We have seen that the DSP time to time rejects PTCCH message from BTS due to invalid block number.
As a result, we patched FN2PTCCHBLOCK calculation according TS 45.0002 Table 6.
Change-Id: I8be1c8b9159c94788857c6de5440a418739f1212
There is implicit invariant in trx_phy_instance() which is actively used
by various hw-specific implementations to get TRX's phy instance. Let's
make sure there's explicit assertion for this because there's been
segfaults in the past related to it.
I had accidently bumped the version as I thought that osmo_ph_pres_info_type
was part of the ABI. It is not an only internal to the BTS. Revert
this part of the change.
Previously osmo-bts-octphy have not provided in-band presence
information which cause off-by-one errors and misinterpretation of
ph_data_ind by PCU. This fixed now by adding support for explicitly
passing PH-DATA presence info. Corresponding check and in-band passing
of presence information are removed.
Note: this requires libosmocore version with osmo_ph_pres_info_type
support integrated.
[hfreyther/max: Remove + 1 from the decoded length]
In some cases we'd like to run multiple instances of osmo-bts on a
single machine. This is the case where we a multi-TRX PHY is to be used
for several BTSs, or in case osmo-bts-trx has multple SDRs attached.
This wa currently prevented by having a hard-coded PCU socket path
and telnet port, which are now configurable via VTY / config file
itself.
It remains up to the individual BTS hardware models to decide
whether or not to register those commands (depending on whether they
support the feature) via cfg_bts_auto_band_cmd / cfg_bts_no_auto_band_cmd
At the time the phy link / phy instance level VTY configuration
commands are parsed, we did not yet call l1if_open() and thus
pinst->u.{lc15,sysmobts}.hdl == NULL.
PHY or PHY instance specific configuration must thus be stored inside
the phy_link or phy_instance itself, and not inside the (not yet
existing) handle.
We solve this by moving around some parameters:
* clk_use_eeprom/clk_cal/clk_src/calib_path get replicated in
phy_instance
* min_qual_{rach,norm} are moved into the generic part (which means
that osmo-bts-octphy and osmo-bts-trx should also implement them)
Due to the changes introduced by the phy_link API, it's not easy to set
the default DSP trace flags via a command line argument anymore. We now
rather introduce a persitent VTY configuration command, by which the
default DSP tracing configuration can be set (for each PHY).
The persistent trace flags are stored in the phy_instance, while the
current operational run-time flags are in fl1h->phy_instance.
This includes changes required for
* shared main() function accross all BTS models
* use of the new phy_link / phy_instance infrastructure as the basis
for true multi-TRX operation
When the oml_link is down or not yet established, we currently lost
any OML messages that were scheduled for transmission to the BSC. Let's
prevent that by keeping a queue of OML messages, which is drained at the
time the OML link comes up again.
t200_ms is an unsigned int [7] array, while the oml_default_t200_ms was
an uint8_t[7] array, which we memcpy() to the former as default
initializer. Fix this by turning oml_default_t200_ms into unsigned int,
too.
Instead of limiting the number of TRX at VTY to the actual number of
supported TRX, VTY allows to configure any possible number of TRX. If a
TRX is configured, which is not supported by BTS model, an error message is
returned, which states that the given TRX is not supported.
MS uplink power control is required in pretty much any BTS, and we
cannot assume that they PHY / L1 will always take care of it by
itself. So the correspondign code is moved to common/power_control.c
and called from the generic part of L1SAP.
The corresponding VTY paramter has been moved from the sysmobts-specific
trx VTY node to the common BTS VTY node.
There are three transitions:
1. LCHAN_CIPH_NONE -> LCHAN_CIPH_RX_REQ -> LCHAN_CIPH_RX_CONF
It is used to enable ciphering in RX (uplink) direction only.
2. LCHAN_CIPH_RX_CONF -> LCHAN_CIPH_RX_CONF_TX_REQ -> LCHAN_CIPH_RXTX_CONF
It is used to additionally enable ciphering in TX (downlink) direction.
3. LCHAN_CIPH_NONE -> LCHAN_CIPH_RXTX_REQ -> LCHAN_CIPH_RX_CONF_TX_REQ
-> LCHAN_CIPH_RXTX_CONF
It is used to enable ciphering in both TX and RX directions. This is used
when the channel is activated with encryption already enabled. (assignment
or handover)
In order to follow the order of these transitions, the RX direction must
always be set before the TX direction.
If no cipher key is set (A5/0), ciphering is set to ALG 0, but lchan cipher
state remains at LCHAN_CIPH_NONE.
This first part moves BCCH message primitives from osmo-bts-sysmo to common
part. A new file "common/l1sap.c" is introduced to implement handling of
layer 1 messages from/to BTS model.
Instead of handling primitives directly at layer 1 specific code,
osmo-bts handles primitives at common code.
When all primitive are moved, the l1sap interface will:
- receive PH-DATA indications and forward them to layer 2.
- check for RF link loss and notify BSC.
- receive TCH indications and forward them via RTP.
- receive PH-RTS indications and send PH-DATA requests with content
according to its logical channel.
- receive TCH-RTS indications and send TCH requests with content
received via RTP or loopback from TCH indications.
- send MPH-INFO requests to activate, deactivate and modify logical
channels and handle their confirms.
- receive MPH-INFO indications with measurements from tranceiver.
- forward received and transmitted PH-DATA to GSMTAP.
Currently the DSP is instructed to achieve a given uplink
power target but there are circumstances (e.g. EMV testing)
where we need more control over it. The "manual/software/osmo"
power control can only be implemented per TRX and not per
lchan. Add a very very basic control that checks the MS Power
used by the phone, the actual receive level and then adjust
the power.
The code doesn't take the history into account, if the phone
can not reach the requested power level the code will be stuck
(e.g. no timeout based on multiframes). It has a mode for a
fixed power control but no way to set it yet.
The change of the mode requires a restart of the software.
This should handle OML channel combinations with CBCH and activate the
CBCH SAPI towards the DSP correspondingly. What is still missing is
sending any actual information over the CBCH in respons to the
PH-RTS.ind coming up from L1.
bts_ctrl_lookup.c: In function 'bts_controlif_setup':
bts_ctrl_lookup.c:97:2: warning: implicit declaration of function 'bts_ctrl_cmds_install' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
rc = bts_ctrl_cmds_install(bts);
^
libosmo-abis doesn't make it easy to have these parameters
as const.. just declare it non-const in the api. We pass
a static string but we know it will not be modified.
We use the completion call-back from L1 to compare the instructed
TRX board output power with the actual value as reported back from
L1.
Right now we only print an error message in case the values disagree.
In the future we might want to either use that value as part of our
calculation or send an OML alarm report to the BSC.
Using this control interface, an external program can request
attentuation of the transmitter for thermal management reasons. The
external application doesn't have to know anthing about the actual
transmit power, but it can just configure a certian value of milli-dB
(1/10000 bel) and update (increase/decrease) that value depending on
the thermal environment.
In order to support transmit power reduction by thermal management
as well as the variety of new internal / external PA configurations
of BTSs, we need a slightly more complex system.
Also, as at high power a single dB can be quite a big difference,
we are now doing all computations in milli-dB(m), i.e. 1/10000 bel.
Ramping is now used both for up and down ramping, as that is useful in
cases where you want to gracefully shut down a cell by shrinking its
radius, gradually handing over subscribers to neighboring cells.
Furthermore, this code is becoming part of the 'common' codebase, as it
is not really specific to how sysmobts is working.
The user can specify a single aggregate value for external system
gain/attenuation. Let's say you have 1dB loss of antenna cable, so you
can put that as 'user-gain -1' into the config, which means that a
'transmit power of 20dBm' will be compensatet for that and the TRX is
instructed to output 21dBm to compensate the cable loss. Similarly,
external PAs can be described by a positive user-gain.
One of the next steps will be to communicate those values and the
nominal power capability of the specific BTS to the BSC, so the BSC will
automatically show correct signal levels in the VTY and log files.
The code includes provisions for future extensions regarding
* an external and an internal PA with calibration tables
* a thermal attenuation setting to be controlled by the site manager
Extend the router to verify that the message received is
properly encoded. The code can deal with the basic structure
of ETSI OML and vendor specific messages for ip.access and
the osmocom project.
Fixes:
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:8:42: warning: ‘struct gsm_bts’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int down_oml(struct gsm_bts *bts, struct msgb *msg);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:8:42: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want [enabled by default]
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:12:52: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int oml_mo_send_msg(struct gsm_abis_mo *mo, struct msgb *msg, uint8_t msg_type);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:13:31: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int oml_mo_opstart_ack(struct gsm_abis_mo *mo);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:14:32: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int oml_mo_opstart_nack(struct gsm_abis_mo *mo, uint8_t nack_cause);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:15:32: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int oml_mo_statechg_ack(struct gsm_abis_mo *mo);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:16:33: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int oml_mo_statechg_nack(struct gsm_abis_mo *mo, uint8_t nack_cause);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:19:29: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int oml_mo_state_chg(struct gsm_abis_mo *mo, int op_state, int avail_state);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:22:31: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
void oml_mo_state_init(struct gsm_abis_mo *mo, int op_state, int avail_state);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:26:10: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int success);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:29:33: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int oml_tx_state_changed(struct gsm_abis_mo *mo);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:31:33: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
int oml_mo_tx_sw_act_rep(struct gsm_abis_mo *mo);
^
../../include/osmo-bts/oml.h:36:4: warning: ‘struct gsm_abis_mo’ declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
uint8_t cause);
For LCR and other systems without out-of-band information we need
to indicate the CMR. Not every air message will include the mode
and we sent a stream that had the CMR set and not-set. This lead
to the AudioCodes MGW only playing every second frame.
Remember the last used mode and initialize it to _NONE when we
receive the multirate config. In case of a real error we will
still use AMR_CMR_NONE.
The initial patch is from Harald. I have added the initialization
and moving of the defines to amr.h.
Manually verified by enabling AMR5.9 and looking at two RTP
packages in sequence. In both cases the CMR was 2. I have looked
at "amr.nb.cmr != 2" in wireshark and only found the MGCP dummy
packet.
Initialize the libosmo-abis VTY nodes more early so we can parse
the config file that was created by "write". Introduce abis_init
to initialize the libosmo-abis and modify abis_open to re-use an
existing line. Update the comments. This has only been tried with
the sysmobts-remote on x86. A TCP connection is opened toward the
configured BSC.
Fixes: SYS#285
These routines do not pass the gsm_abis_mo and parsing the FOM
header of the msg does not seem to be a good idea either. Pass
in the OML object so that the model code can determine what the
void pointer is.
The BTS layer needs to inform the handover code when an access
burst has been received. In turn the handover layer will ask the
bts to modify the channel, it will schedule the physical information
inform the BSC with the HANDOVER DETECTION and waits for the BTS
layer to inform it about the first received frame to stop a timer.
Currently, the AGCH queue length is not limited. This can lead to
large delays and network malfunction if there are many IMM.ASS.REJ
messages.
This patch adds two features:
- Don't accept msgs from the RSL layer when the queue is way too
full (safety measure, mainly if bts_ccch_copy_msg() is not being
called by the L1 layer, currently hard coded to 1000 messages)
- Selectively drop IMM.ASS.REJ from the queue output depending on the
queue length
Ticket: SYS#224
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
This patch extends paging_gen_msg() by adding an output parameter
is_empty that is true, if only a paging message with dummy entries
has been placed into buffer. This feature is then used by
bts_ccch_copy_msg() to insert an AGCH message if is_empty is true.
Ticket: SYS#224
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
Counters are added for the following events (use VTY show to query):
- Dropped IMMEDIATE ASSIGN REJECT messages
- Merged IMMEDIATE ASSIGN REJECT messages
- Rejected AGCH messages
- Use of PCH (non-reserved) for AGCH messages
- Use of AGCH (reserved) for AGCH messages
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
This patch adds a function bts_update_agch_max_queue_length()
to compute a limit of the AGCH queue. This is based on the idea,
that the AGCH queue has a limited drain rate and that CHANNEL
REQUESTs must be answered within a certain time frame, given
by the minimum value of T3126 (see GSM 04.08). When the AGCH queue
reaches that limit, the last message would be delivered in time if
there were no other delays involved (which is not the case).
The calculation is based on the ratio of the number RACH slots and
CCCH blocks per time:
Lmax = (T + 2*S) / R_RACH * R_CCCH
where
T3126_min = (T + 2*S) / R_RACH
R_RACH is the RACH slot rate (e.g. RACHs per multiframe)
R_CCCH is the CCCH block rate (same time base like R_RACH)
The value depends control_channel_desc.ccch_conf and
rach_control.tx_integer (both from SYSINFO_TYPE_3) and should
therefore by called at least each time after one of these is changed.
For this reason, a signal callback is registered under
SS_GLOBAL/S_NEW_SYSINFO which invokes bts_update_agch_max_queue_length().
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
Based-On: "bts: Calculate length of agch queue" by Ivan Kluchnikov
<kluchnikovi@gmail.com>
This patch adds a common function bts_ccch_copy_msg() that provides
and schedules AGCH and PCH messages. It is basically a frontend to
paging_gen_msg() and bts_agch_dequeue() and contains refactored code
from l1_if.c.
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
Use the lchan->rel_act_kind field for the BCCH activatiob by OML.
The lchan's should be marked as active but no event should be sent to
the BSC. This is mostly like the PCU. We can now remove the secnd
argument from lchan_activate.
Nicolas ended up with linker issues due abis_rsl_sendmsg being
defined twice. Rename our version of the function and update the
code.
Patched with:
@i@
expression E;
@@
- abis_rsl_sendmsg(E)
+ abis_bts_rsl_sendmsg(E)
Currently the LEDs are being accessed directly from within the
l1_if.c file. So the handling of rf mute and activate/deactivate both
access LED_RF_ACTIVE directly. This may lead to an inconsistent LED
status.
This patch replaces these calls to sysmobts_led_set() by an abstract
equivalent bts_update_status(), that uses a set of independant status
ids. The associated values can than be combined into a visible LED
status. Currently LED_RF_ACTIVE is on iff BTS_STATUS_RF_ACTIVE is set
and BTS_STATUS_RF_MUTE is not set.
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
Currently a Change Administrative State Request is just applied
unconditionally to the object's state object and then acknowledged.
This patch implements the special handling of setting the Radio
Carriers state to LOCK or UNLOCK. This is done by passing the
appropriate mute command to the L1 layer. Always all radio channels
are affected, it is not possible to lock single radio channels.
On success, an ACK is sent back to the bsc with the new state (based
on the state passed in the callback by the L1 layer). If something
went wrong or the firmware doesn't support RF mute, a NACK
(REQ_NOT_GRANTED) is sent instead.
Note that a NACK for such a request hasn't been sent by the BTS to
the BSC yet, so (albeit it's spec conformant to do so) the BSC must
be prepared to handle this correctly.
Ticket: OW#976
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
This adds a new function
l1if_mute_rf(femtol1_hdl, ch_mute[8])
to set the mute state for each radio channel. On completion and iff
l1if_mute_rf() returned 0 the callback
oml_mo_rf_lock_chg(mo, ch_mute_state[8], success)
is invoked when the response from the superfemto DSP is received.
Ticket: OW#976
Sponsored-by: On-Waves ehf
The PCU is forcing the activation of a PDCH. Currently the BSC
will receive a channel act ack for a channel that was not
activated at all. Use the "release_reason" flag of the lchan
to see if we have requested a normal activation or a silent
one.
It feels a bit odd to do it in the TX function but it is the
most easy solution right now. I have added logging so it will
not be totally silent.
This introduces a new get_signlink_remote_ip() function whcih we also
use in the RSL code to determine the RTP remote address if the CRCX/MDCX
contains no remote IP address IE.
libosmoabis has a BTS-side implementation of the IPA protocol for years,
and osmo-bts should have used that all the time. Unfortunately it had
its own local hack, this patch is migrating to the libosmocore
implementation.
Instead of calling oml_mo_state_chg() [which transmits OML STATE CHG]
during bts_init(), we use a new oml_mo_state_init() function which
simply sets the state.
During development one switches from GSM900 to GSM1800 and GSM850 to
GSM1900. This commit attempts to make this switch more easy.
GSM1800 and GSM1900 have overlapping ARFCNs. This means that the
mapping from bands to arfcn is not injective. Because of that I
removed the code to deduce the band from the ARFCN. This was done
in commit 8c3d807b3f. The auto-band
option allows to move between GSM900/GSM1800 and GSM850/GSM1900.
Add a simple testcase with these auto-band configurations.
Chapter 5.2 applies to MS procedure, but 5.3 (BSS procedure) defines no
exact criterion, so I decided to use the procedure equivalent to MS.
The criterion is based on a counter S, which is initialized to a preset
RADIO_LINK_TIMEOUT, which can be configured via VTY. Whenever a received
SACCH block is bad, S is counted down by one. If SACCH block is
successfully decoded, S is counted up by two, but never above initial
RADIO_LINK_TIMEOUT value. If S reaches 0, an RSL Connection Failure
Indication with cause RF Radio Link Failure is sent to BSC, which then
aborts channel.
Use link timeout value from BSC via OML attribute.
How to test:
- Set "debug" for "meas" logging.
- Start silent call to an attached mobile.
- Remove battery from mobile or shield mobile.
- Watch S count down.
Issue the RfDeactivate.REQ before sending the MphClose.REQ. Ideally
we would issue MphClose.REQ after the RfDeactivate.CNF but this is
not possible right now.
The current approach makes the following warning of the DSP go away
on shutdown. This was tested with my E71 and an active silent-call
using a SDCCH.
DSP Warning:
[ERROR] : DeviceMng_ValidateL1Handle() => Invalid layer 1 handle
Instead of explicitly having to specify the local IP address for RTP
sockets in the BTS, we just use "0.0.0.0" instead, which gets
translated to INADDR_ANY.
We still accept the configuration directive in old config files, but
when we write, the line will no longer be re-written to the file.
TODO: IMHO, the IPA RSL CRCX/MDCX actually permit the BSC to specify the
IP address on the BTS side, and we probably simply ignore this at this
point.
These attributes are saved in paging_state, we don't need to save them a
second time in struct gsm_bts_role_bts. Add get and set methods for
these attributes and use them consitently in the VTY code.
This was found and debugged by Sylvain. The BTS will always support
A5/0 so we do not keep track of that, the first bit of the flags is
used for A5/1, second for A5/2... but for RSL there is an offset to
go from RSL to A5(x). Add a testcase and change the code.
* Comment out the osmo-bts-bb/Makefile as we have removed it from
the SUBDIRS and are not packaging the code right now
* Add missing include files for the build
Right now osmo-bts requires access to one OpenBSC header file and
this requires that openbsc and osmo-bts git are in the same directory.
Begin with making the location of the OpenBSC sourcecode configurable.
This approach will allow to build osmo-bts on our Jenkins installation
but now has the risk of more code including the openbsc/*.h header files.
This may be adding bells and whistles that nobody wants to touch, but at
least for current analysis/optimiziation they are useful to have. Later
on they should probably be removed again and/or obsoleted by OML
messages for configuration of paging behaviour by the BSC.
Minh-Quang Nguyen
Harald Welte