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Module 1
Introduction
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Company Profile
What is Gladiator
Components of the Gladiator Platform
Main Gladiator View
Gladiator Folder
User Profile
Creating a Project
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Company profile
Company dedicated to cellular system engineering
Established in 2002
Originated from TECC/SAFCO/Agilent
Based in Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Branch in FL USA
Branch in Lyon France
Industry leader in
Network optimization
Benchmarking services
Data processing
Consulting services
What is Gladiator?
A next generation network analysis
and applicationapplication-layer platform
Typical uses:
Evaluation of network performance
(trends, maintaining)
Verifying QoS / SLA / KPI
Optimization
Detection of network problems in depth
troubleshooting
Competitive and benchmark analysis
Producing various reports
UMTS/HSDPA, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, cdma2000 1xEVDO, iDEN, and TDMA
Development platform
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Gladiator components
Six major parts
1. File conversion
2. Project database
3. Utilities
4. Data visualization
5. Toolboxes
6. Data processing
Developed using
Microsoft .NET platform
Runs on Microsoft
Windows
XP/Server/Vista/7
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Main
toolbar
Project and
Workspace
views
View
tabs
Display
area for
Views and
Utilities
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Gladiator Folders
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User profile
Gladiator allows many
configuration options
Options can be
customized for each user
Settings are available for
File locations
Data formats
Views (map, graph
and table)
Console
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Project information
Name
Boundaries
Coordinate system
Northwest
corner
Project area
Southeast
corner
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Overview
File Structure in the Database
Converting Measurement Data
Text File Importing
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Overview
Measured data
(*.aod, *.log, *.txt, ...)
Conversion plan
definition
Conversion plan
File conversion
By defining
conversion plans
users can
automatically reduce
data
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Data Base
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File Converter
There are five ways to access File Converter:
1. Running directly from the
Start menu
2. Running from the Gladiator
Toolbar
3. Running from the Gladiator
File menu
4. Running from the Gladiator
Data node
5. Or, just hit F12
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Accomplished through a
WIZARD
Data from multiple
technologies can be
converted at the same time
Multiple devices and files can
be converted at the same
time
File converter implemented
as a separate program (batch
and background processing)
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Available
measurements
for conversion
(available for
data conversion,
but not used)
Command buttons define which
measurements will be used
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Define File
name
Define Device
index
Import scheme
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Indicate which
columns from the
text file are to be
imported
Specify column names
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Define delimiter
used in text file
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Module 3
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Module 3
Module 3 Agenda
Project view
Workspace view
System view
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Reassign device
index
Assign modem
Assign device
label
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Available workspaces
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Importing a
Gladiator system file
Creating a
new system
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In Step 1:
Select the files to be merged
Type the name for the merged
file
If desired filter merged data
to a polygon area
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In Step 2
Select device(s) for merging
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Created
workspaces
Contents of a
workspace
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Workspace nodes
Available graphs
Available maps
Available tables
Available
processed tables
4 Workspace nodes
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System - Overview
System
view
System tree
Network
parameters
Allows loading,
customizing, and
viewing system
(network data
base) parameters
Loaded
parameters are
utilized in map
views and
analyses
Allows editing,
saving, and
exporting the
System
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Right-click on
Systems, in
Project view and
choose New
system
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System
hierarchy
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Module 4
Table View
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Overview
Filtering
Saving new tables
Display schemes
Histograms
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Pivoted
Table view
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Decoded
message view
Decodes Layer 3
messages
Technologies:
CDMA
cdma2000 1xEVDO
GSM/GPRS/EDGE
UMTS
TDMA
iDEN
WiMAX
LTE
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Display Scheme
Defined Schemes
To create or open an
existing Scheme, select
Edit Display schemes
Configure a new scheme
by clicking on the Add
button
Select an existing scheme
and click on Edit to
reconfigure it
Standard built in schemes
are stored in appropriate
technology folders
User schemes are stored in
User folder
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Display Scheme
Scheme Options
Ability to create discrete values
or dynamic ranges
Discrete values may be
numeric or text
Ability to generate up to 5000
ranges
Dynamic range generator
Dynamic color generator:
gradient or random
Ability to select large variety of
symbols
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Histograms
Histogram tool
To create a Histogram:
Open the source table
Click the New Histogram button
Configure the Histogram parameters
Click the OK button to generate the chart
How to configure the Histogram parameters?
Select the column
Select the histogram Options (Bin based or
Discrete) for drawing the PDF chart
Select Cumulative to draw the CDF curve
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Histograms
The Histogram View
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Replay Tool
To open Replay tool: select a
row in the table view and
click the Replay tool on the
toolbar then click Play
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Replay Tool
Replay Views
The Replay View
Select File
Select Device
Possible to open multiple
views and replay them
simultaneously for
different devices
Possible to create and
design custom Replay
views
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Module 5
Graph View
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Overview
Creating a Graph
Graph Properties
Selections
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To
To
To
To
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Module 6
Map View
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Overview
Parts of the map
Data layers
Vector layers
System layers
Tools
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Map display
Layer control
Legend
Overview map
Map is synchronized to
other views
There can be multiple
maps in a workspace
Gladiator map supports standard
mapping tools: zoom in, zoom out,
pan, distance, annotations,
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Select a column
Drag-n-drop to Layer control
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Point
Rectangle
Polygon
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Zoom Location
Zoom Selection
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1. Select Edit
Star mode
schemes to
create/modify
schemes
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Sample count
and
percentages
displayed
Create a
Histogram
directly from
the Legend
Legend can be
saved to a
table
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Module 7
Gladiator Worksheet
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Overview
Opening and saving the Worksheet
Parts of the Worksheet
Tools and Functions
Sync data by Time
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Worksheet - Overview
Excel like control
Used to assemble and
synchronize tables
Used to generate
reports
Supports over 300
functions
Worksheets can contain
up to 2 billion rows and
columns
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Context
Menu
Toolbar
Sheet
selection
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Worksheet Functions
Worksheet has many built-in functions for performing data analysis
See examples below:
ABS
ACOSH
ATAN
AVERAGE
BESSELY
CEILING
CHITEST
COLUMNS
CORREL
COVAR
DAY
DEGREES
DOLLAR
ERF
EXACT
FACT
FIND
FIXED
FV
GAMMALN
HARMEAN
INDEX
IPMT
ISERROR
ISNONTEXT
ACCRINT
AND
ATAN2
BESSELI
BETADIST
CHAR
CHOOSE
COMBIN
COS
CRITBINOM
DAYS360
DELTA
EDATE
ERFC
EXP
FACTDOUBLE
FINV
FLOOR
FVSCHEDULE
GCD
HOUR
INT
IRR
ISEVEN
ISNUMBER
ACCRINTM
ASIN
ATANH
BESSELJ
BETAINV
CHIDIST
CLEAN
CONCATENATE
COSH
DATE
DB
DEVSQ
EFFECT
ERRORTYPE
EXPONDIST
FALSE
FISHER
FORECAST
GAMMADIST
GEOMEAN
HYPGEOMDIST
INTERCEPT
ISBLANK
ISLOGICAL
ISODD
ACOS
ASINH
AVEDEV
BESSELK
BINOMDIST
CHIINV
CODE
CONFIDENCE
COUNTBLANK
DATEVALUE
DDB
DISC
EOMONTH
EVEN
FDIST
FISHERINV
FTEST
GAMMAINV
GESTEP
IF
INTRATE
ISERR
ISNA
ISREF
LEN
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Worksheet Functions
More functions:
ISTEXT
LARGE
LN
LOGNORMDIST
MID
MOD
MULTINOMIAL
NOMINAL
NORMSINV
NPV
PERCENTILE
PMT
PRICEDISC
PROPER
RADIANS
RATE
RIGHT
ROWS
SIGN
SLN
SQRTPI
STEYX
SUMSQ
SYD
TBILLPRICE
TIMEVALUE
TRIMMEAN
TYPE
VDB
KURT
LCM
LOG
LOWER
MIN
MODE
N
NORMDIST
NOT
ODD
PERCENTRANK
POISSON
PRICEMAT
PV
RAND
RECEIVED
ROUND
RSQ
SIN
SLOPE
STANDARDIZE
SUBSTITUTE
SUMX2MY2
TAN
TBILLYIELD
TINV
TRUE
UPPER
WEEKDAY
LEFT
LOG10
MAX
MINUTE
MONTH
NA
NORMINV
NOW
OR
PERMUT
POWER
PROB
QUARTILE
RANDBETWEEN
REPLACE
ROUNDDOWN
SECOND
SINH
SMALL
STDEV
SUM
SUMX2PY2
TANH
TDIST
TODAY
TRUNC
VAR
WEEKNUM
ZTEST
LOGINV
MEDIAN
MIRR
MROUND
NEGBINOMDIST
NORMSDIST
NPER
PEARSON
PI
PPMT
PRODUCT
QUOTIENT
RANK
REPT
ROUNDUP
SERIESSUM
SKEW
SQRT
STDEVP
SUMPRODUCT
SUMXMY2
TBILLEQ
TIME
TRIM
TTEST
VARP
WEIBULL
YEAR
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Module 8
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Page Setup and Print Preview
Exporting Table Views
Exporting Graph Views
Exporting Map Views
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Defines printing
options
Defines
range for
printing
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