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Actix DV for Agilent 2.1

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Contents
1 ACTIX DV FOR AGILENT OVERVIEW ................................... 3 2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS .................................................... 5
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM CONFIGURATION .........................................................5 MINIMUM SYSTEM CONFIGURATION ...................................................................6

3 WHATS NEW IN 2.1? ......................................................... 7

HANDSET, SCANNER, AND DATA SUPPORT ........................................................7 SUPPORT FOR AGILENT E6474 (NITRO) RELEASE 8...........................................8 EV-DO DATA SUPPORT...................................................................................8 EDGE DATA SUPPORT ....................................................................................9 REPLAY PANEL .............................................................................................10 DATA VIEWS .................................................................................................11 ADDITIONAL FLEXIBILITY ................................................................................16 ENHANCED WAMS SUPPORT ........................................................................18 FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS ...........................................................................18

4 KNOWN ISSUES ............................................................... 19

GENERAL ......................................................................................................19 ACTIX SHORTCUTS ........................................................................................19 CHARTS........................................................................................................19 CONSOLE .....................................................................................................20 EVENT NAVIGATOR ........................................................................................20 PROTOCOL STACK BROWSER .........................................................................20 REPORTS .....................................................................................................20 WORKSPACES ...............................................................................................20

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Actix DV for Agilent Overview

Actix DV for Agilent is an advanced software solution that enables fast, accurate visualization and analysis of information collected by drive test equipment. Engineers tasked with performing localized diagnostics and optimization on GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS CDMA2000 and EV-DO wireless networks are empowered to achieve their goals through a carefully designed user interface and powerful underlying data analysis technology. Detailed knowledge of drive test equipment and the environment in which it is used has enabled the design of a solution that will exceed expectations and significantly improve productivity. User-controlled software views enable all of the appropriate information to be displayed on screen in easy-to-read tables, charts and maps that have been tailored for this application. Built-in features such as protocol stack browsing and drill-down enable specific events to be diagnosed in detail within the same intuitive user environment, whilst a range of standardized reports present useful KPIs and other measurements for multiple days of data. Actix DV for Agilent features a unique event navigator view which displays a timeline of the events recorded in the drive test data. Forwards and backwards "replay" of the logfile enables instant identification and analysis of key events within the file without the need for sequential analysis. This feature alone can significantly enhance the user's ability to quickly identify and solve particular problems, often within minutes of the drive test being completed. Actix and Agilent have worked together to deliver this solution based upon ActixVision, a powerful and flexible data processing and statistical analysis engine which is at the heart of all Actix solutions. Using advanced software technology and industry knowledge developed over many

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years and fully proven in the field, ActixVision supports incoming data streams from all network technologies, and provides the software application layer with key analysis facilities such as KPI extraction through event-aware processing and multi-dimensional querying and binning. This technology, coupled with Agilents industry expertise, has produced a market leading solution for the visualization and diagnosis of network performance information.

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System requirements
This section defines the recommended and minimum system requirements for successfully running Actix DV for Agilent. If you install DV on a system that does not meet the recommended configuration requirements, you may experience the following limitations:

You may be unable to process large amounts of data. You may experience delays when trying to perform certain tasks. You may not be able to take advantage of some mapping capabilities. DVs advanced correlation and analysis capabilities may not perform as desired.

Recommended system configuration

Processor (CPU) Operating System Memory (RAM) Pentium III 700-MHz or higher. Microsoft Windows XP. 512 Megabytes.

Available Hard Disk Space 15 Gigabytes (about 80MB for DV; most of this space is for drive test data files, map information, and virtual memory needs). Note A paging file size of at least 1 GB is recommended on Windows 2000 and NT systems. You can set the paging file size by modifying the System properties from the Windows Control Panel.

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Minimum system configuration

Processor (CPU) Pentium II 333-MHz or higher. Operating System Microsoft Windows 98 (or later) operating system, Microsoft Windows NT Workstation operating system version 4.0 Service Pack 3 or later, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional or later operating system. Memory (RAM) 128 Megabytes.

Available Hard Disk Space 1 Gigabyte (for DV, drive test data files, map information, and virtual memory needs). Note A paging file size of at least 1 GB is recommended on Windows 2000 and NT systems. You can set the paging file size by modifying the System properties from the Windows Control Panel.

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Whats new in 2.1?

Handset, Scanner, and Data Support

DV automatically correlates devices for you, allowing quick multiple source visualization and analysis. If a single instance of a handset, scanner, and/or data device exists in a datafile, DV assumes that these should be correlated. If multiple instances of any device type exist in a datafile, DV will rely on user-defined labels that can be added in the E6474 (Nitro) software. Identical labels should be used on all devices that require correlation. Correlated devices will show up as a single item in the console view (see below).

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Support for Agilent E6474 (Nitro) Release 8

This release provides support for Nitro EV-DO and EDGE drive test data.

EV-DO Data Support

DV 2.1 supports EV-DO Data application collected from Nitro by bundling reports, measurement windows and charts.

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EDGE Data Support

DV 2.1 also supports EDGE Data application collected from Nitro by bundling reports, measurement windows and charts.

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Replay Panel
Replay panel

The Replay panel is used to control the playback of the log file, starting from the beginning of the file and displaying the data message by message, either one message per click of the inner buttons or playing through the messages using the outer buttons, at a speed set using the sliding control. This allows variable-speed, bi-directional playback, and can also be used to step single messages.

Replay Speed

Properties

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Data Views
These views or 'forms' provide many different ways of examining aspects of data for a particular technology, and are provided in a pre-defined arrangement in a DV workspace. Many data views have been added for this release, and this section lists all data views provided (each technology also offers one or more Event Navigator views): GPRS GPRS Data Session This form provides a snapshot of important data parameters for both received and transmitted packets. GPRS Data Timeslots This form provides a quick and easy view of time slot usage on the uplink and downlink. GPRS Throughput This chart provides a time-series view of downlink throughput for several protocol layers. GPRS Composite Measurement Chart This chart provides a time-series view of multiple measurements that signature the behavior of GPRS network. GSM GSM Current Channel This form provides a summary of important serving channel and serving cell radio parameters, including BCCH frequency, TCH frequency, Hopping Frequencies, Current TS, MAIO, HSN, Speech Codec. GSM Measurement Chart This chart provides a timeseries view of RxLevSub and RxQualSub. The vertical black bar denotes the currently selected message. GSM Neighbor Chart This chart provides an ordered view of the signal levels of both serving and neighbor cells. BCCH and BSIC are available in the tool-tip.

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GSM Radio Parameters This form provides a quick look at important radio parameters including RxLev, RxQual, Transmit Power, Timing Advance and FER. GSM Serving + Neighbors This form provides a list of serving and neighbor cells along with the corresponding ARFCN, BSIC and RxLev. EDGE EGPRS BEP Chart This form provides trend of BEP at different modulation scheme as well as a detail view of RMAC layer KPI. EGPRS Current Channel - This form provides a summary of important serving channel and serving cell radio parameters, including BCCH frequency, TCH frequency, Hopping Frequencies, Current TS, MAIO, HSN. EGPRS Data Session This form provides summary view of each data session EGPRS Uplink/Downlink Analysis Chart This chart provides a time-series view of multiple measurements that signature the behavior of EDGE supported network. EGPRS Status This is a detail view of multiple key EDGE parameters such as BEP, Coding Scheme, Window Size, etc. EGPRS Summary This is a summary view of EDGE KPI including RLC, LLC, SNDCP, Application Throughput, Data Retransmission, RMAC Metrics, etc. EGPRS Throughput Chart This form provides a timeseries view of Uplink and Downlink RLC/LLC Throughput. UMTS Voice UMTS Active NBor Sets Chart This chart shows a snapshot of the SC's in the Active and Monitored sets, and their signal levels at a particular instance in time. UMTS Active NBor Sets Time Chart This chart shows a time series of Ec/Io of Active and Monitored set measurements.
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UMTS Active NBor Sets RSCP Time Chart This chart shows a time series of RSCP of Active and Monitored set measurements. UMTS Measurement Charts This chart shows a time series view of coverage parameters during the drive route. UMTS Radio Parameters This form shows the measurements from the Active and Monitored sets with the corresponding mobile transmit power and average downlink transport channel Block Error Rate. UMTS Measurement Control Summary This form shows the measurements retrieved from RRC layers measurement control summary of both uplink and downlink. UMTS Neighbor List This form reports the current neighbor list. UMTS Scanner Charts This chart shows the signal levels from the Top N scrambling codes read by the scanner. UMTS Pilot Pollution Chart This chart best works with UMTS voice event navigator. It indicates the possible pollutants in the event of pilot pollution. UMTS Data UMTS Composite Measurement Windows (UL/DL) These are charts in time series showing RRC throughput in parallel with other related measurements for both Uplink and downlink. UMTS RLC Statistics Measurement This window provides measurements for some of the key performance indicator collected in the RLC layer. UMTS Task Summary This is a summary view of measurement collected from Nitro Data Testing Device. CDMA 1X CDMA Handset Summary Information This form gives handset information such as MIN, channel, protocol in use. The serving site is also called out.
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CDMA RLP Statistics This form shows uplink and downlink RLP statistics such as frame counts and erasures. Charts of uplink and downlink RLP cumulative throughput are also show. CDMA Radio Link Measurements This chart shows time-series views of FER, transmit power, receive power, and aggregate Ec/Io. CDMA Radio Link Summary This form shows handset information, a summary of radio link statistics, and a chart showing EcIo values for each measured finger. CDMA Code Domain Power by Walsh Code This form shows the measurement uniquely collected Nitro Code Domain Power. Chart view measurements in the order of the PN. CDAM Code Domain Power by Lowest Channel This form shows the measurement uniquely collected Nitro Code Domain Power. Chart view measurements are presorted by Channel. CDMA Code Domain Statistics This measurement window provides a detail view of multiple Code Domain Attributes. CDMA Composite Measurement Chart This chart shows a time series of several key CDMA RLP layer measurements CDMA Task Summary This is a summary view of measurement collected from Nitro Data Testing Device CDMA Pilot Pollution Chart This chart best works with CDMA voice event navigator. It indicates the possible pollutants in the event of pilot pollution. EV-DO EVDO Pilot Measurement This is a graphical view showing Ec/Io of Active Set, Candidate Set, and Neighbor Set of measured pilots. EVDO Forward Rate Statistics (Traffic Channel) This form offers a detail breakdown of Good/Bad CRC received

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of each traffic channel. It is also accompanied with RLC throughput chart. EVDO Forward Rate Statistics (Control Channel) This form offers a detail breakdown of Good/Bad CRC received of each control channel. It is also accompanied with RLC throughput chart. EVDO Handset Power Measurement This window provides handset power information such as open/close loop transmit power, AGC Power, and total transmit power. EVDO Reverse Traffic Statistics The form provides a distribution of usage in reverse traffic channels.

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Additional Flexibility
DV 2.1 provides much more flexibility for users to visualize data in different ways:

Configurable Table

Attribute Picker

Configurable Chart

Attribute Picker

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Filter for controlling the data displayed in each data window:

Filter

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Enhanced WAMS Support

DV 2.1 provides a seamless method for automerging WAMS data set and RF data from the handset. This allows users to correlate between WAMS data and trace data.

WAMS Data

GSM Rx Lev

DV 2.1 now also supports MMS and WAP Test.

Fixes and Enhancements

Fixed UMTS handset name in Console View. Included UMTS Pilot Pollution and Missing Neighbor Rx information. Included CDMA Pilot Pollution and Missing Neighbor Rx information. Enhanced UMTS MultiRAT support. Enhanced mapping functionalities. Enhanced replay tool. General file loading and memory-usage performance improvement.

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General

Known Issues

Actix DV automatically synchronizes CDMA handset and PN Scanner measurements that were made on the same frequency at the same time. When the handset is in idle mode, DV may incorrectly determine the handsets frequency and, as a result, synchronize incorrectly with PN Scanner measurements during these times. Matching cellref data is required to properly show the handoff state in UMTS data. Downlink TFI information for Nitro 8 files captured using a Nokia 6230 handset is not displayed, as the information is not available in the .sd5 file the RMAC messaging containing the DL TFI information from the Nokia 6230 is not captured by Nitro 8 and thus not visible in DV.

Actix shortcuts

Some Actix shortcuts are not removed from the Windows Start menu on an upgrade.

Charts

The Chart's Attributes icon does not respond to changes to the Toolbar size. When changing the Preferences option to deselect "Use Small Toolbars", the chart Attributes icon does not change at all. It should update with text as with all other toolbar icons.

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Console

The console defaults to showing details on the last stream loaded rather than the defaulting to the first. No console report will show up for data devices and scanners that are not correlated to handsets.

Event Navigator

Data views that are docked do not open properly when saved in a workspace, but appear compressed to the left. To correct the view, simply refresh the window.

Protocol Stack Browser

All the Layer 3 protocol messages are displayed as UPLINK.

Reports

The FTP GET report also shows FTP PUT results and vice versa. Rx Power should be part of CDMA Radio Link Distribution window. The WAMS tests should be separated because they have measurement names in common, and it is not possible to identify which WAMS test the measurement refers to.

Workspaces

Workspaces saved in DV2.0 do not open properly in DV2.1. The map is empty and it is not possible to add any further attributes. Also, the console report says 'page cannot be found'. There is an extra stream in the stream selector pane.

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