E1963A W-CDMA/HSPA Test Application Revision Information

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Call Processing

• Extend the frequency band range for Fast Device Tune Measurement. See Fast Device Tune MS TX/RX Parameters.

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Call Processing

• Kit upgrade number. See SYSTem:KIT.
• The CPICH-RSCP measurement report range is extended from 0-91 to -5-91. See CPICH RSCP (Received Signal Code Power) and CALL:MS:REPorted:ITRFrequency:RSCP? . (An additional Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.)
• Add PLMN parameters to PCR. See Physical Channel Reconfiguration . (An additional Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.)
• Real time vocoder is enhanced with a new hardware (wideband audio output filter), of which the cut-off frequency is extended from 4600 Hz to 13000 Hz.
• DB DC-HSDPA.(An additional Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.)

  Dual band dual cell HSDPA was introduced from 3GPP Release 9 onwards to allow two 5MHz-carrier to be separated and put into two different bands. See DB-DC-HSDPA 34.121 Preset Call Configurations and UE Reported DB DC-HSDPA Cap .

• MIMO.

  MIMO was introduced in 3GPP Release 7 to allow the network to transmit dual-stream HS-DSCH data to the UE simultaneously achieving a maximum throughput of 28 Mbps. And MIMO in 3GPP Release 8 brings the peak data rate to 42 Mbps.

  • HSDPA Parameters settings are enhanced for MIMO. See UE Category Parameters , MAC-hs Parameters , Secondary Serving Cell Parameters ,MIMO Parameters , and HSDPA RB Test Mode Settings .
  • Support part of MIMO Information for MIMO parameters and results.
  • FDD Test Operating Mode settings are enhanced to support MIMO.

Hardware Requirements

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Call Processing

• Dual Cell HSDPA. (An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed lab application or test application.)

  Dual carrier HSDPA, also referred as dual cell HSDPA or DC-HSDPA in the test standard, is a WCDMA release 8 feature that allows the network to transmit HSDPA data from two cells simultaneously. The peak rate is doubled from 21Mbps to 42Mbps without the use of MIMO. See Dual Cell HSDPA Concepts and How Does the Test Set Supports DC-HSDPA .

  Please be noted that specific hardware is required to enable this feature.

Measurements

• Enhanced the Fast Device Tune Measurement to allow the downlink modulation being turned off to generate CW singal. See SETup:CFDTune:MS:RX:MODulation:STATe .

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Call Processing

• Support for two box voice handover. See . (An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application)
• Support for Band XIX, XX, and XXI. (An additional Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.)
  • New channel and frequencies. See Downlink Channel (UARFCN) (CALL:CHANnel ), Uplink Channel (UARFCN) (CALL:UPLink:CHANnel[:MCHannel] , CALL:STATus:UPLink:SEParation? ).
  • New Physical Channel Reconfiguration channels, Transport Channel Reconfiguration channels and Radio Bearer Reconfiguration channels. See CALL:SETup , and CALL:STATus .

  In addition, the current downlink and uplink frequency can be queried by CALL:STATus:DOWNlink:FREQuency? and CALL:STATus:UPLink:FREQuency? .

• New parametes for Transport Channel Reconfiguration (RB TCR E-DPDCH Max Channelisation Codes and RB TCR E-DPDCH Max Channelisation Codes (HSPA Only) ). See CALL:SETup:TCReconfig:RBTest:EDPDchannel:CCODes:MAX[:HSPARMC12] and CALL:SETup:TCReconfig:RBTest:EDPDchannel:CCODes:MAX:HSPA .

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Call Processing

• Support for uplink 16QAM (An additional Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.)
  • The test set can demodulate E-DCH with 16QAM and 2 ms TTI by setting E-DCH 16QAM State to On . See also CALL:HSUPa:EDCHannel:QAM16[:STATe] .
  • Add the following 34.121 preset call configurations: 5.2E:HSPA+:UL 16QAM and 5.13.1AAA,5.13.2C:HSPA+:UL 16QAM . See HSPA+ 34.121 Preset Call Configurations .
  • When HSUPA TTI mode is 2ms TTI and UL 16QAM state is on, alternate absolute grant values are available. See Serving Grant Parameters .
  • New 16QAM settings for Transport Channel Reconfiguration .
  • Extend the range of reference E-TFCI power offset. See Common HSUPA Parameters .
  • Extend the range of following HSUPA real time results: last Block Size , Average Block Size , Minimum Block Size and Maximum Block Size .
• UE Reported E-DCH Category Extension, see Rep EDCH Cat/Ext .

Measurements

• Enhanced the Tx measurements to support uplink 16 QAM.
• (For HSDPA, by GPIB only) Refined symbol decoder for Code Domain (see SETup:WCDomain:REFined:SDECoder:STATe ), Waveform Quality (see SETup:WWQuality:REFined:SDECoder:STATe )., IQ Tuning (see SETup:WIQTuning:REFined:SDECoder:STATe ), and Phase Discontinuity (see SETup:WPDiscon:REFined:SDECoder:STATe ).

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Hardware Requirements

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Call Processing

• Update the preset configurations for 3GPP TS 34.121 5.2B, 5.9B, 5.10B and 5.13.2B sub test 5 to comply with the newer version standard. See HSPA 34.121 Preset Call Configurations .

Measurements

• Added a new measurement: Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ). (An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed lab application or test application)

  PESQ is a objective method to test the speech quality of the mobile station. With a voice service and the AMR Source set to PESQ , the test set supports the PESQ measurement with three measurement modes: Uplink Audio, Downlink Audio and Both. When a single measurement is done, a PESQ score ranging from -0.5 (bad) to 4.5 (Excellent) is given to rate the speech quality. The related headroom is also displayed.

  • For the measurement description, see Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) Measurement Description .
  • For the manual operation, seeMeasuring Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) .
  • For the GPIB commands, see SETup:WPESquality or FETCh:WPESquality .
  • For trouble shooting, see Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality Measurement Troubleshooting
• The waveform quality measurement is extended to report the following results: Peak Magnitude Error, Peak Phase Error and Rho, by GPIB command only. See FETCh:WWQuality . (An additional Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.)

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Call Processing

• Enhanced F-DPCH (see CALL:FDDTest:FDPChannel:SLOT:FORMat , CALL:HSDPa:FDPChannel:SLOT:FORMat )
• FDD Test Mode FRC H-Set 8 UE IR Buffer Size (see CALL:FDDTest:FRC:HSET8:MS:IREDundancy:BUFFer:SIZE )
• FRC H-Set 8 UE IR Buffer Size (see CALL:HSDPa:SERVice:RBTest:FRC:HSET8:MS:IREDundancy:BUFFer:SIZE )

Measurements

• The E1963A now includes the QPSK EVM measurement. This measurement can be used to determine the error between the transmitted signal of a UE and the desired ideal signal, like the Waveform Quality measurement. The difference is that the QPSK EVM measurement expects a QPSK modulated input signal, which is similar to the WCDMA uplink signal with only one code channel. The data carried by the QPSK symbols sequence can be any pattern. There are several results reported with this measurement. These include the following:

  • Error Vector Magnitude (EVM)
  • Peak EVM - the maximum symbol EVM which is the calculated EVM at each QPSK symbol in the measurement interval
  • Phase Error
  • Origin Offset
  • Frequency Error

  See SETup:EVMQpsk , INITiate , READ , and FETCh:EVMQpsk .

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Call Processing

• The E1963A includes HSPA+ 64QAM DL test modes with signaling, HSPA+ MAC_ehs and Layer 2 enhancements. Layer 2 enhancements involve dynamically controlling the RLC PDU and SDU sizes instead of them being fixed. H-Set 8 is the one FRC that is now defined with 64QAM specifically for testing HSPA+ devices. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. Refer to the following items:
  • Changes on the HS-SCCH coding scheme to accommodate 64QAM: To be able to support signaling of three modulation formats (QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM), the coding of HS-SCCHs changes if the UE is configured to be able to use 64QAM modulation type by higher layer signaling and the modulation format on the HS-PDSCHs is 16QAM or 64QAM.
  • New HS-DSCH Transport Block table defined for 64QAM: To support the 64QAM modulation format, a new table of HS-DSCH Transport Block Size and a corresponding table of K0,I of different numbers of channelization codes and modulation schemes are defined in 25.321 v7.8.0. To differentiate the additional K0,I table in release 7 from the existing K0,I table defined in release 5, the former is named octet aligned table, the latter is named bit aligned table. The selection between the two tables in UE depends on 3 Information Elements transmitted from the network which are defined in 25.331 v7.8.0:
    • DL MAC header type
    • Downlink 64QAM configured
    • HS-DSCH TB size table
  • H-SET 8 (64QAM modulation): Each 3GPP FRC H-Set defines a static configuration at the transport channel and physical channel level (for example, block size, number of HS-PDSCHs, inter-TTI distance, number of HARQ processes). The end result is a fixed data rate for the purposes of easier more consistent testing. Each FRC H-Set is associated with a particular UE category. FRC H-Sets 1, 2, 3, 6 and 10 have both QPSK and 16QAM variants, H-Set 4 and 5 only have QPSK variants. This is because UE categories 11 and 12, which are associated with H-Set 4 and 5 respectively, are only capable of QPSK modulation. H-Set 8 only has 64QAM variants. The FRC does not define the MAC-hs and MAC-ehs parameters such as the number of transmissions of a block and the RV sequence, so you must still manually configure these items. H-Set 8 implies that MAC-ehs be applied instead of MAC-hs, octet-aligned HS-DSCH Transport Block Size table be applied. H-Set 8 does not specify the MAC-d PDU size. However, you still need to specify the MAC-ehs SDU size. This can be done using the MAC-d PDU size.
    
    New RB test mode parameters to support testing UE categories greater than 12.
    • MAC-hs or MAC-ehs (see CALL:HSDPa:SERVice:RBTest:UDEFined:HSDSchannel:MAC )
    • Whether 64QAM could be configured (see CALL:HSDPa:SERVice:RBTest:UDEFined:QAM64:STATe )
    • Flexible RLC SDU size: Flexible RLC SDU size provides a way to configure the RLC SDU size from 1 byte to 1503 bytes when MAC-ehs is configured in RB Test Mode. When MAC-ehs is configured in user defined configuration, no segmentation is done at RLC layer. This setting sequentially determines the RLC PDU size of the DTCH mapped on HS-DSCH, and the MAC-ehs SDU size (see CALL:HSDPa:SERVice:RBTest:UDEFined:MACEHS:RLC:SDU[:SIZE] ).
  • MAC-ehs: The use of an octet-aligned table requires MAC-ehs (see CALL:FDDTest:HSDSchannel:UDEFined:MACEHS:TBSTable:ALIGnment ). MAC-ehs is introduced to support the 64QAM modulation type and MIMO to achieve higher data rate at the MAC layer.
• HSDPA 14.4Mbps RB Test and FDD Test modes and arbitrary configuration of downlink code allocation: Downlink throughput with HSDPA test modes in increased to a maximum of 14.4Mbps (Category 10). An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  
  Also the ability is provided to flexibly configure channel codes to set up to 15 HS-PDSCHs needed for maximum HSDPA throughput. H-Set 10 allows up to 15 HS-DSCH code channels.
  • Arbitrary DL code configuration (collision detection): You can freely set channelization codes in the allowable integer ranges, and the test set will apply a code collision detection procedure on all active channels and report a warning when a collision is detected.
• Support for Band XII channels (UL/DL); Band XIII channels (UL/DL); Band XIV channels (UL/DL). See CALL:CHANnel , CALL:UPLink:CHANnel[:MCHannel] , CALL:SETup , CALL:STATus:FBINdicator? , CALL:STATus:SETup:RBReconfig:FBINdicator? , CALL:STATus:SETup:TCReconfig:FBINdicator? , and CALL:STATus:SETup[:PCReconfig]:FBINdicator? . An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
• 3GPP TS 34.121 related enhancements:
  • Independent H-RNTI: The UE identity values sent on the four HS-SCCHs (H-RNTIs) are extended so that all four can be set independently. This provides support for 3GPP TS 34.121 s9.4.1. In this release, you can configure the state of any HS-SCCH to be off, i.e. neither allocating the HS-SCCH in the test set nor configuring the UE to allocate that HS-SCCH through RRC messages when a HSDPA or HSPA connection is established (see CALL:FDDTest:HSSCchannel[1]:CONFig:STATe ).
  • Existing preset call configurations have been expanded to add configurability for the HSDPA and HSUPA sub-tests defined in the 3GPP TS 34.121 Annex C tables. This has added 26 new preset call configurations. Previously there were (5) HSDPA and (2) HSPA preset call configuration settings. These are retained as the "generic" setups but additional sub-set setups are added.
  • Support for two new data types (PRBS20 and PRBS23) is provided for use with W-CDMA or HSDPA channels. This adds compliance for 3GPP TS 34.121 s9.2.1A, C, D, E, F, and G. Sections 9.2.1H and I are also supported when 64QAM is the selected modulation type (see )CALL:FDDTest:HSDSchannel:DATA , CALL:DTCHannel:DATA , and CALL:HSDPa:SERVice:RBTest:HSDSchannel:DATA ).
  • The ranges of the relative levels for the E-HICH, E-AGCH, and ERGCH are extended to support 3GPP TS 34.121 sections 10.2.1.1, 10.3.1.1, 10.3.1.2, and 10.4.1.
  • The AG Pattern has been extended to 8 values, adding support for 34.121 section 10.4.1 test.When the Absolute Grant mode parameter is set to "Pattern" then the application will transmit a continuous sequence of values to the UE over the E-AGCH (see CALL:HSUPa ).
• A new parameter has been added to set the activation time of WCDMA to GSM handovers. See CALL:HANDoff:SYSTem:GSM:ATIMe .
• SMS TP-OA, TP-RA, RP-OA extension - allows you to configure parameters TP-OA, TP-RA, RP-OA. An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.

Measurements

• HSUPA IQ tuning, phase discontinuity measurement, waveform quality. EVM measurements are enhanced to support use with HSUPA. An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
• SEM enhancement: This 34.121 measurement has been modified for certain frequency bands that have small frequency separation. Also, an absolute measurement result has been added to the standard and this has been incorporated. See SETup:WSEMask and FETCh:WSEMask . An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
• An in-channel power result has been added to the Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR) measurement. An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See FETCh:WACLeakage .
• The Inner Loop Power measurement now supports use with the 12.2k RMC + HSDPA channel type. An additional current Revision to Current (R2C) license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
• The frequency range of the Fast Device Tune measurement has been extended.

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Hardware Requirements

Please be aware that this release has specific hardware requirements to be able to run correctly.

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Call Processing

• 5.74 Mbps HSUPA (2ms TTI) in RB test mode and FDD test mode - The test set now supports 5.74 Mbps HSUPA (2ms TTI) in addition to the previously supported 2 Mbps HSUPA (10ms TTI), allowing full support of the E-DCH Category 6 HSUPA device verification and manufacturing. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  • HSUPA TTI Mode: CALL:HSUPa:EDCHannel:TTI
  • E-TFCI Table Index (2ms TTI): CALL:HSUPa:ETFCi:TINDex:MS2
  • UTRA FDD RB Test Mode Channel Type: CALL:SERVice:RBTest:RAB
  • E-DCH Minimum Set E-TFCI Information State: CALL:HSUPa:EDCHannel:ETFCi:MSET:STATe
  • E-DCH Minimum Set E-TFCI (2ms TTI): CALL:HSUPa:EDCHannel:ETFCi:MSET:MS2
  • RB Test Mode E-DPDCH Max Channelisation Codes (HSPA Only): CALL:HSUPa:SERVice:RBTest:EDPDchannel:CCODes:MAX:HSPA
  • FDD Test Mode E-DPDCH Max Channelisation Codes (HSPA Only): CALL:FDDTest:EDPDchannel:CCODes:MAX:HSPA
• One-box video loopback - Allows a video call using just one test set and one UE by looping the voice and video data sent by the UE back to the UE. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
• AMR/WB-AMR real-time vocoder and digital audio interface - This release includes an AMR/WB-AMR vocoder, which is supported in both voice loopback and with the digital audio interface (playing and recording of pre-defined audio files). This allows for the audio codec verification and real-time end-to-end audio testing. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See CALL:SERVice:AMR:RAB .
• Short message service (SMS) - Allows you to test both the cell broadcast and point-to-point (mobile terminated and mobile originated messages) SMS capability of your UE (previously SMS was only supported in the lab application). An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See Short Message Service (SMS) .
• FM source - The test set, with an external adapter (E5520A) connecting to the RF IN/OUT port, can generate FM mono signals from 10-110 MHz, allowing for calibration of FM receiver of your UE. See FM Broadcast .
• Equipment Identity Request can now be configured to request from the UE either the IMEI, IMEISV, or both. See CALL:EIDentity , CALL:MS:REPorted:EISV? and CALL:MS:REPorted:EISV:SVN? .
• Support for Band XI. See CALL:STATus:FBINdicator? , CALL:STATus:SETup:RBReconfig:FBINdicator? , CALL:STATus:SETup:TCReconfig:FBINdicator? , and CALL:STATus:SETup[:PCReconfig]:FBINdicator? .
• The UTRA FDD Speech Echo Loopback Delay value was previously fixed at 0.5 seconds. This setting determines the amount of time that speech frames received on the uplink are delayed before being retransmitted on the downlink. A new parameter has been added with a default value of 0.5 seconds to maintain backwards compatibility. See CALL:SERVice:AMR:SPEech:ECHO:LOOPback:DELay .
• E-TFCI recording has been enhanced allowing you to control whether all E-DPDCH subframes are recorded, or only those that pass CRC checks. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See CALL:HSUPa:ETFCi:RECord:BEHavior .

Measurements

• Enhanced fast device tune (FDT) - Supports 10ms measurement step size in addition to the 20ms step size previously available in the E1999A-201 feature option (see SETup:CFDTune:POWer:STEP:LENGth ). (An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application). Besides, the range of Number of Power Steps is extended up to 40.
• Enhancements to the UE reported measurements - Previously, the CPICH Ec/No and CPICH RSCP UE reported values were displayed in the index value. With this release you can get more intuitive values in dB or dBm.

Other Features

• The test set now provides summary information for the user calibrations that have been performed, along with a readout of the test set's current operating temperature. See User Calibration Summary .

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Call Processing

• Support for HSUPA in RB Test Mode and FDD Test Mode. The test set supports 10 ms TTI HSUPA in conjunction with HSDPA (HSUPA + HSDPA = HSPA). See HSPA in Active Cell Operating Mode , HSPA Radio Bearer Test Mode and HSPA in FDD Test Operating Mode . An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
  • New 12.2k RMC + HSPA Channel Type .
  • New HSUPA RB Test Mode Setup settings.
  • New Common HSUPA Parameters settings.
  • New Serving Grant settings/actions allow you to send relative grant up/down commands on the E-RGCH, single shot absolute grants or an absolute grant pattern on the E-AGCH.
  • New HSDPA/HSPA DL Channel Codes , HSPA Connected DL Channel Levels .
  • New E-RNTI Parameters .
  • E-TFCI Recording: New E-TFCI Recording Information screen and E-TFCI Recording settings/actions allow you to record and view up to 50 E-TFCI values from the UE.
  • New HSPA Information screen displays HSDPA Information as well as HSUPA counters (such as block size, throughput, ACKs/NACKs transmitted) and information (such as queued relative grants, last received E-TFCI). HSUPA Information and HSUPA Happy Bit Information is also available on the main Call Setup Screen .
  • New Transport Channel Reconfiguration settings allow you to change E-DPCCH/DPCCH power offset and reference E-TFCI power offsets while on a connection (and change absolute grant as well).
  • Radio Bearer Reconfiguration now supports HSPA RB test mode connections.
  • Also, see HSUPA Concepts .
• New E-DCH Cell Indicator and HSDPA Cell Indicator settings allow UEs to display a visual cue that HSUPA or HSDPA functionality is available in the current cell. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
• New HSPA 34.121 Preset Call Configurations (5.2B, 5.9B, 5.10B, 5.13.2B with QPSK and 5.2D with QPSK ) simplify configuring the test set for 3GPP TS 34.121 HSPA tests from the front panel. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
• DeltaACK , DeltaNACK and DeltaCQI are now applicable to FDD test mode (previously these settings were only used by the test set while in active cell operating mode). This allows you to indicate the DeltaACK, DeltaNACK and DeltaCQI values being used by the UE while in FDD Test Operating Mode , for use by the code domain measurement. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.

Transmitter Measurements

• Channel Power measurement now supports HSPA. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See:
  • Measuring 3GPP TS 34.121-1 (v8.10.0) 5.2B Maximum Output Power with HS-DPCCH and E-DCH
  • Program Example: 5.2B Maximum Output Power with HS-DPCCH and E-DCH
• Channel Power measurement now returns RMSCubed results, see Channel Power Measurement Results .
• Code Domain measurement now supports HSPA. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See:
  • Measuring 3GPP TS 34.121-1 (v8.10.0) 5.2D UE Relative Code Domain Power Accuracy for HS-DPCCH and E-DCH
  • Program Example: 5.2D UE Relative Code Domain Power Accuracy for HS-DPCCH and E-DCH
  • Measuring 3GPP TS 34.121-1 (v8.10.0) 5.13.2B Relative Code Domain Error with HS-DPCCH and E-DCH
  • Program Example: 5.13.2B Relative Code Domain Error with HS-DPCCH and E-DCH
• Spectrum Emission Mask measurement now supports HSPA. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See: Measuring 3GPP TS 34.121-1 (v8.10.0) 5.9B Spectrum Emission Mask with E-DCH .
• Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio measurement now supports HSPA. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application. See Measuring 3GPP TS 34.121-1 (v8.10.0) 5.10B Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio (ACLR) with E-DCH .
• If ALC Mode is not set to Closed Loop and you try to initiate the Fast Device Tune measurement, an error is posted (because the Fast Device Tune measurement is not supported on a faded channel). See Fast Device Tune Measurement Description .

Known Issues

• The Block Error Ratio (BLER) measurement does not operate correctly when the Channel Type is set to 12.2k RMC + HSPA. The measurement always reports an error ratio of 100% with this channel type. With 12.2k RMC + HSPA, the BLER measurement uses RLC Transparent Mode (TM) and would require the UE Loopback Type to be set to Type 2 in order to loop back data and CRC bits. However, UE Loopback Type is fixed to Type 1 for this configuration, as required by TS 34.109 (refer to section 5.3.1 in TS 34.109, rev 7.2.0). This means that the BLER measurement cannot work correctly. In a subsequent release of the E1963A, the BLER measurement will not be supported for the 12.2k RMC + HSPA Channel Type.

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Call Processing

• Support for Band X (see Channel (UARFCN) Parameters ).
  • The range of the Transmit SIB5bis setting has been expanded to include Band X (BAND10 ) and Standard Bands (SBANds ). The default has changed from Bands IV & IX to Standard Bands (and the default value for the CALL[:CELL]:BCCHannel:SIB5:BIS command has changed from BAND49 to SBANds ).
• If your test set includes the required hardware (see Hardware Requirements ) uplink Betac can now be set to 1 via the following settings:
  • Manual Uplink DPCH Bc
  • TCR Manual Uplink DPCH Bc
  • RBR Manual Uplink DPCH Bc
• AWGN Power and External AWGN Power can now be 10 dB above or 20 dB below Cell Power or Cell 2 Power , and can be within 20 dB of each other (previously the limit was +/- 10 dB).
• Changes have been made to accommodate 3GPP TS 25.331 v5.17.0 s8.6.6.28, which now specifies that the UE's behavior is undefined if the network sets the Timing Indication information element to Initialise on a non-hard handover (i.e. where the UARFCNs and one or more Primary Scrambling Codes remain unchanged as part of the reconfiguration).
  • New Auto setting is now the default value for the following parameters:
    • PCR Timing Indication (CFN Handling)
    • TCR Timing Indication (CFN Handling)
    • RBR Timing Indication (CFN Handling)

    Note, the default has thus also changed to AUTO for the following GPIB commands: CALL:HANDoff:PCReconfig:CFNHandling , CALL:HANDoff:TCReconfig:CFNHandling and CALL:HANDoff:RBReconfig:CFNHandling .

  • Maintain is now the default value for the CM PCR Timing Indication (CFN Handling) setting (and thus also for the CALL:COMPressed:PCReconfig:CFNHandling command).
  • Downlink and uplink channels can now be changed while on a connection using a Transport Channel Reconfiguration or Radio Bearer Reconfiguration (previously channels could only be changed on a connection using a Physical Channel Reconfiguration). This allows you to perform a legal timing re-initialized Transport Channel Reconfiguration or Radio Bearer Reconfiguration, which allows you to change the DPCH Frame Offset to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 x 512 chips while on a connection. For more information, see RB setup Timing Indication (CFN Handling): and Current DPCH Offset .
    • New TCR Channel (UARFCN) State , TCR Downlink Channel (UARFCN) , TCR Uplink Channel (UARFCN) and TCR Band Arbitrator settings.
    • New RBR Channel (UARFCN) State , RBR Downlink Channel (UARFCN) , RBR Uplink Channel (UARFCN) and RBR Band Arbitrator settings.
    • Channel (UARFCN) Information screen now includes TCR Info and RBR Info .
  • 34.121 Preset Call Configurations setting names have been updated to include 5.2AA, 5.2C and 5.13.2A. An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.

Transmitter Measurements

• Inner Loop Power measurement enhancements:
  • Improved UE range time and new UE Range Time settings allow the Inner Loop Power measurement to execute more quickly.
  • The Inner Loop Power measurement can now measure power across a 30 dB dynamic range before needing to re-range (previously re-ranging was required every 13 dB). This allows the measurement to execute more quickly. Note, this improvement has specific Hardware Requirements .
• Peak EVM, IQ Gain Imbalance and IQ Phase Imbalance results are now available from the Waveform Quality measurement, via GPIB command only (see Waveform Quality Measurement Description ).
• New Dynamic Power Analysis 34.121 5.7A Measurement Configuration setting helps you quickly configure the measurement to perform 3GPP TS 34.121 5.7A from the front panel. This setting should be used in conjunction with the existing 34.121 Preset Call Configurations .

• New Waveform Quality 34.121 5.13.1A Measurement Configurations help you quickly configure the measurement to perform 3GPP TS 34.121 5.13.1A from the front panel. These settings should be used in conjunction with the existing 34.121 Preset Call Configurations .

• The Fast Device Tune measurement now supports Band VII (the range of the MS TX Frequency Step Values now includes 2502.4 to 2567.6 MHz, and the range of the MS RX Frequency Step Values now includes 2622.4 to 2687.6 MHz). See Fast Device Tune Measurement Description . Note, the band VII functionality has specific Hardware Requirements . An additional feature license is required to enable this functionality in a licensed test application.
• The PRACH Transmit On/Off Power measurement's "Post Burst Off Power" range has been improved for test sets with the required hardware (see Hardware Requirements ). Previously the Post Burst Off Power was measured starting 100 µs after the end of the PRACH preamble burst. With the required hardware, the Post Burst Off Power is measured starting 25 µs after the end of the PRACH preamble burst. See PRACH Transmit On/Off Power Measurement Description .
• New Extended Range Dynamic Power measurement (see Extended Range Dynamic Power Measurement Description ).

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Call Processing

• Support for HSDPA UE categories 7 and 8 (7.2 Mbps) in RB Test Mode. See HSDPA Information .
  • FRC Type can be set to H-Set 6 QPSK and H-Set 6 16QAM.
  • User Defined Number of Active HS-PDSCHs can be set up to 10.
  • Expanded range of RB Test Mode First HS-PDSCH Channel Code parameter to allow for 10 HS-PDSCHs.
  • Manual UE HS-DSCH Category can be set to 7 and 8.
• Support for Band VII (see Channel (UARFCN) Parameters ). This functionality has specific Hardware Requirements .
• New Transmit SIB5bis setting.
• New SRB Configuration Control setting allows automatic configuration of the SRB for RMCs.
• New CS/PS Domain setting for CN Domain allows establishing an HSDPA RB Test Mode connection with the RMC placed on the CS domain and the FRC placed on the PS Domain.
• New Uplink 0k DTCH for HSDPA Loopback State parameter.
• Uplink closed loop power control algorithm and step size can now be changed while on a connection, using a Physical Channel Reconfiguration. See Handover UL CL Power Ctrl Algorithm and Handover UL CL Power Ctrl Step Size .
• New Uplink TFCI Control and Manual Uplink TFCI settings in FDD test operating mode.
• All seven of the 34.121 Preset Call Configurations now include setting Maximum Uplink Transmit Power Level to +21 dBm.
• Radio Bearer Reconfiguration supports handovers from CS/PS Domain HSDPA connections (see CN Domain ).
• Changed all occurrences of "Handoff" to "Handover" on all screens (no changes to the associated GPIB commands).

Transmitter Measurements

• Phase Discontinuity measurement now supports HSDPA. New HS-DPCCH Trigger Source and associated settings: HS-DPCCH Trigger Subframe Alignment , HS-DPCCH Trigger Slot Alignment , HS-DPCCH Trigger Subslot Alignment , HS-DPCCH Measurement Step Interval and HS-DPCCH Measurement Step Count .
• The Fast Device Tune measurement is now supported on the RF OUT ONLY port, and includes a complete front panel user interface. See How Do I Make a Fast Device Tune Measurement? .
• Waveform quality measurement now supports excluding transient periods on non-HSDPA connections. See Measurement Interval in Non-HSDPA Mode .
• Inner Loop Power measurement now terminates as soon as an Unable to Cal: Power unstable condition is detected. See Inner Loop Power Troubleshooting . Also, the re-ranging algorithm has been improved to allow greater robustness in detecting UE failures around test set re-ranging periods.

Receiver Measurements

• *RST setting for Trigger Arm changed to 0 (single) for Loopback BER , Block Error Ratio and HSDPA Block Error Ratio measurements. See SETup:WBERror:CONTinuous , SETup:WBLerror:CONTinuous and SETup:HBLerror:CONTinuous . Behavior of full preset from the front panel is unchanged (a front panel full preset still sets Trigger Arm to Continuous for these three measurements).

Other Features

• The downlink HARQ0 trigger is transmitted every time data is transmitted by HARQ process 0 (which is every 12 ms when on an FRC). See Trigger Output Setup .

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Call Processing

A.08.31 Release - January 2006

A downloadable version of the Online User's Guide (CHM Help File) that is specific to this release is available at:

http://www.home.keysight.com/upload/cmc_upload/All/E1963A_A0820_E6703C_C03_Ref_Guide.chm

NOTE: To properly view the CHM Help File, you must save it to your desktop. For Windows XP, you must also then right-click on the file and select Properties>>Unblock.