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Feature #4048

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PCU support for sending ETWS primary notifications

Added by laforge almost 5 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Urgent
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Target version:
-
Start date:
06/05/2019
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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Description

ETWS (Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System) doesn't only use SMSCB, but also contains parts that ensure notification of all MS as quickly as possible. Specifically, this means

  • there's a PACKET APPLICATION INFO message sent over PACCH to all MS with TBF established

This ticket is about implementing the required features in the PCU.

We need to
  • receive the ETWS primary notification message from the BTS via the PCU interface
  • construct the PACKET APPLICATION INFO message from it
  • send it via PACCH to all MS in packet dedicated mode

One interesting question is that the specs don't appear to describe how often this is to be re-transmitted (if at all). I suppose as we're not operating RLC/MAC in reliable mode, messages might get lost and they have to be re-transmitted? For how long? Do we also need to send it to MS who are establishing TBF at some later point? For how long?


Related issues

Related to OsmoBTS - Feature #4047: BTS support for generating ETWS primary notificationsResolvedlaforge06/05/2019

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Related to OsmoBSC - Feature #4046: BSC support for generating ETWS primary notificationsResolvedlaforge06/05/2019

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Actions #1

Updated by laforge almost 5 years ago

  • Related to Feature #4047: BTS support for generating ETWS primary notifications added
Actions #2

Updated by laforge almost 5 years ago

  • Related to Feature #4046: BSC support for generating ETWS primary notifications added
Actions #3

Updated by laforge over 4 years ago

lynxis getting back to your question of tuesday: Of course they also specified how the phones in TBF estsablished mode will receive the primary notification. I apparently knew this three months ago when writing this ticket but have meanwhile forgotten about it. As the BTS suport of #4047 is in review now, PCU will be up next.

Actions #4

Updated by laforge over 4 years ago

Relevant sections of 44.060 are 8.1.7.2 (indicating its a PACKET APPLICATION INFORMATION message) and 11.2.47 for the actual structure of PACKET APPLICATION INFORMATION.

The sections about PCCCH / PACKET PAGING are not relevant.

So what we need to do is to
  • transfer the complete (typically 56 bytes) of ETWS primary notification from BTS to PCU over PCUIF
  • generate + send PACKET APPLICATION INFORMATION as per 11.2.47 to every MS that has a TBF established.

The specs are not clear if the message shall be sent once or multiple times. As we use RLC/MAC in confirmed (acknowledged) mode, I expect once is sufficient, as RLC/MAC would take care of retransmissions.

This compares to the situation on the CS side, where the ETWS primary notification is also sent only once over L3 through every dedicated channel (by the BSC), and LAPDm handles any retransmissions as needed.

Actions #5

Updated by laforge over 4 years ago

  • Assignee changed from laforge to osmith
  • Priority changed from Normal to Urgent

as of https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-bts/+/15420, osmo-bts passes the ETWS Primary Notification into the PCU. The task remaining is to actually build the PACKET APP INFO as per TS 11.2.47 and to iterate over all UE with active TBF and send that message to them.

Care should be taken that if possible, this message precedes any other data that we may have queued for the given MS. I'm not familiar with the inner details of how the queues for the MSs work, but I'm confident it must be posible to insert at beginning rather than append at the end somehow.

Actions #6

Updated by osmith over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • % Done changed from 0 to 30
Actions #7

Updated by osmith over 4 years ago

WIP branch: osmith/pcu-etws

Actions #8

Updated by osmith over 4 years ago

  • % Done changed from 30 to 90
Actions #9

Updated by osmith over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 90 to 100
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