Summary of osmo-pcu failures/defects

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Holger Hans Peter Freyther hfreyther at sysmocom.de
Tue Nov 26 08:22:56 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 08:24:27AM +0100, Andreas Eversberg wrote:

> generally there is always a re-send due to delay between pcu and the
> radio interface. if all rlc/mac data blocks of an llc frame have been
> sent to the phone, a packet downlink ack control block is requested and
> scheduled. the pcu repeats all unacknowledged data blocks in a loop
> until it receives that requested control block. this way the pcu starts
> re-sending data blocks that might got lost, before it actually knows if
> and which blocks still need to be resend. (this procedure is described
> in TS 04.60.)


Are you referring to 9.1.3.1 "Acknowledge state array V(B) for GPRS
TBF Mode"?

"
 If there are no further RLC data blocks available for transmission
 (i.e. the RLC data block with BSN= V(S) does not exist), the sending
 side shall transmit the oldest RLC data block whose corresponding
 element in V(B) has the value PENDING_ACK, then the next oldest block
 whose corresponding element in V(B) has the value PENDING_ACK, etc. 
"


With statistics in place it appears that for CS4 close to 50% of the
sent RLC blocks are re-sends. Is that what you expected when implementing
it?

holger

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