We do have TRXC/TRXD documentation in osmo-gsm-manuals repository.
These big comments are out of sync with what we have in the manuals,
so let's better remove them to avoid maintaining docs in several places.
Change-Id: I47786cf3039f712efadc85bc4e1c3ae89e79ff25
Related: OS#4006, SYS#4895
During an internal discussion, it was decided to keep field 'PWR'
as-is and move 'SCPIR' into a separate octet. This is easier to
parse, less confusing, and would save us some CPU cycles.
Change-Id: I482f72fd9305c51f43a0339d03904fb693d90ac9
Related: OS#4006, SYS#4895
Our build system is based on Debian 9 and EOL Python 3.5, so we have
to maintain backwards compatibility (sigh). Some type hints moved
to comments, some had to be commented out completely. Hopefully,
we can 'un-vandalize' the code by reverting this change once there
will be no requirement to support EOL stuff.
Change-Id: I7211cfbb7549b6e700aa3dd44464ff762fd51185
Related: OS#4006, SYS#4895
As it turns out, in Python < 3.9 class Thread defines 'is_alive'
and 'isAlive = is_alive'. In Python 3.9 the later has been
removed, so fake_trx.py crashes on receipt of 'POWEROFF':
File "/home/wmn/wmn/osmocom/bb/src/target/trx_toolkit/clck_gen.py",
line 63, in running
return self._thread.isAlive()
AttributeError: 'Thread' object has no attribute 'isAlive'
See https://bugs.python.org/issue35283 for more details.
Change-Id: Id441d76dddb659958803d507e0fb028fb06422a7
This reverts commit 6e1c82d298.
Unfortunately, solving one problem it introduced even more regressions.
Change-Id: If29b4f6718cbc8af18fe18a5e3eca3912e8af01e
Related: OS#4658
TRX Toolkit is still backwards compatible with Python2, but Python3
does much better in terms of performance. Also, on Debian Stretch
that is used as a base for our Docker images, Python 2.7 is still
the default. Let's require Python3 in shebang.
Change-Id: I8a1d7c59d3b5d49ec2ed94a7c77905e02134f216
In order to reflect the UL/DL delay caused by the premature burst
scheduling (a.k.a. 'fn-advance') in a virtual environment, the
Transceiver implementation now queues all to be transmitted bursts,
so they remain in the queue until the appropriate time of transmission.
The API user is supposed to call recv_data_msg() in order to obtain
a L12TRX message on the TRXD (data) inteface, so it gets queued by
this function. Then, to ensure the timeous transmission, the user
of this implementation needs to call clck_tick() on each TDMA
frame. Both functions are thread-safe (queue mutex).
In a multi-trx configuration, the use of queue additionally ensures
proper burst aggregation on multiple TRXD connections, so all L12TRX
messages are guaranteed to be sent in the right order, i.e. with
monolithically-increasing TDMA frame numbers.
Of course, this change increases the overall CPU usage, given that
each transceiver gets its own queue, and we need to serve them all
on every TDMA frame. According to my measurements, when running
test cases from ttcn3-bts-test, the average load is ~50% higher
than what it used to be. Still not significantly high, though.
Change-Id: Ie66ef9667dc8d156ad578ce324941a816c07c105
Related: OS#4658, OS#4546
Running with cProfile shows that there are quite a lot calls:
469896 0.254 0.000 0.254 0.000 trx_list.py:37(__getitem__)
Let's better avoid using it in performance critical parts.
Change-Id: I2bbc0a2af8218af0b9a02d8e16d4216cf602892a
By default RSSI on the Rx side is computed based on transmitter's
tx power and then substracting the the Rx path loss.
If FAKE_RSSI is used, then the values in there are used instead.
A default hardcoded value of tx nominal power = 50 dBm is set to keep
old behavior of RSSI=-60dB after calculations.
Change-Id: I3ee1a32ca22c3272e66b3ca78e4f67d283844c80
Jenkins build #2516 has uncovered a problem in DATADumpFile.parse_msg():
======================================================================
FAIL: test_parse_empty (test_data_dump.DATADump_Test)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/build/src/target/trx_toolkit/test_data_dump.py",
line 138, in test_parse_empty
self.assertEqual(msg, False)
AssertionError: None != False
I did a quick investigation, and figured out that this failure
happens when trying to call parse_msg() with idx == 0, because
DATADumpFile._seek2msg() basically does nothing in this case
and thus always returns True. The None itself comes from
DATADumpFile._parse_msg().
Let's ensure that DATADumpFile.parse_msg() always returns None,
even if DATADumpFile._seek2msg() fails. Also, update the unit
test, so we always test a wide range of 'idx' values.
Change-Id: Ifcfa9c5208636a0f9309f5ba8e47d282dc6a03f4
There are two ways to implement frequency hopping:
a) The Transceiver is configured with the hopping parameters, in
particular HSN, MAIO, and the list of ARFCNs (channels), so the
actual Rx/Tx frequencies are changed by the Transceiver itself
depending on the current TDMA frame number.
b) The L1 maintains several Transceivers (two or more), so each
instance is assigned one dedicated RF carrier frequency, and
hence the number of available hopping frequencies is equal to
the number of Transceivers. In this case, it's the task of
the L1 to commutate bursts between Transceivers (frequencies).
Variant a) is commonly known as "synthesizer frequency hopping"
whereas b) is known as "baseband frequency hopping".
For the MS side, a) is preferred, because a phone usually has only
one Transceiver (per RAT). On the other hand, b) is more suitable
for the BTS side, because it's relatively easy to implement and
there is no technical limitation on the amount of Transceivers.
FakeTRX obviously does support b) since multi-TRX feature has been
implemented, as well as a) by resolving UL/DL frequencies using a
preconfigured (by the L1) set of the hopping parameters. The later
can be enabled using the SETFH control command:
CMD SETFH <HSN> <MAIO> <RXF1> <TXF1> [... <RXFN> <TXFN>]
where <RXFN> and <TXFN> is a pair of Rx/Tx frequencies (in kHz)
corresponding to one ARFCN the Mobile Allocation. Note that the
channel list is expected to be sorted in ascending order.
NOTE: in the current implementation, mode a) applies to the whole
Transceiver and all its timeslots, so using in for the BTS side
does not make any sense (imagine BCCH hopping together with DCCH).
Change-Id: I587e4f5da67c7b7f28e010ed46b24622c31a3fdd
Vadim Yanitskiy
Pau Espin
Vadim Yanitskiy