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
It's of no use for the test. Furthemore, it was being created outside
the build direcory, being left there.
Change-Id: Iaeee14a01badb8439bc8893ba8be06b13e4318f3
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
Current regex 'handover' is way too restrictive because it completely
forbids the use of word 'handover'. Adding new VTY commands with this
word in the syntax makes this VTY test fail.
Use regex '^\s+handover', which only matches lines starting with
some whitespace and the word 'handover'. Lines simply containing
the word 'handover' will be ignored.
Change-Id: I8a1550c6c97437832e05b6b4bebbcc33c2fa3d46
Related: SYS#5460
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
Drop "to this MSC" from the NRI_STR, as it is not only used for MSC
specific configuration, but also in cfg_net_nri_* which affect all MSCs.
Drop "for this MSC" from the description of cfg_net_nri_null_del, it
affects all MSCs (unlike cfg_msc_nri_del).
Change-Id: Ic8888775a965b6d607af51b9359bd8ffc2834e16
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
This way we avoid triggering timers and doing extra poll loops for each
BTS which is configured but not up. It also has the effect of removing
logging about estimating paging buffers for BTS which are down, which
can be confusing.
Furthermore, since work is delayed until the TRX and cell in general is
configured, the first estimation is properly done now since the correct
configuration is in place at that time.
Related: SYS#5922
Change-Id: I1b5b1a98115b4e9d821eb3330fc5b970a0e78a44
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 was so far workarounded in tests by manually freeing the fields.
However, in follow-up patch the paging queue will also be properly
freed, so free of the counters needs to be previously fixed too so that
counters are freed at the right point of time.
Otherwise, during paging queue flush, counters are used and would crash
because they were freed before the BTS object in each test's bts_del().
Change-Id: Id213e21cf9bfc5439021e459c22ba4704d8cae2b
* 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
Its name is totally misleading, since they seem to be related to
GetAttributes messages rather than SetAttributes.
Change-Id: I306cb407dbd9b98e301b5d93046bdadcb466b82b
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
Teach osmo-bsc to handle empty N-Connect. So far we were always
expecting user data in an SCCP N-Connect from an MSC. However, it is
perfectly valid for an initial BSSMAP request to follow later.
This is relevant for:
- Handover Request (incoming inter-BSC handover)
- Perform Location Request (query physical location of the MS)
Add state WAIT_INITIAL_USER_DATA with new timeout net X25. Always enter
this state so that we don't have two separate code paths for handling
initial user data.
Related: SYS#5864
Change-Id: I535c791fa01e99a2226392eb05f676ba6c3cc16e
According to 3GPP TS 44.018, section 10.5.2.1b.2, only ARFCN values
in range 1..124 can be encoded using the 'bit map 0' format. Before
this patch, ARFCN values belonging to E-GSM band (0, 975..1023) were
ignored in bitvec2freq_list(), and thus not present in the resulting
Cell Channel Description IE.
Change-Id: I17739e6845cd84e2a81bc406dd532541f7c52cb6
Related: SYS#5854
This commit demonstrates what happens when a cell has channels in
both P-GSM and E-GSM bands (case 'c'). As can be seen from:
Case a) only the BCCH carrier: 10
Case b) more carriers from P-GSM band: 1 3 10 64 99 124
Case c) more carriers from E-GSM band: 1 3 10 64 99 124
in both cases 'b' and 'c' we have the same set of ARFCNs. Carriers
from the E-GSM band are not present at all. This is wrong and will
be fixed in the follow up change(s).
Change-Id: Ied0519c70501f105673a9b36657101063d275058
Related: SYS#5854
As the comment above the fix suggest, the encoding is in 10ms units.
osmo-bts is also doing the proper:
"""
uint8_t t3105 = *TLVP_VAL(&tp, NM_ATT_BTS_AIR_TIMER);
bts->t3105_ms = t3105 * 10;
"""
Related: SYS#5838
Change-Id: Ie190514ee35d1ca81b70e9180bf7393b973d3504
The timer (T4) that controls the re-sending of the BSSMAP RESET can not
be changed via the VTY, althrough it is defined via a tdef struct. Lets
add a description along with default values to make it configurable via
the VTY.
Change-Id: I1fb5699220ab8a643a168567a89c6f381fe433a7
Related: SYS#5796
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
osmo-trx-uhd with a B200 has proven to provide bad (lower than usually
considered good) C/I values due to high noise (even with band filters in
place). Hence, default thresholds (gathered from literature on the topic)
are too high and end up in bad algorithm output decisions.
Furthermore, most users of Osmocom don't use it in densely populated
areas, hence RXLEV based algorithm used when C/I based one is disabled
is good enough.
Let's disable C/I based one by default, and let advanced users which
specific needs to enable and confiure thresholds specifically for their
needs (hardware, cell surrounding conditions, etc.).
Related: SYS#4917
Change-Id: If1a73c60695379bcfcd0f44c6ec6dd659563e279
This is a candidate for adding to libosmocore (as osmo_time_cc), but
let's first use this in osmo-bsc to make sure that it works as intended.
I started out expecting to be done with this in half an hour, but I
found out that accumulating elapsed time to an integer counter has a
staggering amount of complexity to it, and a million pitfalls.
The intended use is to report allAvailableSDCCHAllocated and
allAvailableTCHAllocated performance indicators in OsmoBSC. Hopefully
this will also be generally useful elsewhere, to be worth the effort.
Related: SYS#4878
Change-Id: Icdd36f27cb54b2e1b940c9e6404ba9dd3692a310
It's more logical to have the boundaries sorted in ascending order:
* band 1 represents lowest interference levels,
* band 5 represents highest interference levels.
Change-Id: Ie9bf4bf0c89418685b8ea5096332d22cfba7c521
Related: SYS#5313
It is possible to change the neighbor-list mode via the VTY from
automatic mode to manual neighbor-list configuration. In the manual
mode, the user can add ARFCN values manually. This command can be found
under the bts node. Lets add pendant of this command on the control
interface as well.
Change-Id: Id97bc0d31a358db6221c385761773fb48670c921
Related: SYS#5641
The VTY allows flexible control over the neighbor cell information via
the neighbor command, which can be found in the configure terminal under
the bts node. Lets add pendant of this command on the control interface
as well.
Change-Id: I343a40e18fa9b91e6c381912c0426a002841e079
Related: SYS#5641
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
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
Pau Espin
Vadim Yanitskiy
Michael Iedema
Oliver Smith
Neels Hofmeyr
Harald Welte
Philipp Maier