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Analyzer Update

December 2012

Release Notes

Actix Analyzer Update December 2012 2

1 In this version

This release contains support for new and updated file formats. There are updates for most technologies that Actix supports, with changes falling under the following categories:

New collection device support:

▫ Added support for Ascom TEMS Symphony version 6.1.3.

▫ Added support for JDSU version 17.0.

▫ Added support for PCTEL SeeHawk version 2.2.0.4.

▫ Added support for Rohde and Schwarz ROMES version 4.70.

Application layer improvements:

▫ Added a new LTE “Inter-frequency handover failure rate” KPI in Spotlight.

▫ Improved the diagnostic of LTE KPIs “RRC dropped connections” and “LTE failed handovers”.

Platform improvements:

▫ Support has been added for UTF-8 cellrefs files (as exported from ActixOne).

▫ A memory issue has been resolved that was caused by the usage of GetFormatted function in queries.

▫ A problem with the TAB export feature in the map has been corrected that affected enumerated attributes.

▫ A problem affecting crosstab queries have been resolved that

could cause them to produce incorrect results after they were edited.


2 New collection device or technology support

2.1 Ascom TEMS Investigation support

[Case 69662] In LTE, a problem that could cause Analyzer to crash has been resolved with the decoding of the scanner message “Enhanced Top N Pilot Scan Response”.

In LTE, the special encoding of Qualcomm message 0xB126 used by TEMS is now supported.

[Case 64237] In GSM, when an Ericsson handset is used as a scanner,

the messages that report measurements for a subpart of the GSM frequency band are now aggregated so that the GSM scanner attributes set by Analyzer (such as ScanSortSigLevel_by_SigLevel) are set for the whole GSM frequency band at once.

2.2 Ascom TEMS Symphony (QVoice) support

[Case 49792, 80200] Added support for Ascom TEMS Symphony version 6.1.3.

2.3 Invex3G support

[Case 69278] In UMTS, a problem has been resolved that could make Analyzer crash when the message “HSDPA HS DPCCH” reported no sub-frame.

[Case 66850] Added support for “RSSI Scan” message type.

2.4 JDSU support

Added support for JDSU version 17.0.

[Case 68938] A problem has been resolved that prevented attributes from being set at “LTE TopN Channels” messages if some of the measured frequencies did not correspond to any of the LTE bands defined by 3GPP.

[Case 80030] The LTE event detection threshold “LTE_CSFB_OnlyUseProtocolMsgs” can now be used with JDSU.

[Case 80113] A problem has been resolved that could prevent log files containing a W1314A scanner from loading in Analyzer.


2.5 Meritech Sigma-LA support

[Case 1464] A problem has been resolved in decoding the log files header that could prevent some log files from loading in Analyzer.

2.6 Nemo support

[Case 14506] A problem has been resolved with Nemo Indoor marker file support, which could cause Analyzer to only use one set of GPS coordinates instead of all the markers.

[Case 68767] A problem has been resolved with superstreaming that affected Nemo files loaded with preference “General Settings > Nemo > Auto-load device files” enabled.

[Case 49947] The “GSM Hopping” stateform now also displays GSM C/I for Nemo files.

2.7 PCTEL support

[Case 71227] Added support for PCTEL SeeHawk version 2.2.0.4.

2.8 Qualcomm support

[Case 68765] In LTE, a new attribute LTE_UE_OutOfService is now set from the Qualcomm debug message 0x1FFB.

[Case 70791] Added support for GPS log packet 0x1482.

2.9 Rohde & Schwarz support

Added support for ROMES version 4.70.

[Case 1213] In GSM, the decoding of scanner message “GS3 Result” has been improved, so that more attributes are set for MNC, MCC, LAC…

2.10 Swissqual support

[Case 69189] In LTE, a problem has been resolved that could prevent LTE RRC attributes from being set for CDMA/EVDO capable devices.

2.11 Generic

In LTE, the “ASN.1” containers (such as “Source-ToTarget-TransparentContainer” in S1AP protocol) are now decoded.


[Case 80016] In LTE, a problem has been resolved whereby LTE NAS ciphered messages could cause Analyzer to crash.

[Case 65987] In LTE, the event detection now uses the T300 values indicated in the RRC messages to detect RRC Connection Setup failure events.

[Case 70722] In UMTS, a problem has been resolved that could prevent the attribute Uu_HSPACallDropped from being set.

[Case 31655] In UMTS, a problem has been resolved that could cause more cell reselection events to be detected by Analyzer when “Load All” preference was selected instead of “Load Time Message Filtering”.

[Case 80042] In UMTS, a problem as been resolved that could prevent the RRC attributes set at Measurement Control messages for event 2d and event 2f from being set (such as Uu_RRC_Event2d_hysteresis). In addition new attributes are set for inter-frequency measurement

parameters:

[Case 63632, 65914] A problem has been resolved that caused the preference “General Settings > Disable Scanner Load Time Message

Filtering” to be ignored if the preference “General Settings > Merge Scanner and Handset Data” was enabled.


3 Application layer improvements

3.1 Spotlight

In LTE, a new KPI was added for inter-frequency handover failure rate.

[Case 67555] In LTE, the diagnostic for RRC dropped connections and for failed handovers has been improved.

▫ Automatic Neighbor Relation: RRC drops occurring in handover situations when the eNodeB requested the UE to measure the Cell Global Identity of the best cell reported in the RRC Measurement Report.

▫ Limited UL coverage: RRC drops occurring when PUCCH

transmit power is higher than a threshold.


▫ Reconfiguration failure: RRC drops occurring during an RRC connection reconfiguration procedure (but not a handover procedure).

▫ Security failure: RRC drops occurring during a RRC security

mode control procedure.

[Case 61409] In GSM, RxQual is now displayed on the map when the “RxQual” KPI is selected in Radio Network Explorer.


4 Platform improvements

4.1 General

[Case 69292] Support has been added for UTF-8 cellrefs files (as exported from ActixOne).

[Case 5723] A problem has been resolved that could cause Analyzer to

crash because of a lack of memory when the GetFormatted function was used in queries.

[Case 66840] A problem has been resolved whereby Network Explorer

did not display correctly when a Site Id was “0”.

[Case 58155] A problem has been resolved that could cause queries to produce incorrect results when a query was edited and re-run in the same Analyzer session.

[Case 6900] A problem has been resolved that caused TAB exports of enumerated attributes to contain only “0” values instead of the expected text values.


5 Documentation

None


6 Known Issues / Obsolescence

None


7 Previous Release Notes

You can find release notes for earlier Analyzer updates in the folder below this one, Individual Notes.

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