We have a good socket API in libosmocore, let's drop osmo-trx socket API
and use libosmocore's one instead of maintaining the two of them.
Change-Id: Ib19856a3e0a7607f63436c4a80b1381a3f318764
Make the interface using trx_ul_burst_ind more implementation agnostic
as well as easier to use. For instance, we don't care about SoftVector
size one returned from pullRadioVector(); we want to use nbits instead.
As a result, we no longer spend time normalizing guard periods. While at
it, change vectorSLicer to return void since it always returns true.
Change-Id: I726e5a98a43367a22c9a4ca5cbd9eb87e6765c7a
Use of that class is really not needed since we don't need to do any
calculation with those values, so we can simply store the final values
in the struct.
Related: OS#4006
Change-Id: Iadf2683d7f52138a2248598641f3b702252f325d
That's where all the filling logic happens, while in driveReceiveFIFO we
mostly want to take the burst, generate a message and sent it over the
socket.
In pullRadioVector this way we always provide normalized values based on
user configuration (VTY rssi-offset).
Related: OS#4006
Change-Id: I1ee28daf21dc287bec564d45d58086d63655c0f6
That's where all the filling logic happens, while in driveReceiveFIFO we
mostly want to take the burst, generate a message and sent it over the
socket.
Related: OS#4006
Change-Id: Ib1df10c40d737954904290f57d58b1c77d65f82e
That field is actually never used. Furthermore, if pullRadioVector()
returns false, then the caller should consider the 'trx_ul_burst_ind'
structure as uninitialized. Moreover, RSSI is mandatory - we cannot send
burst indications without it.
Related: OS#4006
Change-Id: Ia109298aebe8ba4750a39338ba7962555903cd82
A new struct trx_ul_burst_ind is introduced, which will handle
information filled by lower layers upon decoding of uplink bursts.
Methods pullRadioVector() and logRxBurst() are adapted to use that
struct. This way it's easier to understand in/out parameters and it's
also easier to add further parameters to be filled in in the future.
Related: OS#4006
Change-Id: I7e590fb1c0901de627e782f183251c20f4f68d48
The callback actually belongs there, since it's the code/thread in main the one
actually in charge of stopping everything. It simplifies current code,
and more important, allows for new clients of this signal to use it.
This callback will also be used in forthcoming commits by code
controlling rate_ctr thresholds to stop the process if the VTY
configured threshold is used.
Change-Id: Id4159e64225c6606fef34a74b24f37c3a071aceb
Since I838c21db29c54f1924dd478c2b34b46b70aab2cd we have both TS1
and TS2 synch. sequences, in addition to "default" TS0. Let's
finally introduce the VTY configuration parameter, that can
be used to toggle optional detection of both TS1 and TS2.
Note: we keep this optional because of potentially bad impact on
performance. There's no point in paying the performance penalty
unless upper levels (BTS, PCU) actually make use of it.
Change-Id: I1aee998d83b06692d76a83f79748f9129a2547e8
Related: OS#3054
Transceiver::stop() can only be called from either CTRL iface thread or
from main thread (running osmocom loop). That's because stop attempts to
cancel and then join all the other threads, which would then lock if
attempting to stop from some of them.
As a result, the best option is to indicate to the user of the
transceiver option (osmo-trx.cpp) to stop it in a correct fashion by
destroying the object from the main thread.
Change-Id: Iac1d2dbe2328e735db2d4b933cb67b1af1babca1
Stop calling writeClockInterface() when receiving commands in Transceiver::driveControl,
otherwise it fools osmo-bts-trx clock skew check because it is always sending a clock
indication with the same fn when it issues any commands during the time in between
CMD POWEROFF and RSP POWERON, because fn is not increased during that period.
Also use mForceClockInterface flag to delay delivery of first IND CLOCK until we start
serving frames, otherwise the first one is sent and only after a long period of time
the next clock indications are sent, when the radio starts to process bursts. That makes
osmo-bts-trx unhappy because it expects to receive an IND CLOCK aprox at least every
400 frames. This way also we send the first IND CLOCK after the RSP POWERON 0 response.
Change-Id: I91b81a4d7627cec39c1814a39ed4be306681b874
The command line EDGE option will enable 8-PSK burst
detection on any slot where a normal burst is expected.
The burst search order is 8-PSK first followed by GMSK.
EDGE will force 4 SPS sampling on Tx and Rx. Along with
twice the search correlation from 8-PSK and GMSK, EDGE
will increase CPU utilization. Whether the increase is
notable or not is dependent on the particular machine.
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom.tsou@ettus.com>
Previously MAXDLY value was applied to Normal Bursts, which was nice
when working with sloppy test equipment like CMD57, but useless for
real world usage. At the same time documentation and de facto usage
of MAXDLY in OsmoBTS and OpenBTS assumed that it actually applies to
Access Bursts (RACH). So this patch changes osmo-rx behavior to apply
MAXDLY to RACH bursts and introduces a new command MAXDLYNB for the
old behavior.
When EDGE is enabled with the '-e' option, the random burst generator
switches from GMSK normal bursts to 8-PSK EDGE bursts.
$ ./osmo-trx -e -r 7
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom.tsou@ettus.com>
Create EDGE slot type in the Transceiver. When EDGE mode is enabled
for a particular slot, blind detection will be performed by
correlating against EDGE followed by normal bursts if no EDGE burst
is found.
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom.tsou@ettus.com>
Allow setting the device to non single SPS sample rates - mainly
running at 4 SPS as the signal processing library does not support
other rates. Wider bandwith support is required on the receive path
to avoid 8-PSK bandlimiting distortion for EDGE.
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom.tsou@ettus.com>
DFE equalizer is unused and has been experiencing code rot for
multiple years. The effect is a significant amount of baggage being
carried in the Transceiver and interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom.tsou@ettus.com>
We can't rely on an assumption that if we can't decode a burst - it's noise.
There are many rasons why we can't decode a burst even if it's well above the
noise level. Just one example is a RACH burst which can be overlapped with
another RACH burst up to a level both are completely unrecognizable. Another
example is when a burst is destroyed by bad multi-path.
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom.tsou@ettus.com>
There are two primary changes in this commit:
1) Return values of detect functions changed form bool to int to actually pass
the return value from the inner function and notify higher levels about clipping.
Previously the information was lost due to conversion to bool.
2) Clipping level is not the final verdict now. We still try to demod a burst
and mark it as clipped only if the level is above the clipping level AND we can't
demod it. The reasoning for this is that in real life we want to do as much as
possible to demod the burst, because we want to get as much from our dynamic
range as possible. So a little bit of clipping is fine and is expected. We just
don't want too much of it to break our demod.
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom.tsou@ettus.com>
Filler types was of "bool" type, which prevented it from taking values greter
than 1. And RAND filler type has integer value of 2, which was casted to 1 on
assigning, which led to a normal filler table being used instead of the RAND
one.
Add stop and restart capability through the POWEROFF and POWERON
commands. Calling stop causes receive streaming to cease, and I/O
threads to shutdown leaving only the control handling thread running.
Upon receiving a POWERON command, I/O threads and device streaming are
restarted.
Proper shutdown of the transceiver is now initiated by the destructor,
which calls the stop command internally to wind down and deallocate
threads.
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Burst selection at a particular time works in the following order
of priority.
1. Slot is disabled with channel combination set to NONE (default)
1. Burst exists in priority queue for the current time.
2. Filler table entry is used
This patch sets default behaviour to force all filler table entries
to zero and disallows filler table changes. This effectively means
that only bursts received from upper layers will be transmitted and
nothing will be automatically transmitted in the absence or delay
of incoming burts at a particular time.
New Command line option "Enable C0 filler table" allows reverting
to previous idle burst generation and retransmission behaviour on
TRX0. Retransmission cannot be enabled on non-C0 channels.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Create new main executable with full command line option parsing
of relevant parameters. Database configuration table still exists
(and must exist because of the global gConfig object), but can
be bypassed with command line options.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Each ARFCN channel may be independently configureted and possibly on
separate hardware, so don't share a single vector for noise estimate
calculations. Allow a non-pointer based iterator so we can get away
with using the default copy constructor.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Separate the large pullRadioVector() call, which forms the central
portion of the receive path burst processing. Break out RACH, normal
burst, and demodulation into separate methods. This makes the burst
handling from the FIFO read to soft bit output somewhat more
manageable.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
This patch allows multiple signalVectors to be stored within
a single radioVector object. The motivation is to provide
a facility for diversity and/or MIMO burst handling. When
no channel value is specified, single channel bevhaviour
is maintained.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
This patch primarily addresses devices with multiple RF front end
support. Currently device support is limited to UmTRX.
Vectorize transceiver variables to allow multiple asynchronous
threads on the upper layer with single downlink and uplink threads
driving the UHD I/O interface synchronously.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Collect the slot information into an indpendent state object. This
will allow us to easily create multiple instances of internal state
variables without having to replicate the transceiver object itself.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
For multiple transceiver connections, it is inappropriate to
allocate all sockets in the transceiver constructor due to not
knowing how many connections are avaialble in advance and for
error checking purposes. Instead, store the base socket address
port combination and setup the sockets in the initialization
call.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
The current status and operability of this compile option is
unknown. Remove due to lack of use, demand, and maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Previous removal of the energy detector requirement broke
the noise level calculation loop. The previous adaptive
approach was finicky - noticably at high gain levels. Since
we no longer use the energy threshold for primary burst gating,
we can return to a simpler world.
In the new approach, we compute a running average of energy
levels and track them with a noise vector. A timeslot that
passes the correlator threshold is a valid burst. These are
not used in the noise calculation. Everything else is
considered noise and used to compute the noise level with
respect to full scale input level, which for almost all
supported devices is 2^15.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Pau Espin
Eric Wild
Vadim Yanitskiy