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Actix User Training
Module 1
1 © NOKIA Actix User Trainning/Module1.PPT / 01.08.2004 / NN

Course Intent
• To provide users with no prior knowledge of Actix
theoretical understanding of Actix capabilities
• To focus mainly on basic features rather than on
implementation of macros and usage of advanced
features
• To Show how the Actix RVS suite is used in practical
tasks related to Nokia UMTS projects
• To provide the users with confidence in the usage of Actix
by mean of practical exercises

Content
• Module 1 • Module 3
• Getting started • Practical exercises /
(Working with scanner and call trace
• Configuring Actix data)
• Learning Actix
• Module 2 • Module 4
• Advanced features
• Working with Actix in
practice

Getting Started
• What is Actix?
• Actix Solutions – RVS
• Installation
• Licencing

Getting Started
Actix is a Post-Processing
tool
• Input:
•Tracer data: NEMO, TEMS, Q-
voice
•Scanner Data
•Traffic records (switch traces), e.g. ACTIX
Ericsson, Motorola SOLUTIONS
•Protocol analyser data A, Abis, Gb
interfaces e.g. Nethawk, Tektronix
• Output:
•Maps
•Charts
•Tables
•Reports
•Diagrams

RVS Suite
• Suitable to analyze measurements of the UMTS radio
interface
• Support a large number of vendor/standard file formats
for DT, trace, protocol analysers
• Provides results in a wide variety of formats
• Good user interface (easy to adapt)
• High level of customisation ability
• Structurised data presentation capabilities
• Fast overview analysis with pre-defined reports

Installation
• Support Windows 2000 and Windows XP operation
systems
• System spec. has a great impact on peformance
• e.g. 3GHz processor with 1 Gb Ram is good !!
• 1.5GHz processor with 512Mb Ram is enough if not
big amount of data is processed
• During installation
• installation of MapX OCX modules take’s time, be
patient
• Post installation
• No need to re-boot

Licencing
Single Machine Licencing:

Dongle + Licence file Not transferrable

Licencing (2)
• Sever Licencing: dinamic allocation of licences

Licencing (3)
• Diagnostics Tool
• Start from actix program group Management ->
AtxDiagnostics
• Generate report => This will show the licensing set-up
• If dongle ID not present in report => server licensing
or dongle not detected
• License definitions
• File ActixLicensing.ini
• Located in <PATH>\Analyzer\Bin\LicenseDefinition
• Contains license server(s) and configuration options
for server license management

Configuring Actix
• Menu overview
• Importing / Setting up Maps
• Configuring cellrefs file
• Open scanner files
• Information Attributes
• Working with data / Charts – Tables – Woorkbooks
• Open call trace file
• Adding attributes to favourites
• Log file browsing
• Protocol browser
• Message browser
• Log file combining

• Super streaming

Configuration of Actix
• Import Backdrop Map

• Import Network Data (sites and cells)
Ready to start!

Main Window
Toolbar Main menu
Workspace
explorer
Workspace
(empty)
Status bar

Main Menu/File

Main Menu/View

Main Menu/Analysis

Main Menu/Network Image, Workbook,
Cells

Main Menu/Tools

Importing Map
• View -> Display New Map
• Mapinfo Interface, add map in
the same way as Mapinfo

Importing Map (2)
• Map should be provided in the same format as for Mapinfo: JPG
file associated with a TAB file which defines the coordinate frame
• Same Command as in Mapinfo are available as well as pop-up
menu when righ-clicking on the map
Map tools

Importing Network elements –
CELLREF
txt file with 3 main sections:
•Header
•Cell definitions
•Sites definitions

Importing Network elements – CELLREF
(2)
• Menu: Tools –> Preference
• Cellref – file location
Filename does not necessary have to be Cellref, neither

has to be in the ”Cellref”folder
Restart of Actix is needed for the changes to take effect

Importing Network elements – CELLREF
(3)
Because of regional settings some computer should have the
comma (”,”) instead of the dot (”.”) as decimal separator
?!?

Importing Network Element
Automatic import
• This feature is very useful when having cell data
changing quite often, which is s very common situation in
a project:
• From Menu Cells -> Network Explorer we can manage
our database of cells and sites.

Labels for Sites and Cells
• Just like in Mapinfo we can define which field to be used
for labels both for Sites and cells. Usually for sites the
Site Name is predefined. For Cells the Cell ID is
predefined and it is convenient to change it to Scrambling
Code (SC)
• Labels can be changed from Layer Control

Learning Actix

Learning Actix
• Scanner files
• Open scanner files
• Information Attributes
• Charts – Tables – Woorkbooks
• Display element synchronisation
• Export data
• Call trace files

• Open call trace file
• Adding attributes to favourites
• Log file browsing
• Protocol browser
• Message browser
• Log file combining
• Super streaming

Scanner files

Open Data files - Scanner
• After importing a file we can

navigate thru the attributes in the
workspace navigator
• Both Scanner and Tracer
(NEMO) are used for
mesurements. Actix can handle
both of them
•Attributes can be conveniently
displayed in different forms and
combined

Most Important Attributes
Ec/io of Best Server (interference
level)
RSCP of Best Server (power

level)
Scrambling code of Best Server

(dominance plot)
Notice that the ”BEST

SERVER” (Nth Nth Best) is
defined and sorted always by
the best Ec/Io

Display on Map - Thresholds
Three different
elements are now
visible on the map
Thresholds for RSCP
Map representation
is very convenient
for displaying
measurements from
a topological point
of view

Modify Ranges And Colors
Right-click on the desired map

element (in this case: RSCP) - >
Modify Ranges
Both levels and colors can be

defined
When the dialog window is closed

settigs must be saved.

Thresholds for RSCP and Ec/Io
RSCP Ec/Io
< -95 poor <-12 bad
[-95;-85] fair [-12;-9] poor
[-85;-75] good [-9;-4] good
>=-75 >= - 4
excellent excellent

Adding more attributes to a map
Only the last added

attribute is visible.
Others are laying
behind

Layer Control and Offset Tool
By mean of the Offset
tool we can have the
traces shifted

Cursor tracing and Lines to Serving
Cells
Placing the cursor over the
trace the value is
automatically displayed
CLicking on any point on the

trace, the lines to best server
(continuos) and second best
server (dashed) are displayed

More important attributes from
Scanner Measurements
RSSI
RSCP for each SC measured
Ec/Io for each SC measured

Emulated 3GPP Attributes
These are based on settings for

SHO parameters which can be
edited in
Tools -> Preferences
and then:
General settings -> WCDMA
We can thus set the same

paramenters which are in the
Network

Topological Attributes
”Serving cell” is in this case the Best
Server

Charts, Tables and Workbooks
Righ-clicking on any attribute we can have a choice of displaying it also on
Charts, Tables and Workbooks (Excel spreadsheets)

Charts, Tables and Workbooks (2)

Synchronization of display elements
• Syncronization can be activated from Tools ->

Preferences (Auto Sync to stream)
• It is not enabled by default: computing power consuming
• Charts, Tables and Maps may display same attributes or
different ones

Export Maps and Charts
• MAPS: There are two options from export.
•Right click on the map and select export map. The map can be
exported as a plain picture file
•Click on ”Layout” on the map window and export as project
document
• CHARTS: Also here there are two choices:

•Right-click on the chart and select Image Export....
•Click on ”Copy” on the chart window and record the image on the
clipboard

Call trace files

Open NEMO File
•In menu ”3G” we can find the same
attributes as in the scanner
measurements
•We don’t have the concept of ”best
server” in tracer measurements.
Instead we have ”active set” and ”
monitored set”
•Same Attributes can have different
name and be found in different
location
• What is impotant here is the TX
power which is not present in the
Scanner

Open NEMO File (2)
• In the menu ”Pilot Measurements”

we find individual SC measurements.

Open NEMO File (3)
• The menu ”Dedicated Radio Link”
contains logical measurements about
KPI’s

Open NEMO File (4)
• The menu ”Uu_RRC”contains
informations about signalling
•BCCH-BCH signaling flows while
the UE is in idle mode
•UL-CCCH and DL-CCCH signalling
flows while the UE is in Cell-FACH
state
•UL-DCCH and DL-DCCH signalling
flows while the UE is in Cell-DCH
state

Open NEMO File (5)
• ”Event data” contains logical event
about call establishment and
Handover as well as PDP context
activation for PS calls
• ”Statistic Data” contains information
about delays
•These two sets of attributes are
suitable for analyzing KPI’s

Adding Attributes to favourites
• You can ”Add To Favourites” those
attributes which are used more
frequently
• In order to have the attributes
saved in ”Favourites” it is necessary
to save the workspace befor exiting
Actix

Signalling and Protocol Stack
• Message Browser and Protocol Stack Browser are useful
tools for displaying the signalling and the sequence of
events for the NEMO trace
• Typical signalling sequence which need to be analysed
are: Call Setup and Handover Loop

Message Browser
4
1
2
4

Message Browser (2)
1. In the left part is the list of main objects which are
displayed in detail in the right part
2. Signalling event are indicated with RRC UL or RRC DL
3. Some event are traced from the mobile but they are not
signalling in this case Ec/No measurements
4. THe red bar indicates the extension of the script of each
element
5. This is raw messaging. Knowledge of the protocol is
needed to identify important elements (in this case,
event e1a)

Protocol Stack Browser

Protocol Stack Browser (2)
• Protocol Stack Browser shows only the signalling.
• In the upper part messages are displayed and associated
to L3 events
• Protocol Stack Browser is an easier tool for browsing the
signalling
• It can be syncronized with Maps Charts and Tables

Superstreaming
• It is reccomended not to have very long logfiles when collecting data
• Smaller logfiles can be recombined with the superstream tool

Superstreaming (2)
• Tools -> Create Superstream
•Logfiles can be selected
individually
•Superstream is available in the
workspace browser
•Superstreming does not create a
bigger logfile but rather combine
the existing data using pointers.

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• Log file combining

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• Import Backdrop Map

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Toolbar Main menu

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• Call trace files

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• After importing a file we can

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RSCP of Best Server (power

Scrambling code of Best Server

Notice that the ”BEST

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Thresholds for RSCP

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Right-click on the desired map

Both levels and colors can be

When the dialog window is closed

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< -95 poor <-12 bad

[-95;-85] fair [-12;-9] poor

[-85;-75] good [-9;-4] good

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Only the last added

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CLicking on any point on the

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RSCP for each SC measured

Ec/Io for each SC measured

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These are based on settings for

General settings -> WCDMA

We can thus set the same