The use of the Gy interface (SMF acting as CTF towards an OCS node) is
mandated through configuration file. Default value "enable: auto" will
only make use of it in case a Diameter peer announcing support for the
Credit-Control Application is found.
Upon subscriber session creation, and after auth check over Gx, the SMF
will create a Gy session with the OCS and only after that step the SMF
will accept the session back to the subscriber.
The OCS may then grant some traffic volumes/time and ask to be notified
back with updated measurements.
In order to get the measurements, the SMF relies on PFCP URR configured
to the UPF through Session Repoort Request messages.
When closing the subscriber session, the SMF will also terminate the Gy
session at the OCS.
So far only some specifics parts of the Gy interface as well as the PFCP
side are implemented. Those should be enough to at least have
volume/time thresholds granted by the OCS, which then will be able to
track subsriber resource use.
This patch doesn't implement the OCS side of the Gy interface, that's
left as a future exercise. The interface was tested using an OCS
emulator implemented in TTCN-3 [1]
[1] https://cgit.osmocom.org/osmo-ttcn3-hacks/
TODO:
* Use an event for the report, like SMF_EVT_N4_TIMER?
* Properly set Service identifier in Gy CCR
* SMF: Properly set pkt/octet volumes in Gy CCR
** Update when receiving PFCP Modify Response.
* Figure out best way to require Gy through config file in open5gs-smfd.
* Create a new sess-sm.c which handles smf_sess_t state through
Gx+Gy+PFCP creation, modification and tear down. This way we can do
stuff in parallel, for instance Gx+Gy. It will alsoavoid duplicating
some code paths due to Gy being optional.
* [CORE] tlv: Store mode in ogs_tlv_t
This allows specifying the format of the IE for each individual IE,
hence allowing messages containing IEs formatted in different ways.
This is needed in order to support parsing GTPv1-C, since messages
contain IEs with different structure (TLV vs TV). Hence, this is a
preparation patch to add support for parsing TVs in ogs-tlv.c/.h.
* [CORE] tlv: Support parsing msg with both TLV and TV in it
IEs of type TV are sometimes used in GTPv1-C. Current tlv parser/builder
doesn't provide with ways to parse messages which contain TV formatted
IEs. This patch adds the relevant types and ways to encode/decode them.
Furthermore, the current parser/builder allows parsing/building messages
containing the exact same format in all its IEs. A new parser function
is added which allows parsing messages of different types (TV, TLV)
mixed in the same message. In order to be able to do so, it uses the
general msg_mode passed to it in order to know the general TLV format
(in essence, the length of the Tag field, and also the length of the
Length field if applicable each IE).
Looking up the instance in the TLV description is left undone and
hadcoded to 0, since the only user so far requiring this API is GTPv1-C,
which has no instances.
* [CORE] tlv: Support repeated tag+instance parsing TLV message
In GTPv2C, repeated IEs (same tag) are easily differentiated by the
Instance byte, which provides info to match different decoded
structures. In GTPv1C though, there's no Instance byte, and we still
encounter repeated IEs (like GSN Address in Create PDP Context Request).
Hence, the TLV decoder needs to be updated to track count of IEs found
(identified by tag+instance, where instance is always 0 in GTPv1C) and
get the proper description index + offset into the decoded structure.
* [GTP]: Move GTPv2-C specifics to its own libgtp subdir
This will allow adding GTPv1-C code by the side. Most GTPv2 code is left
in this patch as "gtp" instead of renaming it to "gtp2" in order to
avoid massive changes. It can be done at a later stage if wanted.
* [GTP] Support generating GTPv1-C messages
* [SMF] Add Gn interface support
This patch introduces GTPv1C support to open5gs-smfd. With it,
open5gs-becomes a GGSN too, where SGSN can connect to, hence supporting
GERAN and UTRAN networks.
- Set the number of UEs in units of AMF/MME instead of gNB/eNB.
- See default value as shown below
Number of UEs per AMF/MME : 4,096
Number of gNB/eNB per AMF/MME : 32
Sukchan Lee
Pau Espin