Hybrid

Configure the Hybrid tunnel traffic information between UE and HAAP (Hybrid Access Aggregation Point). The HAAP acts as a service termination and a service creation point and sets up a high speed internet dual stack IP connection on top of both access technologies.

Wifi Offload Gateway Nodal

Client Identification Number

Bypass Traffic Rate (kbps)

IPv6 Prefix Assigned to Terminal Host

IPv6 Prefix Assigned to HAAP

GRE Packet Reordering

Wifi Offload Gateway Node

Starting Session ID

RTT Threshold (ms)

Bypass Bandwidth Check Interval (s)

LTE Packet Distribution

DSL Packet Distribution

Hello Interval (s)

Number of Hello Retries (s)

Idle Timeout Default (s)

Idle Hello Interval (s)

Traffic Monitoring Interval (s)

Delay Difference Threshold Violation

Delay Difference Threshold Compliance

IPv6 Prefix Assigned to Terminal Host

Available DSL Upstream Bandwidth (kbps)

Available DSL Downstream Bandwidth (kbps)

GRE Packet Reordering

GRE Setup Error Code

GRE Setup Error Count

HAAP Tunnel Verification

Configure HAAP Traffic Flow Templates

TFT Settings

Number of LTE Hello Msgs to Handle

Number of DSL Hello Msgs to Handle

LTE

DSL

 

NOTE: GRE encrypted packets can only be decrypted via DT wireshark plugin.

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Client Identification Number

Indicates a unique Client Identification Name (CIN) sent from HAAP during tunnel establishment.  

CIN is unique for Hybrid Access Aggregation Point (HAAP) each HG.

Tcl Parameter: HgClientId

Starting Session ID (WOGW Node TC)

Identify a subscriber and the value is used to bind the DSL tunnel and LTE tunnel together for individual HA user.  

(For LTE recovery from failure with DSL tunnel, the re-establish LTE tunnel request includes the Session ID AVP.)

Tcl Parameter: HgSessionId

RTT Threshold (ms) (WOGW Node TC)

Configure the RTT threshold for changing bonding to DSL GRE tunnel on HG from HAAP.

Indicates the maximum length of time allowed for a signal to be sent plus the length of time it takes for an acknowledgment of that signal to be received.

This time delay therefore consists of the propagation times between the two points of a signal.

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default = 25

Tcl Parameter: HgRttThreshold

Bypass Traffic Rate (kbps)

Used to notify HAAP of the downstream bypass traffic via DSL Notify control message (from UE).  HAAP calculates the available DSL bandwidth for DSL GRE tunnel based on this information.  Enter the traffic amount which should be bypassed from the tunnels.  

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 750

Tcl Parameter: HgBypassTrafRate

Bypass Bandwidth Check Interval (s) (WOGW Node TC)

Configure the bypass bandwidth checking interval on HG from HAAP.

Indicates the interval/the length of time to wait before checking whether the allowed amount of traffic has been bypassed.

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 20

Tcl Parameter: HgBypassBwCheckInterval

LTE Packet Distribution

Indicates the size of LTE Packets allowed for efficiency purposes.

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 1

Tcl Parameter: HgLtePktDist

DSL Packet Distribution

Indicates the size of DSL Packets allowed for efficiency purposes.

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 1

Tcl Parameter: HgDslPktDist

  • LTE Setup Request Timeout (s)

  • Number of LTE Retries for No Answer

  • Number of LTE Retries for Setup Deny

  • LTE Setup Retry Interval (s)

  • DSL Setup Request Timeout (s)

  • Number of DSL Retries for No Answer

  • Number of DSL Retries for Setup Deny

  • DSL Setup Retry Interval (s)

 

Both tunnels are established before transmitting the first data packet. If either tunnel fails, the data transmission is attempted for a specified number of times for the specified interval before declaring a failure.

  • LTE/DSL Setup Request Timeout (s): Indicates the length of time to wait before attempting to retransmit the data packet.
  • LTE/DSL Setup Retry Interval (s) For No Answer/Setup Deny: Time between retries.  
  • Number of LTE/DSL Retries (s): Indicates the number of times the data packet should be retransmitted for Setup Deny and for No Answer. Default =3.

Tcl Parameters:

HgLteSetupReqTimeout

HgLteSetupDenyRetries

HgLteNoAnswerRetries

HgLteSetupRetryInterval

HgDslSetupReqTimeout

HgDslSetupDenyRetries

HgDslNoAnswerRetries

HgDSLSetupRetryInterval

 

Include DSL Sync Rate

Checkbox to enable DSL Sync Rate in AVP,  DSL Synchronization Rate. Used to Inform the HAAP about the actual DSL sync rate at the HG,

Tcl Parameter: HgDslSyncRateEn

DSL Sync Rate (kbps)

Include the actual DSL Sync Rate at the HG. This will be included in the AVP, DSL Synchronization rate in the DSL GRE setup request message.

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 0

Tcl Parameter: HgDslSyncRate

DSL Protocol

Select DSL protocol.

Default = Not Defined

Options = Not Defined, ADSL/ADSL2/ADSL2+Annex B, ADSL2+Annex J, VDSL2

Tcl Parameter: HgDslProtocol

BRAS Name

Enter BRAS Name.

Up to 32 Characters allowed. Default is Blank

Tcl Parameter: HgBrasName

Hello Interval (s)

The number of seconds to wait for an acknowledgement message. If a response is not received by the time the interval expires, another message is sent if Number of Hello Retries is enabled.

Used while tunnel is in Active mode. Idle Hello interval will be used when tunnel is in Idle mode.

This attribute is included in the GRE Setup Accept control message for LTE tunnel.

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 10

Tcl Parameter: HgHelloInterval

Number of Hello Retries (s)

Indicates the number of times the Hello message is sent without receiving an acknowledgement.

Configure the Hello signaling checking retry times on HG from HAAP.

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 3

Tcl Parameter: HgHelloRetries

Idle Timeout Default (s)

Indicates the length of time to wait without sending a Hello message or receiving an acknowledgement.

If tunnel connection is already established via DSL path, idle timeout occurs and all tunnel connections MUST be terminated if LTE tunnel connection is not restored within configured tunnel idle timeout.

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 120

Tcl Parameter: HgIdleTimeoutDefault

Idle Hello Interval (s)

Used when Tunnel is in Idle State. As soon as Tunnel switches to Active state,  Hello messages will be based on Hello Interval.

As soon as HG session is established or when no overflow traffic (in both directions US/DS) for the duration of Traffic Monitoring Interval, HG will switch to Idle hello state, The hello message will be sent based on "Idle Hello Interval".

Options: 0 - 65535

Default: 300

Tcl Parameter: HaapIdleHelloInterval

Traffic Monitoring Interval (s)

Used to monitor traffic in the tunnel. When there is no traffic for the duration of this interval, the state will be detected as "Idle" and switch to "Idle State". During the Idle state, the Hello interval will be switched to Idle Hello Interval.

Options: 0 - 65535

Default: 180

Tcl Parameter: HaapTrafficMonitoringInterval

Delay Difference Threshold Violation (WOGW Node TC)

Indicates the delay deviation threshold violation of both LTE and DSL link.

The HA traffic packets use two paths (DSL and LTE) for transport; the links between HG and HAAP have different characteristic such as rates, RTT/delay that impact the throughput. The rate, RTT/delay of a DSL link is relatively fixed, but these characteristics of an LTE link vary over time. In general, LTE link‟s RTT/delay are larger than DSL‟s.

When the DSL and LTE link are combined in a HA tunnel, the HA tunnel has a large combined bandwidth (DSL_BW + LTE_BW). However, the HA tunnel may also have a larger RTT/delay characteristic of the link. Usually the maximum RTT/delay of HA tunnel is equal to the RTT/delay of LTE link.

A mechanism of packet buffering and reordering is used to achieve an as small as possible packet delay by the HA tunnel. The buffering size is related to the RTT/delay difference between both LTE and DSL link.

The calculation formula of buffering size for HG downstream, for example, if the RTT/delay deviation between DSL and LTE link is 10ms, DSL downstream bandwidth is 50Mps, then the buffering size is: 10ms×50Mbps/8= 62.5KB.

Because the LTE RTT changes over time, in some case the RTT will deteriorate and the RTT/delay deviation of both LTE and DSL link may become so big that the throughput of the HA tunnel drastically decreases.

A switch mechanism is implemented to resolve this problem. A maximum delay threshold MaxThreshold_RTT_Deviation is defined and is configurable from 0 to 1000 milliseconds. If the delay threshold is reached, the traffic must pass the tunnel using only the DSL tunnel.

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 5

Tcl Parameter: HgDelayDiffThresVio

Delay Difference Threshold Compliance (WOGW Node TC)

Indicates the delay deviation threshold compliance of both LTE and DSL link.

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 4

Tcl Parameter: HgDelayDiffThresComp

IPv6 Prefix Assigned to Terminal Host

Enter the appropriate IPv6 prefix assigned to Terminal Host. Included in the GRE setup request (from HG to HAAP; Source Ip = LTE WAN IP and Destination Ip = HAAP T2 SUT).

Tcl Parameter: HgTerminalHostPrefix

IPv6 Prefix Assigned to HAAP

 Indicates the IPv6 prefix assigned to the HAAP. (Included in the GRE Hello message.)

Tcl Parameter: HgHaapPrefix

GRE Packet Reordering

Enter the maximum number of packets allowed to be reordered.

Tcl Parameter: HgMaxPendingDataPackets

Available DSL Upstream Bandwidth (kbps) (WOGW Node TC)

Use to notify HAAP of the upstream bypass traffic on UE via DSL Notify control message from UE.  HAAP calculates the available DSL bandwidth for DSL GRE tunnel based on this information.  The UE and HAAP decides the bypass traffic amount which should be bypassed from the combination tunnels.  

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 1024

Tcl Parameter: HgDslUlBw

Available DSL Downstream Bandwidth (kbps) (WOGW Node TC)

Use to notify HAAP of the downstream bypass traffic on UE via DSL Notify control message from UE.  HAAP calculates the available DSL bandwidth for DSL GRE tunnel based on this information.  The UE and HAAP decides the bypass traffic amount which should be bypassed from the combination tunnels.  

Options: 1 - 4294967295

Default: 15000

Tcl Parameter: HgDslDlBw

GRE Packet Reordering

Enter the maximum number of packets allowed to be reordered.

NOTE: Reordering of out-of sequence packets may be performed for improved performance and tolerance to reordering in the network.

 

Options: 1 - 10

Default: 0

Tcl Parameter: HgMaxPendingDataPackets

GRE Setup Error Code

Select GRE Error code

Options : 0=None, 1 = LTE GRE Setup Ignore, 2 = DSL GRE Setup Ignore, 401 = DSL Tunnel Not Allowed, 402 = LTE Tunnel Not Allowed, 403 = LTE/DSL Mismatch, 405 = CIN Not Allowed.

Tcl Parameter: HaapGreSetupError

GRE Setup Error Count

Enter the maxinum GRE Setup Error Count.

Options: 1 - 42949667295

Default: 0

Tcl Parameter: HaapGreSetupErrorCnt

HAAP Tunnel Verification

Select to enable Tunnel Verification AVP 35. Will answer with an ACK message if Tunnel is still functional and running.

Tcl Parameter: HaapTunnelVerificationEn

Configure HAAP Traffic Flow Templates

Select to configure up to 128 Traffic Flow Templates (TFTs) via the TFT Settings pop-up box.

Tcl Parameter: HaapTftsEn

Enter number of TFTs from 1 up to 128. Select to enter:

Protocol Number, Tunnel Type, Starting Source Port, Ending Source Port, Starting Destination Port, Ending Destination Port.

 

Number of LTE Hello Msgs to Handle

Enter the number of LTE Hello messages responded to by the HAAP SUT before it stops Acknowledging the Hello Requests.

Range: 0 to 65535

Tcl Parameter: HaapNumLteHelloMsgsToHandle

Number of DSL Hello Msgs to Handle

Enter the number of DSL Hello messages responded to by the HAAP SUT before it stops Acknowledging the Hello Requests.

Range: 0 to 65535

Tcl Parameter: HaapNumDslHelloMsgsToHandle

 

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