[HN Gopher] Osmocom Cellular Network Infrastructure
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       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:
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         | - srsLTE (https://www.srslte.com/)
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         | - 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?
        
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