While NACC was initially developed, it became clear there was need for
a way to interact PCU<->BSC in order resolve ARFCN+BSIC into CGI-PS
for later RIM usage.
Hence, this resolution was first (until today) implemented using an out
of bands RPC system using the CTRL interface, which required specific
config to be written and matches in osmo-pcu and osmo-bsc VTY (ip+port
of the CTRL interface to use).
However, this has several shortcomings:
* As explained above, specific configuration is required
* Since recently, we do support BSC redundancy in osmo-bts. Hence the BTS
may switch to a BSC other than first one. If that happened, that'd mean
the CTRL interface would still point to the initially configured one,
which may not be the same currently serving the PCU.
During recent development of ANR related features, a similar need for
PCU<->BSC was required, but this time it was decided to extend the IPA
multiplex of the Abis OML connection to pass PCUIF messages,
transparently forwarded to each side by the BTS.
This has the advantage that connection PCU<->BTS is handled by BTS and
both sides send messages transparently.
Let's switch by default to using this new interface, while still
maintaing the old way for a while (announcing them as deprecated) to
avoid breaking existing deployments until they are upgraded to new
versions of osmo-pcu and osmo-bsc.
Related: SYS#4971
Change-Id: I6ad33c7ab10202840cf804dea9ba595978d0e920
Implement T3113 for paging over PCH with default value of 7s (same as
T3113 in OsmoBSC). Increase the new counter on timeout.
Related: SYS#4878
Change-Id: I97475c3dbe2cf00b9cbfec39e93a3c65cb7f749f
While libosmogb / ns2 supports that natively in the VTY, the PCU
doesn't want to use the complexities of the full NS2 vty.
Change-Id: I7bfbad46582e65e5ad2ac0cc66545538bc632df8
Related: SYS#5427
The old VTY command is marked as deprecated and still overrides the use
in case it's used.
Related: SYS#5358
Depends: libosmocore.git Change-Id I74fb0a3afc1ac4aadbfc609b882d929401f790eb
Depends: osmo-bsc.git Change-Id I8b97ea11bad5fe05f2f634945b5703ee9abde81d
Change-Id: I46f2a955b157a409055fca7fb917dc4f75482426
Upon timeout, we move directly to NACC_ST_TX_CELL_CHG_CONTINUE in order
to submit a Cell Change Continue against the MS without providing any
Packet Neighbor Cell Data beforehand, as per spec that's probably the
best we can do in this scenario (TS 44.060):
"""
1) The network responds with a PACKET CELL CHANGE CONTINUE message.
If a mobile station as response to a PACKET CELL CHANGE NOTIFICATION
message receives a PACKET CELL CHANGE CONTINUE message without receiving
any neighbour cell system information, the mobile station shall stop timer
T3208, stop timer T3210 if still running, leave CCN mode and continue cell
reselection in NC0/NC1 mode.
"""
Related: SYS#4909
Change-Id: Ia9932ab082ec095294e85dc4d532046970e17986
A new nacc_fsm is introduced per MS object, with its partner priv
structure struct nacc_fsm_ctx, which exists and is available in the MS
object only during the duration of the NACC procedure.
The NACC context is created on an MS whenever a Pkt Cell Change
Notification is received on Uplink RLCMAC, which asks for neighbor
information of a given ARFCN+BSIC.
First, the target ARFCN+BSIC needs to be translated into a CGI-PS
(RAC+CI) address. That's done by asking the BSC through the Neighbour
Resolution Service available in osmo-bsc using the CTRL interface.
Once the CGI-PS of the target cell is known, PCU starts a RIM RAN-INFO
request against the SGSN (which will route the request as needed), and
wait for a response containing the SI bits from the target cell.
After the SI are received, the scheduler is instructed to eventually
poll a TBF for the MS originating the CCN, so that we can send the SI
encapsulated into multiple Packet Neighbor Cell Data messages on the
downlink.
One all the SI bits are sent, the scheduler is instructed to send a
Packet Cell Change Continue message.
Once the message above has been sent, the FSM autodestroys itself.
Caches are also introduced in this patch which allows for re-using
recently known translations ARFCN+BSIC -> CGI-PS and CGI-PS -> SI_INFO
respectively.
Change-Id: Id35f40d05f3e081f32fddbf1fa34cb338db452ca
All gprs_ns2 enums have now GPRS_NS2 as prefix.
Depends-on: I548ff12f7277cbb7e1a630a3dc02b738ce89be72 (libosmocore)
Change-Id: Ifdc7956318c07d680feab33c22bc2c6f20927bf9
it was noticed that gprs_pcu_get_bts_by_cgi_ps() sometimes failed to
return the BTS even if the CGI-PS fields matched, probably due to memcmp
checking too padding bytes which may not be zero-initialized in one of
the two memory regions being checked. Let's be on the safe side and use
libosmocore APIs to check them.
Depends: libosmocore.git Change-Id I00e329bc5be8674b30267dec238e7656ddfc21db
Change-Id: I7c8ee2c447634e45b367bb8f84adf0140ae48591
This code doesn't do anything yet app-related with the received RIM
messages, but already provides the initial infrastructure to handle them
in the future, and does first checkings.
Related: SYS#5103
Change-Id: Ia0ade0e97ea781ec655439c008b6cefaf3e90dec
This patch doesn't really tests whether osmo-pcu can work on a multi-bts
environment, but it prepares the data structures to be able to do so at
any later point in time.
Change-Id: I6b10913f46c19d438c4e250a436a7446694b725a
Previous work on BTS class started to get stuff out of the C++ struct
into a C struct (BTS -> struct gprs_glcmac_bts) so that some parts of
it were accessible from C code. Doing so, however, ended up being messy
too, since all code needs to be switching from one object to another,
which actually refer to the same logical component.
Let's instead rejoin the structures and make sure the struct is
accessible and usable from both C and C++ code by rewriting all methods
to be C compatible and converting 3 allocated suboject as pointers.
This way BTS can internally still use those C++ objects while providing
a clean APi to both C and C++ code.
Change-Id: I7d12c896c5ded659ca9d3bff4cf3a3fc857db9dd
Both values (optionally) set (forced) by VTY and the values received
from PCUIF were stored in the same variable, meaning that for instance
the PCUIF values wouldn't really be used if someone applied eg "no cs"
during runtime.
This commit does something similar to what was already done for the
max_(m)cs fields. We store PCUIF values in one place and VTY ones in
another place, and then trigger a bts object internal process to find
out exactly which initial CS should it be using.
Change-Id: I80a6ba401f9c0c85bdf6e0cc99a9d2008d31e1b0
Currently the BTS object (and gprs_rlcmac_bts struct) are used to hold
both PCU global fields and BTS specific fields, all mangled together.
The BTS is even accessed in lots of places by means of a singleton.
This patch introduces a new struct gprs_pcu object aimed at holding all
global state, and several fields are already moved from BTS to it. The
new object can be accessed as global variable "the_pcu", reusing and
including an already exisitng "the_pcu" global variable only used for
bssgp related purposes so far.
This is only a first step towards having a complete split global pcu and
BTS, some fields are still kept in BTS and will be moved over follow-up
smaller patches in the future (since this patch is already quite big).
So far, the code still only supports one BTS, which can be accessed
using the_pcu->bts. In the future that field will be replaced with a
list, and the BTS singletons will be removed.
The cur_fn output changes in TbfTest are actually a side effect fix,
since the singleton main_bts() now points internally to the_pcu->bts,
hence the same we allocate and assign in the test. Beforehand, "the_bts"
was allocated in the stack while main_bts() still returned an unrelated
singleton BTS object instance.
Related: OS#4935
Change-Id: I88e3c6471b80245ce3798223f1a61190f14aa840