RF power problems with current master of osmo-trx

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Tom Tsou tom at tsou.cc
Thu Jan 30 07:35:40 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Andreas Eversberg <andreas at eversberg.eu> wrote:
> in case of TRX 0, osmo-bts always sends bursts, even on idle bursts. it
> sends dummy bursts in this case. i suggest that there is no RF power in case
> of TRX>0 for each single burst, that is not sent from osmo-bts. the reasons
> are:
>
> - one TCH/H channel of one TS may be in use, so the other channel should be
> disabled, to reduce noise on the spectrum.
> - DRX (in the future) might be used to reduce noise on the spectrum.
> - SACCH is disabled when leaving dedicated mode, so the MS runs into radio
> link timeout, if the release message does not go through or some error
> occurs.
>
> i think about three solutions to make make osmo-trx send no RF power per
> burst:
>
> 1. omso-bts does not send any burst to osmo-trx

Please try out the filler branch I posted earlier. It does exactly that.

  -TT




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