Actix User Training

Module 5
Additional information

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Additional Information
Tool Preferences
Issues before starting
Attributes
Workspace
Cellrefs structure modifications

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Tool Preferences

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Preferences Settings
Menu bar Tool>Preferences

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Settings Summary
Cellrefs

settings for cellrefs location and autoimport handling

WCDMA neighbour list

Neighbour list handling

General settings

Stream synchronisation
GPS interpolation
Distance Units
Time offsets
Data binning
general decode settings and scanner load mode settings
PCM link settings from Interface masurement handling
Agilent file specific handling settings
WCDMA (3GPP) emulated active set settings
Used in CPICH pilot pollution analysis, SHO analysis,
neighbour list analysis

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Settings in detail
Cellrefs
File Location
Specifies file location for cellrefs file for loading. The information from this
cellrefs file takes effect from the next time a new workspace is created.
Automatic Import
Options to automatically import cellrefs file with a specified template. This
overrides above location/settings

WCDMA neighbour list

Neighbour list handling parameters

Used in neighbour list analysis

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Settings in detail
General settings
Auto Synch To Stream
Checked for automatically synchronizing all data views in the Workspace from selected stream.
GPS interpolation

Provides automatic GPS interpolation of geographical drive test data points if location point difference exceeded.

Distance Units

Set distance units used

Time offsets

Provide offset adjustement for call trace files

Binning
Binning Mode defines modes how data points are averaged.
Time,
Location,
Distance,
Message
associated particulars for each mode respectively

Decode Settings

how data from scanner are taken into account by the tool at load time
PCM link settings from INterface masurement handling
Agilent file specific handling settings
WCDMA (3GPP) emulated active set settings
Used in CPICH pilot pollution analysis, SHO analysis,

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neighbour list analysis

Settings in detail
Decode Settings
Minimum valid Signal Level (dBm)

Defines minimum level of valid RSSI sample

Ec/Io Threshold for Delay (dB)

Used to calculate the threshold at which multipath components are counted in the delay
histograms for the Active, Candidate, Neighbor, and Remaining sets from the searcher
finger data.

Scan Resolution (chips)

Defines how often measurements are reported, measured in chips.

Number of multipaths

Defines the number of multipaths that will be extracted and displayed in the Workspace
Explorer.

Scanner Scan Resolution

Defines how often scanner measurements are reported, measured in chips.

Pilot Increment

Used to calculate the PN Offset (units of 64 chips) associated with the PN Phase (units of
chips) data reported in the CDMA air-interface messaging. PN Offset is calculated by
dividing the PILOT_PN_PHASE by 64 and then rounding to the closest integer multiple of
the PN increment entered. This feature forces all PN Offsets calculated to be part of a
valid PN reuse plan.

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Settings in detail
Decode Settings
Too Many Neighbors
Threshold Defines the maximum number of entries in the eighbour
lists. When eighbour list entries in the air interface messaging exceed
this threshold, an event (TooManyNeighbors) is displayed in the
Workspace Explorer and a warning message is indicated in the
*.warning output file.
Weak Ec/Io Pilot Threshold
Defines when the best server pilot has dropped beneath a tolerable
threshold and is considered weak. This displays an event
(WeakPilotAlert) in the Workspace Explorer and in the warning file.
Display Cell Identity as Hex Check the box to display the Cell Identity
(CI) in hexadecimal (rather than decimal) in the Message Browser.

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Settings in detail
No of Frame Errors in a Burst
Defines the size of a burst for Burst Error Rate calculations (time series
parameter: For_FBER).
Searcher Threshold not in use
Scanner Ec/Io Threshold (dB)
Determines whether a multipath component may be evaluated and displayed
in the Workspace Explorer. The Explorer will only display the top n
multipaths, where n is the Number of multipaths.
Scanner Load Mode
These options control the loading of scanner data (collected concurrently with
network drive data) for certain vendors i.e. for CW scanners from Agilent,
Comarco, or Tems RSAT.
Load Mode
No Scanner Data Disables loading of scanner data.
Load TopN scanner data only Loads just the 'top n' or 'best server'
scanner data.
Load all scanner data Loads all the scanner data.
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Settings in detail
GSM Bands Used
GSM specific - Which GSM bands to load (time saving

PCM link
Load Mode
This is used for PCM Link data such as A, Abis and Gb files.
Minimal (default) Only loads data produced by the currently attached
Load Time Queries.
Full Loads the entire file.
PCU Abis Vendor -- e.g. Nokia, Ericsson etc,etc
Ainterface File Stsndard -- ITU or ANSI

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Settings in detail
Agilent MDB
Show Agilent data selection dialog
No to load all data from an Agilent file.
Yes to display the dialog when opening an Agilent file. The dialog allows
selection of specific data sets rather than loading the entire file. Further
user can control intermediate file handling

Agilent SD5
Show Agilent-specific attributes

EcIo Nth Best Sorting

Sort by EcIo Aggregate/EcIo Max

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Settings in detail
WCDMA
Parameters to emulate (3GPP) AS Results used in actix
in CPICH pilot pollution analysis, SHO analysis,
neighbour list analysi
Reporting Range Event1A/1B/1C (dB)
Add/Remove/Replace cell
Hysteresis Event1A/1B/1C (dB)
Add/Remove/Replace cell
Time to Trigger Event1A/1B/1C (ms)
Add/Remove/Replace cell Max.
Active Set Size (up to 8)
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Issues before starting

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Before starting using actix

Pre-processing of dt files
Backup of configuration files
Attributes

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Pre-processing and backup of

important data

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Pre-processing of DT files
Proprioity formats
TEMS proprority file format needs pre-exporting to text
file
Controlled with associated template file
Functionality of TEMS WCDMA
Performance aspects
Files v. ram memory i.e. trade off that can limit
number of log files simultaneously open alt. size of log
file

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Hence, different vendors, different log file size.

Scan file typically 10-400 Mb
Trace file 10 50 Mb
Size dependent on measurement equipment number, equipment
settings and route length.

=========Worth consider e.g. route

length=========

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Backup of configuration files

Session file
here actix settings are stored e.g. preferences, which threshold
used, maps, map layers, map zoom (xml format)
If any changes suddenly makes actix hang, this is useful to
restore functionality, i.e. that you can start actix again !!!
<PATH>\Analyzer\Bin\AppSettings.dat
cell ref file
Network configuration data (file is overwritten when changed!!)
<PATH>\Analyzer\Bin\CellRefs\cellrefs.txt
threshold files
<PATH>\Analyzer\Bin\FormatGroups\UserSettings\
Directory empty until user make changes
license file
<PATH>\Analyzer\Bin\lsrvrc

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Attributes
Attribute is actix concept of data items,
An example is CPICH Ec/Io for best server
An attribute can be
generic or
customised
Attributes are stored as xml in either of these locations
depending on origin
<PATH>\Actix\Analyzer\Bin\Attributes
<PATH>\Actix\Analyzer\Bin\CustomAttributes

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Attributes
Large amount of attributes, not all necessary at same
time
Utilisation of Favourites helps filtering attribute amount
in workspace explorer

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Workspace

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Workspace
The workspace constitutes all data display windows within
the Actix application window, together with the panel on
the left called the Workspace Explorer.
Default is empty, except workspace explorer
Saving workspace ===
Window layout and representation
Loaded data files
Queries
reports

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Workspace
Workspace provide a way to utilise different window / panels setups
for streamlining work, e.g. not to open samel log files /windows all the
time

NOTE!
Hence saving workspace saves also defined/used queries/reports.
If an entity is opened with a different definition than in the used
workspace there is a risk of corruption of the workspace.
Example, a workspace with queries/reports of vendor A is open.
Running a report from vendor B will give strange results and
overwrite/corrupt quereis

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Workspace
Actix soltion may have sets of generic workspaces and
these are found in location

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<PATH>\Analyzer\Workspaces

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Cellrefs structure modifications

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Cellrefs structure modifications

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Cell ref structure modifications (how to add attributes

to cell ref file, if working)
Should be done with care / file backup necessary !!

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Modifying CellRefs fields

The strutcture of cellrefs is defined in
<PATH>\Nalalyzer\Bin\DefNetworkData.ini
This file can be modified to reflect additional fields in
Cellrefs file.
Changes can then be displayed .e.g. on map as
additional information.

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DefNetworkData.ini Structure
Comments (preceeded by ;)
Network Elements section ([Network Elements])
Network elements and their corresponding field
names
Fields section ([Fields])
Field definitions

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