In many cases we actually want a name / unique ID for the lchan,
not just for the on-air timeslot... especially in SDCCH/8 case,
where 8 SDCCHs share one timeslot...
When we allocate a channel, we send the RSL CHAN ACT REQ and wait until we get
a CHAN ACT ACK. Only the ACK will change the state, so there is a race where
we allocate that same channel to a different channel request before we get
the ACT ACK.
Introducing a new ACT_REQ state resolves this issue.
This is the new logging architecture, including
* support for multiuple logging targets like stderr and vty
* log levels in addition to categories/subsystems
* filtering based on imsi, i.e. only see events for one subscriber
* dynamically change log level for each category for each vty
This has the advantage that counters can be added all over the code
very easily, while having only one routine that stores all of the
current counter values to the database. The counters are synced
every 60 seconds, providing relatively fine grained statistics
about the network usage as time passes by.
This allows us to block packets that we have received after the channel
is no longer being used. This is visible during handover, where we still
receive a measurement report after the MS has switched to the new channel.
This leftover measurement report then attempts to trigger another handover,
which si bogus and will fail - and thus only consumes resources.
With the new LCHAN_S_ACTIVE state, we can check for this when processing
the measurement report.
This is not really nice, but we will soon have multiple users of
the CRCX / MDCX / DLCX signals, and we cannot guarantee the ordering
of them. So as a workaround, we move the RTP socket creation and
deletion into the core abis_rsl codebase.
This introduces a new LOGP() macro together with LOGL_* definition to
support multiple log levels (severities) throughout the codebase.
Please note that the actual logging system does not use them yet,
in this patch we simply introduce the new macros at the caller site.
With this commit, we can successfully hand over a channel from one cell to
another cell. We implement asynchronous intra-BSC (but inter-BTS) handover.
Changes:
* introduce new DHO log category
* extend rsl_chan_activate_lchan() with argument for HO reference
* introduce actual minimal handover decision making in handover_decision.c
* various fixes to bsc_handover_start() in handover_logic.c
With ip.access, in case of TCH/H, we have one RTP stream for each half-slot
(lchan), not just one per on-air timeslot. This is quite different from
a classic BTS where the TRAU frames of the two TCH/H channels would be
part of the same 16k sub-slot in a E1 timeslot.
Before this commit, OpenBSC used templates for the SYSTEM INFO
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 messages. Those templates were patched in
various places to reflect the network config like ARFCN.
Now, we actually generate those SI messages ourselves, using
values from the configuration file, and even calculating neighbor
cell lists.
All bts'es that you have configured in OpenBSC will end up in
the neighbor cell list - which should be more than sufficient for
the current small-single-site networks.
This introduces the signals S_LCHAN_ACTIVATE_{ACK,NACK} and
S_LCAN_HANDOVER_{FAIL,COMPL,DETECT} as well as code that actually issues
those signals. The signals are relevant for a yet-to-be-written handover
control logic.
This patch extends struct gsm_meas_rep into a complete structure containing all
information from both uplink and downlink measurement results/reports.
This is a first step to provide this complete measurement data as a C structure
into a to-be-implemented handover decision algorithm.
Both GSM 04.08 RR and GSM 08.58 RSL need the multirate config
in the channel modify. Place the config in the lchan, change
the gsm48 methods to not take the argument, change the RSL
implementation to make use of it with the right IE.
The other code should use the t(l)v_put routines as well but
were left untouched for now.
IPA is naming these functions CRCX, MDCX, DLCX to follow
the naming of the MediaGatewayControlProtocol. Change the
code to go from BIND to CRCX (create connection) and from
CONNECT to MDCX (modify connection).
Connect indicates that it is only possible to call it once
while it is possible to call it more than once to modify
the audio parmaters and such. So the IPA terminology is
making a bit more sense here (now that we know it).
Keep track of which SAPIs have been established either by the
BTS (from the MS) or by us. This can be used by the on-waves
BSC code to figure out if a new request should be made.
Add code to generate an assignment command for a given lchan. It
is expected that the lchan is modified already and the mode will
be picked up from their. Currently only the mandantory items
are supported.
If we have a dynamic TCH/F / PDCH channel configuration, then
we can either ACTIVATE CHANNEL it for a TCH/F, or we need to send
this vendor-specific PDCH ACTIVATE command to use it as a PDCH.
As opposed to a fixed configuration, this allows an intelligent
BSC channel allocator to use otherwise idle channels as PDCH
as long as no more TCH's are needed.
This just adds the 04.08 and RSL bits for A5, but not the logic
for performing authentication.
The caller would first set lchan->encr and then call
gsm48_send_rr_ciph_mode(lchan), which encapsulates the 04.08
CIPHERING MODE COMMAND into a RSL ENCRYPTION COMMAND and sends it
to the BTS for execution + forwarding.
This fixes the 'only first call works' problem that some of us were
having with the nanoBTS.
(the field just happenned to be 0 == GSM48_CMODE_SIGN after startup)
Signed-off-by: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
SMS related messages are all sent over SAPI=3. But in addition
to that, we also need to send it over the correct link identifier,
i.e. SACCH or main signalling channel
Harald Welte (local)
Harald Welte
Sylvain Munaut