January 2015
Intermediate to advanced
126 pages
2h 32m
English
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Chapter 1. Getting Set Up
In this chapter, we will guide you through the selection of hardware, installation of a base operating system, and development environment setup, as well as actually compiling and installing the components that compose the OpenBTS software suite. Several shortcuts can be taken along the way—for example, if you would prefer to use the official binary packages instead of compiling your own—but the entire process is detailed for those wishing to build from scratch.
Hardware Components
Although OpenBTS implements most of the complexity involved in building a mobile network in software, radio waves must still be transmitted and received somehow. This section details which hardware components you should procure to implement this capability in a development setting. The configuration of these components is covered in Chapter 2.
Linux Server
The first requirement is a standard commodity Linux server. Other architectures are beginning to be supported, but stick to an x86 processor running a 32-bit operating system for the best results for now. This computer can be a separate machine in your test environment or it can actually be a virtual machine on the laptop or desktop you use daily.
Minimum requirements for processing power and RAM are not clearly defined due to the many variables involved, such as the number of concurrent carrier signals, network load, network usage type, radio environment, etc. Each will affect the required resources.
A single carrier signal requires ...
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