[HN Gopher] Osmocom Cellular Network Infrastructure ___________________________________________________________________ Osmocom Cellular Network Infrastructure Author : gjvc Score : 22 points Date : 2020-09-10 06:41 UTC (16 hours ago) (HTM) web link (osmocom.org) (TXT) w3m dump (osmocom.org) | ronsor wrote: | I used this once to configure a small GSM network using a | LimeSDR. | zaptrem wrote: | Has anyone started a project like this for LTE or 5G? | newhouseb wrote: | There are a couple projects of differing scope: | | - srsLTE (https://www.srslte.com/) | | - OpenAirInterface (https://www.openairinterface.org/) | | I've successfully used srsENB as a base station, largely to | generate "model" LTE waveforms so that I could then decode them | and verify my understanding. srsLTE is quite well written code- | wise and is actively improving/growing. Seems to have a | supportive single company and community behind it. | | OpenAirInterface is more geared towards 5G research and is a | lot more ad-hoc in terms of documentation and capabilities. | laksdjfkasljdf wrote: | it's funny how we have two hundred dozen squared projects | claiming their goal is mesh networking to fight the police state | du jour, while on the other hand we have a bunch of badly known | full scale GSM AGPL platforms. :/ | ColanR wrote: | So, if we ever manage to get proper open-source control of the | cellular radios of random smartphones, would it be possible to | use those cheap devices to create a GSM mesh network? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-09-10 23:00 UTC)