Release Notes

Analyzer Update October 2019

 Release Notes

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 Release Notes

Contents
In This Version ...................................................................................................................................... 4
Technology Improvements.............................................................................................................. 5
5G-NR support ............................................................................................................................................... 5

New collection device or technology support ........................................................................... 7

Accuver XCAL (AOF) support ..................................................................................................................... 7
Accuver XCAL (DRM) support .................................................................................................................... 9
Freewill AzenQos AZM support.................................................................................................................... 9
Infovista TEMS support .................................................................................................................................. 9
PCTel SeeGull DTR support ........................................................................................................................ 10
Qualcomm QXDM / chipset support....................................................................................................... 10
Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 RSCMD support ........................................................................................... 12
Rohde & Schwarz QualiPoc/Smart Benchmarker MF support ............................................................ 12
Event Detection Improvements................................................................................................................ 13
General ......................................................................................................................................................... 13

Application Layer Improvements .................................................................................................14

Attributes ....................................................................................................................................................... 14
Format Groups ............................................................................................................................................. 14
Stateforms ..................................................................................................................................................... 14

Platform Improvements ..................................................................................................................15

Message Browser......................................................................................................................................... 15
Regional Filtering ......................................................................................................................................... 15
User Defined Scanner Streams .................................................................................................................. 16

Documentation Changes .............................................................................................................17

Limitations, Known Issues and Obsolescence ...........................................................................18
End of Life of 32-bit support ....................................................................................................................... 18
End of Life of WiMAX support .................................................................................................................... 18
End of Life of Windows 7 support ............................................................................................................. 18

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

• Technology improvements:
o Support added for high priority Qualcomm Snapdragon X55 chipset log
code versions
o NSA Release Cause reason added
o Support for 5GNR in User Defined Scanner Stream tool (FR1 and FR2)

• New collections of devices and improvements:

o Support added for Infovista TEMS Investigation 21.2
o Support added for Accuver 5GNR with AOF export for Qualcomm chipset
devices and initial support for PCTel 5GNR scanners

o RACH procedure improvements in Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4

o NB-IoT scanner support for Rohde & Schwarz QualiPoc

• Platform improvements:
o Further improvements to Message Browser table layout (header and body
text justification)
o Regional Filtering polygon support added for KMZ files, exported from Atoll
radio network planning tool.

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Technology Improvements

5G-NR support
• Support added for the Accuver AOF 5GNR format, with Qualcomm chipset-based
devices and initial support for PCTel scanners.

• User Defined Scanner Streams supported for 5G NR (FR1 and FR2, based on
license entitlement):

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 • Improvements to the 5G NR Handset Serving Cell Parameters stateform to
report BWP PRBs.

• Support added for 24 new versions of Qualcomm 5G NR log codes, supporting

Snapdragon X55 chipset.

• Event detection improvements to diagnose NR_UE_RACH_AttemptResult

detail, and LTE_5GNSARelease_Cause.

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New collection device or technology support

Accuver XCAL (AOF) support

• Support added for 5GNR (Qualcomm chipset) collections in XCAL AOF export:
o QC 5G NR MIB, setting the attributes NR_UE_PCI and
NR_UE_NR_ARFCN_DL.
o QC 5G NR RACHAttempt_P, setting the attributes
NR_UE_RACH_Attempt, NR_UE_RACH_AttemptCount and
NR_UE_RACH_Attempt_Reason. If subsequent RACHAttempt_P
messages are received during the same
NR_UE_RACH_Procedure_Count prior to the NR_UE_RACH_OK event,
the NR_UE_RACH_AttemptCount is incremented and
NR_UE_RACH_AttemptFail is triggered.
o QC 5G NR Serving Beam Measurement for PCell, setting the attributes:
o NR_UE_Beam_Idx
o NR_UE_PCI
o NR_UE_RSRP
o NR_UE_RSRQ
o NR_UE_SINR
o NR_UE_SSBPeriodicity
o QC 5G NR Initial acquisition request and result, setting the attributes
NR_UE_Band and NR_UE_NR_ARFCN_DL.
o QC 5G NR BRS Measurement result for PCell SSB, setting the attributes
NR_UE_Pathloss_DL and NR_UE_SubcarrierSpacing_DL.
o QC 5G NR Tx Power control information for PCell, setting the attributes
NR_UE_TB_Size_Average_UL, NR_UE_Power_Tx_PUCCH and
NR_UE_Power_Tx_PUSCH.
o QC 5G NR Channel state Factor, setting the attributes NR_UE_RI_DL and
NR_UE_CQI_WB_DL.
o QC 5G NR PDSCH information for PCell, setting the attributes:
o NR_UE_RB_Num_DL
o NR_UE_CodingRate_DL
o NR_UE_MCS_DL
o NR_UE_ModulationUsage_QPSK_DL
o NR_UE_ModulationUsage_16QAM_DL
o NR_UE_ModulationUsage_64QAM_DL
o NR_UE_ModulationUsage_256QAM_DL
o QC 5G NR PUSCH information for PCell, setting the attribute
NR_UE_RB_Num_UL.

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 o QC 5G NR Physical MAC Layer Throughput information, setting the
attributes NR_UE_PayloadRate_L1_DL, NR_UE_NumBytes_DL,
NR_UE_MAC_NumBytes_DL, NR_UE_Throughput_MAC_DL.
o QC 5G NR Physical DL RLC Throughput information, setting the attributes
NR_UE_RLC_NumBytes_DL and NR_UE_Throughput_RLC_DL.
o QC 5G NR Physical UL RLC Throughput information, setting the attributes
NR_UE_RLC_NumBytes_UL and NR_UE_Throughput_RLC_UL.
o QC 5G NR PDCP Throughput information, setting the attributes
NR_UE_PDCP_NumBytes_DL and NR_UE_Throughput_PDCP_DL.
o PCT NR Beam Data, supporting PCTel 5GNR scanner measurements
o Note that entitlement to message decodes, RRC signaling and FR2 scanner
measurements is dependent on the LTE-Advanced-Pro or 5GNR platform
licenses.

• Added LTE and 5GNR events to the Protocol Stack Browser filter option, and the
Message Browser event panel and filter options:

• Support added for the attributes LTE_UE_MCS_Average_DL and

LTE_UE_MCS_Average_DL_for_Carrier during message ML1 Downlink Unicast
information for Primary Cell.

• Improved support for HTTP, PING and YouTube data tasks:

o Event_Task_Init (for YouTube tasks)
o Event_Test_Marker
o Streaming_Initial_Buffering_Time
o Streaming_Buffering_Time

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 o Streaming_Service_to_first_buffering_time
o Streaming_Video_Download_Time
o Streaming_Service_Access_Time
o Streaming_Total_Rebuffering_Time
o Streaming_Rebuffering_Rate
o Streaming_Total_VideoPlaying_Duration
o Speedkph
o Streaming_Video_Resolution

• Improved reporting of App_Throughput_UL_Mean.

Accuver XCAL (DRM) support

• Improved detection of 5GNR measurement files, increasing the scanning window,
which may have a minor impact on load speed performance.

Freewill AzenQos AZM support

• Resolved a problem where LTE_UE_Power_Tx was not fully implemented in
AU1909.

• Resolved a problem where WCDMA UE support was not fully implemented in

AU1909.

Infovista TEMS support

• Support added for TEMS Route Reader 21.2, supporting the following:
o TEMS Investigation 21.2
o TEMS Pocket 21.1

• Added support for these additional NR scanner information elements:

o NR_Scan_SSB_RSRP_SortedBy_RSRP
o NR_Scan_SSB_RSRQ_SortedBy_RSRP
o NR_Scan_SSB_RSSI_SortedBy_RSRP
o NR_Scan_SSB_SINR_SortedBy_RSRP
o NR_Scan_SubcarrierSpacing

• Support added for the LTE RF Sensor Info message (0x2291) for Samsung Galaxy
S9.

• Support added for the LTE RF TX Swap Info message (0x2292) for Samsung
Galaxy S9.

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 • Added support for the Streaming_Video_Resolution attribute for YouTube
tasks.

• Resolved a problem in file load performance when loading certain LTE scanner files
are used with a large cellrefs.

PCTel SeeGull DTR support

• Support added for reporting RSSI when no PCI or beam is reported in the TopN
Signal Scan message. The NR_ARFCN is not available at these messages, so the
new attributes NR_Scan_RSSI and NR_Scan_Band are populated when there is
no PCI reported.

Qualcomm QXDM / chipset support

• Support added for the Snapdragon X55 chipset.

• Improved detection of 5GNR measurement files, increasing the scanning window,

which may have a minor impact on load speed performance.

• Resolved a problem where timestamps appeared not to change throughout the

duration of the logfile.

• Support added for new versions of these messages in the Message Browser:
o GNSS Position Report v13 (0x1476)
o LTE LL1 serving cell frame timing v161 (0xB114), setting the attribute
LTE_UE_Timing_Advance

o LTE LL1 PDCCH Decoding Result v163 (0xB130)

o LTE LL1 PUCCH CSF Log v142 (0xB14D)
o LTE LL1 PUCCH CSF Log v162 (0xB14D)
o LTE ML1 PDCCH-PHICH indication report (0xB16B), setting the attributes:
o QC_PDCCH_PHICH_ConnSeg
o QC_PDCCH_PHICH_StartSbfn
o QC_PDCCH_PHICH_StopSbfn
o QC_PDCCH_PHICH_LastSbfn
o LTE ML1 GM TX Report v42 (0xB16D)
o LTE ML1 GM TX Report v48 (0xB16D)
o LTE PUSCH Power Control v40 (0xB16E)
o LTE PUCCH Power Control v42 (0xB16F)
o LTE PDSCH Stat Indication v48 (0xB173)
o LTE ML1 Serving Cell Meas Response v1 SubPkt 25 v42 (0xB193)
o LTE ML1 Serving Cell Meas Response v1 SubPkt 25 v48 (0xB193)

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 o NR 5G L2 DL Config v5 (0xB84B)
o NR 5G RLC DL Control PDU v2 (0xB84C)
o NR 5G RLC DL Stats v4 (0xB84D), setting the attributes:
o NR_UE_Throughput_RLC_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_BLER_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_NumBytes_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_Dropped_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_Duplicate_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_Invalid_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_ReTx_DL
o NR 5G L2 DL Data PDU v5 (0xB857)
o NR 5G PDCP UL Stats v4 (0xB860)
o NR 5G RLC UL Status PDU v2 (0xB869)
o NR 5G L2 UL TB v3 (0xB872), setting the attributes:
o NR_UE_BSR_Index
o NR_UE_PHR
o NR_UE_PHR_PcMax
o NR 5G MAC UL Physical Channel Schedule Report v2.5 (0xB883)
o NR 5G MAC DCI Info v2.3 (0xB885)
o NR 5G MAC DL TB Report v1.1 (0xB886)
o NR 5G MAC DL TB Report v2.1 (0xB886), setting the relative TA value as
the attribute NR_UE_Timing_Advance_Command
o NR 5G MAC PDSCH Status v1.8 (0xB887)
o NR 5G MAC PDSCH Status v1.15 (0xB887)
o NR 5G MAC PDSCH Status v2.2 (0xB887)
o NR 5G MAC PDSCH Status v2.3 (0xB887)
o NR 5G MAC PDSCH Stats v1.2 (0xB888)
o NR 5G MAC PDSCH Stats v1.5 (0xB888)
o NR 5G MAC PDSCH Stats v2.0 (0xB888)
o NR 5G MAC RACH Attempt v2.1 (0xB88A), setting the absolute TA value as
the attribute NR_UE_Timing_Advance
o NR 5G MAC UCI Payload Information v2.0 (0xB896)
o NR 5G MAC UCI Information v1.1 (0xB89B)
o NR 5G MAC UCI Information v2.0 (0xB89B)

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 o NR 5G ML1 Serving Cell Beam Management v1.05 (0xB975)
o NR 5G ML1 Serving Cell Beam Management v2.1 (0xB975)

Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 RSCMD support

• Support added for the attribute NR_UE_Beam_Idx from the 5GNR MOBILE
message.

• Support added for the RACH procedure, by setting the following attributes:
o NR_UE_RACH_Attempt
o NR_UE_RACH_Attempt_contention_Type
o NR_UE_RACH_Attempt_SSBID
o NR_UE_RACH_AttemptCount
o NR_UE_RACH_AttemptResult
o NR_UE_RACH_Msg3SubCarrierSpacing
o NR_UE_RACH_OK
o NR_UE_RACH_Fail
o NR_UE_RACH_Procedure_Count

Rohde & Schwarz QualiPoc/Smart Benchmarker MF support

• Added Message Browser support for NB-IoT Scanner messages with the attributes
shown below. Note that where NB-IoT is detected, a new stream will be created
for the NB-IoT results to avoid clashes between technologies.

o LTE_Scan_IsNBIoT
o LTE_Scan_EARFCN
o LTE_Scan_PCI_SortedBy_RSRP
o LTE_Scan_RSRP_SortedBy_RSRP
o LTE_Scan_RSRQ_SortedBy_RSRP
o LTE_Scan_RS_CINR_SortedBy_RSRP
o LTE_Scan_Ant[0,1]_RSRP
o LTE_Scan_Ant[0,1]_RSRQ
o LTE_Scan_Ant[0,1]_RSSI
o LTE_Scan_Ant[0,1]_RS_CINR

• Resolved a problem in Spotlight where the App_Layer_Active attribute was not

being triggered for HTTP Browser tasks. Where “Start downloading from site” is
not detected, Analyzer uses “Page loading” as an alternative trigger.

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 • Created the following new attributes to allow the analysis of the raw values
contributing to the LTE_UE_SpatialRank attribute, set at the LTE PDSCH
Statistics Info message:
o LTE_UE_SpatialRank_Count2
o LTE_UE_SpatialRank_Count3
o LTE_UE_SpatialRank_Count4
o LTE_UE_SpatialRank_Count_Records

Event Detection Improvements

• Resolved a problem where LTE_RRCConnection_HO_Init was being triggered
incorrectly.

• Resolved a problem where VoIP_Call_ID was being invalidated too early for
some successful VoIP calls. It is now aligned correctly with
VoIP_Event_CallComplete.

• Support added for the NSA release cause code attribute

LTE_5GNSARelease_Cause and the attribute NR_LTE_NSA_Release_timer,
which is the time window within which the following events are detected:
o LTE_5GNSARelease_5GNRBearerDrop
o LTE_5GNSARelease_5GNRBearerRelease
o LTE_5GNSARelease_LTEHO
o LTE_5GNSARelease_LTERRCDrop
o LTE_5GNSARelease_LTERRCRelease
o LTE_5GNSARelease_Other

General
• Support added for a maximum number of MIMO layers in NR, from the UL-DCCH
UE-MRDC-Capability message:
o NR_RRC_maxNumberMIMO_LayerPDSCH[]
o NR_RRC_maxNumberMIMO_LayerCB_PUSCH[]

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Application Layer Improvements

Attributes
• Binning operation of NR_UE_RACH_Attempt_Reason changed to “Mode”.

Format Groups
• Improved the NR_UE_RACH_Attempt format group to be “OUTGOING CALL OK
EVENT”.

• Improved the NR_UE_RACH_AttemptResult format group to be “Qc NR RACH

Attempt Result”:
o Success
o FailureMsg2
o FailureMsg4CtTimerExpired
o Abort

Stateforms
• Improvements made to the 5G NR Handset Serving Cell Parameters
stateform, to add Bandwidth PRBs and only report SCell PCI and EARFCN values
when the UE is in CA-Active state.

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Platform Improvements

Message Browser
• Improved message header readability by bottom-left aligning headers and right
aligning the data in message tables:

Regional Filtering
• Support has been added for KMZ polygon definitions exported from the Atoll radio
network planning tool. As with existing MapInfo TAB support, a region definition
XML file must be created in C:\ProgramData\Actix\Analyzer\Bin\Regions (or in the
location specified in Preferences) which references a KMZ file exported from Atoll.

The region layer attribute is then populated with the polygon sets for each value
found in the Transmitter field in the KMZ file, which typically refers to a cell, and
the polygon coordinates are comprised of each polygon in the set for that cell.

Once defined, the region layer attribute can be used within the stream for ad-hoc
analysis or combined into a dimension of a Crosstab query for polygon-based
analysis or site acceptance reporting.

Note that only the outerBoundaryIs polygon coordinates are supported, there is
no support in Analyzer for overlapping/wholly contained polygons, so the
innerBoundaryIs polygon coordinates are ignored.

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User Defined Scanner Streams
• Support has been added for UDSS with 5G NR_ARFCN ranges. The creation of the
stream attributes is also controlled by the general entitlement granted by the
platform license; i.e. the FR2 spectrum will only be decoded if the 5GNR platform
license is enabled.

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Documentation Changes
• Updates made to the online help:
o Regarding Regional Filtering and Analysis, restructured the help for
most sections, and added description of support for KMZ polygons exported
from the Atoll radio network planning tool:

o Regarding Spotlight project creation, updated screenshot and body text to

show the Description field for a project:

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Limitations, Known Issues and Obsolescence

Changes to 5GNR Scanned CINR Measurements

• Due to a change in the TEMS TRR API 21.2, the scanner measurement NR SS
Scanned CINR is no longer available. Actix Analyzer is now setting attribute
NR_Scan_SS_CINR_SortedBy_RSRP with the values received from the TRR
API information element NR Scanned SSB SINR.

End of Life of 32-bit support

• Advance notice is given that by the end of December 2019, support for 32-bit
Actix Analyzer shall be deprecated.

End of Life of WiMAX support

• Advance notice is given that by the end of January 2020, support for the WiMAX
technology in Actix Analyzer shall be deprecated.

End of Life of Windows 7 support

• Advance notice is given that from the end of December 2019, support for Actix
Analyzer running on Windows 7 will be reduced to “on-demand”, meaning that
Actix Analyzer shall not be proactively tested on Windows 7, and shall be
supported by Amdocs on a best-effort basis following Windows 7 being withdrawn
from Microsoft’s Windows Update program on 14th January 2020.

Following the end of June 2020, support for Actix Analyzer running on Windows 7
shall be deprecated and support cases shall no longer be accepted if they relate to
issues arising from these OS versions.

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