Wireshark dissector for 3GPP CBSP - traces wanted!
I recently was reading 3GPP TS 48.049, the specification for the CBSP (Cell Broadcast Service Protocol), which is the protocol between the BSC (Base Station Controller) and the CBC (Cell Broadcast Centre). It is how the CBC according to spec is instructing the BSCs to broadcast the various cell broadcast messages to their respective geographic scope.
While OsmoBTS and OsmoBSC do have support for SMSCB on the CBCH, there is no real interface in OsmoBSC yet on how any external application would instruct it tot send cell broadcasts. The only existing interface is a VTY command, which is nice for testing and development, but hardly a scalable solution.
So I was reading up on the specs, discovered CBSP and thought one good way to get familiar with it is to write a wireshark dissector for it. You can find the result at https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/29745/
Now my main problem is that as usual there appear to be no open source implementations of this protocol, so I cannot generate any traces myself. More surprising is that it's not even possible to find any real-world CBSP traces out there. So I'm facing a chicken-and-egg problem. I can only test / verify my wireshark dissector if I find some traces.
So if you happen to have done any work on cell broadcast in 2G network and have a CBSP trace around (or can generate one): Please send it to me, thanks!
Alternatively, you can of course also use the patch linked above, build your own wireshark from scratch, test it and provide feedback. Thanks in either case!