Release Notes

Analyzer Update December 2018

 Release Notes

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 Release Notes

Contents
In This Version ...................................................................................................................................... 4
Technology Improvements.............................................................................................................. 5
5G-NR support ............................................................................................................................................... 5
eMTC support................................................................................................................................................. 5
Spotlight NB-IoT Support ............................................................................................................................... 6

New collection device or technology support ........................................................................... 7

Accuver XCAL DRM support ....................................................................................................................... 7
Freewill AzenQOS (AZL) support ................................................................................................................. 7
Freewill AzenQOS (AZM) support................................................................................................................ 7
Huawei GENEX support ................................................................................................................................ 7
Infovista TEMS support .................................................................................................................................. 7
Keysight Nemo support ................................................................................................................................ 8
Meritech Sigma-ML support ........................................................................................................................ 8
Qualcomm QXDM/chipset support ........................................................................................................... 8
Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 RSCMD support ............................................................................................. 9
Rohde & Schwarz QualiPoc MF support ................................................................................................... 9
Event Detection changes............................................................................................................................ 9
General ........................................................................................................................................................... 9

Application Layer Improvements .................................................................................................11

Cellrefs........................................................................................................................................................... 11
Data Processing .......................................................................................................................................... 11
Format Groups ............................................................................................................................................. 12
Spotlight ........................................................................................................................................................ 12

Platform Improvements ..................................................................................................................16

Device Offset ............................................................................................................................................... 16
Licensing ....................................................................................................................................................... 16
Map ............................................................................................................................................................... 16

Documentation Changes .............................................................................................................17

Limitations & Known Issues .............................................................................................................18
Freewill AzenQOS (AZM) support.............................................................................................................. 18

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In This Version
This release contains support for new and updated file formats. There are updates for
most technologies that Analyzer supports, with changes falling under the following
categories:

• Technology improvements:
o Added further map support for 5G NR_Cell definitions in cellrefs, in the
map and common Site Data Node attributes.
o NB-IoT support added in Spotlight.

• New collections of devices and improvements:

o Support for PING RTT and CA-Active detection added to AzenQos AZL.
o RTP Jitter KPI improvements for AzenQos AZM.
o Stability improvements for TEMS Investigation / Pocket file support.
o Further eMTC KPIs for Qualcomm chipsets.
o Improvements to R&S ROMES4 Carrier Aggregation support.
o Improvements to R&S QualiPoc 18.1 TSME scanner support.
o Support for Band 66 carriers in 3GPP signaling.

• Application layer improvements:

o Improved Message() function expression syntax.
o Extended Spotlight reporting to include up to 5 Carrier Components during
aggregation mode.

• Platform improvements:
o Updated licenses – all licenses will need to be re-activated to run AU1812.
Please contact Amdocs Support for further details.
o Extended the map to include binned range filtering

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Technology Improvements

5G-NR support
• Support added for 3GPP 15.3 RRC layer.

• Support added for default coloring of 5G NR_Cell icons in the map.

• Support added for pre-defined list of attributes for labeling / coloring lines to 5G
NR_Cell icons in the map.

• Added sector resolution for scanner data:

o NR_Scan_SectorHandle_SortedBy_RSRP_0
o Additional attributes:

eMTC support
• Improvements in QC_LTE_UE_activity_state logic.

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Spotlight NB-IoT Support
• New LTE NB Project Template, with KPI analysis and connection drilldown
capability. For more details, please see the Spotlight section below:

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New collection device or technology support

Accuver XCAL DRM support

• Resolved a problem where POLQA UL MOS was not being decoded.

Freewill AzenQOS (AZL) support

• Resolved a problem where LTE_UE_Bandwidth_DL_per_carrier was not set.

• Resolved a problem where UE was not being detected as being in CA-Active state,
and subsequently only the primary carrier data payload was used in throughput
calculations.

• Resolved a problem where a lower number of DL_EARFCN samples were detected

(when compared to the original AZM file).

• Added support for PING task summary information:

o Task_Application_Type
o Ping_RTT_Mean
o Ping_RTT_Max
o Ping_RTT_Min
o Ping_Packet_Size
o Ping_Address / Task_Server_URL (if DNS address is used)
o Packet_Loss

Freewill AzenQOS (AZM) support

• Modified the source table/columns to populate the RTP_Jitter attribute in
milliseconds, rather than by number of packets.

• Resolved a problem where LTE_Event_DetachComplete event was being set

twice.

Huawei GENEX support

• Resolved a problem where the timestamps for a file could be set identically for a
proportion of a file decode.

Infovista TEMS support

• Added support for intra-frequency handovers events where a TEMS event is
triggered.

• Resolved a problem which prevented certain key attributes from being displayed
when Load Time Message Filtering feature was enabled.

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 • Resolved a problem which caused a crash when opening certain TEMS files in
Windows 10.

• Resolved a problem where Layer 3 messages were not being decoded in certain
TEMS Pocket 20.1 files.

• Resolved a problem where LTE PHY Parameter fields were incorrectly populating
PCell attributes. The values now populate the SCell PCI correctly.

Keysight Nemo support

• Changed the timestamp where the Nemo_AQDL_Mean_MOS is set. It is now
hoisted back to the last reported AQRX message, allowing the attribute to be seen
in per call-id queries.

• Changed the mechanism for detecting NB-IoT content, allowing a fuller decode of
the NB-IoT NAS messages and event detection.

Meritech Sigma-ML support

• Resolved a problem where timestamps were not being decoded correctly.

Qualcomm QXDM/chipset support

• Improvements in eMTC attributes:
o Improvements in the QC_LTE_UE_activity_state logic and format group
using LTE ML1 CDRX Events Info log code:
o Awake = “On”, Sleep = “Off”
o Added “Idle” and “Paging/SIB” modes
o Changed to ModeHold attribute type
o Added support for historical LTE ML1 CDRX Events Info v1 log
code.
o Added new events where the LTE ML1 PDCCH-PHICH indication report
detects the UE changes state. A PDCCH segment is a consecutive set of
subframes from PDCCH-PHICH message during which the UE is ON or
PAGING.
The CDRX message can tell us which segment is ON and OFF.
The segments for which there is no CDRX info are PAGING or IDLE:
o QC_LTE_UE_activity_On_Event,
o QC_LTE_UE_activity_Off_Event,
o QC_LTE_UE_activity_Paging_Event,
o QC_LTE_UE_activity_Idle_Event
o Added new timers (all use units of milliseconds):
o QC_LTE_UE_activity_On_Duration,
o QC_LTE_UE_activity_Off_Duration,

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 o QC_LTE_UE_activity_Paging_Duration,
o QC_LTE_UE_activity_Idle_Duration

Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 RSCMD support

• Added support for *_for_PCI[] array attributes for NB-IoT scanning receivers.

• Improved support for Carrier Aggregation:

o Added cell measurement, Radio Bearer and carrier-specific support for
LTE_SERVING_CELL_SCC_n messages.
o Added wideband CQI, RI, MCS and per-carrier support for SCC_n.
o Added the following attributes from PDSCH message:
o LTE_UE_PayloadRate_L1_DL
o LTE_UE_Carrier_Num_DL
o LTE_UE_PhyThroughput_DL
o LTE_UE_RB_Num_DL
o LTE_UE_ACK_Rate_DL
o LTE_UE_NACK_Rate_DL

Rohde & Schwarz QualiPoc MF support

• Resolved a problem where “Thrown an exception” was being displayed in the
Message Browser text.

• Support added for TSME LTE and WCDMA scanners collected in QualiPoc 18.1 files.

Event Detection changes

• VoLTE call origination detection (Voice_Call_Direction) has been improved. If
IP_Dir is not set, the direction is set to ‘unknown’.

• LTE Event Detach Duration (LTE EMM Detach) at UE switch-off is fully supported.

• If VoLTE SIP_Reason_Text in the SIP_BYE command contains “RTP_TIMEOUT”,

set attribute VoIP_Event_Layer_IsNormalBYE to be an abnormal bye.
o 0 = Abnormal BYE
o 1 = Normal BYE
o 2 = BYE should be ignored

General
• Support was added for 3GPP 15.3 release, including 5G-NR and LTE RRC layers.

• Support added for Band 66 carriers within RRC signaling:

o LTE_Uu_RRC_MobilityControlInfo_carrierFreq_dl_CarrierFreq

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 o LTE_Uu_RRC_MobilityControlInfo_carrierFreq_ul_CarrierFreq
The extended values are set from CarrierFreqEUTRA-v9e0 if this field is available.

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Application Layer Improvements

Cellrefs
• Added support for 5G NR_Cell icons to be colored by the NR_PCI field.

• Added support for labeling and coloring lines to 5G NR_Cell layers by a selection
of pre-defined common and 5G-specific attributes:

• Added sector resolution maximum thresholds into Preferences for the following:
o GSM 900 (default = 35Km)
o DCS1800/PCS1900 (default = 8Km)
o WCDMA (default = 35Km)
o LTE (default = 35Km)

Data Processing
• Improvements have been made to message() comparisons, which previously
required the message to be multiplied by 1. The following syntax is now
supported:
o Message() == [1,2,3]

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Format Groups
• The output format of the attribute NEMO_AQRX_MUTE_Detection is changed to
Yes | No

Spotlight
• There is a new LTE NB Project Template, with KPI analysis and connection
drilldown capability:

• Summary KPIs:

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 • Call Event Explorer KPIs:
o Attach Fail Rate
o Failed Connection Rate
o Dropped Connection Rate
o Coverage information (RSRP / RSRQ / SNR)

• Protocol layer KPIs from RACH, RRC and NAS:

• Connection Analysis:

• MCS & HARQ KPIs:

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 • Tone Distribution:

• Coverage Analysis:

• Call Event Explorer map attribute options:

• Call Event Explorer event options:

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 • Call Event Explorer cell statistics table:

• Connection-based drilldown:

• Added support for NB-IoT in Spotlight with the “LTE NB” Project Template (and
Analyzer Pro repository template):

• Improved user feedback for batch loading additional files into existing projects.

• Resolved a problem where the Multi-tech voice or data templates could not be
used without entitlement to WiFi (included as standard in the LTE-Advanced-Pro
platform license).

• Resolved a problem where LTE cells outside the defined beamwidth (potential
crossed feeder detection) were not working for the Multi-tech voice template.

• Extended support of binned attributes up to 5 Carrier Components

(*_for_Carrier[]), in LTE, Data Service Analysis and Master templates:

o FTP DL
o HTTP DL
o WEB
o ABM
o Streaming

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Platform Improvements

Device Offset
• A problem has been resolved where using the Device Offset feature when a
repository was attached caused Analyzer to crash.

Licensing
• The licensing mechanism has been updated this month to cater for additional
technology support. To use this Analyzer Update December 2018 (AU1812)
release, please ensure you contact Amdocs Customer Support to refresh your
license.

Map
• This release includes a major enhancement to on-the-fly map bin filtering. Map
legend checkboxes filter specific value ranges for the binned data view:

Simply enable/disable legend ranges to show/hide the bins related to those

ranges. This filtering is specific to the map bins only and does not create a
stream-level filter (that is, it will not filter the chart or table at the same time).

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Documentation Changes
• None

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Limitations & Known Issues

Freewill AzenQOS (AZM) support

• LTE_Event_DetachDuration is currently being set twice. Please filter for only
the message point where LTE_Event_DetachComplete is set.

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