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Feature #4090

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Document user plane handling with BSC+MSC co-located OsmoMGW, Osmux, and outlook

Added by pespin over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
High
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Target version:
-
Start date:
07/05/2019
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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Description

I erased previous task #2909 by error. Recreating.

We need some kind of documentation on how the new, OsmoMGW-enabled user plane domain looks like.  This includes the BSC-colocated OsmoMGW as well as the MSC-colocated OsmoMGW, as well as details on the use of MGCP between the respective call agents and MGW instances.

Non-exhaustive list of topics to include:
* message sequence charts
* diagrams showing netwokr elemetns and control + user plane relationships
* dynamic endpoint allocation
* outlook on re-integrated support for E1 BTS
* name MGCP/MGW related config parameters in BSC and MSC config
* outlook on Osmux re-integration
* interaction between MNCC signaling and user plane at MSC
* outlook on IuUP

This is not really a user manual of a given single network element, but a document that describes the relation between the respective elements.  Individual sections/chapters could possibly be reused/included into the BSC/MGW/MSC user manuals, but let's have a look at this after having a draft of that document.

Let's also make sure we use any existing bits and pieces from the osmo-mgw manuals (and the ladder diagrams I created there), as well as the wiki and possibly any not-yet-public ladder diagrams dexter might have created in recent months.

Related issues

Related to OsmoMGW - Feature #2551: generalization of OSMUX support in osmo-mgwResolvedpespin10/06/2017

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Related to OsmoBSCNAT - Feature #4124: OsmoBSCNAT : Write user manualNew07/22/2019

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Actions #1

Updated by pespin over 4 years ago

Documented the MGCP/OsmoMGW specific part in here:
https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-mgw/+/14681

TODO:
  • Add some shared section in OsmoBSC, OsmoMSC manuals (and maybe osmux reference manual too) to show with flow diagrams how calls work, with AoIP and with SCCPlite. Can use [1] as a source for the diagrams.
  • Add BSC specific section explaining how to configure it with VTY and adding BSC related considerations
  • Add MSC specific section explaining how to configure it with VTY and adding MSC related considerations

[1] https://jenkins.osmocom.org/jenkins/view/TTCN3/job/ttcn3-bsc-test/655/artifact/logs/bsc-tester/BSC_Tests.TC_assignment_osmux.pcap

Actions #2

Updated by pespin over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
Actions #3

Updated by pespin over 4 years ago

  • Related to Feature #2551: generalization of OSMUX support in osmo-mgw added
Actions #4

Updated by pespin over 4 years ago

  • % Done changed from 0 to 10

I started the Osmux "network-wide" documentation in here:
https://git.osmocom.org/osmo-gsm-manuals/log/?h=pespin/osmux

Actions #5

Updated by pespin over 4 years ago

More work done on osmux documentation in pespin/osmux branch mentioned above. I did some clean up and provided packet flow diagrams on 3 different network setups:
  • AoIP
  • SCCPLite
  • SCCPLite + BSCNAT
Actions #6

Updated by pespin over 4 years ago

  • % Done changed from 10 to 80

I finally moved much of the documentation to a common place, where will then be included by User Manuals of OsmoMGW, OsmoMSC, OsmoBSC and OsmoBSCNAT:
https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-gsm-manuals/+/14839

I also required this commit to be able to include the files from osmo-gsm-manuals in osmo-*.git/doc/manuals/chapters/*.adoc:
https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-gsm-manuals/+/14838

Then, each osmo-* repo includes the bits from osmo-gsm-manuals + some specific documentation from their own repos:
MGW: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-mgw/+/14681 doc: Add Osmux documentation to OsmoMGW User Manual
BSC: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-bsc/+/14840 doc: Add Osmux documentation to User Manual
MSC: https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-msc/+/14841 doc: Add Osmux documentation to User Manual

TODO: BSC-NAT user manual related work.

Actions #7

Updated by pespin over 4 years ago

Actions #8

Updated by pespin over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Feedback

BSCNAT doesn't yet have a user manual, that's being handled in #4124, and Osmux section for it too. So once the above patches are merged, we can close this ticket.

Actions #9

Updated by pespin over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 80 to 100

Merged, closing.

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