Field Measurement Tools

LTE OPT Training

Last Updated: May 24th, 2012
Version 1.41

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Outline

• UEs
– FDD chipsets and UEs
– TDD chipsets and UEs
• RF scanners
• Drive test logging tools and supported UEs
• Drive test post-processing tools

Latest info in IMS is in DT and post-processing tool folder:

https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Open/360537703
https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Overview/D437676482

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FDD bands
Band MHz Uplink MHz Downlink MHz
1 2x60 1920-1980 2110-2170 FDD
2 2x60 1850-1910 1930-1990 FDD
3 2x75 1710-1785 1805-1880 FDD
4 2x45 1710-1755 2110-2155 FDD
5 2x25 824-849 869-894 FDD
7 2x70 2500-2570 2620-2690 FDD
8 2x35 880-915 925-960 FDD
9 2x35 1749-1784 1844-1879 FDD
10 2x60 1710-1770 2110-2170 FDD
11 2x25 1427-1452 1475-1500 FDD
12 2x18 698-716 728-746 FDD
13 2x10 777-787 746-756 FDD
14 2x10 788-798 758-768 FDD
17 2x12 704-716 734-746 FDD
18 2x15 815-830 860-875 FDD
19 2x15 830-845 875-890 FDD
20 2x30 832-862 791-821 FDD
21 2x15 1448-1463 1496-1511 FDD
24 2x34 1626-1660 1525-1559 FDD

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FDD chipsets, Nov 2011
• Qualcomm chips: MDM9200, MDM9600
– Huawei E398 dongle
– Bandrich C500 dongle
– ZTE MF820 dongle
– NSN7410 dongle / router
– Novatel MC679 dongle
– Samsung S2 smartphone ZTE 820D

– HTC Raider smartphone

• Intel XMM7060 (ex-Infineon)
– Samsung S2 smartphone
• Samsung chips: BT-37xx (phased out eoy2011)
– Samsung BT-3730 dongle
– Samsung BT-3740 dongle Galaxy S2
• LG chips
– Novatel MC551 dongle, same as VL600
– LG dongles
• Altair chips
– Motorola Xoom tablet
• Renesans chips: RRP11A / RRP11B HTC Raider
– ??
• ST-Ericsson
– ?? Terminal Info Portal: https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Open/437648079
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TDD bands

Band MHz Uplink MHz Downlink MHz

33 1x20 1900-1920 1900-1920 TDD
34 1x15 2010-2025 2010-2025 TDD
35 1x60 1850-1910 1850-1910 TDD
36 1x60 1930-1990 1930-1990 TDD
37 1x20 1910-1930 1910-1930 TDD
38 1x50 2570-2620 2570-2620 TDD
39 1x40 1880-1920 1880-1920 TDD
40 1x100 2300-2400 2300-2400 TDD
41 1x194 2496-2690 2496-2690 TDD
42 1x200 3400-3600 3400-3600 TDD
43 1x200 3600-3800 3600-3800 TDD

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TDD chipsets, Nov 2011
• Qualcomm
– Qualcomm FFA
– ZTE
– Quanta
• ZTE (own chipset)
NSN7210
– ZTE MF820T
• Hisilicon
– Hisilicon E2701S
– Hisilicon E398S
• Innofidei
– Innofidei Rapid 300A
• Altair Qualcomm FFA 9600 R&D
– NSN 7210
• Sequans: SQN3010, SQN3110
– Sequans 3010
– Sequans 3110
– GemTek CPE
Innofidei Rapid 300A

Terminal Info Portal: https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Open/437648079

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 IODT UE capability (RL15), Nov 2011 status
UL/DL specia
config l frame
Vendor Type BW Band uration con. UE CAT TM Mobility Comments / Restrictions

Intra-freq HO,Inter-freq
Hisilicon E2701S 10 / 20 38 / 40 1/2 5/7 3 1/2/3/4/7 HO Availability

Intra-freq HO,Inter-freq Stability & Performance is not

Innofidei P3A 20 38 1/2 7 3 1/2/3/4 HO good enough for field test

Qualcomm 9600 10 / 20 38 / 40 1/2 5/7 3 1/2/3/7 Intra-freq HO Apply for 2.3G regression

Review sub-band CQI

Sequans Rev-A 10 / 20 38/40/41 1/2 5/7 3 1/2/3/4 Intra-freq HO implementation with RIL team

Samsung 10 / 20 38 / 40 1/2 5/7 2 1/2/3 Intra-freq HO Verify new platform with FPGA

Altair 7210 10 / 20 38/40/41 1/2 5/7 3 1/2/3/4 Intra-freq HO Lab test ongoing
Intra-freq HO,Inter-freq
ZTE(own) MF820T 10 / 20 38 / 40 1/2 5/7 3 1/2/3/4/7 HO MIIT lab test ongoing
ZTE
(Qualcom) 9200 10 / 20 38 / 40 1/2 5/7 3 1/2/3 Intra-freq HO
Intra-freq HO
Quanta 10/20 38/40/41 1/2 5/7 3 1/2/3/
Gemtek
(Sequans) 10/20 38/40 1/2 5/7 3 1/2/3/4 Intra-freq HO For Sky Brazil, no BF yet

ST-E
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 IODT UE capability (RL15), Nov 2011 status
Lab (cable connected) Lab (OTA) Field
UE Throughput Latency Throughput Latency Throughput Latency
UL:15M / DL:62M MIIT outdoor
(20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3) UL:15M / DL:60M
UL:7M / DL:83M (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3)
Hisilicon (20M bandwidth,2:7,TM3)
CMCC large scale
UL: 15M / DL: 52M UL:15M / DL:30M
Innofidei (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3) (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3)

UL:15M / DL:60M
Qualcomm (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3)
India trial
UL:15M / DL:59M Cplane:223ms UL:15M / DL:50M
Sequans (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3) Uplane:23ms (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3)

UL:2.5M / DL:12M (MCS=22)

Samsung (10M bandwith,1:7,TM2) U-plane > 300ms

UL:14.8M / DL:60M Cplane:104ms UL:14.4M / DL:55M Cplane:xxms

Altair 7210 (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3) Uplane:14ms (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3) Uplane:14ms
UL:15M / DL:58M
ZTE(own) (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3)
UL:15M / DL:60M
(20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3) FiVe Hangzhou
ZTE UL:7.5M / DL:80M UL:15M / DL:59M
(Qualcom) (20M bandwidth,2:7,TM3) (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3)

Quanta
Gemtek UL:14M / DL:59.4M
(Sequans) (20M bandwidth,1:7,TM3)

ST-E
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Aeroflex TM500 R&D test terminal TDD + FDD,
Cat4 + beamforming etc advanced support

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Terminal Info Portal

Terminal Info Portal: https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Open/437648079

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Performance difference between UEs, example
• three FDD dongles, 20MHz LTE, same dt route
1

0.9
huawei
0.8 zte
samsung
0.7

0.6
empirical cdf

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
-25 -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 25
UE Tx Power [dBm]

• Samsung RF parts perform badly, higher tx power

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Performance difference between UEs, example
• three FDD dongles, 20MHz LTE, same dt route

0.9 huawei
zte
0.8 samsung

0.7

0.6
empirical cdf

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
-120 -115 -110 -105 -100 -95 -90 -85 -80 -75 -70
RSRP [dBm]

• Samsung RF parts perform badly, 5dB worse RSRP

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Performance difference between UEs, example
• three FDD dongles, 20MHz LTE, same dt route
1

0.9
huawei
0.8 zte
samsung
0.7

0.6
empirical cdf

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
PHY tput [Mbits per sec]

• tput differs even between ZTE and Huawei (both use QC chip)
• Message: Performance difference between UEs can be
considerable!! At least two different UE chipsets should be used.
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Summary from another UE comparison – South
Korea
• The drive testing for DL throughput was carried out with both LG dongle
[LGE chipset] and Samsung Galaxy SII [Qualcomm chipset] mobile at the
same time in order to evaluate individual UE performance.
• As a result, the LG dongle had 14 dropped calls and Samsung mobile
had none during the drive.
• The following difference in UE performance was observed:
• The receiver sensitivity of LG dongle is a bit better (~4 dB) in average than Samsung
mobile
• The average UE uplink power for PUSCH, PUCCH and RACH transmission is 7 dB, 5.5
dB and 1 dB, respectively, higher with Samsung mobile compared to LG dongle.
• The ACK/NACK response for each PUSCH transmission carried on PHICH indicates
higher number of NACKs (10% rate) in average with LG dongle compared to Samsung
mobile.

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Outline

• UEs
– FDD chipsets and UEs
– TDD chipsets and UEs
• RF scanners
• Drive test logging tools and supported UEs
• Drive test post-processing tools

Latest info in IMS is in DT and post-processing tool folder:

https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Open/360537703
https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Overview/D437676482

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Scanners, JDSU W1314A
• Multiband multi-RAT receiver
– 2-8 RF receivers for simultaneous multi-band multi-rat measurement
– TDD and FDD
• Internal 12-channel GPS, also external GPS supported
• Spectrum view Back: 12-18 VDC using
the standard ”desktop
PC power connector”
4-port USB hub
(eg license
dongle or UEs)

To laptop USB

Rx antenna
(N-male)
GPS antenna
(SMA-male)
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Scanners, PCTEL EX / MX

• EX: single and dual-band FDD LTE receivers

• MX: Multiband multi-RAT receivers, TDD + FDD
• MIMO measurement
• Built-in support for measurement pre-averaging (useful!)
• PCTel own SeeHawk sw has more measurement options, for
scanning purposes only

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Scanners, R&S TMSW

• 2 rx paths, MIMO measurement possible

• Channel impulse response
• I/Q baseband streaming
• Basically all current FDD and TDD bands
are available

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Scanners, Nemo FSR1

• Multi-band multi-RAT, up to 8 bands simultaneously

• FDD bands
• TDD bands 36 and 38

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Scanner evaluation report, datasheets and
important links
NPO Global – Scanner evaluation report (04/2012)
• Nemo, PCTel, R&S and JDSU
• FDD and TDD modes tested
https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Overview/D448565646

Latest info in IMS is in DT and post-processing tool folder:

https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Open/360537703

DT and PP tool information:

https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Overview/D437676482

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Outline

• UEs
– FDD chipsets and UEs
– TDD chipsets and UEs
• RF scanners
• Drive test logging tools and supported UEs
• Drive test post-processing tools

Latest info in IMS is in DT and post-processing tool folder:

https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Open/360537703
https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Overview/D437676482

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DT logging tools versus scanner/UE support

DT tool FDD chipsets TDD chipsets Scanners

XCAL Qualcomm, Qualcomm, PCTel, DRT,

Samsung, LG, Samsung, Altair, Anritsu, R&S
Altair, GCT, Sequans,
DoCoMo, HiSilicon
Hisilicon, Infineon
Nemo Outdoor Qualcomm, LG Qualcomm PCTel, R&S,
Nemo
JDSU NiXt Qualcomm, Altair, Altair, Sequans JDSU
LG, Samsung
TEMS Samsung, LG, Qualcomm, PCTel, R&S,
Investigation Qualcomm Sequans Andrew, DRT

For details and up-to-date info, see:

https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Open/360537703
https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Overview/D437676482
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Outline

• UEs
– FDD chipsets and UEs
– TDD chipsets and UEs
• RF scanners
• Drive test logging tools and supported UEs
• Drive test post-processing tools

Latest info in IMS is in DT and post-processing tool folder:

https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Open/360537703
https://sharenet-ims.inside.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/Overview/D437676482

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Commercial post-processing tools available for
LTE
• Actix Analyzer/Spotlight
– In theory many LTE drive test tools supported:
 Accuver XCAL, Nemo, TEMS, JDSU and R&S Romes
 In practice LTE file format change so quickly that the very latest DT file format is not properly supported (frequent issues with XCAL and with
Nemo too). Some XCAL logs with certain LTE dongles cannot be opened in Actix at all.
– More events now including also CS Fallback
 Issues with threshold settings ( some events are not accurate)
 Customized analysis (for e.g. acceptance reports) possible to do only in Analyzer Classic if needed (integration with map plots not handy)
– Possible problems with large data sets (days or weeks, depends on DT tool for e.g. TEMS is worst in that sense).
– Automation not possible
– Can be leased on monthly basis (1980€/month)
• Nemo Analyze
– Supports LTE for Nemo, R&S and TEMS file formats (last two are optional  additional cost)
– Suitable for large data volumes (automation possible)
– Built in default report for LTE (customizable MS Excel with map plots)
– Customized analysis and KPIs (for e.g. acceptance reports) possible when needed.
– Can be leased on monthly basis (1100-1200€/month)
• Accuver XCAP
– Best support for latest XCAL versions
 Supports directly only for XCAL drive test data (LTE)?
– No experience in TM Global (not a preferred tool)
– Does not convince even in demonstrations.
 Features and usability far from other tools, but might be enough for basic visualization and statistics for limited amount of DT data.
• TEMS Discovery LTE
– Support for Nemo, JDSU, TEMS and QVoice LTE
– Not tested for LTE in TM Global (yet)
– Suitable for large data volumes (automation possible)
– Customized analysis and KPIs possible in theory (but in practice more complicated than with Actix or Nemo Analyze)
– Frame pricing should be available soon (with leasing option

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