Release Notes

Analyzer Update December 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 ........................................................................... 6

Accuver XCAL DRM support ....................................................................................................................... 6
Infovista TEMS support .................................................................................................................................. 6
Keysight Nemo support ................................................................................................................................ 6
PCTel SeeGull DTR support .......................................................................................................................... 8
Qualcomm QXDM / chipset support......................................................................................................... 9
Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 RSCMD support ........................................................................................... 10
Rohde & Schwarz QualiPoc/Smart Benchmarker MF support ............................................................ 11
Event Detection........................................................................................................................................... 11
General ......................................................................................................................................................... 11

Application Layer Improvements .................................................................................................12

Format Groups ............................................................................................................................................. 12
Spotlight ........................................................................................................................................................ 12
Task Pages .................................................................................................................................................... 12

Platform Improvements ..................................................................................................................13

Data Processing .......................................................................................................................................... 13
Diagnostics ................................................................................................................................................... 13
User Defined Scanner Streams .................................................................................................................. 13

Documentation Changes .............................................................................................................14

Limitations, Known Issues and Obsolescence ...........................................................................15
TEMS TRR API batch file processing .......................................................................................................... 15
End of Life of 32-bit support ....................................................................................................................... 15
End of Life of WiMAX support .................................................................................................................... 15
End of Life of Windows 7 support ............................................................................................................. 15

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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:

• New collections of devices and improvements:

o Improved support for scanner streams in TEMS Investigation
o Further decodes of Nemo Outdoor 5G UE messages, including full Data
Service Analysis (task-based) support:
o TXPC
o DCI
o CQI
o PLAID
o PLAIU
o PDCPRATED
o PDCPRATEU
o RLCRATE
o RLCRATEU
o MACRATE
o MACRATEU
o PHRATE
o PHRATEU
o RACHI

o Support added for LTE MIMO antenna radio paths with PCTel scanners
o Further Qualcomm X55 message decode support, with a further three LTE
log codes, and nine NR log codes supported
o Stability improvements for R&S ROMES4 and QualiPoc v19.2
o Further 5GNR NSA event detection changes

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Technology Improvements

5G-NR support
• Support has been added for Samsung Galaxy S10 5G (SM-G977U) and ZTE Axon
10 Pro 5G (A2020N3) devices with TEMS Investigation.

• Decode improvements have been made for Nemo Outdoor 5G UE (attributes have
been extracted from 14 new messages).

• Qualcomm X55 message decode support has been improved, with a further 3 LTE
log codes and 9 NR log codes supported.

• Improvements have been made to the reporting of LTE_5GNSARelease_Cause.

• Support has been added for the nrcelllookup() function in query expressions.

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New collection device or technology support

Accuver XCAL DRM support

• Improvements have been made to the decoding of 2G / 2.5G messages, in
particular for NAS signaling and 2.5G RLC/MAC for Samsung chipset devices.

Infovista TEMS support

• Improvements have been made to the decoding of scanner streams within TEMS
Investigation files:
o Resolved a problem where the scanner stream was duplicated in the
Attribute Explorer.
o Resolved a problem where scanner data was being attached to an arbitrary
message in a UE stream.
o The stream name for scanner streams has been changed to 5G Scanner
(HB flex) to show the capability of the scanner device.

• Support has been added for the SMS_Send_Duration and

SMS_Receive_Duration attributes.

• This release implements new (additional) sector resolution attributes

NR_UE_SiteHandle[0] and NR_UE_SectorHandle[0] and
NR_UE_SectorDistance[0] from the PCI / absolute frequency (SSB) reported
within the RRC Reconfiguration signaling.

• Support has been added for these new 5GNR devices:

o Samsung Galaxy S10 5G (Qualcomm Snapdragon), SM-G977U ODM+
o ZTE Axon 10 Pro 5G (A2020N3)

Keysight Nemo support

• Decoding has been completed for 5GNR UE messages, added in versions ff2.39 –
ff2.41:
o Nemo Tx Power Control (TXPC), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_Power_Tx
o NR_UE_Power_Tx_PUCCH
o NR_UE_Power_Tx_PUSCH
o NR_UE_Power_Tx_SRS
o Downlink Control Information (DCI), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_CCE_Aggregationlev
o Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_CQI_WB_DL

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 o NR_UE_RI_DL
o Packet Link Adaptation Info for Downlink (PLAID), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_MCS_DL
o NR_UE_Modulation_Avg_Cwd0_DL
o NR_UE_Modulation_Avg_DL
o NR_UE_RB_Num_DL
o NR_UE_Slot_Usage_DL
o NR_UE_TB_Size_Average_DL

o Packet Link Adaptation Info for Uplink (PLAIU), setting attributes:

o NR_UE_MCS_UL
o NR_UE_Modulation_Avg_UL
o NR_UE_RB_Num_UL
o NR_UE_Slot_Usage_UL
o NR_UE_TB_Size_Average_UL
o NR_UE_RI_UL
o PDCP Layer Throughput Downlink (PDCPRATED), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_Throughput_PDCP_DL
o PDCP Layer Throughput Uplink (PDCPRATEU), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_Throughput_PDCP_UL

o RLC Layer Throughput Downlink (RLCRATE), setting attributes:

o NR_UE_Throughput_RLC_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_BLER_DL
o RLC Layer Throughput Uplink (RLCRATEU), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_Throughput_RLC_UL
o MAC Layer Throughput (MACRATE), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_Throughput_MAC_DL
o NR_UE_MAC_BLER_DL
o NR_UE_MAC_BLER_DL_1st_Transmission
o NR_UE_MAC_BLER_DL_2nd_Transmission
o NR_UE_MAC_BLER_DL_Last_Transmission
o MAC Layer Throughput Uplink (MACRATEU), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_Throughput_MAC_UL
o NR_UE_MAC_BLER_UL
o NR_UE_ReTx_Rate_UL[]

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 o Physical Channel Throughput (PHRATE), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_PayloadRate_L1_DL
o Physical_Throughput_DL
o Physical Channel Throughput Uplink (PHRATEU), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_PayloadRate_L1_UL
o Physical_Throughput_UL
o RACH Info (RACHI), setting attributes and triggering events:
o NR_UE_Power_Tx_PRACH
o NR_UE_RACH_AccessDelay
o NR_UE_RACH_Attempt
o NR_UE_RACH_Attempt_Reason
o NR_UE_RACH_Attempt_SSBID
o NR_UE_RACH_AttemptCount
o NR_UE_RACH_AttemptPreambleFormat
o NR_UE_RACH_AttemptResult
o NR_UE_RACH_OK
o NR_UE_RACH_AttemptFail
o NR_UE_RACH_Fail
o NR_UE_RACH_Procedure_Count
o NR_UE_Timing_Advance
o Enabled Data Service Analysis (task-specific) standard attributes and
events, from DAA / DAF / DAC / DAD / DREQ / DCOMP / DRATE and
DSUMMARY Nemo events.

PCTel SeeGull DTR support

• Improvements have been made to WiFi scanner decoding, including correctly
setting the attribute Wifi_Scan_Channel_Number_SortedBy_RSSI.

• Improvements have been made to PCTel_Scan_Technology attribute icon and

format group, and its support has been extended to include LTE and CW scanner
measurements.

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 • This release adds support for LTE MIMO antenna radio paths, setting RSRP, RSRQ
and CINR measurements per antenna port, per PCI:

Qualcomm QXDM / chipset support

• Support has been added for new versions of these messages in the Message
Browser:
o Improvements have been made to the logic of using NR 5G ML1 Searcher
Measurement Database Update Ext where message NR 5G ML1 Serving
Cell Beam Management is not logged, to set the following attributes:
o NR_UE_PCI
o NR_UE_NR_ARFCN_DL
o NR_UE_Beam_Idx
o NR_UE_RSRP
o NR_UE_RSRQ
o NR_UE_SINR

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 o LTE MAC DL Transport Block v49 (0xB063), setting attributes:
o LTE_UE_MAC_Throughput_DL
o LTE_UE_TTI_Count
o LTE_UE_MAC_Padding_Rate_DL
o LTE PDCP DL Statistics (0XB0A4), setting attributes
o LTE_UE_PDCP_NumBytes_DL
o LTE_UE_PDCP_NumBytes_UL

o LTE ML1 Intra Frequency Cell Reselection v1 SubPkt 11 v40 (0xB181)

o NR 5G L2 DL DATA PDU v6 (0xB857)
o NR 5G L2 UL TB v3 (0xB872)
o NR 5G MAC UL Physical Channel Schedule Report v2.6 (0xB883)
o NR 5G MAC UL Physical Channel Power Control v1.05 (0xB884)
o NR 5G MAC DL TB Report v2.2 (0xB886)
o NR 5G MAC PDSCH Status v2.4 (0xB887)
o NR 5G MAC CDRX Events Info v2 (0xB890)
o NR 5G MAC UCI Payload Information v2.0 (0xB896)
o NR 5G MAC UCI Payload Information v2.1 (0xB896)

• Resolved a problem where attributes NR_UE_Throughput_PDCP_UL and

NR_UE_PDCP_NumBytes_UL were not being set correctly from the NR 5G
PDCP UL Stats message.

• Added support for NR5G RLC DL Control PDU and NR 5G MAC CSF Report into the
Qc_Log_Code format group enumeration.

• Improvements have been made to the decoding of QXDM ISF files.

Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 RSCMD support

• Improvements have been made to decoding of 5GNR_MOBILE message during
LTE-5GNR (NSA) technology mode, and for RACH procedure events.

• Support has been added for NR_UE_BLER_DL and NR_UE_Residual_BLER_DL

from 5GNR PDSCH Status frame.

• Resolved a problem which prevented GPS measurements from populating all

streams stored within a shared ROMES4 collection, v19.2.

• Resolved a problem where file loading appeared to freeze for RSCMD files
captured from ROMES4 v19.2.

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Rohde & Schwarz QualiPoc/Smart Benchmarker MF support
• Improvements have been made to LTE Add CA Cell Info message, decoded into
the Message Browser. LTE_UE_Bandwidth_DL_for_Carrier is only set once the
SCell is made active.

• Resolved a problem where the attribute CPICH_AllSets_UE_RSCP_For_SC was

not set correctly from WCDMA Neighbor Set messages.

• Improvements have been made to the 5GNR UE detection for QualiPoc v19.2 SQC
files.

• Improvements have been made to the stability of loading v19.2 files collecting
5GNR measurements.

Event Detection
• Improvements have been made to the reporting of LTE_5GNSARelease_Cause
in cases where:
o Quick ping-pong between EN-DC and LTE occurs;
LTE_5GNSARelease_Cause and
LTE_5GNSARelease_5GNRBearerRelease are now being set.
o The file ends shortly after the reconfiguration;
LTE_5GNSARelease_Cause and
LTE_5GNSARelease_5GNRBearerRelease are now being set.

General
• Improvements have been made to the reporting of Physical_Throughput_UL, to
calculate it every 500ms, which keeps it aligned with Physical_Throughput_DL
in both LTE and LTE-NSA modes, and corrected the calculation to convert to Kbps.
o data volume (bytes) * 8 (bits) / 0.5 (seconds) * 1000

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Application Layer Improvements

Format Groups
• Added support for the NR5G RLC DL Control PDU and NR 5G MAC CSF Report into
the Qc_Log_Code format group enumeration.

Spotlight
• Resolved a problem that cause a misalignment in the legend and values in the
Spotlight Radio Network Explorer task panel, at certain screen resolutions:

Task Pages
• Resolved a problem where previous task pages including custom repository
templates were no longer compatible with the latest versions of Analyzer,
regarding the addition of the Description field to the XML schema.

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Platform Improvements

Data Processing
• Extended the query function language to include cell lookup functions for 5G NR
cells. Example syntax is as follows:
o nrcelllookup( "Sector_ID",
state(Latitude),
state(Longitude),
state(NR_UE_NR_ARFCN_DL[0]),
state(NR_UE_PCI[0])
)
o nrsitelookup( "SiteID",
state(Latitude),
state(Longitude),
state(NR_UE_NR_ARFCN_DL[0]),
state(NR_UE_PCI[0])
)

Diagnostics
• PC date and time have been added to the Diagnostics report to assist Product
Support activities.

User Defined Scanner Streams

• Resolved a problem where substreams created with the User Defined Scanner
Stream tool had different timestamps to the original stream.

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Documentation Changes
• None

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Limitations, Known Issues and Obsolescence

TEMS TRR API batch file processing

• A problem with the TEMS TRR has been detected, when using the process helper
pool, and batch processing multiple files at once. As a temporary workaround,
users who experience this issue (typically limited to more recent TEMS
Investigation/Pocket files and 5GNR UE collections) are advised to disable the
helper pool from within the Analyzer Preferences. This will have an impact on the
load speed, as the API will need to be restarted with every file loaded. This issue
will be resolved in the January 2020 update (AU2001).

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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