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USER'S MANUAL


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Document number: NT12-2533 ver 1.0


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1. Introduction 1

1.1. Fundamentals of TEMS Investigation 14.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

1.1.1. Package Options – Licensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

1.1.2. Connectable Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1.2. What’s in This Manual (and What’s Not) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.3. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2. Recently Introduced Features in TEMSInvestigation 8

2.1. What’s New in TEMS Investigation 14.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.1.1. Control Functions for Smartphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.1.2. New Logfile Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2.1.3. Speech Quality Measurement with POLQA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.1.4. Searching, Filtering, and Highlighting in Message Windows . 10

2.1.5. Expansion of Scanning Capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.1.6. Improved Service Testing Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.1.7. Logfile Export Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.1.8. Improved HASP Soft License Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.1.9. New Connectable User Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.1.10. Enhancements in Recent Maintenance Releases . . . . . . . 13

2.2. What Was New in TEMS Investigation 13.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.2.1. Alternative Mobile-to-mobile AQM Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.2.2. CS Fallback Events and Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.2.3. Extended Set of LTE RACH Information Elements . . . . . . . 14

2.2.4. Improved Handling of Qualcomm-based LTE Devices . . . . 14

2.2.5. CDMA/EV-DO Rev. B Measurement and Analysis . . . . . . . 14

2.2.6. New Connectable User Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2.2.7. WCDMA Scanning with Rohde & Schwarz . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.2.8. CDMA Scanning with PCTel SeeGull MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.2.9. New Connectable Scanners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.2.10. Software Update Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16


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2.2.11. Enhancements in TEMS Investigation 13.1.1 . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.2.12. Enhancements in TEMS Investigation 13.1.2 . . . . . . . . . . 17

2.3. What Was New in TEMS Investigation 13.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3.1. TD-LTE Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3.2. Data Service Performance Verification with Generic Device. 18

2.3.3. Selection of Preferred Workspace at Startup. . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.3.4. New Utility for Sharing Script Configuration Settings. . . . . . 19

2.3.5. New LTE Information Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.3.6. New Connectable Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.3.6.1. UMTS Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.3.6.2. LTE Scanner: Rohde & Schwarz TSMW . . . . . . . . . 20

2.3.7. Support for SSH2 Protocol in Iperf Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.3.8. Support for 64-bit Windows 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.3.9. Performance Improvements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.3.10. Additional New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2.3.11. New Features in TEMS Investigation 13.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3. Basics of TEMS Investigation 23

3.1. Recommended Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.2. Installing TEMS Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.3. Starting TEMS Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.4. Quick Guide to the User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

4. User Interface 26

4.1. User Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

4.2. Workspaces and Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

4.2.1. Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

4.2.1.1. Opening Workspaces from a Command Prompt . . . 28

4.2.1.2. Predefined Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4.2.2. Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284.3. The Toolbars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.3.1. Record Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.3.2. Replay Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.3.3. Report Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.3.4. File and View Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.4. The Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.4.1. Help Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.4.2. “Play” Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.4.3. “Record” Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31


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4.5. The Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4.6. Keyboard Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

5. The Navigator 33

5.1. Equipment Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.2. Menu Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.3. Info Element Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

5.3.1. Presentation Attributes of Information Elements . . . . . . . . . 34

5.3.2. Editing the Color Ranges of Information Elements . . . . . . . 34

5.3.2.1. Automatic Setup of Color Ranges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

5.3.2.2. Manual Setup of Color Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

5.3.3. Editing the Marker Sizes and Symbols of InformationElements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

5.4. Logfile Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

5.5. Worksheets Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

6. Cell Data 38

6.1. Creating a Cell File in XML Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

6.2. Creating a Cell File in CEL Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

6.3. Loading Cell Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396.4. Loading Cell Data from Mentum CellPlanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

6.5. Use of Cell Data in Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

7. Managing External Equipment: General 41

7.1. Connectable Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

7.2. Overview of User Interface Components Dealing with External

Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

8. Activating External Equipment 43

8.1. Plugging In External Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

8.1.1. Plugging In Phones and Data Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

8.1.2. Plugging In Ericsson Fixed Wireless Terminals . . . . . . . . . . 44

8.1.3. Plugging In Scanners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

8.1.4. Plugging In GPS Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

8.1.5. Plugging In Equipment Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

8.1.6. Plugging In Stand-alone AQM Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45


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8.2. Starting TEMS Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

8.3. The Navigator Equipment Tab: Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

8.3.1. Top Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

8.3.1.1. Device Context Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

8.3.2. Bottom Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

8.3.2.1. “Activities” Subtab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

8.3.2.2. “Information” Subtab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

8.3.3. Detection of Equipment: Special Cases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

8.3.3.1. Detection of PCTel SeeGull EX Scanner . . . . . . . . . 48

8.3.3.2. Detection of PCTel SeeGull MX Scanner . . . . . . . . . 48

8.3.3.3. Detection of DRT Scanners and Rohde & Schwarz

TSMW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

8.3.3.4. Detection of HTC Touch Pro2 Phones . . . . . . . . . . . 48

8.3.3.5. Detection of Equipment Not Covered by License . . . 498.3.3.6. Detection of Network Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

8.3.4. User-assisted Detection of Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

8.3.4.1. Mapping Device Ports to Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

8.3.4.2. Qualcomm Devices with LTE/TD-LTE Capability . . . 53

8.3.4.3. LG and Samsung Devices with LTE Capability. . . . . 54

8.3.4.4. Data Service Testing with Arbitrary Devices. . . . . . . 55

8.4. Activating and Deactivating External Equipment in TEMS

Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8.4.1. Activating External Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

8.4.2. Deactivating External Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

8.5. Managing GPS Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

8.6. Further Features of the Navigator’s Equipment Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.6.1. The Refresh Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.6.2. Re-pairing Phones with AQM Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.6.2.1. Details and Limitations of the Re-pairing Function . . 59

8.6.3. Device Detection Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

8.7. Saving of the Equipment Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

9. Operating and Controlling External EquipmentManually 61

9.1. Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

9.1.1. Control Function Support by Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.1.2. AT Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.1.3. Band Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.1.4. Cell Barred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63


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9.1.5. Cell Lock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

9.1.5.1. Cell Lock in GSM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

9.1.5.2. Cell Lock in WCDMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

9.1.6. Nonvolatile Item Read/Write. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

9.1.7. PESQ Device Pairing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

9.1.8. Radio Access Technology Lock (Lock on RAT). . . . . . . . . . 69

9.1.8.1. RAT Lock vs. Technology-specific Control

Functions: Sony Ericsson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

9.1.8.2. RAT Lock vs. Technology-specific Control

Functions: Nokia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

9.1.9. RRC WCDMA Capability Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

9.2. Voice/Video Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

9.3. Data Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

9.3.1. Presentation of Data Service Testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729.4. Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

10. The Status Control Monitor 73

10.1. Equipment Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

10.2. Positioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

10.3. Service Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

10.4. Computer Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

10.5. Logfile Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

10.6. Context Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

11. Logfiles 76

11.1. Recording Logfiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

11.1.1. Inserting Filemarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

11.1.2. Further Recording Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

11.1.3. Positioning Logfiles by Pinpointing in the Map Window . . . 79

11.1.3.1. Basic Pinpointing Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

11.1.3.2. Advice on Pinpointing and Recording . . . . . . . . . . . 81

11.2. Loading Logfiles for Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

11.2.1. Opening a Logfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

11.2.2. Logfile Metadata and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

11.2.2.1. “General” Subtab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

11.2.2.2. “Equipment” Subtab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

11.2.2.3. “Activities” Subtab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

11.2.2.4. “Statistics” Subtab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85


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11.2.3. Loading Logfile Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

11.2.3.1. Play Section of Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

11.3. Loading Logfiles from Other Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

11.4. Viewing Logfile Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8711.5. Logfile Transfer via FTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

11.5.1. Setting Up Logfile Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

11.5.1.1. FTP Server Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

11.5.1.2. Logfile Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

11.5.1.3. Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

11.5.1.4. Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

11.5.2. Starting Logfile Transfers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

11.6. Exporting Logfiles in Other Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

11.6.1. Preparing an Export Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

11.6.2. Specifying the Contents of Export Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9211.6.2.1. Selecting Information Elements to Export. . . . . . . . 92

11.6.2.2. Text File Specific Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

11.6.2.3. MapInfo Specific Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

11.6.2.4. ArcView Specific Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

11.6.2.5. Marconi Planet Specific Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

11.6.2.6. Ethereal (Wireshark) Specific Settings . . . . . . . . . . 98

11.6.2.7. MDM Specific Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

11.6.2.8. Saving and Loading Export Setups. . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

11.6.3. Executing Export Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9911.6.4. Command Line Controlled Logfile Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

11.6.4.1. Mandatory Command Line Switches . . . . . . . . . . . 99

11.6.4.2. Optional Command Line Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

11.6.4.3. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

11.7. Merging Uplink AQM Data into Logfiles (UMTS) . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

11.7.1. Retrieving Uplink AQM Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

11.7.2. Preparing and Performing a Merge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

11.8. Generating Logfile Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

11.8.1. IE Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

11.8.2. Events Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

11.8.3. Mobiles Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

11.8.4. Scanned Channels Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

11.8.5. User Details Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

11.8.6. Saving and Loading Report Setups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

11.8.7. Generating the Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

11.8.8. Report Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110


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12. The Pinpoint Window 112

12.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

12.2. Creating Planned Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11212.2.1. Opening a Map Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

12.2.1.1. Supported File Formats Holding Map Sets . . . . . . 112

12.2.1.2. Map Set Metadata Shown in Pop-out Pane . . . . . 113

12.2.2. Map Handling and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

12.2.3. Creating a New Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

12.2.4. Editing a Route. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

12.2.5. Deleting a Route. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

12.2.6. Unloading a Map Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

12.3. Walking Planned Routes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

12.3.1. Loading and Walking a Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11812.3.2. Repeating Parts of a Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

12.3.3. Skipping Waypoints of a Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

12.4. Relation to Other TEMS Investigation Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

12.4.1. Data Presentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

12.4.2. Coexistence Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

13. Scanning: General 123

13.1. Setting Up a Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

13.2. Performing a Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

13.3. Recording Scan Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

13.4. Presenting Scan Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

13.5. Technical Data on Scanning Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

13.6. Notes on Scanner Multitasking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

13.6.1. PCTel Scanners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

13.6.2. DRT Scanners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

13.6.3. Rohde & Schwarz TSMW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

13.6.4. Sony Ericsson Phones and SRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12613.7. Notes on GPS Units in Scanners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

14. GSM Scanning 127

14.1. Scanning Methods and Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

14.2. RSSI Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

14.2.1. Setup of RSSI Scan: General Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

14.2.2. Setup of RSSI Scan: Sony Ericsson, SRU. . . . . . . . . . . . 128


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14.2.3. Setup of RSSI Scan: PCTel SeeGull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

14.2.4. Setup of RSSI Scan: Rohde & Schwarz TSMW . . . . . . . 130

14.2.5. Presentation of RSSI Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

14.3. Spectrum Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

15. WCDMA Scanning 132


15.2. Pilot Scanning (with SCH Scanning). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

15.2.1. Setup of Pilot Scan: General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

15.2.2. Setup of Pilot Scan: Sony Ericsson, SRU . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

15.2.3. Setup of Pilot Scan: PCTel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

15.2.4. Setup of Pilot Scan: Rohde & Schwarz TSMW . . . . . . . . 138

15.2.5. Setup of Pilot Scan: Anritsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

15.2.6. Presentation: General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

15.2.7. Presentation: “CPICH Scan” Bar Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

15.2.8. Presentation: “CPICH Data” Status Windows . . . . . . . . . 141

15.2.9. Presentation: “CPICH Scan” Line Charts. . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

15.2.10. Presentation: Synch Channel Data Window . . . . . . . . . 145

15.2.11. Presentation: “Finger Info” Status Windows . . . . . . . . . 146

15.2.12. Presentation: BCH Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

15.2.13. Customizing the Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

15.2.13.1. Sorting of Scrambling Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14615.2.13.2. Presenting Scrambling Codes from Multiple

UARFCNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

15.3. SCH Timeslot Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

15.3.1. Setup of SCH Timeslot Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

15.3.1.1. General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

15.3.1.2. Context Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

15.3.2. Presentation: SCH Timeslot Scan Bar Chart . . . . . . . . . . 148

15.4. RSSI Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

15.4.1. Setup of RSSI Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14915.4.1.1. General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149


15.4.2. Presentation: RSSI Scan Bar Chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150


15.5.1. Setup of Spectrum Analysis Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151



15.5.2. Presentation: Spectrum Analysis Bar Charts. . . . . . . . . . 152


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15.6. Network Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

15.6.1. Setup of Network Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153


15.6.1.2. UARFCN Ranges (“Interval 1, 2, 3”) . . . . . . . . . . . 153


15.6.2. Presentation: Network Search Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

16. LTE Scanning 155


16.2. LTE Signal Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

16.2.1. Setup of LTE Signal Scan: General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

16.2.2. Setup of LTE Signal Scan: Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

16.2.3. Setup of LTE Signal Scan: DRT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

16.2.4. Setup of LTE Signal Scan: PCTel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

16.2.5. Setup of LTE Signal Scan: Rohde & Schwarz TSMW . . . 161

16.2.6. Presentation of LTE Signal Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

16.2.7. Customizing the Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

16.2.7.1. Sorting of Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

16.3. RSSI Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

16.3.1. Setup of RSSI Scan: General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

16.3.2. Setup of RSSI Scan: DRT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

16.3.3. Setup of RSSI Scan: PCTel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16416.3.4. Presentation of RSSI Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

16.4. Spectrum Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

16.4.1. Setup of Spectrum Scan: General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

16.4.2. Setup of Spectrum Scan: Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

16.4.3. Setup of Spectrum Scan: DRT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

16.4.4. Setup of Spectrum Scan: PCTel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

16.4.5. Spectrum Scan Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

16.5. Enhanced Power Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

16.5.1. Setup of Enhanced Power Scan: General . . . . . . . . . . . . 16616.5.2. Setup of Enhanced Power Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

16.5.3. Presentation of Enhanced Power Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

17. TD-SCDMA Scanning 168

17.1. Scanning Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

17.2. General Scan Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

17.3. Pilot Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

17.3.1. Setup of Pilot Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169


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17.3.2. Presentation of Pilot Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

17.3.2.1. Sorting of Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

17.4. RSSI Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

17.4.1. Setup of RSSI Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

17.4.2. Presentation of RSSI Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

18. CDMA Scanning 172

18.1. Scanning Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172


18.3. Pilot Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

18.3.1. Setup of Pilot Scan: Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

18.3.2. Setup of Pilot Scan: PCTel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17418.3.3. Presentation: “PN Scan” Bar Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

18.3.4. Presentation: Strongest Scanned PN Bar Chart . . . . . . . 178

18.3.5. Customizing the Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

18.3.5.1. Sorting of Pilots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

18.4. RSSI Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179


18.4.2. Presentation: RSSI Scan Bar Chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

18.5. Narrowband Interference Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

18.5.1. Setup of Narrowband Interference Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

18.5.1.1. General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18018.5.1.2. Context Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

18.5.1.3. Interference Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

18.5.2. Presentation: Narrowband Interference Scan Bar Chart . 180





18.6.2. Presentation of Spectrum Analysis Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

19. WiMAX Scanning 183

19.1. Scanning Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183


19.3. Preamble Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

19.3.1. Setup of Preamble Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

19.4. RSSI Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187



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19.5. Spectrum Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187


19.6. Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

20. Service Control 189

20.1. Introduction to Service Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

20.2. Capabilities of Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

20.3. Supported Services by Cellular Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

20.4. The Service Control Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

20.5. Basics of Creating Scripts (with Voice) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

20.6. Setting Up a Network Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

20.7. Setting Up a Data Service Activity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19620.8. Stand-alone PS Attach and Detach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

20.9. Snippets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

20.10. Workflow Control Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

20.10.1. Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

20.10.2. If–Else Constructs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

20.10.3. While Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

20.10.4. Parallel Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

20.10.4.1. Example 1: CS Voice/Video – Caller and

Receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20420.10.4.2. Example 2: Concurrent Activities on Different

Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

20.10.4.3. Example 3: Concurrent Activities on the Same

Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

20.10.5. Wait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

20.10.6. Wait For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

20.10.6.1. Waiting For a Scheduled Point in Time. . . . . . . . 211

20.10.6.2. Waiting For a Given Outcome of an Activity . . . . 212

20.10.7. Terminate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

20.11. Editing Workflows and Script Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

20.12. Activity Properties That Control Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

20.13. UE Control Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

20.14. Validating Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

20.15. Running Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

20.15.1. General Aspects of Script Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

20.15.2. Preparations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

20.15.2.1. Windows 7/Windows Vista and IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . 216

20.15.3. Running Scripts from the Service Control Monitor . . . . . 217

20.15.3.1. Monitoring Equipment Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217


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20.15.3.2. Viewing Statistics on Script Execution . . . . . . . . 217

20.15.4. Running Scripts from the Service Control Designer . . . 218

20.15.5. Suppressing Parts of a Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

20.15.6. Presentation of Data Service Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

20.16. Activities (Reference Section). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

20.16.1. Control Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

20.16.1.1. Activate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

20.16.1.2. AT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

20.16.1.3. Band Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

20.16.1.4. Deactivate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

20.16.1.5. Filemark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

20.16.1.6. Radio Access Technology Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

20.16.1.7. Start Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

20.16.1.8. Stop Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22120.16.1.9. Notes on Script-controlled Logfile Recording . . . 221

20.16.2. Control Flow Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

20.16.2.1. If–Else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

20.16.2.2. While . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

20.16.2.3. Parallel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

20.16.2.4. Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

20.16.2.5. Terminate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

20.16.2.6. Wait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

20.16.2.7. Wait For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

20.16.3. IP Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

20.16.3.1. Network Connect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

20.16.3.2. Network Disconnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

20.16.3.3. PS Attach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

20.16.3.4. PS Detach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

20.16.3.5. SIP Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

20.16.3.6. SIP Unregister. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

20.16.3.7. Start IP Sniffing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

20.16.3.8. Stop IP Sniffing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

20.16.3.9. FTP Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23220.16.3.10. FTP Upload. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

20.16.3.11. HTTP Get . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

20.16.3.12. WAP Get . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

20.16.3.13. Ping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

20.16.3.14. UDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

20.16.3.15. Network Bandwidth (Iperf Testing) . . . . . . . . . . 239

20.16.3.16. Predefined Snippets for IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

20.16.4. Messaging Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

20.16.4.1. E-mail Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241


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20.16.4.2. E-mail Receive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

20.16.4.3. MMS Send. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

20.16.4.4. MMS Receive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

20.16.4.5. SMS Send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

20.16.4.6. SMS Receive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

20.16.4.7. Predefined Snippets for Messaging . . . . . . . . . . 245

20.16.5. Video Activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

20.16.5.1. Video Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

20.16.5.2. Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

20.16.5.3. Hang Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

20.16.5.4. Streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

20.16.5.5. WAP Streaming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

20.16.5.6. Predefined Snippets for Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

20.16.6. Voice Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24720.16.6.1. Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

20.16.6.2. Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

20.16.6.3. Hang Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

20.16.6.4. PESQ Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

20.16.6.5. VoIP Dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

20.16.6.6. VoIP Answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

20.16.6.7. VoIP Hang Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

20.16.6.8. VoIP Voice Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

20.16.6.9. How to Set Up VoIP Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

20.16.6.10. Predefined Snippets for Voice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

20.17. General Activity Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

20.17.1. Activity Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

20.17.2. Failure Handling Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

20.17.3. Termination Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

20.18. Configuration Sets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

20.18.1. Descriptions of Configuration Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

20.18.2. Managing Configuration Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

20.18.2.1. Exporting Configuration Sets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

20.18.2.2. Importing Configuration Sets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25320.18.2.3. Deleting Configuration Sets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

20.19. Saving and Loading Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

20.19.1. Tutorial on Porting Scripts between PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

20.19.2. Saving Workflow as Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

20.20. Further Functionality in the Service Control Designer Window. 256

20.20.1. Activity Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

20.20.2. Context Menu in Workflow Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

20.20.3. Zooming the Workflow Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257


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21. Device Properties 258

21.1. Overview of Properties by Device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

21.2. Properties of ST-Ericsson Chipset Based Phones . . . . . . . . . . . 26021.2.1. Extended Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

21.2.2. Common Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

21.2.2.1. CAS Access Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

21.2.2.2. CAS Lock on PLMN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

21.2.2.3. CAS Speech Codec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

21.2.2.4. GSM Adjacent Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

21.2.2.5. GSM Barred Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

21.2.2.6. GSM Cell Selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

21.2.2.7. GSM EDGE Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

21.2.2.8. GSM Handover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26421.2.2.9. GSM Tx Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

21.2.2.10. Layer 3 Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

21.2.2.11. WCDMA Barred Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

21.2.2.12. WCDMA BLER Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

21.2.2.13. WCDMA Cell Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

21.2.2.14. WCDMA RRC Radio Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

21.3. Properties of Nokia Phones (NTM3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

21.3.1. Channel Lock Control (GSM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

21.3.2. GSM Cell Barring Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26821.3.3. Sector Lock Control (WCDMA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

21.4. Properties of Qualcomm Chipset Based Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . 269

21.5. Properties of Samsung LTE Modems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

21.6. Properties of GPS Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

22. Events 270

22.1. Presentation of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

22.2. Predefined and User-defined Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27022.3. Setting Up a User-defined Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

22.3.1. Adding a Layer 3 Message to the Event Expression . . . . 271

22.3.2. Adding an Information Element Criterion to the Event

Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

22.3.3. Adding an Event to the Event Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

22.3.4. Adding an Operator/Delimiter to the Event Expression . . 272

22.4. Editing User-defined Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

22.5. Deleting User-defined Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

22.6. Example of Event Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273


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22.7. Audio Indications for Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

22.7.1. Adding Audio Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

22.7.2. Editing Audio Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

22.7.3. Activating Audio Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

22.7.4. Deactivating Audio Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

22.7.5. Muting All Audio Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

22.7.6. Saving and Loading Audio Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

22.7.7. Deleting Audio Indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

23. Presentation: Basics 278

23.1. Presented Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

23.2. Types of Presentation Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

23.3. Device Channels: MS/DC/PS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

23.3.1. “Set Equipment Number” Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

23.4. Window Updating and Synchronization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

23.5. Color Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

23.6. Other Window Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

23.7. Export/Import of Presentation Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

23.7.1. Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

23.7.2. Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

24. Status Windows 282

24.1. General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

24.2. Setting Up Status Window Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

24.3. Changing Status Window Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

24.4. Repeating Columns in Multiple Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

24.5. Changing the Status Window Font Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

24.6. Non-standard Status Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

24.6.1. TD-SCDMA Physical Channel Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29024.6.1.1. Window Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

24.6.2. CDMA Finger Info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

25. Event Counter Windows 292

25.1. Window Tabs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

25.2. Copying Window Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

25.3. Resetting Event Counter Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293


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25.4. Changing Event Counter Window Contents and Properties . . . . 293

25.4.1. General Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

25.4.2. Events Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

26. Message Windows 294

26.1. Changing Message Window Contents and Properties . . . . . . . . 294

26.1.1. General Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

26.1.2. Messages Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

26.1.3. Events Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

26.1.4. Columns Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

26.2. Plain-text Message Decoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

26.3. Presentation of Discarded Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

26.4. Message Window Catch-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

26.5. Message Window Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

26.6. Freezing a Message Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

26.7. Filtering, Searching, and Highlighting in Message Windows . . . 297

26.7.1. Filtering Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

26.7.2. Search Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

26.7.3. Highlighting Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

26.8. Window-specific Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

26.8.1. Mode Reports Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

27. Video Streaming and the Video Monitor 301

27.1. How to Test Video Streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

27.2. The Video Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

27.2.1. Properties of the Video Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

27.3. Evaluating Video Streaming Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

27.4. Troubleshooting Video Streaming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

28. The GPS Window 304

28.1. Changing GPS Window Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

29. Line Charts 306

29.1. Organization of the Line Chart Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

29.2. Contents of the Line Chart Panes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

29.3. Time Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308


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29.4. Changing Line Chart Contents and Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

29.4.1. Adding Charts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

29.4.2. Editing General Properties of a Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

29.4.3. Editing the Contents of a Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

29.4.4. Presenting Data from a Different Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

29.4.5. Deleting a Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

29.5. Exporting the Line Chart Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

30. Bar Charts 314

30.1. Organization of the Bar Chart Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

30.2. Contents of the Bar Chart Panes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

30.3. Setting Up General Bar Chart Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31730.3.1. Adding Charts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

30.3.2. Deleting a Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

30.3.3. Editing General Properties of a Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

30.4. Setting Up Bar Chart Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

30.4.1. Presentation Mode, Data, Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

30.4.1.1. Single IE Presentation Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

30.4.1.2. Multiple IE Components Presentation Mode. . . . . 321

30.4.1.3. Parallel Coordinates/Stacked Bar Chart

Presentation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

30.4.2. Interval and Labeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32830.4.3. Additional Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

30.4.4. Presenting Data from a Different Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

30.5. Examples of Bar Chart Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

30.6. Exporting the Bar Chart Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

31. Map Windows 333

31.1. Highlights of This Chapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

31.2. Map Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

31.3. Constructing a GeoSet from Map Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

31.4. Positioning Bitmap and TIF Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

31.4.1. Specifying the Map Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

31.4.2. Specifying the Map Scale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

31.4.3. Setting the Map’s North Direction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

31.5. Presenting Data: Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

31.5.1. Themes and Theme Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

31.5.2. Presentation Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338


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31.5.3. Presenting Information Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

31.5.3.1. Notes on Route Plotting and Updating . . . . . . . . . 341

31.5.4. Presenting Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

31.5.5. Presenting Cell Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

31.5.5.1. The Cell Theme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

31.5.5.2. The Cell Line Theme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

31.5.5.3. The Cell Color Theme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

31.5.5.4. The Cell ARFCN Theme (GSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

31.5.6. Presenting Pinpointing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

31.5.7. Editing Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

31.5.8. Visibility of Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

31.5.9. Reordering Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

31.5.10. Deleting Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

31.6. The Right-hand Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35531.6.1. Information on Single Theme Markers (Info Tab) . . . . . . 355

31.6.2. Theme Statistics (Info and Graph Tabs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

31.6.3. Theme Legend (Legend Tab) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

31.7. Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

31.7.1. Adding Presentation Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

31.7.2. Layer Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

31.8. Map Context Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

31.8.1. The Scale Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

31.8.2. Previous View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36031.8.3. View Entire Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

31.8.4. Setting the Map Projection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

31.9. The Map Window Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

31.10. GeoSet Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

31.10.1. Layer Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

31.10.2. Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

32. The General Window 364

33. Key Performance Indicators – KPIs (UMTS) 365

33.1. Purpose of KPIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

33.1.1. Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

33.1.2. Retainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

33.1.3. Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

33.2. Obtaining KPIs with TEMS Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

33.2.1. General Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366


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33.2.2. Obtaining Significant KPI Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

33.2.3. “Events of KPI Type” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

34. Speech Quality Index – SQI 368

34.1. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

34.1.1. SQI for UMTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

34.1.2. SQI for CDMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

34.2. Input to the SQI-MOS Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

34.2.1. UMTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

34.2.2. CDMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

34.3. SQI-MOS Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

34.3.1. Narrowband vs. Wideband SQI-MOS (UMTS). . . . . . . . . 371

34.3.2. SQI-MOS vs. Old SQI (UMTS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

34.4. Alignment of SQI-MOS and PESQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

34.4.1. Notes on PESQ for Wideband (UMTS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

34.5. Comparison with Other Radio Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

35. Audio Quality Measurement (AQM): General 374

35.1. Measurement Setups in TEMS Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

36. AQM with Call Generator/MRU 375

36.1. Mobile-to-fixed Audio Quality Measurement with Call Generator. .375

36.2. Mobile-to-mobile Audio Quality Measurement with MRU . . . . . . 377

36.3. Obtaining AQM Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

36.3.1. Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

36.3.2. Practical Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

36.3.3. Recording AQM Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

36.4. Merging Uplink AQM Data into Logfiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37936.5. Presentation of AQM Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

36.5.1. Information Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

36.5.2. PESQ Key Performance Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

37. AQM with Audio Capturing Unit (ACU) 381


37.1.1. Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

37.1.2. Preparations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382


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37.1.3. Recording AQM Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

37.1.3.1. Recommended Structure of AQM Scripts . . . . . . . 383

37.2. Presentation of AQM Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

37.2.1. Information Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

37.2.2. PESQ Key Performance Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

37.3. Notes on PESQ Scores Obtained with Individual Phone Models. .385

38. AQM for VoIP 386


38.2. Presentation of AQM Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

39. Video Telephony Quality Index – VTQI 388

39.1. General Properties of VTQI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

39.2. What VTQI Is Based On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

39.3. What VTQI Does Not Consider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

39.4. Update Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

40. Video Streaming Quality Index – VSQI 390

40.1. General Properties of VSQI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

40.2. What VSQI Is Based On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

40.3. What VSQI Does Not Consider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

40.4. Static and Dynamic VSQI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

40.4.1. Static VSQI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

40.4.2. Dynamic (Realtime) VSQI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

41. Mobile TV Quality Index – MTQI 394

42. C/I Measurement (GSM) 395

42.1. Why Measure C/I? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

42.2. Requirements on a Robust C/I Measure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

42.3. Details on C/I Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

42.4. Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

42.5. An Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396


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43. GSM Channel Verification 398

43.1. The GSM Channel Verification Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

43.2. Adding a Test Case. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39943.3. Editing and Removing Test Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

43.4. Automatic vs. Manual Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

43.5. Activating Phones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

43.6. Running the Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

43.6.1. Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

43.6.2. Manual Verification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

43.6.3. Automatic Verification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

43.6.4. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

43.7. Stopping the Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40543.8. Resetting a Test Case. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

43.9. Summary of Test Case Status Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

43.10. Creating Test Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

43.11. Saving and Opening Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

43.12. Notes on Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

43.13. Error Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Appendix A. Keyboard Shortcuts 409

A.1. General Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

A.2. Drive Testing Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

A.3. Logfile Load Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

A.4. Shortcuts for Active Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Appendix B. File Types in TEMS Investigation 413

Appendix C. Comparison with Pre-12.0 UserInterface 415

C.1. Equipment Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

C.2. Service Control vs. Command Sequences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

C.3. “Data” Category Information Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

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1. Introduction

Thank you for choosing TEMS Investigation – the industry-leading tool for

troubleshooting, verification, optimization, and maintenance of wireless

networks. Offering data collection, real-time analysis, and post-processing all

in one, TEMS Investigation is a complete solution for all of a network

operator’s daily network optimization tasks. This complete solution eliminates

the need for multiple tools, reducing costs and saving time and effort foroperations staff.

To get the most out of TEMS Investigation, please take the time to read this

user manual in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the product

features.

Note: Please note that the TEMS Investigation product exists in various

editions, all of which are covered by the product documentation

but are not differentiated there. This means that descriptions of

functionality and external device compatibility are not necessarily

applicable in every single respect to the TEMS Investigation

edition you have purchased. Any restrictions that apply to your

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1.1. Fundamentals of TEMS Investigation 14.0

TEMS Investigation 14.0 is an air interface test tool for cellular networks,

supporting all of the following technologies:

• GSM/GPRS/EGPRS

• WCDMA/HSPA/HSPA+

• LTE (FDD and TDD)

• TD-SCDMA (including interaction with GSM)

• cdmaOne/cdma2000/EV-DO Rel. 0/EV-DO Rev. A/EV-DO Rev. B

• WiMAX (scanning only)

TEMS Investigation enables monitoring of voice and video telephony as wellas a variety of data services over packet-switched and circuit-switched

connections.

TEMS Investigation is primarily a tool for data collection and real-time

analysis. It interfaces with phones, data cards, scanners, and other

measurement devices; it collects data and records it in logfiles. The

application also boasts a vast array of windows for presentation of logfile

data.

Still more powerful post-processing facilities are provided by the product

TEMS Discovery.

1.1.1. Package Options – Licensing

TEMS Investigation can be purchased with or without data collection

capability (“Base Software Package” and “Replay Package” respectively).

Customers who dispense with TEMS Investigation data collection are still

able to use the non-realtime functions of the application (analysis of a single

logfile, logfile reports, logfile export).

Supported cellular technologies can be freely selected and combined, except

that WCDMA always comes with GSM support included.

The Base Software Package provides the ability to collect data with Sony

Ericsson phones in UMTS networks and with Qualcomm chipset based

terminals in CDMA networks. Other phones are licensed separately for each

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The Base Software Package permits data collection with one phone at a time.

A separate license option is available for collecting data with multiple phones

concurrently.

Audio quality measurement (AQM), including PESQ/POLQA, is likewise soldas a separate option. This option includes all required hardware as well as

the ability to connect that hardware to TEMS Investigation. Audio quality

measurement is supported for GSM, WCDMA, and CDMA.

1.1.2. Connectable Equipment

TEMS Investigation 14.0 supports a wide variety of user terminals, including

ones from Sony Ericsson, HTC, Huawei, Leadcore, LG, Nokia, Novatel

Wireless, Option, Pantech, Samsung, Sequans, Sierra Wireless, and ZTE.These terminals are built on chipsets from ST-Ericsson, Altair, GCT,

Qualcomm, and Sequans. Together they allow comprehensive monitoring of

UMTS, LTE, TD-SCDMA, and CDMA networks and of interaction among

them (for example, GERAN–UTRAN–E-UTRAN inter-RAT handover).

A variety of devices are supported for GSM, WCDMA, LTE, TD-SCDMA,

CDMA, and WiMAX scanning, including ones from Ascom, Anritsu, DRT,

PCTel, and Rohde & Schwarz.

GPS units can be connected for geographical positioning. For indoor

environments, positioning by pinpointing (either manual or according toplanned routes) is supported.

See the Getting Started Manual, section 10.1 for further details on the range

of connectable equipment.

The number of external devices that can be connected simultaneously in the

application is dependent on many factors, such as whether a data service is

being run. See the Release Note for further information.

1.2. What’s in This Manual (and What’s Not)

This book describes the user interface of TEMS Investigation 14.0. It

concentrates on how to use that application once it has been installed and all

external devices are connected and ready for use. The manual gives a

comprehensive account of all functions in the application.

The Information Elements and Events volume provides full details on all

IEs and events found in the application. It also lists and describes all

preconfigured presentation windows.

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The Technical Reference volume contains file and report format

descriptions, and other information of a technical nature.

Besides the above reference manuals, a Getting Started Manual is provided

which covers all preliminaries; crucially the following:

• Configuring the PC for TEMS Investigation

• Installing the TEMS Investigation software

• Licensing issues

• Configuring the PC and phones for data services

How to activate, operate, and control external equipment is described in the

present document.

External Equipment

The basics on external devices are covered in the Getting Started Manual,

chapter 10.

In the remainder of this book, external devices are discussed further

whenever certain capabilities are required in order for a function in TEMS

Investigation to be supported. The manual does not describe the full range of

functions and capabilities of the connectable phones. For exhaustive

information, please refer to the documentation accompanying the phones.

The same applies to all other third-party products mentioned in the manuals.

Data Service Testing

Configuration of the PC and external devices is covered in the Getting Started

Manual. The present document describes how to conduct data sessions from

within TEMS Investigation using Service Control scripts (see chapter 20).

Equipment Cases

The TEMS equipment cases, designed to accommodate phones and otherequipment during drive tests, are not covered here but have their own

manuals. These, however, sometimes refer to TEMS Investigation

documentation.

Release Note

Some technical issues not addressed in this manual are dealt with in the file

ReleaseNote.pdf which is found in the TEMS Investigation installation folder.

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FAQ

Many questions regarding TEMS Investigation are answered in the FAQ

sections found on the Web at www.ascom.com/en/index/support/support-

tems/technical-support/tems-investigation.htm.

Technical Support

If you have a question about TEMS Investigation which is not answered in

any of the manuals nor in any of the other sources mentioned above, please

contact technical support. Contact information is given on the Web at

www.ascom.com/networktesting under the link “TEMS Support”.

TEMS Bulletins

TEMS Bulletins contain updates on new TEMS product releases, events, and

general information about the TEMS portfolio. You can also obtain up-to-date

details on patch releases. To sign up for this free service, go to

www.ascom.com/networktesting and, under the heading “TEMS Bulletins”,

click the link “Register for TEMS Bulletins”. Along with this material you will

also receive our customer magazine, TEMS News.

1.3. Definitions

This section explains a number of central concepts in TEMS Investigation

which are frequently referred to in this user manual.

Data Services

This term refers to services requiring a data connection (either circuit-

switched or packet-switched), as opposed to voice calls.

Event

An event is generated by the TEMS Investigation software in order to indicatethat something worthy of note has occurred, either in the cellular network or in

connected equipment. A number of events are predefined. Besides these,

you can define events of your own.

All predefined events are found in Information Elements and Events,

chapter 7.

User-defined events are specified by logical expressions which trigger the

event when they evaluate to true. These expressions can contain predefined

events, Layer 3 messages, and conditions involving information elements.

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Information Element

Information elements are pieces of numeric or text-format data that are

presentable in the TEMS Investigation user interface. All information

elements handled by TEMS Investigation are found in Information Elementsand Events, chapter 3.

Information Element, Argument of

Many information elements contain an array of values rather than a single

value. To pick one item from the array, an argument is used.

For instance, the GSM information element Neighbor RxLev contains the

signal strengths of all neighboring channels (there may be up to 32). To

present the signal strength of a particular neighbor channel, you must specify

an argument in the form of a neighbor index between 1 and 32.

Complete details on the arguments of information elements are given in

Information Elements and Events, chapter 3.

Message

The term “message” in this user manual generally denotes an air interface

message described in the wireless technology specifications, most often a

Layer 3 message. A “message window”, however (chapter 26), may list either

air interface messages, or mode or error reports produced by phones, ormessages from various protocols, or events.

Mode Report

A mode report is a status or measurement report generated by a phone.

Phone

The term “phone” covers user terminals from all supported technologies.

When a subset is meant, a suitable qualifier is prefixed, and/or a moreprecise term is used (“GSM phone”, “Sony Ericsson GSM phone”, “LG UE”,

“Samsung LTE modem”, “Sierra Wireless CDMA data card”, etc.).

Some user terminals supported by TEMS Investigation are in fact data cards,

USB modems, etc. rather than phones. The word “terminal” is therefore

sometimes used instead of “phone”, without any difference in meaning from

the point of view of TEMS Investigation.

Route

The term “route” refers to a planned route created in the Pinpoint Window.

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Scanner

The term “scanner” denotes a device dedicated to scanning, for example a

PCTel scanner. Phones with scanning capabilities are not referred to as

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2. Recently Introduced Features

in TEMS Investigation

2.1. What’s New in TEMS Investigation 14.0

2.1.1. Control Functions for SmartphonesTEMS products have a long tradition of offering unique device control

capabilities that rely on advanced measurement capabilities in the device

hardware. TEMS Investigation 14.0 continues and reinforces this tradition by

adding the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S smartphone as a connectable

device. This is a Qualcomm chipset based device running under Android, and

it obeys the following control commands:

• Lock to RAT

• Lock to band (WCDMA and GSM)• Control cell selection and handover (WCDMA and GSM)

• Set cell barred behavior (WCDMA and GSM)

• Enable/Disable HS capability

The Samsung Infuse 4G smartphone (ST-Ericsson chipset based), likewise

new as a connectable device, supports all of the above commands as well as

the following:

• Control access class

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2.1.2. New Logfile Format

The old logfile format (*.log) is replaced in TEMS Investigation 14.0 by a new

format with extension .trp. The new format embodies a more flexible and

versatile framework for recording of measurement data:

• Multiple logfiles can be recorded in parallel, each recording being wholly

independent of the others. The activities of one device can be recorded in

any number of logfiles simultaneously.

• In logfile recording controlled by a script, you can opt to record only a

subset of the activated devices.

• At creation time, you can tag logfiles with metadata which can serve as

an aid to locating, sorting, and categorizing the files later on. Some of this

metadata is also visible in Windows Explorer.

• The logfile size is significantly reduced compared to the LOG format.

When loading a completed logfile into TEMS Investigation later on for

analysis, extensive information about the file appears on a new Navigator tab

called the Logfile tab. Here you can view not only general information (time

and space coordinates, descriptive metadata added at recording time, and

more) but also:

• A list of the participating devices with accompanying key properties

(capabilities, hardware identifiers, and more), presented in the same wayas in live mode. If you wish, you can hide data from selected devices in

the logfile presentation.

• A complete chronology of the activities performed by all devices, and

their outcomes. The chronology can be grouped by device or activity type,

or filtered to show only one device or one type of activity.

• Activity statistics: Total/succeeded/failed/aborted.

Full compatibility with the old logfile format (*.log) is of course maintained.

2.1.3. Speech Quality Measurement with POLQA

POLQA, defined in the ITU P.863 standard, is the successor of PESQ, being

specially developed for HD voice, 3G and 4G/LTE, and VoIP. POLQA is

introduced in TEMS Investigation 14.0 as a speech quality measurement

algorithm for VoIP. CS voice support will follow in a later release.

The POLQA (Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Analysis) algorithm is

designed along similar lines as PESQ, being a reference-based method that

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quality. However, it has been refined to eliminate known weaknesses of

PESQ, particularly in these areas:

• Handling of new and complex types of distortions that arise from today’s

convergence and coexistence of voice, data, and multimedia applicationservices. One example is the effects of packet loss and of packet loss

concealment.

• Performance for higher-bandwidth audio signals (wideband, super-

wideband).

• Performance for CDMA speech codecs and hence for CDMA networks in

general.

2.1.4. Searching, Filtering, and Highlighting in MessageWindows

New functions for searching, filtering, and visual highlighting have been

implemented in message windows in order to accelerate analysis. The

search functions essentially correspond to the Find in Logfile feature in

previous product versions, which has been removed. You can:

• Find arbitrary text in message headers. Optionally, the full message

contents can be searched. Case and whole-word matching is available. A

“find next/find previous” feature is included for easy stepping back andforth between hits (can be done with the keyboard arrow keys).

• Show only messages of a selected type.

• Hide messages of a selected type.

• Highlight selected types of messages in unique colors.

2.1.5. Expansion of Scanning Capabilities

• GSM scanning capabilities of Rohde & Schwarz TSMW are now utilized:

– RSSI scanning, static ARFCN set

– RSSI scanning: BSIC decoding

– RSSI scanning: C/I measurement.

• LTE: TDD and FDD pilot scans can be run in parallel on Rohde &

Schwarz TSMW.

• Relaxed handling of scanning configuration sets, allowing multiple

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2.1.6. Improved Service Testing Capabilities

HTTP download testing can optionally be done with Internet Explorer 9

instead of TEMS Investigation’s built-in Web browser. Two new HTTP

information

Documents

TEMS Investigation 14 0 User s Manua