This happens for instance when the session is terminated due to a
rejection coming from the OCS, hence no originating GTP xact producing
the tear down.
A problem occurred when there was one SGWU/UPF and multiple SGWC/SMF.
When SGWU and UPF create a session, if the SEID is the same,
the existing session information is used without creating an additional session.
These problems were solved by using the F-SEID including IP information
in the process of checking the existing session.
For video in VoNR, multiple QosFlow is required in one session.
In the past, since only one Session Modification Message was supported,
QoS-Flow was put into several Session Messages one by one and processed.
Now that multiple QoS-Flows can be supported,
it is optimized to process one session modification message.
It allows for much better control on the lifecycle of the session, and
already shows some missing tear down paths in case of errors.
It also clarifies the existence of "sess" pointer in several paths.
The code also becomes clearer overall, since all the transitions and
logic to send next messages are put together.
Tear down of the session will be integrated into gsm-sm in a follow-up
patch.
The 5gc session setup is only partially moved to gsm-sm, and left as an
exercise for users wishin to improve 5gc support.
In the past only GTPv2C was supported, and had the "gtp" generic prefix.
Later on, GTPv1C support was added, and "gtp1" prefix was used.
Let's move GTPv2C specific bits to have "gtp2" prefix too, and leave
"gtp" prefix for generic stuff among different GTP versions.
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.
Pau Espin
Sukchan Lee
Abdelmuhaimen Seaudi