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
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
This allows running CBCH/ETWS related procedures only when the CBCH
towards MS under that cell is operative.
This also allows providing awarness of per-cell status to the CBSP peer
as required per specs.
Related: SYS#5910
Change-Id: Ia93919be94132fc010acb5bbfef0a6fd51c42981
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
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
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
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
Instead of sometimes checking against hardcoded BTS model features, and
sometimes against features reported at runtime (which only some BTS
models do):
* copy the hardcoded BTS model features to BTS features initially
* do all checks against BTS features
Related: SYS#5922, OS#5538
Change-Id: Idf2d933aa8b03b1f708e56a08707fe6c620a97aa
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
This is cosmetic change making the default multi-rate configuration
easier to read/understand and modify.
Change-Id: I3d03c2188d007a60a86961a346744400bc81d4e6
Related: SYS#5917, OS#4984
According to 3GPP TS 45.002, table 3, unlike the CCCH+SDCCH/4+CBCH
combination, which can only be allocated on C0/TS0, the SDCCH/8+CBCH
can be allocated on C0..n/TS0..3. In other words, having CBCH on
e.g. TRX1/C1 is perfectly legal. This is why in gsm_bts_get_cbch()
we should check all transceivers, not just the C0.
Change-Id: Ie79ccff4f8f0f1134757ec0c35e18b58081cc158
Related: SYS#5905
This patch imposes no logical change in the code on itself, but makes
sure people compiling osmo-bsc uses an old enough libosmocore
implementing Cell Identifier SAI. This is important since adding the SAI
ID (CELL_IDENT_SAI) displaced CELL_IDENT_WHOLE_GLOBAL_PS to a new
number outside of the 3GPP range for cell IDS (4 bits, this way we
garantee we won't have the same problem again).
This means there was an ABI breakage (see Depends below).
As a result, using an osmo-bsc compiled against an older libosmocore
, and then using at runtime against a newer version of libosmocore, will
most probably provoke some RIM features to not work properly, since
libosmocore will handle CGI-PS cell ids sent by osmo-bsc as SAI ones,
and most probably do wrong comparisons when matching (they only match up
to LAI included).
ABI break analysis:
osmo-bsc uses CELL_IDENT_WHOLE_GLOBAL_PS in:
* gsm0808_dec_cell_id_list2() -> this is called on stuff received from the
network, so it's actually fine handling it
correctly as CELL_IDENT_UTRAN_SAI instead
of CGI_PS.
* gsm0808_cell_id_list_add
same_cell_id_list_entries
gsm0808_enc_cell_id_list2
cell_id_to_cgi-> On old osmo-bsc, When
CELL_IDENT_WHOLE_GLOBAL_PS is passed
to be encoded as CGI, RAC byte is
taken for encoding instead of 2nd CI byte.
* gsm0808_cell_ids_match
gsm0808_cell_id_u_match
cell_id_to_cgi -> If CELL_IDENT_WHOLE_GLOBAL_PS as 0x11
(CELL_IDENT_UTRAN_SAI), 1 byte offset when
comparing (1 byte of RAC is taken converting to
CGI instead of the 2nd byte of CI). That means
match would be wrong if 2nd byte of CI differs.
Related: SYS#5838
Depends: libosmocore.git Change-Id Id25e563febdb7640174540136225f399515a0089
Change-Id: I70972efffefd57fd36332fab539683696c32f4a5
The checks that make sure that an ARFCN falls in the correct range do
not return with -EINVAL as they should, instead nothing happens. (Only
the check for GSM1800 is corrct)
Change-Id: Iddadafe3fbc47e2f980d8e4ab4f320998cb454ff
Related: SYS#5369
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
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
Vadim Yanitskiy
Michael Iedema
Pau Espin
Neels Hofmeyr
Harald Welte
Oliver Smith
Philipp Maier
Daniel Willmann