Osmocom GSM

Notes on running the Osmocom GSM stack with LimeSDR hardware.

Hardware support

For details of Osmocom support for LimeSDR and dependencies such as Lime Suite and SoapyUHD that must be installed, see:

• http://osmocom.org/projects/osmotrx/wiki/LimeSDR

For information on the OsmoTRX GSM transceiver:

• http://osmocom.org/projects/osmotrx/wiki/OsmoTRX

Network-on-the-box (NITB)

For details of how to configure the OpenBSC software to run in network-in-the-box mode, see:

• https://osmocom.org/projects/osmonitb/wiki/OsmoNITB OsmoNITB

Running the transceiver

Update 2/21/2018 The osmo-trx project page for LimeSDR [1] now recommends :

# osmo-trx -s 4 -b 4

Although the -e (edge) option for LimeSDR still appears to work:

# osmo-trx -e -a 'driver=lime,device=0'