ABIS over IuB SCTP

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Borjan Jovanovski jovanovskiborjan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 13:03:34 UTC 2018


Hello,

yes i also have this document, it id the exact device i am talking about,
and it is that exact same protocol and way of function. Now if only someone
could implement this as a feature.

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018, 10:43 Labs <rp.labs at gmx.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I found this document on the net:
>
> https://www.academia.edu/19659583/Documents_mx_zxsdr-bs8900-gu360v40921-outdoor-gsm-umts-dual-mode-macro-node-b-system-description
>
> For Abis when using the ethernet port it is using SCTP for control plane
> messages and after encapsulated in IP and for user plane it is using RTP
> and then encapsulated in UDP.
>
> There is no clear document for Huawei multi-standard boxes but I know that
> for Abis over IP you need to define IPPATH which is probably SCTP to
> provide dual-homing feature.
>
> Regards,
> R.
>
> Sent from my Mobile
>
> On 02.06.2018, at 15:08, Borjan Jovanovski <jovanovskiborjan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Further clarification: Regarding my initial mixup of standard iub / abis,
> it was because of this, when i first met the problem i googled for a
> solution and ran into this:
>
> https://osqa-ask.wireshark.org/questions/23531/abis-over-iua-decoding
>
> it was actually abis over IuA.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2018, 14:57 Borjan Jovanovski <jovanovskiborjan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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