Hi Matthew,
I'm sorry for late reply.
I have also tested the latest split components running on a xubuntu 14.04 machine, but the
throughput is very limited. I buy a test phone, and find that the dl bler is so high. In
my opinion, the high dl bler causes the low throughput. Nowadays, I'm trying to locate
issues, but there is no progress.
Best Regards,
Xinke
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From: Matthew Johnson <matt9j(a)cs.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 16:54
To: Neels Hofmeyr
Cc: XINKE ZHANG; osmocom-net-gprs(a)lists.osmocom.org
Subject: Re: Data Rate of EGPRS is Too Low
Hello Xinke,
I'm a graduate student at the University of Washington, and just brought up an
EGPRS/GPRS network with an Ettus B210/osmo-trx. My B210 has a GPSDO as well. I'm just
getting started on this project (so I'm unfortunately not the expert you are looking
for), but I can corroborate that I am also seeing very limited single user throughput in
EGRPS and vanilla GRPS (6-8kbps maximum measured via iperf). My network is built with the
latest split components running on a debian9 virtual machine via virtualbox. I'll
attach my configs here if they're helpful. I also have access to a litecell1.5 and
will be bringing up the network on it in the next few weeks, so I'll be able to report
if it behaves any better. The litecell setup will also be running on dedicated hardware to
rule out any strangeness from virtualbox. Sorry I don't have any other clues at this
time, but I can at least confirm Neels's analysis above and rule out the impact of
running the old nitb and ggsn.
Cheers,
-Matt Johnson
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Neels Hofmeyr
<nhofmeyr@sysmocom.de<mailto:nhofmeyr@sysmocom.de>> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 12:18:52PM +0000, XINKE ZHANG wrote:
I'm sure that B210 has a GPSDO. I execute
'uhd_usrp_probe' to prove it.
I'm not familiar with it, but if you say so.
My entire config files are attached here. Pls help
check it. Thanks.
It all looks good to me. Two minor notes:
- the pcu config once needed 'two-phase-access' to function reliably, but this
is no longer needed.
- you seem to be running an old version of the ggsn. The new one is called
osmo-ggsn with a config file style and vty interface like the other osmo
programs. However, this should not affect your downlink throughput.
- you also seem to run osmo-nitb, we have moved to separate programs, being
osmo-hlr, osmo-msc and osmo-bsc. Refer to
http://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Osmocom_Network_In…
This should, however, not affect your downlink throughput, either.
So yeah, sorry, but I have nothing of weight to add. Maybe someone else here
has deeper knowledge of EGPRS and SDR based BTS?
~N