RES IND: add test_resource_indication.ho_vty")
Change-Id: I398ba24b945bad96896eeb5ddbaff9c48bacf8ab
In lchan_select, do not return on the first available lchan, but iterate
through all available lchans. Among those that would match, pick the one
with the lowest interference level as indicated by earlier RES IND.
Lchans that have no interference ratings are picked last.
This feature is off by default, enable per BTS with
network
bts N
channel allocator avoid-interference 1
osmo-bsc still does the same ascending/descending lchan allocation as
before this patch with the default setting of:
channel allocator avoid-interference 0
Related: SYS#5313
Change-Id: I844494092193811dfd9fa4d52983cbaed0fc9248
Show that osmo-bsc does not yet take Resource Indication's reported
interference levels into account. (An upcoming patch will change that.)
This test is not actually doing any handover, but it is using the
handover/*.ho_vty scripting that was intended for handover testing.
(Like test_dyn_ts_favor_half_used_tch_h_as_target.ho_vty does.)
Related: SYS#5313
Change-Id: I56ec61196a1e103f0b4caf18d25d8222bb82cf87
They will gain support to be activated as SDCCH/8 soon too.
Related: OS#5309
Depends: libosmocore.git I56dcfe4d17899630b17f80145c3ced72f1e91e68
Change-Id: Id5b89fe589a52ff88486435ac43809edb4b80f98
The AFS bias actually should not apply to local cell lchans, because it
makes no sense for intra-cell considerations:
- same-cell lchans obviously have identical rxlev;
- any nonzero AFS bias thus always raises the TCH/F above the TCH/H;
- for intra-cell reassignment, the power budget hysteresis is,
naturally, not applied.
So, before this patch, setting AFS bias even to only 1 would
unconditionally move all (AMR) TCH/H lchans over to free TCH/F lchans in
the same cell.
Recent patch Id40d1cf8b58410c7d4eb87407fe8b8106e352438 implements
explicit upgrade from TCH/H to TCH/F *if* the TCH/H is experiencing low
rxqual or low rxlev, as a proper replacement for intra-cell AFS bias.
Related: SYS#5198 SYS#5365
Change-Id: I315f24123ae016887ab91666870ce252e096f90f
Pass flag into find_alternative_lchan() indicating that a TCH/H channel
has low ratings (rxqual or rxlev, doesn't matter).
Heed this flag in the last round, the requirement A check, and allow
candidates that have equal rxlev, if they result in an upgrade from
TCH/H to TCH/F. This allows intra-cell upgrades to TCH/F.
An important point is that this patch allows upgrade to TCH/F *without*
the AFS bias setting. See also I315f24123ae016887ab91666870ce252e096f90f.
Related: SYS#5198 SYS#5365
Change-Id: Id40d1cf8b58410c7d4eb87407fe8b8106e352438
Add the Osmocom-specific extension to indicate VAMOS shadow lchans in
RSL, in lchan lookup and RSL message transmission.
Note that RR messages containing cbits (Assignment Command, Handover
Command, ...) must *not* send Osmocom specific cbits to the MS. Only the
RSL messages directed to the BTS send Osmocom specific bits.
Related: SYS#5315 OS#4940
Depends: If33c1695922d110c0d2c60d5c0136caf2587194e (libosmocore)
Change-Id: I957eff0d2c33ec795eda75a4bff21965b0179f73
It's bad to abort the program for an incompatible chan_nr. Instead of
OSMO_ASSERT(), make sure that error handling happens all they way to the
original callers of gsm_lchan2chan_nr etc.
This is also preparation to add further error causes: Osmocom specific
cbits needed for a non-Osmo BTS.
Related: SYS#5315 OS#4940
Change-Id: I71ed6437c403a3f9336e17a94b4948fca295d853
This fixes handover oscillation in the presence of power reduction on
the downlink: apply the reduced power to the cell's RXLEV in order to
not rate the current cell as weaker than it actually is.
Related: SYS#5339
Change-Id: Ifcf59964b5e2d550d79e4ba14d90962808f79dae
This code is available in libosmocore since ~3 years ago
(fdf8b7b1beeb0cda262c5fb060a933aa7edb5e9a). Let's use it instead of
maintaining duplicated code which diverges over time.
Depends: osmo-bsc.git Iae058c35506bc25c9f4790889b89ac46aea664b6
(contains cherry-pick of bug fixed in osmo-bsc.git).
Change-Id: I53ad3067623077b6a8737c2a0aecc8b46bf71a15
So far we have a couple of macros iterating a specific number of lchans,
depending on dynamic timeslot state etc. With addition of VAMOS lchans,
this would become more complex and bloated.
Instead of separate iteration macros for each situation, only have one
that takes a number of lchans as argument. That allows to more clearly
pick the number of lchans, especially for non-trivial VAMOS scenarios.
Related: SYS#5315 OS#4940
Change-Id: Ib2c6baf73a81ba371143ba5adc912aef6f79238d
So far the number of usable lchans is determined on-the-fly by the
physical channel config. With VAMOS, this becomes more complex, namely
determining whether the BTS is vamos capable.
Instead of calling a function to determine the number of lchans for
every use, rather place the number of valid lchans in int members of the
timeslot struct, and initialize those during timeslot setup.
Actual use of these new fields will follow in a subsequent patch, which
introduces the ts_for_n_lchans() macro to replace current lchan
iteration macros.
Related: SYS#5315 OS#4940
Change-Id: I08027d79db71a23e874b729c4e6173b0f269ee4f
Prepare for VAMOS, where there will be secondary "shadow" lchans serving
secondary MS on the same timeslots. For those, RSL messages will need to
reflect a different stream ID aka TEI, via an rsl_link_vamos.
Make sure that every code path that sends an RSL message for a specific
lchan selects the RSL link via the new function rsl_chan_link(). When
VAMOS is implemented, this function can select the proper RSL stream.
Rename gsm_bts_trx.rsl_link to rsl_link_primary. This makes sure I'm not
missing any uses of the RSL link, and clarifies the code.
Related: SYS#5315 OS#4940
Change-Id: Ifbf16bb296e91f151d19e15e39f5c953ad77ff17
So far we do all channel reassignments by Handover Command. Since
osmo-bsc now supports rassignment of ongoing voice calls, do intra-cell
congestion resolution by Assignment Command.
In effect, add support for expecting an Assignment Command in
handover_test, and expect assignments instead of handovers for
intra-cell congestion resolution test cases.
Related: SYS#5330 OS#3277
Change-Id: Id56a890106b93fcee67ac9401b890e7b63bba421
I noticed during testing that an lchan used as TCH/F in fact still had
its channel mode set to Signalling -- because on Assignment, the Speech
mode used to be placed in the *previous* lchan and the new lchan was
never updated after the Activ ACK. This is unbearable confusion which I
complained about numerous times, so far mostly for cosmetic reasons. But
implementing re-assignment properly actually requires this to be cleaned
up.
Keep all volatile chan mode settings in lchan->activate.* or
lchan->modify.*, and only update lchan->* members when an ACK has been
received for those settings. So a failed request keeps a sane state.
Make sure that those settings are in fact updated in the proper lchan,
upon an ACK, so that subsequent re-assignment or mode-modify know the
accurate lchan state.
Related are upcoming patches that sort out the AMR multirate
configuration in a similar fashion, see
Iebac2dc26412d877e5364f90d6f2ed7a7952351e
Ia7519d2fa9e7f0b61b222d27d077bde4660c40b9
Ie57f9d0e3912632903d9740291225bfd1634ed47.
Related: SYS#5315 OS#4940 OS#3787 OS#3833
Change-Id: Ie0da36124d73efc28a8809b63d7c96e2167fc412
Pau Espin
Vadim Yanitskiy
Neels Hofmeyr
Neels Hofmeyr
Philipp Maier
Oliver Smith