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Make short calls and Long calls, Short calls is the average duration by customers,
short calls are to know whether calls will survive the setup and the termination
successfully, it also determines the setup time
7) Long calls are to test the hand over capabilities.
8) The 6 neighboring cells are those who are listed in the scan list these do not mean
that these are the only channels that the phone can see.
9) You have to make sure of the values you are getting out of the surveying equipment
do actually make sense.
10) Know the exact power out of the antenna, ERP level, (Effective Radiation Power).
11) Everything about the antenna conditions, during the test time should be reported in
the finalreport.
12) Weather conditions should be reported as well.
13) Know the distance and direction of any buildings blocking your way.
14) Finally, report all sorts of problems.
6)
Steps for DT
For My Junior RF Engineer brothers
Steps followed to perform Drive Test
Physical Verification
Alarm Checking
Frequency Plan Verification
Hardware Configuration Verification
(Network Operating Centre) and if found needs to be verified before drive being carried
out.
Frequency Plan Verification
Frequency Plan can be verified from the NOC (Network Operating Centre) for BCCH
and TCH frequencies being implemented as per the Site Integration Sheet sent to NOC
(Network Operating Centre).
Hardware Configuration Verification
Hardware verification is performed to know the Site type, BTS Type, TRX
Configuration, VSWR checking , Power measurement for each TRX.
TRX Test
TRX Test is done to check whether calls originated are being handled by all the TRXs.
Call made during the process is tracked by the MAIO number displayed on the screen
for all the TRXs.
e.g. for Site of configuration 6 TRX per sector the MAIO values for TRX test shall be
0,1,2,3,4. Call can be originated on the BCCH or the TCH frequencies. Hence MAIO
values will be reflected only for calls on TCH frequency and not on BCCH frequency.
Dedicated Drive
Dedicated drive is an important part of Drive Test. Here call is made to a test number
and drive is done for the potential areas of the Site. During drive being carried out one
has constantly monitor parameters such as RX Level, RX Quality, SQI, DTX, C/I Ratio,
Hopping Channel, Neighbor list, TA (Timing Advance).
Constant changes in these parameter are helpful for post Optimization of the site.
important for MSs, and decreases the overall interference level on the radio channels affecting the
capacity of the network..
TA : Value that the base station calculates from access bursts and sends to the mobile station (MS)
enabling the MS to advance the timing of its transmissions to the BS so as to compensate for propagation
delay. Value of 0 means MS in radius of 550mt. From BS.
RL Timeout Counter (Cur) : This parameter define the maximum value of the radio link counter
expressed in SACCH blocks. Range of 4 64 in step size of 4. it shows current value of RLT. Decrease by 1
but increase by 2. When it reaches zero it results in normal DROP Call.
RL Timeout Counter (MAX) : This parameter define the maximum value of the radio link counter
expressed in SACCH blocks. Range of 4 64 in step size of 4. it shows current value of RLT. Normally 16,
20, 24.
MS Behavior Modified : This window shows current settings for the mobile station, for instance
whether handover is disabled or multiband reporting enabled.
Definitions:
.Time: It is system time of computer.
.Cell name: It displays the name of the sector which is serving according to the cellfile that is loaded in
TEMS.
.CGI : It stands for the Cell Global Identity which is unique for every sector of the site. It consists
ofMCC,MNC,LAC,CI.
MCC: Mobile Country Code 0 999 MNC: Mobile Network Code 0 99 LAC : Location Area Code 0 65535 CI: Cell Identity 0 65535
Cell GPRS Support: Tells sector is having GPRS or not. Values are Yes or No .
Band : It tells in which Freq. Band mobile is operating e.g. GSM 900/ 1800.
BCCH ARFCN: It tells by which BCCH is the mobile station getting served.
TCH ARFCN: On which Traffic Freq. call is going on.
BSIC (Base Station Identity Code) : It is combination of Network Color Code (NCC) (0 7) & Base
Station Color Code (BCC) (0 7). e.g. 62. It is decoded by mobile on every Sync. Channel Message.
Mode: It is shows in which state is mobile operating, Idle, Dedicated & Packet.
Time slot: On which time slot of current TCH call is going on. Viz. time slot no. of TRX.
Channel Type: Type of channel mobile is getting now. Like BCCH / SDCCH/8 +
SACCH/C8 orCBCH / TCH/F +FACCH/F +SACCH/F.
Channel Mode : Shows mode of coding like Speech Full Rate of Half Rate.
Speech Codec: It shows FR for Full Rate, HR for Half Rate & EFR for Enhanced Full
Rate.
Ciphering Algorithm : It shows ciphering algorithm used by the system to protect
data for privacy. E.g. Cipher by A5/2.
Sub Channel Number: It is displayed at a time when mobile is on dedicated mode
at time of callsetup when it is getting SDCCH at that time it shows which SDCCH it is
getting out of 8 available.E.g. 2.
Hopping Channel : It shows that current sector is having hopping feature or not.
Values are Yes or No.
Hopping Frequencies : It displays no. of freq. on which mobile is allowed to hop.
viz. MA List for hopping of that sector.
Mobile Allocation Index Offset (MAIO): It is the number which tells from which
freq. from given MA list for sector hopping has to be started. E.g. 0 means sector will
start from first freq. to hop.
Hopping Sequence Number (HSN) : Indicates sequence in which frequencies are
allowed to hop from the MA List. 0- 63. 0 for Cyclic Hopping, 1 63 random hopping
sequences.