ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

ORGANISATION OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION (OIC)

GAZIPUR, BANGLADESH

Purpose of the purchase of

XCAL Software

Dr. Mohammad Tawhid Kawser

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 XCAL Software

• XCAL Software is widely used as a Drive Test tool

around the world.

• In Bangladesh, as known to us, Qubee used XCAL.

• Accuver, the vendor of XCAL maintains license to

extract data from a phone.

• The data extracted by XCAL has nothing, which

might require additional permission.
 XCAL to be Used for EEE 4642 at IUT
EEE 4641 Cellular Communication
• Evolution of cellular technologies, operating bands, radio access protocols for UMTS, HSPA and LTE, network
architecture, protocol stack, RRC states.
• Registration areas: PLMN, LA, RA, URA, TA, area update.
• UE and network identities: IMSI, TMSI, GUTI, IMEI, RNTI, UE categories, ECGI, GUMMEI, PCI.
• CDMA, OFDMA, SC-FDMA, spreading, OVSF codes, scrambling, radio frame, resource block, frequency reuse,
sectoring, cell splitting, impact of cell size and cluster size, FFR, PFR and SFR, antenna at cell site, co-channel and
adjacent channel interference, Radio Network Planning (RNP) objectives and techniques.
• Heterogeneous network: macro, pico and femto cells, relay nodes, CSG.
• Carrier aggregation, self-optimizing network (SON), load balancing, link budget calculations, logical, transport and
physical channels. Radio bearer, QoS requirements, reference signals, MIB and SIB messages, PDU formats of MAC,
RLC and PDCP sublayers, TM, UM and AM operations, ciphering and integrity protection, header compression,
resource scheduling and allocation, link adaptation, synchronization, random access, paging, Hybrid ARQ (HARQ),
Discontinuous reception (DRX), buffer status reporting, power control, actions after powering up UE, service
request, bearer setup,
• Voice Service: IMS, VoLGA, CSFB, MO and MT call setup and release, Short Message Service (SMS)
• Cell reselection, Hard and Soft Handover: intra-frequency, inter-frequency and inter-RAT, measurement and
reporting, handover preparation and command.
• Overcoming dropped calls and packet loss, Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), Device-to-Device
(D2D), Public Warning System (PWS)
• UE positioning: OTDOA, A-GNSS, E-CID

EEE 4642 Cellular Communication Lab.

• Experiments based on EEE 4641.
3GPP Cellular Technologies
Multiplexing
Generation Technologies Service Theoretical Data Rate Technique

2G GSM Voice 9.6-19.2 kbps

FDMA/TDMA
2.5G GPRS Data 44-171.2 kbps

2.75G EDGE Data 384 kbps

3G UMTS (WCDMA) Voice /Data 144 -1920 kbps

HSDPA Data 14 Mbps (DL)

3.5G
CDMA
HSUPA Data 5.76 Mbps (UL)

3.75G HSPA Evolution Data 42 Mbps (DL)

or HSPA+ 12 Mbps (UL) 

3.9G LTE Voice /Data 100 Mbps (DL)

50 Mbps (UL) 

OFDMA

4G LTE-Advanced Voice /Data 1 Gbps (DL)

500 Mbps (UL) 
 3GPP Releases (Including
Technologies for Future Deployment)
Enhancements
Introductory
Generation Technologies in Release
3GPP Release
(Don’t Forget)

3G UMTS 99 4

HSDPA 5  
3.5G
HSUPA 6  

HSPA Evolution
3.75G 7  
or HSPA+

3.9G LTE 8 9
4G LTE-Advanced 10 11, 12
14
4.5G LTE-Advanced Pro 13 (Being released
currently)
15
5G (Being released  
currently)
 Full Titles
• Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
• General Packet Radio Services (GPRS)
• Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
• High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two
protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and
High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)
• Long Term Evolution (LTE) [FDD or TDD]

• Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-

SCDMA) or UMTS-TDD
3GPP2 Cellular Technologies
Generation Technologies Service Theoretical Data Multiplexing
Rate  Technique
CDMAOne (IS-95 A)
2G Voice 14.4 kbps 
CDMAOne (IS-95 B)
2.5G Voice 64 kbps 

CDMA 2000 1x RTT

2.75G/3G [Rel 0, Rel A, Voice /Data 153.6 kbps
Rel B, 1x Rel C]
 
CDMA
CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO  
3G Rev 0 Data 2.4 Mbps (DL)
153.6 kbps (UL) 
 
CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO
Rev A Data 3.1 Mbps (DL)
1.8 Mbps (UL) 
3.5G/3.75G  
  CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO
Rev B Data 9.3 Mbps (DL)
5.4 Mbps (UL) 
 
CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO
Rev C or UMB
 Development stopped
3.9G/4G and LTE is adopted Data OFDMA
instead
 Full Titles

• Evolution-Data Only (EV-DO)

• Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB)
• Work experience includes Qualcomm, Inc.,
California, USA and Accuver Americas (formerly,
WirelessLogix, Inc.), Texas, USA.

• B.S. degree from BUET [US Equivalent GPA

3.89].

• M.S. degree from Virginia Tech, USA [GPA 3.91].

[Virginia Tech ranks 14th in Electrical/Electronic/Communications
Engineering in USA]

• Ph.D. degree from IUT [GPA 4.00].

 LTE Air Interface Protocols
• Dr. Mohammad Tawhid Kawser
is the lone author of the book,
“LTE Air Interface Protocols”,
Artech House, Boston, USA,
ISBN 978-1-60807-201-9, 2011.
• The book serves as a self-
training resource helping
engineers understand the
complex radio protocols related
to LTE.
• The second edition is under
development.
 Contact

mkawser@hotmail.com

+880-1742205081