TEMS Discovery 4.0.9 Release Note

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TEMS Discovery 4.0.9 Release Note

Release Note

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Contents

1 Supported measurement equipment results 3

2 Extended functionality 4

2.1 Selected list of new functions in TEMS Discovery 4.0.9 ................................................... 4









2.10 Selected list of new functions in TEMS Discovery 4.0 .................................................... 10

3 Corrected bugs 14

3.1 Selected list of bugs corrected in TEMS Discovery 4.0.9 ............................................... 14









3.10 Selected list of bugs corrected in TEMS Discovery 4.0 .................................................. 17

4 Known bugs and limitations 18

5 Contact Information 18

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TEMS is a trademark of Ascom. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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About this Release Release date: January 8, 2013

1 Supported measurement equipment results

- TEMS Investigation versions 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3,14.4, 14,5

- TEMS Automatic versions 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.0, 9.1

- TEMS Pocket versions 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 10.x, 11.x, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

- TEMS Symphony Suite (QVoice) up to 6.2

- TEMS Monitor Master trace files up to version 8.5 SP1

- UETR trace support up to Ericsson W12BEvo

- NEMO up to version 5.2 (File format version 2.14)

- JSDU E6474A 16.1

- PCTel Scanner up to version 3.0.0

- CDMA 1x/1xEV Qualcomm trace files up to Version N

- WCDMA/HSPA Qualcomm trace files up to Version G

- LTE Qualcomm trace files up to Version K

- ZK CellTest (File format V6.27 for GSM and WCDMA)

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2 Extended functionality

2.1 Selected list of new functions in TEMS Discovery 4.0.9

- Support of logfiles recorded with TEMS Investigation 14.4, 14.5

- Full Support of Ericsson LTE UE Trace.

- Added support for non-unicode character sets, such as Russian, Hebrew, Chinese Simplified text (GB2312) for GIS text labels.

- Support of following new LTE ANR (Automatic Neighbor Relation) information elements:

- ANR Cell To Report CGI

- ANR Feature Group Indicators

- ANR Inter-frequency LTE Activated

- ANR Inter-RAT LTE Activated

- ANR Intra-frequency LTE Activated

- ANR LTE Configured

- ANR Reported Cell

- ANR Reported CGI

- Enabled automatic data processing (ADP) for PCap and UETR files.

- Support of dynamic composite data creation from available attribute values automatically.

- Support of LTE 3GPP Release 9 RRC protocols.

- Added option for sampling of PCap ACK messages within a user-defined interval.

- SR000088124: Populate Scanner_Top1_Metrics_By_Operators_GSM script if “GSM Selected ARFCN Scanning – All Bands” metric group exists.

- Added “CondCount” (conditional count) and CondPercent (conditional percentage) as two new statistics cube attributes.

- Added the following two additional report type to Statistics Report Template Builder

- Count of samples while measurement meets threshold

- Percentage if sample while measurement meet threshold

- Updated MCC/MNC vs. Network Operator table to include all Chinese operators.


- Enabled direct access of processed data from multiple TEMS Discovery Professional clients to back-end TEMS Discovery Enterprise SQL-Server database.

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- Support of logfiles recorded with TEMS Investigation 14.3, TEMS Pocket 12.3, TEMS Automatic 9.1

- Support of Power Point Report Template.

- Support of TD-SCDMA and LTE metrics for HiSilicon chipsets

- Support of Ericsson UETR W11BEvo, W12A, W12AEvo, W12B, and W12BEvo.

- Enhancements to the way of defining Statistics Cubes:

- Added a “Single” statistics for easier presentation of the metric with string data type.

- Plotband definition based on the nature of statistics.

- Added a “Progress” spreadsheet to “Statistics Cube Management” dialog to report number of processed Projects, Datasets and Files.

- A new script “First_Operator_Name” is added and it can be run to automatically update the device attribute “Operator”.

- TEMS device types “FM” (file marker) and “PS” (Position) are merged to first available EQ/MS.

- Added the following common metric groups:

GPS UTC Time.

CM Serving System Info

Data ABM Information

TD-SCDMA LTE Neighbors

LTE TD-SCDMA Neighbors

LTE NAS Bearer Information

LTE PDCCH CCE Statistics

LTE PDSCH Transmission Distribution

LTE DRX Status

LTE Handover Interruption Time

- Enhancements to TEMS_Service_KPIs scripts:

- Added “Blocked_Call_Type”, “Dropped_Call_Type” and several other metrics.

- Added “TEMS_Automatic” category and several related events.

- SR000085036: New metrics are added to “LTE Resource Blocks - PUSCH” frame.

- Modification to QVoice_Metrics script and QVoice_Management_Report report template.

- Provided users with options for not importing layer 3 signaling messages.

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- Added an option for “Repeating by Entire Sheet” in Report Template Builder.

- Allowing the user to select the same metric in both measurement group and dimension for creating unique count statistics.

- Provided options for user to select folder type for measurement and log database in SQL-Server storage mode.

- Added options for controlling the number of File/Devices listed in “Project List” and “Dataset Explorer” to avoid slow response when the number of File/Devices exceeding several thousands.

- Added function allowing the user to easily create composite dataset from Statistics Browser.

- Added function for defining geo-center for statistics cube group.


- Added capability for selecting a license type from a set of different license options.

- Support of logfiles recorded with TEMS Investigation 14.2, TEMS Pocket 12.1, TEMS Automatic 9.1

- Direct integration of TEMS Automatic (TA) Call Generator database with TA log files collected from remote test units (RTU)

- Support of secure FTP for Automatic Data Processor (ADP)

- Added “Diagnostic – Overshooter” script.

- Added several “Serving Sector …” metrics for “Cell ID – UMTS (Phone-based)” frame.

- Added option in “Search” pane of Data Explorer to search for only file/device name.

- Added Sort by function in Dashboard Grid view.

- Added notification in Data Explorer if filtering is active.

- Added support of reporting Wi-Fi RSSI by Wi-Fi SSID.

- Support of “Report Variables” defined in scripts in both Data Explorer and Report Template.

- Added function for complete rebuild of project list with toolbar button “Refresh”


- Including statistics cube filling functions in ADP

- Shortened time for populating data explorer for projects containing thousands of log files.

- Enhanced functions on QVoice master-slave file merging

- Configurable default Map View center for TEMS Discovery Web application

- Separation of PESQ and Frequent AQM metric groups into DL and UL groups

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- Support statistics cube filling on 32-bit mode SQL server2008 R2


- Including statistics cube filling functions in ADP

- Shortened time for populating data explorer for projects containing thousands of log files.

- Enhanced functions on QVoice master-slave file merging

- Removal of “Processing Capacity” limitation for TEMS Discovery Enterprise version.

- Configurable default Map View center for TEMS Discovery Web application

- Separation of PESQ and Frequent AQM metric groups into DL and UL groups

- Support statistics cube filling on 32-bit mode SQL server2008 R2


- No new functionality added


- Support of Word report output.

- Support of TEMS Investigation 14.1 log files.

- Support of multiple Media Quality measurements IEs added in TEMS Investigation 14.1.

- Support of E911-relevant IEs.

- Support of QVoice EVDO metrics in addition to direct Qualcomm raw traces decoding.

- Capacity to apply conditional filtering before filling OLAP Cube.

- Capability of applying formula to derive addition KPI based on original OLAP Cube statistics

- Capability for the user to define measurement task cycles and perform automatic and selective data filtering.

- Wait time of automatic report generation in ADP can now be applied to data sets or projects level, as opposed to task level.

- Enabling of multiple Message Views and Problem Set Views within a project.

- Enabling the linkage between drive-test data points to likely “Serving” and “Neighbor” Cells for Scanner data

- Enabling Copy/Paste of a processed file across Datasets/Projects from Data Explorer

- Enabled "Modified Mobile Behavior - GSM" and "Modified Mobile Behavior - WCDMA"

frames

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- Significant improvement on the performance of data import under SQL Server-based file storage mode.

- Support of TEMS Pocket 12.0 and 12.1 log files

- Improvement on the stability of data import for TEMS log files.

- Additional 23 metrics and the following events added for Discovery_Events script:

- EVDO Connection Lost

- EVDO Connection Setup Failure

- EVDO Connection Setup OK

- LTE Dedicated EPS Bearer Activated

- LTE Dedicated EPS Bearer Request

- LTE Default EPS Bearer Activated

- LTE Default EPS Bearer Request

- LTE PDN Connectivity Established

- LTE PDN Connectivity Request

- LTE PDN Disconnect Request

- LTE RRC Connection Dropped

- LTE RRC Connection Dropped but Later Re-established

- LTE-to-EVDO Redirect Fail

- LTE-to-EVDO Redirect OK

- LTE-to-EVDO Redirecting

- LTE-to-UTRAN FDD Redirect Fail

- LTE-to-UTRAN FDD Redirect OK (Renamed from “EUTRAN RRC Connection Redirected Success”)

- LTE-to-UTRAN FDD Redirecting (Renamed from “EUTRAN RRC Connection Redirected”)

- Added extra handler for TEMS log file names containing certain accented characters


- Added support for new TEMS Investigation 14.0.trp file format.

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- Added support for new IEs introduced in TEMS Investigation 14.0, TEMS Automatic 9.0 and TEMS Pocket 11.3.

- Added support for TEMS Pocket .tpz files collected with Vivid, Sharp and Infuse UEs.

- Added support for VLAN protocol decoding for PCap data.

- Added support of following metric groups for LTE TDD UEs based on Altair chipsets:

- LTE MIMO Antenna RSRP

- LTE Modulation PUSCH

- LTE PUSCH BLER

- LTE Resource Blocks - PUSCH

- LTE Serving Cell Identities

- Added a log file browser to TEMS Discovery Enterprise

- Imported log files with mobile attributes are stored in the SQL Server file stream database

- The user can view the imported log files with mobile attributes.

- The user can download the log files to a local folder or delete unwanted log files.

- SR 049797: added capabilities for opening multiple side-by-side table views.

- SR 049802: added a Search tab in Dataset Explorer for searching any texts within a selected tree-node.

- Added an option for the user to select encoding type of source text files while importing network configuration data.

- Added support of Excel 2007/2010 format (.xlsx) for report template and report output, removing 64K-row limitation.

- Added axis zoom and metric-as-plot-band functions in Correlation Chart.

- Added capability for manual pairing of QVOICE master/slave files

- Added support of UDR filter for Indoor data.

- Added support of importing floor print with UTM projection (8) and WGS84 datum (104)”.

- Added automatic rectifying of the geo-referenced indoor map during importing of TEMS Pocket log files.

- Added function for exporting the geo-rectified indoor map from TEMS Discovery.

- Added a function to pause continuous refreshing of dataset explorer, enabling the user to easily select any metric for display during even if more data are being imported into the same opened project.

- Added an option for the use to replace EQx (new device label introduced in TEMS Investigation 14.0) with MSx (Old device label).

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2.10 Selected list of new functions in TEMS Discovery 4.0

- Enable multi-instance parallel data processing to take full advantage of high-capacity computer. Each instance can use up to 2G of memory.

- Added support of LTE metrics for Altair-based LTE logfiles.

- Added many metrics for following LTE metric groups:

- LTE Neighbor Measurement Results

- LTE Neighbor Measurement Request

- LTE MAC RACH Reason

- LTE MAC RACH Attempt Info

- LTE MAC Transport Block Info - DL

- LTE ML1 PUSCH Tx Report

- LTE ML1 PUCCH Tx Report

- LTE PRACH Configuration

- LTE MAC RACH Configuration

- LTE NAS ESM Bearer Context State

- LTE NAS ESM Bearer Context Information

- LTE LL1 Serving Cell Measurement Results

- LTE Detected Cells

- LTE Transmission Statistics (Altair-based log file only in this release)

- LTE CQI Summary (Altair-based log file only in this release)

- LTE HARQ Information (Altair-based log file only in this release)

- Added TEMS Discovery Enterprise comprised of the following key components

- On-demand OLAP Cube Definition Creator

- Statistic KPI database (OLAP Cubes) on Microsoft SQL server 2008 R2

- Statistic Data Browser (OLAP Cube viewer)

- Background Data Extractor

- Report Template Builder for Accessing Statistic data

- TEMS Discovery Web Application

- Optional ODBC Measurement Database on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

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- Optional original log file Database

- Added following TEMS Discovery Enterprise functions:

- Unlimited number of on-demand OLAP cubes can be created by an administrator user with simple drag-and-drop user interface

- All pre-defined and user-defined metrics can be defined as OLAP cubes.

- Any device attribute, user-defined regions, network configuration and any available information element can be defined as dimension.

- Support of area aggregation in multiple levels of resolutions

- Support of sharing, editing, deletion, activation, deactivation OLAP Cube.

- OLAP Cube can be selectively applied to specific projects.

- Background Data Extractor extracts measurement data and populates populate statistic database automatically

- Statistic data browser (OLAP cube viewer) allowing user to

Connect to statistic database in different location

Connect to any cubes in the selected statistic database

On-the-fly data filtering per any dimension

Display user-selected data in Map, or Histogram Chart

Drill down to specific file/device level

Save data in pivot grid or chart view to files

- Report generation from statistic data:

Report Template Builder can access to statistic database

Filter statistic data based on time and multiple dimensions

Statistic data can be visualized in chart, or listed in tabular

Statistic data can be grouped in different dimensions

Generate report on-demand and save as Excel file

Mapping of statistic data in reports

- Build-in licensing, security and user-access control:

- TEMS Discovery Web Application:

A centralized and web-based drive-test data presentation system with light-troubleshooting function

Support both PC-based and iPad tablet web browsers

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Access to TEMS Discovery measurement database and/or statistics database

Support Bing Map view with multiple sub-view capability and optional network configuration and user-defined region overlay

Support Histogram Chart with multiple sub-view capability and many chart type selections

Support of Sector Statistic View

Workspace can be saved and restored

Support of Problem Summary View allowing the user to

List problematic file/device

Present detailed problem of each file/device

Download problematic measurement data for sharing or analyzing in TEMS Discovery Professional

Generate report from selected file/device

On-demand Multi-Dimension Statistic View

On-fly data aggregation and grouping

Device attribute, UDR, network configuration and time can be defined as dimension

Metric can be defined as dimension

Pivot grid for flexible data manipulation including data filtering

Drill down to file/device and download for sharing

Chart for visualization

Save data to files

- Report generation from measurement data

Generate report from dataset based on report templates built by TD Professional, Save output to Excel files

Generate PDF summary based on configuration created by TEMS Discovery Professional, save output to PDF files

Filter data by time, UDR, sector group and condition script

Organize and make all reports generated by TEMS Discovery Professional + ADP or manually uploaded available for download

- Statistic Data Browser (OLAP Cube viewer) is capable of

Connecting to different statistic database in different location

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Connecting to any cubes in the selected statistic database

Filtering data per any dimension on-fly

Displaying any users selected data

Drilling down to file/device level

Displaying in Bing Map

Saving data in pivot grid or chart to files

Creating statistic report on-demand with filter on-fly

Save report to Excel files

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3 Corrected bugs

3.1 Selected list of bugs corrected in TEMS Discovery 4.0.9

- Significantly enhanced stability for TEMS Discovery Enterprise during multi-thread data processing and statistics cube filling.

- IMEI, IMSI in Device Attributes not correct under certain situations

- SR000085431: UETR W12B files do not import into TD 4.0.8

- SR000085911: Missing LTE RRC trace after import for certain log files

- SR000093817: TD gradually runs out of Memory while generating same report multiple times

- SR000095731: Print to PDF from Map view - Title behind map if the page layout set to landscape

- SR000099445: Repetition in report by WCDMA UARFCN PSC does not work as expected.

- TD Web – filtering by date in dashboard may result in a memory error message in TD V4.0.8


- Occasionally MOC Events are missing from QVoice_Metrics script under SQL-Server storage mode.

- Under SQL-Server storage mode, newly import data may not show up in map view occasionally.

- SR000078548: Report Builder - Geo Binning does not work correctly for Delta metrics.

- SR000083537: Spider Move with Scanner Data option not working properly.

- SR000083748: Network configuration grouping logic “WCDMA_by_PSC” cannot be edited or removed.

- SR000084205: PDSCH Physical Layer Throughput metric is missing from a QXDM file.

- SR000084776 / SR000087533: UDR filtering does not work with a specific project under flat-file storage mode.

- SR000084778: LTE Scanner data was not enabled for Cell Radius Analysis.

- SR000085060: RSRP measurement is missing for one of several EARFCNs.

- SR000085316 / SR000065302: Missing FCH FER and EVDO Rx Tx Power for some new TEMS Investigation log files.

- SR000085690: Export to MapInfo *.mif file format sometimes give wrong coordinates.

- SR000085803: Merge EMM State from LTE NAS Info frame to LTE NAS States frame.

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- SR000085826: User-defined Metric Group: Data type of Longitude and Latitude cannot be correctly defined in the latest build.

- SR000086022: Discovery_Events script relies only on layer 3 signaling messages for determining “System” and “Mode”, resulting in failure to pick up brief transition from “Connected” mode to “No Service” mode.

- SR000086790: Discovery fails to import a WCDMA and LTE Cell file from TEMS Investigation.

- SR000087084: Missing a RRC Reconfiguration Complete message under certain condition.


- QVoice Master - Slave merge sometimes fails under certain cases.

- SR78548: Delta in Report does not work for Advanced Metrics & Events

- SR79235: Resolution Multiplier in report change picture size

- SR80011/83221/83392: Missing PDSCH BLER information for some log files

- SR81488: Some corrupted Qualcomm file result in misleading error messages.

- SR82532: Missing LTE Modulation PUSCH / MCS Index metrics for some log files

- SR82546: Added missing categories for Discovery_Events

- SR83319: Cursor not to move in Map in "by Mouse Clicking" mode

- SR83391: Missing Firmware version in Testing device Info and Device attributes

- SR83479: TD-Web: Error when filtering dashboard for current week

- Change default colors for RxQuality in GSM


- SR 55223 & 77498: Wrong values of “LTE PHY Throughput – PDSCH” for some log files collected with Qualcomm-based devices. For using the same calculation as TEMS Investigation, use the “LTE Throughputs from Data Collector” group.

- SR 63411: Some extra folders generated while importing two different log file types with ADP.

- SR 72239: Some problems related to per dataset automatic report generation with ADP.

- SR 72749: Missing GPS position if some out-of-sequence data points exist.

- SR73609: JDSU scanner file - CW Power per frequency not available.

- SR73848: A false “Channel Request” message caused false dropped call events for QVoice file.

- SR 76337: Missing EPS MM service request messages.

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- SR 76736: Missing some scanned WCDMA channels.

- Missing “LTE Resource Blocks – PUSCH” frames if 0xB139 Qualcomm log code does not exist.


- SR 55223 & 77498: Wrong values of “LTE PHY Throughput – PDSCH” for some log files collected with Qualcomm-based devices.

- SR 63411: Some extra folders generated while importing two different log file types with ADP.

- SR 72239: Some problems related to per dataset automatic report generation with ADP.

- SR 72749: Missing GPS position if some out-of-sequence data points exist.

- SR73609: JDSU scanner file - CW Power per frequency not available.

- SR73848: A false “Channel Request” message caused false dropped call events for QVoice file.

- SR 76337: Missing EPS MM service request messages.

- SR 76736: Missing some scanned WCDMA channels.

- Missing “LTE Resource Blocks – PUSCH” frames if 0xB139 Qualcomm log code does not exist.


- TD v4.0.3 Bundle/Standard failed to pickup license and can’t be opened.


- SR000068076: GPS position time interval problem: The time for the GPS coordinates are jumping

- SR000069472: Export to MIF/MID MapInfo Interchange format - missing projection

- SR000071382: GPS binning not changeable - remove from Import Config

- SR000071814: Some IEs from DRT LTE Scanner not imported.

- SR000071822: Issue generating a report after importing a log file

- SR000072671: Saving Report Template doesn't remember applicable technologies

- SR000074298: exclude data in UDR hole when loading data for display/report


- Failure to generate results for problem sets.

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- SR000062355: wrong value on "Application Layer Throughput Downlink (Kbps)" and “Application Layer Throughput Uplink (kbps)”.

- SR000067676: Problems with Cell-ID LTE metric group.

- SR000068549 / SR000068550: After generating the report, the formula in the report template for some of the cells is replaced with final values.

- SR000068949: No results for “Tick” IE.

- Failure in automatic merging of QVoice master and slave files under SQL-Server mode.

- File import got stuck under SQL-Server mode due to SQL deadlock by occurrence of file import exceptions.

- Missing icons in BING map.


- PCI values (0~3) from TEMS Investigation .cel/xml cell configuration file mistakenly imported as TEMS Discovery internal PCI (Physical Cell ID, 0~503).

- Out-of-memory error while importing very large network configuration xml file.

- SR 062767: TEMS Discovery 3.1.2 crash while importing certain log files with Automatic Data Processor.

- SR 063903: Embedded condition filters sometimes fail to return desired results.

- SR 062738: Failure to import some cell configuration xml files containing certain accented characters.

- SR 064710: Missing WCDMA UE Tx Power for certain log files

- SR 064712: “Cell Selection Indicator after Release of All TCH and SDCCH” IE of GSM RR Channel Release message not fully decoded.

- SR 068196: In correct value of “Radio_Access_Technology” metric from multi-mode 1xRTT / EVDO / LTE UEs.

3.10 Selected list of bugs corrected in TEMS Discovery 4.0

- SR60911: Enable an option to import PCAP data without merging to other devices

- SR000063435/89993: Some processed data set not listed under Dispatcher or Member Computer if Automatic Data Processing is configured under distributed processing mode.

- SSID and BSSID are reversed for Pocket Wi-Fi Scanning results.

- LTE NAS messages are imported with QXDM isf file but not dlf files.

- GSM Tx Power Level values not imported for QVoice mdf files

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4 Known bugs and limitations

- Certain option of ADP tasks, such as “Per Import Batch” time option may not be correctly saved with Discovery v4.0.3 and earlier versions. It is recommended for users to create a fresh ADP task if unexpected behaviors are observed.

- SR 68616: Report cannot be generated completely if the template was last saved in Report Template Builder:

The third-party component used by TD is not fully compatible with xlsx files. Therefore, it is recommended that the user save a report template with MS Excel.

- Attempt of resizing Discovery window during the import of GIS data may cause the application to pause the GIS data import.

- RAN Tuning Reports may show blank fields if the IEs defined in the reports are not available from data sources.

- GPS positions may not be available for some old log files collected with TEMS Investigation 6.x and earlier.

5 Contact Information

For customer support contact information, please visit our website on the Internet: www.ascom.com/networktesting.

http://www.ascom.com/networktesting

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