Aexio Xeus Pro 2012 Release Notes
Transcript of Aexio Xeus Pro 2012 Release Notes
1 RELEASE NOTES
Aexio Xeus Pro 2012 Version 12.5.71
25th Apr 2012
New Features
Network o Supports Ericsson LTE eNodeB Bulk CM Dump o Missing Neighbor analysis under channel and code planning feature
GPEH o Smartphone Analysis feature introduce PS Signalling Analysis to detect Fast Dormancy
Event, RRC State Transition for the PS Channel Event, Call End due to Fast Dormancy, and Phone Level PS Statistics
Traffic Recording o Display Subscriber KPI Analysis summary by Call Type o Display Phone Profiling summary by Call Type o Able to create report from right-click context menu in the Project explorer o Single parsing of traffic recording files to be implemented to improve speed in Xeus
application (previously multiple parsing allowed).
Enhancement
General o Shortcut to Xeus Pro Quick Guides located at the Xeus Start Page for faster reference o Enhanced Excel Reporting feature - KPI Model with Cell KPI, IMSI, Phone Table and
Chart Model
Network o Support Site dump file for Huawei Single RAN. Version supported: RAN 13
Drive Test o New bin measurement view that displays the information such as radio environment
and the event counts in selected bin. o Enhance Offset Plot settings beyond the default 150m with more options for plotting
directions o Additional RSCP Threshold Criteria for Pilot Pollution plot o New LTE IE and Event for TEMS FMT o New LTE IE and Event for NeMo o New LTE Report Modal
GPEH o New events detected for Multi-Rab Call Attempts: Speech Multi-Rab Call Attempt and
PS Mulit-Rab Call Attempt o Enhance GPEH position calculation to plot more GPEH events o New support to allow users to plot CS and PS separately in Call Attempt, Blocked Call,
and Dropped Call events o Adding Call Start RSCP and Start RF Class columns in the Call List o Cell Coverage Chart displays average RSCP for Call Setup Analysis.
Traffic Recording o User-defined KPI threshold displayed in the Traffic Recording Start Page e.g. Blocked
Rate etc. o IMSI arranged in ascending sequence, so user can search for selected IMSI easily
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o Enhanced Bin Plot to display lines to each cell involved o Bin Plot details- Add more IEs for each cell that covers the bin: geo-located sample
number/distance to bin/Azimuth to bin , cell height and antenna tilt o Bin Plot Details- users can click on each cell name in bin details to show "Network
property" of corresponding cell o Additional RSCP Threshold Criteria for Pilot Pollution plot o Geo-location method uses cells coordinate( longitude & latitude) instead of site id for
better accuracy
Issue Resolved
Fail to parse GPEH files in Zip format
Fail to parse more than one Megamon files
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Aexio Xeus Pro 2012 Version 12.5.42
2nd Apr 2012
New Features
Network o Supports Ericsson LTE eNodeB Bulk CM Dump o Missing Neighbor analysis under channel and code planning feature
GPEH o Smartphone Analysis feature introduce PS Signalling Analysis to detect Fast Dormancy
Event, RRC State Transition for the PS Channel Event, Call End due to Fast Dormancy, and Phone Level PS Statistics
Traffic Recording o Display Subscriber KPI Analysis summary by Call Type o Display Phone Profiling summary by Call Type o Able to create report from right-click context menu in the Project explorer
Enhancement
General o Shortcut to Xeus Pro Quick Guides located at the Xeus Start Page for faster reference o Enhanced Excel Reporting feature - KPI Model with Cell KPI, IMSI, Phone Table and
Chart Model
Network o Support Site dump file for Huawei Single RAN. Version supported: RAN 13
Drive Test o New bin measurement view that displays the information such as radio environment
and the event counts in selected bin. o Enhance Offset Plot settings beyond the default 150m with more options for plotting
directions o Additional RSCP Threshold Criteria for Pilot Pollution plot o New LTE IE and Event for TEMS FMT o New LTE IE and Event for NeMo o New LTE Report Modal
GPEH o New events detected for Multi-Rab Call Attempts: Speech Multi-Rab Call Attempt and
PS Mulit-Rab Call Attempt o Enhance GPEH position calculation to plot more GPEH events o New support to allow users to plot CS and PS separately in Call Attempt, Blocked Call,
and Dropped Call events o Adding Call Start RSCP and Start RF Class columns in the Call List o Cell Coverage Chart displays average RSCP for Call Setup Analysis.
Traffic Recording o User-defined KPI threshold displayed in the Traffic Recording Start Page e.g. Blocked
Rate etc. o IMSI arranged in ascending sequence, so user can search for selected IMSI easily o Enhanced Bin Plot to display lines to each cell involved
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o Bin Plot details- Add more IEs for each cell that covers the bin: geo-located sample number/distance to bin/Azimuth to bin , cell height and antenna tilt
o Bin Plot Details- users can click on each cell name in bin details to show "Network property" of corresponding cell
o Additional RSCP Threshold Criteria for Pilot Pollution plot
Issue Resolved
Fail to parse GPEH files in Zip format
Fail to parse more than one Megamon files
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Aexio Xeus Pro 2012 Version 12.4.102
16th Jan 2012
New Features
General o Xeus now supports Megamon for Nokia Siemens Network (NSN) o New Excel Reporting feature in Drive Test, GPEH and CHR modules. o New Report Designer that allow drag-and drop metrics to an Excel template. o Enhance Auto-zoom feature for viewing the plots on MapInfo.
Network o Support new dump file version for Huawei Single RAN. Version supported: V900r013 o New Import option for user to Create Report and Import Additional Parameters for
Huawei (BSC, WCDMA and RAN), Ericsson BSC and Nokia (BSC & WCDMA) network parser.
o Support import and export for Nemo BTS. o Support new dump file version for ZTE RNC. Version supported: R3.09 o Support Import for Actix CellRef. o Support Import for TEMS Cell XML file (GSM, WCDMA & LTE) o Support Huawei LTE eNodeB Dump
Drive Test o Support NEMO 2.10 o Support LTE drive test on NEMO 2.10 o New bin plots and element view for LTE. o Support LTE IE from Agilent o Able to update the Drive Test database Cell Matching after loading a new network data
GPEH o Improved speed performance for Geo-Analysis algorithm for faster parsing and better
accuracy. o User can filter out call by call end type from imported into the database. This allows the
possibility to parse large data set into single GPEH database. o New bin measurement view that displays the information such as radio environment
and the event counts in selected bin. This view allows users to perform search for calls in the selected bin.
o New Cell Coverage Analysis for identifying cells with the highest percentage of over coverage calls.
CHR o New Cell Coverage Analysis for identifying cells with the highest percentage of over
coverage calls. o New bin measurement view that displays the information such as radio environment
and the event counts in selected bin. This view allows users to perform search for calls in the selected bin.
Enhancement
Network o A prompt message will notify users when the filename character exceeds the filename
character limit.
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Drive Test o Enhanced Decoded LTE Layer 3 Message o Adding Best CellId theme for 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th o Able to append the Theme settings without removing previous settings o Allow users to filter polygon for Inside and Outside the polygon range for a faster
searching
CHR o Enhanced Importing feature that notifies the user if the log file does not contain PCHR
or UCHR. o Adding new column for Average RSCP and Average Ec/No for each UE at Phone
Profiling page
Traffic Recording o New Neighbor Optimization feature for user to view the Top 5 cells with Proposed
Action and allow user to load the result at the Workbench without recalculating for a faster result.
o Able to append the Theme settings without removing previous settings o Prompt user that there is no plot due to missing events at the end of the parsing
process
Issue Resolved
The parsing process stops at 45%-48% when 2 or more ROP files are loaded into Xeus.
The value for the “Call Setup Distance” and “Call End Distance” shown at the Workbench does not match with the Call Start and Call End location shown on the map.
Call Position parcel for Call Start points is not available.
Google Earth map zooms to Africa when the user performs Drive Test plots using Line/Polygon.
Wrong Message description for non-RANAP in the LogType in disp="RrcRelSigInfo" block.
Drive Test Agilent Plots are not removed when the user clicks on “Remove plot on map” button.
The Neighbor Optimization on CHR will sort the neighbors according to Merit Points even after the user selects EcNo or Rscp ranking method.
The project automatically closes leaving the Legend window open when the user tries to run Google Earth Web on a newly created project.
The GPEH bins are not plotted in Google Earth 6.0.
Duplicated cell data when importing Ericsson WCDMA Bulk CM XML file after importing site file.
Unable to match Nokia WCDMA XML file by CellId
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Aexio Xeus Pro 2012 Version 12.4.20
7th Oct 2011
Enhancements
Network o Support MCOM for version 7.3 text files (GSM, WCDMA & LTE)
Drive Test o Users can directly parse the Agilent AOD Log file without installing Agilent E6474A
Wireless Measurement Software into their system.
GPEH o Support GPEH log file for Version W11
CHR o New VIP Analysis feature for user to search and bookmark a selected IMSI. Users can
also view the Top Subscribers Analysis Chart for the selected IMSI and Subscribers KPI table.
Issue Resolved
Unable to import MCOM site data for new projects.
The site sector does not load on the Google Earth map. (Desktop -Version 6.1)
Unable to load Google Earth Web and Desktop. (Version 6.1)
Duplicated value for RSCP_1 and DL_TX_Power_Carrier at the Distribution Chart in GPEH.
Inter-changed value for BSIC and ARFCN in Co-Channel Neighbor Analysis.
Chart images fail to load completely (partially load) in GPEH and CHR.
The removed database still appears at the Project Explorer even after the user closes and reopens the project.
Aexio Xeus Pro 2012 Version 12.3.30
8th Sept 2011
New Features
General o Xeus now supports MapInfo 11 “Add Bing Roads” and “Add OSM Road”. o Users can now view the neighbor priority number on the map for both Google Earth
and MapInfo. o Xeus will automatically synchronize the view on Google Earth Plugin with the view on
MapInfo and Network Explorer when the user clicks on a cell on Google Earth map.
Network o Support Ericsson LTE eNodeB KGET Dump o Support export for LTE Network data through Xeus Interchange Format (XIF) o New “IRAT GSM to LTE” selection for One Way Neighbor Analysis at Channel and Code
Planning.
Drive Test o Support TEMS Investigation 13 log
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o Support new TEMS Investigation FMT for LTE Drive Test. Users can now perform drive test plotting and view various LTE drive test measurement.
GPEH o New VIP Analysis feature for user to search and bookmark a selected IMSI. Users can
also view the Top Subscribers Analysis Chart for the selected IMSI and Subscribers KPI table.
o New GPEH binning for Event Count. Users can perform plotting of event count and Statistics by bin.
Enhancements
General
o Enhanced MapInfo settings in Xeus that allows the user to choose between “MapInfo 3.0 Compatible” and “MapInfo Symbols”.
o Enhanced “Network Explorer” view that allows the user to sort the neighbor sequence according to priority in the Network Explorer.
GPEH o Improved feature in “GPEH Search” allowing user to export Call Records or Call Event
to Text Tab delimited file. o Improved Neighbor Optimization algorithm feature
CHR o Improved feature in “CHR Search” allowing user to export Call Records or Call Event to
Text Tab delimited file. o Improved Missing neighbor events allowing user to manually defined the hysteresis
during parsing. o Improved abnormal Blocked and Dropped Call cause with enhanced cause
identification. o Enhanced Xeus Task Manager now allows users to import Huawei CHR log files
Issue Resolved
Enhanced Parser for Xeus Interchange Format (XIF) and TEMS Cel File that will notify users if the value for the cell longitude or latitude is out of range.
Fixed IMSI truncated bug for UETR log.
Bug fixed for: “CellIndex/CellId”, “Lac”, “CI”, “RncId”, “Cid” selection not displayed on Statistic – “Plot Add/Edit” dialog box.
Bug fixed for: Neighbor lines not cleared on Google Map when the user clicks on “Removed” or “Clear” button.
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Aexio Xeus Pro 2012 Version 12.2.9
25th July 2011
Issue Resolved
Incorrect Latitude & Longitude format when Drive Test TEMS Investigation 12 log file is exported.
An error message will prompt out when the user double click on a message at “CHR Message”.
An error will appear when the user clicks on ‘Add Folder’ during importing CHR files.
When the user clicks on ‘Clear Show Layer’ button the plots on the map for GPEH and CHR are not removed.
MapInfo 10.5 will crash when the user resizes the MapInfo window.
Parsing error occurs when the imported GPEH project is located at a pathname that contains “.” symbol.
Aexio Xeus Pro 2012 Version 12.1.66
18th July 2011
New Features/ Enhancements
User Interface o New user Interface for Xeus 2012 and Xeus Pro 2012. o New Google Earth Web Window that allows the user to hide the Layer control panel. o New Icons for user to load Bing Map Aerial or Hybrid layer unto the active map in Xeus. o New Icon for user to print the active map in PDF format. o New LTE neighbor Icon at Network Explorer.
Network o Support new vendor network dump for:-
Alcatel BSC: Version B10 Nortel 3G: Version 5.1 and below Huawei BSC XML Export: Version BSC6000. Huawei RNC EXP CFGMML : Version Below V6900 Nokia WCDMA RAML : Version 4
o Support new version of network Dump:-
Huawei RNC EXP CFGMML : Version Below V6900 Huawei Single RAN (GSM & WCDMA) EXP CFGMML: Version V6900 and above Nokia WCDMA RAML : Version 4
o Support LTE Network data through Xeus Interchange Format (XIF)
Drive Test o New Enhanced Drive Test Plot Information Element. o Support TEMS Investigation 12 log.
GPEH o Improved loading performance for the GPEH Start Page.
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o User Interface: The Tool Box for the required Module will appear visible after the Module database has been loaded. (E.g. Drive Test will only visible when the database is loaded.)
o GPEH Throughput: New page at GPEH Start Page for cell measurement. o New GPEH Plot tab for user to perform Geolocation. o New distance information elements on Call Summary and Event Summary Worksheet. o GPEH binned measurement using the geo-analyzed position in 100m grid. o Cell coverage plotting with new cell coverage chart analysis with Ec/No, RSCP and
distance dimension. o New Cell Utilization :
Cell Utilization Statistics: Allows user to view the list of key KPI and measurement for cell level, view cell performance and view report summary of the cell utilization (based on per cell).
Cell Utilization Chart view: The chart view is synchronized with the working time on Call Message view.
o New Throughput Chart presents the best throughput detected during a call. o ‘Hide’ button at Import GPEH Network Data wizard for user hide the progress bar and
continue working with Xeus while importing GPEH log.
CHR o Support Huawei RNC CHR Log file for BSC6800 to BSC6900. o Support analysis for Huawei CHR: Block Calls Analysis, Dropped Call Analysis, Cell
Analysis, Neighbor Optimization, Pilot Pollution and Phone Profiling. o New bin plots for various CHR plotting type and cell coverage plotting (For only on call
setup location). o New CHR Views: CHR Messages & Events, CHR Measurements and CHR Cell Utilization.
Others o A new Cancel button for user to cancel closing Xeus if the user accidentally click close
button to close Xeus. o Support Google Earth plugin which enables the user to choose between Google Earth
Web or the full Google Earth Desktop. o User can click on the cell on the Google Earth Web and it will automatically synch with
other view. o Wizard dialog to guide users through the Google Earth plugin and License Key process. o User can plot LTE cell as a separate layer automatically.
Issue Resolved
GPEH o User can now import GPEH dump files without Mp0 file by selecting the RNC version at
‘Import Ericsson GPEH/UETR/CTR’ wizard.
Others o A new Cancel button for user to cancel closing Xeus if the user accidentally click close
button to close Xeus. o Error when saving a phone model at Phone Type Editor.
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Aexio Xeus 2010 Version 10.3.33
12th April 2011
New Features/ Enhancements
GPEH o GPEH state engine supports new W10 dump files
Mapping o Support non-WGS84 projection for the Google Earth plot. Xeus will automatically
convert the non-WGS84 projection to WGS84 coordinates before plotting in Google Earth.
Drive Test o Enhanced Polygon feature that is able to generate a number of samples within the
polygon for the specified attribute ranges for the selected MS.
Others o Xeus will automatically remember the previous file path and display it on the current
file path for Open Project.
Issue Resolved
Statistics o Synchronization issues: UI issue resolved when synching Xeus with Xeda are listed as
below: 1. Error caused by synchronization done without any data. 2. Loading of Statistics drawing on Google Earth. 3. Unable to import or parse site data that does not match. 4. Loading of Xeda ConCheck Summary tab located at Xeda Web Services tab. 5. Error when canceling a synchronization process. 6. Error caused while adjusting the Xeda Web Services scroll bar.
Mapping o Bin plot problems cause by Mapinfo 10
Drive Test o Pilot Pollution for drive test analysis was blank.
Network o Fixed the neighbor relation for imported or exported TEMS cel file o Currently able to filter out Node B sector without AntennaBranch that is not linked to
UtranCell
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Aexio Xeus 2010 Version 10.3.16
28th March 2011
New Features/ Enhancements
Drive Test Plots & Events o New Polygon or Line selection for loading plots on Google Earth. o New Add Existing Drive Test Database feature: Allows user to directly load the
database without having any drive test performed (this feature is also available for GPEH and Statistics)
Network o Network Properties tab: Antenna Height textbox will not accept any negative value
input. o New ‘Notes’ tab at Network Properties allowing user to insert a note or comment for a
cell.
Statistics o Create a New KPI Table feature: ‘Others’ option for entering the delimiters to separate
the field, no longer accepts the input of ‘.’ and ‘- ‘
Others o Xeus will automatically remember the previous file path and display it on the current
file path for the new project. o A message box will appear to replace the error message pop out, if the user opens or
creates too many KPI reports.
Issue Resolved
Drive Test o Unable to synch Statistics Workbook with Network Explorer
Others o Unable to import Drive Test Themes that has been exported out o Auto-save when Xeus shut down due to no license detected. o Create Action Report does not save newly created site.
Aexio Xeus 2010 Version 10.3.13
12th January 2011
New Features/ Enhancements
Network o New Alarm tab in Xeda Web Services to display the alarm info. o New Summary tab in Xeda Web Services to display the 7 days data summary for
ConCheck, Alarm, Mo Changes and Param Changes.