ABIS over IuB SCTP

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Borjan Jovanovski jovanovskiborjan at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 12:57:30 UTC 2018


Hi Harald,

We are talking about a ZTE MacroBTS ZXSDR BS8900A.

And about your further questions, your final statement is correct it is
standard abis dialect encapsulated in SCTP, i can provide documentation at
a later time as i am not home at the moment, but i can tell you now that,
the SCTP protocol is terminated in a switch type device before the bsc
hardware, and then further communication continues over tcp to the bsc.
Regards,
Borjan

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018, 14:50 Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> wrote:

> Hi Borjan,
>
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 02:15:38PM +0200, Borjan Jovanovski wrote:
>
> > my device is a multimode device BTS NodeB and eNodeB 2G + 3G + 4G and
> > uses SCTP protocol for BSC RNC and MME connection
>
> Can you tell us more about that device?
>
> > ... but i couldn't get OpenBSC to work with abis over sctp. So my final
> question is:
> > How to handle Abis over SCTP with OpenBSC.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, there is no 3GPP specification for Abis over
> SCTP.
>
> As such, it's not a surprise that we're not implementing it in OsmoBSC :)
> Maybe I missed something.  Can you please point me to relevant
> specification for this Abis dialect?
>
> I would assume it's some vendor-specific dialect.  Do you have
> protocol-level
> documentation for that available?  Do you have protocol traces of this
> dialect?
>
> In any case, even with documentation and/or traces, you would need to
> develop the respective code to interface this new Abis
> dialect/encapsulation.  The required effort depends on how far that
> dialect diverges from the existing "known" dialects/formats.  If it's
> just 08.58 RSL and 12.21 OML inside SCTP, then it should be rather
> little effort.  But that's a big "if" :)
>
> Regards,
>         Harald
> --
> - Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>
> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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