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 lchan_avail_by_type() attempts to find an unused lchan for the
given GSM_LCHAN_* value: TCH/F, TCH/H, or SDCCH. This is achieved
by looking up timeslots with compatible GSM_PCHAN_* values.
For instance, finding an unused SDCCH lchan may involve:
* attempt to find a timeslot with pchan=GSM_PCHAN_CCCH_SDCCH4,
* attempt to find a timeslot with pchan=GSM_PCHAN_CCCH_SDCCH4_CBCH,
* attempt to find a timeslot with pchan=GSM_PCHAN_SDCCH8_SACCH8C,
* attempt to find a timeslot with pchan=GSM_PCHAN_SDCCH8_SACCH8C_CBCH,
* attempt to find a timeslot with pchan=GSM_PCHAN_OSMO_DYN (switched),
* attempt to find a timeslot with pchan=GSM_PCHAN_OSMO_DYN (not switched).
Each attempt involves iterating over all timeslots of each TRX,
either in ascending or in descending order (see _lc_dyn_find_bts()
and _lc_find_trx()).
This patch simplifies the lookup logic by preparing a monolithic
array of timeslot pointers once, and then using that array for
each GSM_PCHAN_* lookup attempt. This change is required for the
upcoming dynamic channel allocation mode, which is fa more complex
than the existing ascending/descending ones.
A side effect of this change is that the interference aware mode
of allocation is not limited by the scope of a single TRX anymore.
Interference levels are now compared within the scope of the whole
BTS, so that lchans on the other TRXes may be picked if they are
better according to the interference reports from the BTS.
Change-Id: I7ccc56856bfd40fd7c63b7437736de60c2b516ff
Related: SYS#5460
It's an easy helper, but it helps in standarizing and finding similar
places in code.
Morevoer, it will be used in follow-up commit where we first use
lchan_avail_by_type and finally we select it in a later stage.
Change-Id: I025a40962a5e5d40543b297a0760e47618fb525c
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
This feature signals support to configure Osmocom Dynamic Timeslot type
as SDCCH8, on top of historically supported TCH/H and TCH/F.
The idea is that when unneeded, the TS is configured as PDCH, and as
soon as there's need for an SDCCH and there's none available, the TS is
dynamically reconfigured to SDCCH8. Once all logical channels in the
dynamic TS are released and hence becomes free, the BSC will reconfigure
it to PDCH.
Related: SYS#5309
Depends: libosmocore.git Change-Id Ifc0ca8916bd3e93e5a60a7dd7391d2588fdb5532
Change-Id: I29ac8b90168dba3ac309daeb0b6cfdbbcb8e9172
They will gain support to be activated as SDCCH/8 soon too.
Related: OS#5309
Depends: libosmocore.git I56dcfe4d17899630b17f80145c3ced72f1e91e68
Change-Id: Id5b89fe589a52ff88486435ac43809edb4b80f98
That variable is never used after being set. Furthermore, it is being
set to the same value already stored, so there's no use in setting it
and it creates confusion.
Change-Id: Ib6ee28aa9a449992f5d3dea6df7dd2b7e30e73c9
Both VAMOS- and non-VAMOS speech modes should result in indentical voice
handling. So make sure that all chan_modes are converted to non-vamos
before comparing / evaluating in switch statements.
Change-Id: I791e7966b1f8eaa3299a8a46abeb313cf5136e0b
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
Move the conversion from chan_mode to lchan type out of the
lchan_select_by_chan_mode() function, so that the conversion can be used
by other code paths, coming up in VAMOS patches.
Related: SYS#5315 OS#4940
Change-Id: I296651ebadba81f8b3db0d9bb5b5377877a43677
Add bool log argument to lchan_avail_by_type() and omit logging when
passed as false. From handover_decision_2.c, pass 'log' as false, from
all other callers pass true, i.e. for unchanged behavior.
Rationale:
Usually, we use lchan_avail_by_type() to select a new lchan to initiate
actual service. For that, it is interesting to see how osmo-bsc decides
which lchan will be used.
For handover decision 2, we since recently call lchan_avail_by_type()
for each and every handover candidate, to determine whether it will
occupy a dynamic timeslot or not (to know whether we would congest the
other TCH kind). So this happens for each permutation of source lchan
and target cell. That produces a lot of logging, out of proportion of
being useful to the maintainer.
Change-Id: Ia403f8fc853ca9ea9e81f7a7395df6b23845ebed
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
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
If lchan_select_by_type() fails to find a suitable logical channel,
it would print a message using LOGL_ERROR. This can happen if all
logical channels of the requested type are busy, thus it is not a
error. Let's use LOGL_NOTICE for that.
Change-Id: I9b45852116253e5237b779a91bed8b800758360e
It's quite ugly to have manual "bts=%d" printf-statements all over
the BSC code. Let's change this to use shared logging helper functions
all over the place, whenever we need to log something related to one
BTS or one TRX.
This can also help us as the first step to later add alternative logging
of BTS identities, e.g. by printing the Cell Global Identifier or
LAC+CI, or even a human-readable/vty-defined 'name' of the BTS, rather
than its numeric bts number. With this change in place, we can
introduce such changes at a single location in the code.
Change-Id: I4a7814d164384eecfb6913c31802cf2faead6e6c
To support the 3 possible preferences, the changes needed were:
- Replace 'full_rate' bool with a 3 option enum to represent
the channels types for signalling
- Switch from _pref/_alt to using an array sorted in preference
order
Originally merged as Change-Id I4c7499c8c866ea3ff7b1327edb3615d003d927d3,
reverted because the change broke voice calls. Re-submitting with the fix:
don't forget to set conn->assignment.requires_voice_stream.
Signed-off-by: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
Change-Id: I7513d2cbe8b695ba6f031ad11560c63a6535cf2d
This commit breaks voice channel assignment. It results in the
Assignment Complete sent to the MSC for a voice lchan lacking
AoIP Transport Layer Address, Speech Version and Speech Codec.
Hence the MSC cannot complete the Assignment for a voice call.
Let's revisit this patch, test thoroughly and re-merge later.
This reverts commit 4d3a21269b.
Reason for revert: <INSERT REASONING HERE>
Change-Id: I72aaa03539919e7e85b5b75b133326cec5e68bc9
To support the 3 possible preferences, the changes needed were:
- Replace 'full_rate' bool with a 3 option enum to represent
the channels types for signalling
- Switch from _pref/_alt to using an array sorted in preference
order
Change-Id: I4c7499c8c866ea3ff7b1327edb3615d003d927d3
Signed-off-by: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
The function lchan_select_by_type() will unsolicitedly select a TCH/F
when it is asked for a TCH/H but a TCH/H is not available. This behavior
is presumably a leftover from before the split. Now every fallback to
another rate must be agreed with the MSC in advance, it is a spec
violation to silently fallback to TCH/F when asked for a TCH/H.
Change-Id: I057e70bc81b3dac470f6d1d2a37533ec3a7a79d0
Related: OS#3503
The function lchan_select_by_chan_mode() is prone to select an half rate
lchan when EFR is used, even though EFR is not defined for half-rate.
Lets protect against that.
Change-Id: I961d9aaba81424053ab1dc04ce7799e716af4cd8
Related: OS#3503
If BTS is configured to have only TCH/F_PDCH and TCH/H and a call is
resolved to require TCH/F, don't return the TCH/H which have no use, but
instead let it allocate the TCH/F_PDCH.
20181128185013783 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:159 (bts=0) lchan_select_by_type(TCH_F)
20181128185013783 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:71 looking for lchan TCH/F: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=0,pchan=CCCH+SDCCH4,state=IN_USE) is != TCH/F
20181128185013783 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:71 looking for lchan TCH/F: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=1,pchan=SDCCH8,state=UNUSED) is != TCH/F
20181128185013783 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:71 looking for lchan TCH/F: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=2,pchan=TCH/H,state=UNUSED) is != TCH/F
20181128185013783 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:71 looking for lchan TCH/F: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=3,pchan=TCH/H,state=UNUSED) is != TCH/F
20181128185013783 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:71 looking for lchan TCH/F: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=4,pchan=TCH/H,state=UNUSED) is != TCH/F
20181128185013783 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:71 looking for lchan TCH/F: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=5,pchan=TCH/H,state=UNUSED) is != TCH/F
20181128185013783 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:71 looking for lchan TCH/F: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=6,pchan_on_init=TCH/F_PDCH,pchan=PDCH,state=PDCH) is != TCH/F
20181128185013784 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:71 looking for lchan TCH/F: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=7,pchan_on_init=TCH/F_PDCH,pchan=PDCH,state=PDCH) is != TCH/F
20181128185013784 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:71 looking for lchan TCH/H: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=0,pchan=CCCH+SDCCH4,state=IN_USE) is != TCH/H
20181128185013784 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:71 looking for lchan TCH/H: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=1,pchan=SDCCH8,state=UNUSED) is != TCH/H
20181128185013784 DRLL <0000> lchan_select.c:86 looking for lchan TCH/H: (bts=0,trx=0,ts=2,pchan=TCH/H,state=UNUSED) ss=0 is available
20181128185013784 DCHAN <0010> lchan_select.c:253 lchan(0-0-2-TCH_H-0)[0x6120000066a0]{UNUSED}: (type=TCH_H) Selected
Change-Id: I9a73beb0432fab16d5430e5b40d470694e09b189
Add FSMs:
- timeslot_fsm: handle dynamic timeslots and OML+RSL availability.
- lchan_fsm: handle an individual lchan activation, RTP stream and release,
signal the appropriate calling FSMs on success, failure, release.
- mgw_endpoint_fsm: handle one entire endpoint with several CI.
- assignment_fsm: BSSMAP Assignment Request.
- handover_fsm: all of intra, inter-MO and inter-MT handover.
Above FSMs absorb large parts of the gscon FSM. The gscon FSM was surpassing
the maximum amount events (32), and it is more logical to treat assignment,
handover and MGW procedures in separate FSMs.
- Add logging macros for each FSM type:
- LOG_TS()
- LOG_LCHAN()
- LOG_MGWEP(), LOG_CI()
- LOG_ASSIGNMENT()
- LOG_HO()
These log with the osmo_fsm_inst where present.
New style decision: logging without a final newline char is awkward,
especially for gsmtap logging and when other logs interleave LOGPC() calls;
we have various cases where the final \n goes missing, and also this invokes
the log category checking N times instead of once.
So I decided to make these macros *always* append a newline, but only if
there is no final newline yet. I hope that the compiler optimizes the
strlen() of the constant format strings away. Thus I can log with or without
typing "\n" and always get an \n termination anyway.
General:
- replace osmo_timers, state enums and program-wide osmo_signal_dispatch()
with dedicated FSM timeouts, states and events.
- introduce a common way to handle Tnnn timers: gsm_timers.h/.c: struct T_def.
These can be used (with some macro magic) to define a state's timeout once,
and not make mistakes for each osmo_fsm_inst_state_chg().
Details:
bsc_subscr_conn_fsm.c:
- move most states of this FSM to lchan_fsm, assignment_fsm, handover_fsm and
mgw_endpoint_fsm.
- There is exactly one state for an ongoing Assignment, with all details
handled in conn->assignment.fi. The state relies on the assignment_fsm's
timeout.
- There is one state for an ongoing Handover; except for an incoming Handover
from a remote BSS, the gscon remains in ST_INIT until the new lchan and conn
are both established.
- move bssmap_add_lcls_status() to osmo_bsc_lcls.c
abis_rsl.c:
- move all dynamic timeslot logic away into timeslot_fsm. Only keep plain send/receive functions in
abis_rsl.c
- reduce some rsl functions to merely send a message, rename to "_tx_".
- rsl_ipacc_mdcx(): add '_tx_' in the name; move parts that change the lchan state out into the
lchan_fsm, the lchan->abis_ip.* are now set there prior to invoking this function.
- move all timers and error/release handling away into various FSMs.
- tweak ipa_smod_s_for_lchan() and ipa_rtp_pt_for_lchan() to not require an
lchan passed, but just mode,type that they require. Rename to
ipacc_speech_mode*() and ipacc_payload_type().
- add rsl_forward_layer3_info, used for inter-BSC HO MO, to just send the RR
message received during BSSMAP Handover Command.
- move various logging to LOG_LCHAN() in order to log with the lchan FSM instance.
One drawback is that the lchan FSM is limited to one logging category, i.e. this moves some logging
from DRR to DRSL. It might actually make sense to combine those categories.
- lose LOGP...LOGPC logging cascades: they are bad for gsmtap logging and for performance.
- handle_classmark_chg(): change logging, move cm2 len check out of the cm3 condition (I hope that's
correct).
- gsm48_send_ho_cmd(): split off gsm48_make_ho_cmd() which doesn't send right away, so that during
inter-bsc HO we can make an RR Handover Command to send via the MSC to the remote BSS.
assignment_fsm.c:
- the Chan Mode Modify in case of re-using the same lchan is not implemented
yet, because this was also missing in the previous implementation (OS#3357).
osmo_bsc_api.c:
- simplify bsc_mr_config() and move to lchan_fsm.c, the only caller; rename to
lchan_mr_config(). (bsc_mr_config() used to copy the values to mr_bts_lv
twice, once by member assignment and then again with a memcpy.)
- During handover, we used to copy the MR config from the old lchan. Since we
may handover between FR and HR, rather set the MR Config anew every time, so
that FR rates are always available on FR lchans, and never on HR lchans.
Depends: I03ee7ce840ecfa0b6a33358e7385528aabd4873f (libosmocore),
I1f2918418c38918c5ac70acaa51a47adfca12b5e (libosmocore)
Change-Id: I82e3f918295daa83274a4cf803f046979f284366
Vadim Yanitskiy
Neels Hofmeyr
Pau Espin
Philipp Maier
Harald Welte
Sylvain Munaut
Neels Hofmeyr