It uses history buffer and sends ack/nack control messages about received
blocks. It defragments the blocks and forwards them to upper layer. It
does content resolution and ignores other MS. It sends final ACK after
all blocks have been sucessfully received. Timers are used to detect
loss of uplink, and repeat lost final ACK.
The scheduler is triggered at ready-to-send-requesst. It schedules
control blocks, data block and dummy blocks, depending on priority.
It provides upstream ressource by setting USF. The ressources are
assigned, if required. The ressources are dispatched round-robin.
In case of polling, the upstream ressource is given to MS at the
time it will respond to polling request.
The OpenBTS socket functions are moved from main to pcu_l1_if.cpp.
New sysmo_l1_if.cpp is introduced. It used special unix socket interface
to connect to sysmo-BTS. This is required to access CCCH/RACH and info
about cell layout. Traffic is also forwarded via this interface, but
it direct access of L1 baseband DSP will be added soon.
In order to handle ready-to-send requests above l1_if, the transmit
queue (for downlink blocks) is moved to gprs_rlcmac.cpp.
The TBF instance additionally holds TRX and TS info, but this is only
a hack currently. TBF instance requires more details about allocated
ressources in the future.
Added functions for TBF allocation, establishment, data transfer and release management.
Modified TBF structure, added list for several LLC PDUs in one TBF.
Added function gprs_rlcmac_tx_llc_pdus() providing transmission of several LLC PDUs in one TBF to MS.
this is probably a historic relict. None of them should be used, and I
cannot see any actual use of them either.
The only non-library code that we link now is libosmo-gb (ns/bssgp),
which soon will be turned into a real library.
Andreas Eversberg
Harald Welte