As a side change - get rid of passing toa and amp arguments as pointers and use
references instead.
The commit doesn't change behaviour, but makes the code cleaner.
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.
It does more harm than good. the current noise calculation is too error
prone, so we can't trust it. And we end up loosing perfectly good bursts
because of that.
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.
Receive thread receives data from the device, which is a more stable source of
clocking than the transmit side. If transmit side has a hiccup, osmo-trx doesn't
send the clock indication, and transmit side is getting completely lost in time.
With this patch we ensure that clock indication keeps coming.
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom.tsou@ettus.com>
Alert user of overdriven burst input indicated by a positive
threshold detector result. This indication serves as notification
that the receive RF gain level is too high for the configured
transceiver setup.
Signed-off-by: Tom Tsou <tom.tsou@ettus.com>
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>
Commit 15d743efaf "Disable filler table
retransmissions by default" made OpenBTS style filler table behavior
optional. When enabled, dummy bursts were automatically loaded into the
filler table, but the table was not updated and only filler busts were
retransmitted.
Enable the restransmit state flag when the filler table option is
specified. Only preload filler table and enable retransmissions on
channel zero.
Signed-off-by: Thomas 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>
Equalization is currently disabled by default. As such, we don't need to
run channel estimates or even track the update state, which would
otherwise be allocating/decallocating the channel state vector at
regular intervals.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
We support one TSC value per each transceiver object. Only channel
zero can set this value. Other channels can attempt to set the TSC
value, but will error if the TSC does not match the existing value.
In either case, non-zero channels do not manipulate the gloabl TSC
setting.
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>
The transceiver has the ability to detect bursts below the noise floor,
but little hope in successful decoding, so don't even try. We still use
the detected burst to differentiate against noise vs actual data.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
In errant cases, GSM core may send bursts with invalid slot values,
which is allowed by the GSM::Time object. If we find a burst like this
coming into the transceiver, then drop it immediately.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
This patch add support for dual channel diversity on the receive
path. This allows two antennas two shared antennas to be used for
each ARFCN handling channel in the receiver. This configuration
may improvde performance in multi-path fading environments,
however, noise andpotential interference levels are increased due
to the higher bandwidth used.
The receive path is oversampled by a factor of four for a rate
of 1.083333 Msps. If the receive paths are tuned within a
maximum channel spacing (currently set at 600 kHz), then both
ARFCN frequencies are processed by each channel of the receiver.
Otherwise, the frequency shifted diversity path is disabled and
standard non-diversity operation takes place.
Diversity processing is handled by selecting the path with the
higheset energy level and discarding the burst on the second
path. Selection occurs on a burst-by-burst basis.
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>
Clock indications passed up to GSM core originate on the transciever
downlink side. Set priority to keep the flow of clock updates
consistent.
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>
Use the same measurement method for RSSI as the noise level. Previous
method was to use the peak correlation amplitude relative to the
expected value. This created two very different amplitude approaches
between the noise measurement and RSSI measurement, which would
throw off the upper layer MS power control loop.
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>
This patch applies oversampling, when selected with 4 sps,
to the downlink only, while running the receiver with
minimal sampling at 1 sps. These split sample rates allow
us to run a highly accurate downlink signal with minimal
distortion, while keeping receive path channel filtering
on the FPGA.
Without this patch, we oversample the receive path and
require a steep receive filter to get similar adjacent
channel suppression as the FPGA halfband / CIC filter
combination, which comes with a high computational cost.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
This patch primarily addresses observed repeated overrun
conditions in embedded environments - namely ARM.
The heartbeat of the transceiver is derived from the receive
sample stream, which drives the main GSM clock. Detach the
transmit thread from the receive loop to avoid interfering with
the receive I/O, which is sensitive to overrun conditions if
pull process is interrupted.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Both RACH and normal bursts are detected with the same approach of
midamble correlation combined with peak-to-average ratio. The
difference is the midamble placements and lengths. Thus, there is
no reason to have independent implementations.
This patch creates a common call burstDetect(), while leaving the
correlation window indexing in the original calls.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
The adaptive energy threshold gating suffers a near-far problem
at certain gain levels. This is due to exponential threshold
raising, but linear decreases. A large signal level followed by
a period low signal level causes (comparatively) weak signals to
go undetected. Additionally, the algorithm performs differently
at multiple RF gain levels.
This patch switches solely to correlation based gating for burst
detection. The main computational load with this approach is
sub-sample width peak interpolation, which we disable for intial
detection and run after threshold passing.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
There is no temporal dependency on when the RACH sequence is generated,
so there is no need for transceiver to create it in response to a
command from GSM core. If we power on the transceiver, we will need
the RACH sequence, so just allocate it during initialization.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
There is no reason expose the pulse shaping filter outside of the
signal processing calls. The main transceiver object makes no use
of the filter and there's no reason to pass it around.
Initialize the pulse shape with the signal processing library, and
maintain an internal static member like many of the other library
variables. Similarly destroy the object when the library is closed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Because repeatedly typing mSamplesPerSymbol is giving me
carpal tunnel syndrome. Replace with the much shorter,
easier to type, and just as clear name of 'sps'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
UHD device type was previously detected, but only categorized in
terms of bus type, USB or Ethernet, and sample rate capability.
With the number of supported device increasing, we can no longer
easily group devices since we need to handle more and more
device-specific peculiarities. Some of these factors are managed
internally by the UHD driver, but other factors (e.g. timing
offsets) are specific to a single device.
Start by maintaining an enumerated list of relevant device types
that we can use for applying device specific operations. Also
rename the USB/Ethernet grouping to transmit window type because
that's what it is.
enum uhd_dev_type {
USRP1,
USRP2,
B100,
NUM_USRP_TYPES,
};
Signed-off-by: Thomas Tsou <tom@tsou.cc>
Alexander Chemeris