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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 .........................................................5MINIMUM SYSTEM CONFIGURATION ...................................................................6

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

HANDSET,SCANNER, AND DATA SUPPORT ........................................................7SUPPORT FOR AGILENT E6474(NITRO)RELEASE 8...........................................8

EV-DODATA SUPPORT...................................................................................8EDGEDATA SUPPORT....................................................................................9REPLAY PANEL .............................................................................................10DATA VIEWS .................................................................................................11ADDITIONAL FLEXIBILITY ................................................................................16ENHANCED WAMSSUPPORT ........................................................................18FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS ...........................................................................18

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

GENERAL......................................................................................................19ACTIX SHORTCUTS ........................................................................................19

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


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1 Actix DV for Agilent OverviewActix 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 andoptimization on GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS CDMA2000

and EV-DO wireless networks are empowered to achieve

their goals through a carefully designed user interface andpowerful 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 viewsenable 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 asprotocol stack browsing and drill-down enable specific

events to be diagnosed in detail within the same intuitive

user environment, whilst a range of standardized reportspresent 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 thelogfile enables instant identification and analysis of key

events within the file without the need for sequential

analysis. This feature alone can significantly enhance theuser's ability to quickly identify and solve particular

problems, often within minutes of the drive test beingcompleted.

Actix and Agilent have worked together to deliver this

solution based upon ActixVision, a powerful and flexibledata 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 supportsincoming 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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2 System requirementsThis 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 mayexperience 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 somemapping capabilities.

DVs advanced correlation and analysis

capabilities may not perform as desired.

Recommended system configuration

Processor (CPU) Pentium III 700-MHz or higher.

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP.

Memory (RAM) 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 isrecommended on Windows 2000 and NT

systems. You can set the paging file sizeby 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, drivetest data files, map information, and virtual memory needs).

Note A paging file size of at least 1 GB isrecommended 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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3 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 deviceexists 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 singleitem 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 EDGEdrive test data.

EV-DO Data Support

DV 2.1 supports EV-DO Data application collected from

Nitro by bundling reports, measurement windows andcharts.


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EDGE Data Support

DV 2.1 also supports EDGE Data application collectedfrom Nitro by bundling reports, measurement windows and

charts.


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Replay Panel

The Replay panel is used to control the playback of the logfile, 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 usingthe 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.

PropertiesReplay Speed

Replay panel


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Data Views

These views or 'forms' provide many different ways ofexamining 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 thissection 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-seriesview of downlink throughput for several protocol layers.

GPRS Composite Measurement Chart This chartprovides 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 time-

series view of RxLevSub and RxQualSub. The verticalblack 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 quicklook at important radio parameters including RxLev,

RxQual, Transmit Power, Timing Advance and FER.

GSM Serving + Neighbors This form provides a list ofserving 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 ofRMAC layer KPI.

EGPRS Current Channel - This form provides asummary 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 viewof each data session

EGPRS Uplink/Downlink Analysis Chart This chartprovides 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, WindowSize, etc.

EGPRS Summary This is a summary view of EDGEKPI including RLC, LLC, SNDCP, Application

Throughput, Data Retransmission, RMAC Metrics, etc.

EGPRS Throughput Chart This form provides a time-series 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 setmeasurements.


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UMTS Active NBor Sets RSCP Time Chart This chartshows a time series of RSCP of Active and Monitored set

measurements.

UMTS Measurement Charts This chart shows a timeseries view of coverage parameters during the drive route.

UMTS Radio Parameters This form shows the

measurements from the Active and Monitored sets with thecorresponding 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 anddownlink.

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 possiblepollutants 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, protocolin use. The serving site is also called out.


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CDMA RLP Statistics This form shows uplink anddownlink 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 CodeDomain 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 pre-sorted by Channel.

CDMA Code Domain Statistics This measurement

window provides a detail view of multiple Code Domain

Attributes.

CDMA Composite Measurement Chart This chartshows a time series of several key CDMA RLP layermeasurements

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 possiblepollutants in the event of pilot pollution.

EV-DOEVDO Pilot Measurement This is a graphical viewshowing 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 RLCthroughput chart.

EVDO Forward Rate Statistics (Control Channel)

This form offers a detail breakdown of Good/Bad CRCreceived of each control channel. It is also accompanied

with RLC throughput chart.

EVDO Handset Power Measurement This windowprovides 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 tovisualize data in different ways:

Configurable Table

Configurable Chart

Attribute Picker

Attribute Picker


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Filter for controlling the data displayed in eachdata window:

Filter


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Enhanced WAMS Support

DV 2.1 provides a seamless method for automergingWAMS data set and RF data from the handset. This allows

users to correlate between WAMS data and trace data.

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 MissingNeighbor Rx information.

Enhanced UMTS MultiRAT support.

Enhanced mapping functionalities.

Enhanced replay tool.

General file loading and memory-usage

performance improvement.

GSM Rx Lev

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4 Known IssuesGeneral

Actix DV automatically synchronizes CDMA

handset and PN Scanner measurements that weremade on the same frequency at the same time.

When the handset is in idle mode, DV mayincorrectly determine the handsets frequencyand, 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 filescaptured using a Nokia 6230 handset is not

displayed, as the information is not available in

the .sd5 file the RMAC messaging containingthe 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 SmallToolbars", 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 appearcompressed 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 becausethey 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 possibleto 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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