It makes more sense to use a reduce step size that is smaller than
the increase step size. This way both MS/BS power control loops
would be able to react quickly of the signal gets weaker, while
the good signal would not trigger radical power reduction.
Change-Id: Ie358fd828a68bfa1d23559197e8df8478fb4535e
Related: SYS#4918
In change [1] the new power control structures and default params
were introduced. In change [2], the existing VTY commands for MS
power control in the BTS were deprecated and changed to use the
new structures as storage. Finally, in change [3], handling of
the power control parameters on the A-bis/RSL was implemented.
This change is the final logical step in the mentioned chain: it
makes both MS/BS power control loops use the new parameters, and
removes the old structures. The actual implementation of both
power control loops remains the same, however the expected output
of some unit tests for the Downlink loop needs to be changed:
- TC_fixed_mode: disabling dynamic power control becomes a separate
step of the test script since the field 'fixed' is removed;
- TC_rxlev_target: RxLev thresholds are printed 'as-is'.
Not all of the new parameters are used by the power control loops
yet. Further improvements to be done in the follow up commits.
[1] I6d41eb238aa6d4f5b77596c5477c2ecbe86de2a8
[2] Icbd9a7d31ce6723294130a31a179a002fccb4612
[3] I5a901eca5a78a0335a6954064e602e65cda85390
Change-Id: Ib18f84c40227841d95a36063a6789bf63054fc2e
Related: SYS#4918
MS/BS Power Control parameters have been recently moved to the BSC
and now signaled to the BTS over the A-bis/RSL link. Let's make
sure that the existing VTY commands for Uplink Power Control do:
- trigger deprecation warnings if present in the config file,
- not show up in the online VTY help nor VTY reference,
- affect the fall-back parameters in 'struct gsm_bts',
- still get printed by 'show running-config' command.
Change-Id: Icbd9a7d31ce6723294130a31a179a002fccb4612
Related: SYS#4918
It is expected that setting RxQual threshold to 0 would make the
L1SAP logic enable repetition for both Uplink SACCH and Downlink
FACCH unconditionally. However, this was only valid for the
later. Let's add the missing check and make it consistent.
Change-Id: Ia44a134e7f28ea990798d1b79c87b644504c0876
Related: SYS#5114
For the sake of simplicity, the old structures that are still used
by MS/BS power control loops are kept in place. Migration to the
new structures requires additional changes to the existing power
control logic, so it will be done in the follow-up changes.
The new parameters are integrated as follows:
+ struct gsm_bts - a BTS instance:
| Hard-coded default (fall-back) parameters for all transceivers.
|
+-+-> struct gsm_bts_trx - a TRX instance (transceiver):
| Default parameters for all logical channels inherited from
| 'struct gsm_bts' at start-up. May be overwritten by the
| BSC using ip.access specific 'Measurement Pre-processing
| Defaults' message on the A-bis/RSL interface.
|
+---> struct gsm_lchan - a logical channel (e.g. TCH or SDCCH):
Connection specific parameters inherited from 'struct
gsm_bts_trx'. May be overwritten by parameters sent
by the BSC in CHANnel ACTIVation and other messages.
Change-Id: I6d41eb238aa6d4f5b77596c5477c2ecbe86de2a8
Related: SYS#4918
This is a follow-up fix for I0ee0cf736e2fb74a6759a68101f699b4ec2ef54e
get_si4_ro_offset() itself already checks if it's less than GSM_MACBLOCK_LEN,
so we must check if it's not negative.
Change-Id: Iba99e5de625af6bed6720a38fec26c2acc6251c0
In Change-Id I1fd513ea03297918d15d4b28ed454f9b6dd6ebfa we introduced
patching of SI4 to indicate GPRS presence in terms of PCU connection
status. Unfortauntely this didn't account for optional IEs being
present in SI4, and hence overwrote any CBCH related information
elements, if present.
This in turn meant that since the above-mentioned commit, you could
have either a GPRS-capable, network, or a Cell Broadcast capable one.
Change-Id: I0ee0cf736e2fb74a6759a68101f699b4ec2ef54e
Related: OS#3075
Checking if a given RSL IE is present is a straightforward task,
so there is no need for a special boolean flag.
Change-Id: I6a12930314c79b9c3efabfa575b17f78105fea4c
It does not make sense to dump CCCH/CBCH as dedicated channels:
OsmoBTS# show lchan
BTS 0, TRX 0, Timeslot 0, Lchan 4: Type CCCH
State: ACTIVE
BS (Downlink) Power Control (autonomous):
Channel reduction: 0 dB (max 0 dB)
TRX reduction: 0 dB
Actual / Nominal power: 13 dBm / 13 dBm
MS (Uplink) Power Control (autonomous):
Current power level: 0, -39 dBm (max 0, -39 dBm)
Channel Mode / Codec: SIGNALLING
LAPDm SAPIs: DCCH --, SACCH --
Valid System Information: 0x00000060
MS Timing Offset: 0, propagation delay: 0 symbols
Radio Link Failure Counter 'S': 0
so let's only dump SDCCH, TCH/F, and TCH/H.
Change-Id: Id7880de56a93cc9fa4ca576b094cef35ee269822
During the initial implementation I used the wrong function to change
state. As a result, from BSC point of view the BTS was changing state
but the FSM internally was not. "Fortunately", while in state Dependency
the BTS still could cope with that in order to still be operative with
older osmo-bsc, so there was no major breakage, only some error log
message being printed.
Related: OS#4873
Change-Id: Ifd2eefc362fca0aa9e6ae102c7e6dbc1b4f295d6
struct lchan_power_ctrl_state actually contains more fields,
which also must be initialized on CHANnel ACTIVation.
Change-Id: Id9719088fc6e9479c13e9b327a3466d9e2810a3a
Related: SYS#4918
We already have MS Power Control, which according to 3GPP 45.008
shall be implemented in the MS to minimize the transmit power in
the Uplink direction. The BS Power Control may optionally be
implemented by the network side for the same purpose.
Using Downlink signal measurements reported by the MS, the BSS
(either BSC, or BTS) may control Downlink attenuation in a way
that the transmit power remains as low as possible, or remains
in a specific range corresponding to good RxLev values on the
MS side. This change implements autonomous BS Power Control,
that can optionally be enabled by the BSC.
BS Power Control re-uses parts of the MS Power Control code,
so all parameters can be configured in the same way - via the
VTY interface or a configuration file. This basically means
that features like hysteresis and EWMA based filtering are
also available for BS Power Control.
The only difference is that RxQual values higher than 0 would
trigger the logic to reduce the current attenuation twice.
Note that one of the unit tests ('TC_rxlev_max_min') fails,
as the power step limitations for raising and lowering look
wrong to me, and the related discussion is still ongoing.
Change-Id: I5b509e71d5f668b6b8b2abf8053c27f2a7c78451
Related: SYS#4918
Similar to I3c07cb6e14acd5a988761bbc51a9c3b60fb22d87, this change
is another step towards separating the common delta calculation
logic from lchan_ms_pwr_ctrl(), since this function will loose
access to the averaged values.
On the one hand, the affected logging statements are getting
less precise; on the other, logging the averaged value as the
actual value ('rx-current') may be even more confusing.
Change-Id: I07007e45c859b4080fbbe520ffb5ccc0bb9c4244
Related: SYS#4918
This change would allow to separate the common logic from
lchan_ms_pwr_ctrl() and re-use it for Downlink power control.
The logging statement was quite useful during early stages
of development and testing of hysteresis and filtering,
but now we can sacrifice it.
Change-Id: I3c07cb6e14acd5a988761bbc51a9c3b60fb22d87
Related: SYS#4918
This way EWMA based filtering logic can be used not only for
MS Power Control, but also for BS Power Control.
Change-Id: I16c2e1b997f2b8af44d47809420293f072335bbd
Related: SYS#4918
This would allow to pass only two pointers:
- 'struct bts_power_ctrl_params', and
- 'struct lchan_power_ctrl_state',
and get rid of 'struct gsm_lchan' dependency. The later is
exactly where all state variables are supposed to be kept.
Change-Id: Idfefca30f4944bc722b4e9d8f1685eb77670a9db
Related: SYS#4918
When [baseband] frequency hopping is in use, Downlink bursts from
additional transceivers may end up being transmitted on TRX0/C0.
In this case, we must not apply per-lchan attenuation, because
the BTS shall maintain constant power level on that TRX.
Change-Id: Id171df70447283b00da965e1f81dfac20e35495c
Related: SYS#4918
3GPP TS 44.006, section 11 describes a method how the uplink
SACCH transmission can be repeated to increase transmission
reliability.
Change-Id: I7e4cc33cc010866e41e3b594351a7f7bf93e08ac
Related: OS#4795, SYS#5114
3GPP TS 44.006, section 11 describes a method how the downlink
SACCH transmission can be repeated to increase transmission
reliability.
Change-Id: I00806f936b15fbaf6a4e7bbd61f3bec262cdbb28
Related: OS#4794, SYS#5114
The SRR bit, which got specified in 3gpp release 6 to support repeated
ACCH capability is not yet included in the L1 Information IE on RSL
level. Also lets update the spec reference to more modern 3gpp spec ref
numbers.
Change-Id: I987c61608b737521ba36756dabf2f6215b34c2d6
Related: OS#4796 SYS#5114
The recently added IE (RSL_IE_OSMO_REP_ACCH_CAP) has been extended
with more options, update the documentation as well.
Change-Id: I3d95da588e863185bb62e92898c285d52bce9af4
Related: SYS#5114, OS#4796, OS#4794, OS#4795
3GPP TS 44.006, section 10 describes a method how the downlink
FACCH transmission can be repeated to increase transmission
reliability.
Change-Id: I72f0cf7eaaef9f80fc35e752c90ae0e2d24d0c75
Depends: libosmocore I6dda239e9cd7033297bed1deb5eb1d9f87b8433f
Related: OS#4796 SYS#5114
Vadim Yanitskiy
Harald Welte
Pau Espin Pedrol
Philipp Maier