Release Notes

Analyzer Update September 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 (DRM) support .................................................................................................................... 7
Infovista TEMS support .................................................................................................................................. 7
PCTel SeeGull DTR support .......................................................................................................................... 8
Qualcomm QXDM / chipset support......................................................................................................... 8
Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 RSCMD support ........................................................................................... 12
Rohde & Schwarz QualiPoc/Smart Benchmarker MF support ............................................................ 12
Event Detection Improvements................................................................................................................ 13
General ......................................................................................................................................................... 13

Application Layer Improvements .................................................................................................15

Attributes ....................................................................................................................................................... 15
Format Groups ............................................................................................................................................. 15
Stateforms ..................................................................................................................................................... 15

Platform Improvements ..................................................................................................................16

Message Browser......................................................................................................................................... 16
Preferences .................................................................................................................................................. 16
Protocol Stack Browser ............................................................................................................................... 17

Documentation Changes .............................................................................................................19

Limitations, Known Issues and Obsolescence ...........................................................................20
End of Life of 32-bit support ....................................................................................................................... 20

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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 2 new stateforms added for 5GNR Handset analysis
o Single RAT OTA signaling column in Protocol Stack Browser template

• New collections of devices and improvements:

o Support for 5GNR UEs in Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 and QualiPoc 19.1
o Improvements and new version support for over 10 Qualcomm 5GNR
message log codes
o Breakdown of NR 5G MAC DCI Info message into raw information element
attributes

• Platform improvements:
o Message Browser and Protocol Stack Browser message type filtering
support added for Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 and QualiPoc formats.
o Layout improvements to the Message Browser message panel, for table-
based messages for Qualcomm 5GNR. A new default font is set for new
installations, and highly recommended for existing (upgrading) users.

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Technology Improvements

5G-NR support
• Support added for Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 and QualiPoc 5GNR UEs (v19.1).

• Support for 3GPP RRC Rel15.6 signaling.

• Support added for New 5GNR UE-based stateforms have been added:
o 5G NR Handset Beam Measurements
o 5G NR Handset Serving Cell Parameters

• Support added for a single technology RAT OTA signaling template in the Protocol
Stack Browser:

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 • MIMO support for multiple RF path measurements per beam.

• Full information element support from Qualcomm NR 5G MAC DCI Info (0xB885)
message:

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New collection device or technology support

Accuver XCAL (DRM) support

• Resolved an issue where 5G NR was not being detected in a file.

• Implemented support for Connection_Server_URL and Task_File_Name

attributes from Youtube Call Config messages.

• Support added for PCTel iBflex UMTS and LTE scanner data from .SCX log format.

• LTE Band attributes set for PCell and SCell carriers being set as attributes:
o LTE_UE_BAND_DL
o LTE_UE_BAND_DL_for_Carrier[n]

Infovista TEMS support

• Support added for the following Galaxy S9 messages: Common HPLMN Timer
0x2105, LTE L1 PUSCH Statistics 0x2216, and LTE L2 PDCP Statistics 0x224c.

• Resolved a problem where the attributes LTE_UE_Bandwidth_DL and

LTE_UE_Bandwidth_UL were not being set correctly when the UE was not in
CA-active mode.

• Support added for the LTE L1 Downlink Info2 message, 0x221b, from Galaxy S9,
supporting up to 256QAM:

• Support added for the LTE PHY Received Signal Quality Information message,
0x2209, from Galaxy S9, supporting MIMO and CA:

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PCTel SeeGull DTR support
• Resolved an issue where the MIB decode was giving a spurious error (although
while correctly decoding the message).

Qualcomm QXDM / chipset support

• Improvements made to the reporting frequency of th eattribute
Physical_Throughput_DL_LTE, which is now calculated at every 500ms period
and hoisted back to the most recent LTE ML1 PDSCH stat indication message.

• Resolved an issue where a QXDM .ISF file containing LTE messages caused
Analyzer to crash during file loading.

• Improvements made to NR 5G ML1 Serving Cell Beam Management (0xB975)

message, to support additional RX paths, where now paths 0…7 are supported:

• Added support to break down NR 5G MAC DCI Info (0xB885) message into
individual information elements, controlled by a Preference setting under Format
> Qualcomm > Full Attribute Support:

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 • The vendor-specific information element attributes (both scalar and array-based)
are grouped under 5GNR > Vendor_Specific > Qualcomm. Note that this
message consists of single information elements, array elements, and array-of-
array elements, reflected in the attribute naming convention:

• Changes made to decode of the NR 5G MAC DCI Info (0xB885) message, to

standardize the formatting of information element as “enumeration (raw)”:

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 • Support added for new versions of these messages in the Message Browser:
o LTE ML1 DCI Information report (0xB16C), resulting in more accurate
setting of the attribute LTE_UE_RB_Num_UL.
o Improvements made to attributes set from NR 5G MAC UL Physical Channel
Power Control (0xB884) message, to correct the order of magnitude:
o NR_UE_CalculatedPower_Tx_PUSCH
o NR_UE_CalculatedPower_Tx_PUCCH
o NR_UE_CalculatedPower_Tx_PRACH
o NR_UE_CalculatedPower_Tx_SRS
o NR 5G MAC DCI Info (0xB885) version 1.09 and 1.10.
o NR5G MAC LL1 CSF Indication (0xB891), setting attributes:
o NR_UE_CRI_DL
o NR_UE_CRIMetric_DL
o NR_UE_LI_DL
o NR 5G MAC UL Physical Channel Power Control (0xB884), setting
attributes:
o NR_UE_SubcarrierSpacing_PRACH
o NR_UE_SubcarrierSpacing_PUSCH
o NR_UE_SubcarrierSpacing_PUCCH
o NR_UE_SubcarrierSpacing_SRS
o NR_UE_CalculatedPower_Tx_[PRACH|PUSCH|PUCCH]

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 o NR_UE_MaximumTxPowerLimit_[PRACH|PUSCH|PUCCH]
o NR_UE_PUCCH_Format
o NR_UE_PUCCH_CSI_BitSize
o NR_UE_PUCCH_SR_BitSize
o NR_UE_PUCCH_AckNack_BitSize
o NR_UE_SRS_M
o NR 5G MAC PDSCH Status (0xB887), calculating the Coding Rate column
using the following formula:
o Coding rate = (TB Size in bits) / (Number of Resource Elements)
/ Modulation
o Where Modulation = 2 if QPSK, 4 if 16QAM, 6 if 64QAM and 8 if
256QAM.
o Added support for additional reason codes for RACH Contention from the
NR 5G MAC RACH Trigger (0xB889) message:
o Connection Request
o Handover
o UL Data Arrival
o Beam Failure
o Added support for additional reason codes for RACH Reason from the NR
5G MAC RACH Trigger (0xB889) message:
o UL Grant
o PDCCH CRNTI
o NR 5G PDCP DL RBS Stats (0xB842) version 3, setting these attributes:
o NR_UE_PDCP_NumDataPDU_DL
o NR_UE_PDCP_NumControlPDU_DL
o NR_UE_PDCP_NumMissPDU_DL
o NR_UE_PDCP_NumDupPDU_DL
o NR_UE_PDCP_NumOutOfWinPDU_DL
o NR_UE_PDCP_BLER_DL
o NR 5G RLC DL Stats (0xB84D), setting these attributes:
o NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_Invalid_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_Duplicate_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_ReTx_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_Dropped_DL
o NR_UE_RLC_BLER_DL
o NR 5G RLC UL Status PDU (0xB869) calculating the number of RLC Status
PDU sent by the UE in the UL direction, and setting attribute

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 NR_UE_RLC_statuswithNACK_count_DL when at least 1 RLC PDU is
Nacked.
o NR 5G L2 UL TB (0xB872), setting these attributes:
o NR_UE_PHR
o NR_UE_PHR_Pcmax
o NR_UE_BSR_Index

Rohde & Schwarz ROMES4 RSCMD support

• Support added for ROMES4 19.1 5GNR handset measurements, supporting the
following message types:
o 5GNR_MOBILE, setting attributes and RLC and MAC throughput.
o 5GNR_MOBILE, decoding Serv_Cell_Beams / Serv_Cell_Beams_Cont
subframes.
o 5GNR_MOBILE, decoding PDSCH_All_Carrier and PUSCH_All_Carrier
subframes.
o FIVEG_SCAN_RESULT, adding decode for PPS Time Relation subframe.

• Message Resolved an issue where ScanSigLevel[*] attributes were showing

frequency values instead of signal level values.

• Improvements made to the Message Browser event panel and filtering options for
ROMES4 LTE and 5GNR files.

Rohde & Schwarz QualiPoc/Smart Benchmarker MF support

• Support added for QualiPoc 19.1 5GNR handset measurements, supporting the
following message types:
o NR5GRRCMessage
o NetworkType
o NR5GMIBMessage
o NR5GPDSCHStatisticsCarrier
o NR5GPDSCHStatisticsInfo
o NR5GPRACH
o NR5GPDSCHThroughputInfo
o NR5GMeasurementReport
o NR5GCellInfo

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 • Improvements made to the Message Browser event panel and filtering options for
QualiPoc LTE and 5GNR files.

Event Detection Improvements

• Resolved a problem where LTE Detach events were not being detected correctly
for certain Samsung Exynos chipset devices. This had two contributing elements
to the resolution:
o Resolved a problem where L3_Direction was being set incorrectly for
certain EMM messages.
o Resolved a problem in the decoding of the EMM Detach Request UL
message, where not all the contents were being previously decoded.

General
• Support added for 3GPP RRC Rel15.6 decode.

• Attributes extracted for NR-RRC-MIB.

• Improvements made to the encoding of the number of supported LTE SCCs within
the UE_Capabilities attribute, which is possible to extract via the following
expression:
o bitwiseand( UE_Capabilities, 1008 )/2^4

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 • Support for new attributes to indicate CSI and MCS tables used:

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Application Layer Improvements

Attributes
• Moved the attribute NR_UE_SubcarrierSpacing under the Serving Cell
Parameter tree node.

• Renamed the attribute NR_UE_RACH_SeqID (added in AU1908) to be

NR_UE_RACH_Procedure_Count and started the counter at 1 not 0.

Format Groups
• Improved ranges for 5GNR Mbps legend, allowing a more sensible distribution of
throughput in the map legend and chart/table histogram views.

• Corrected the maximum value of NR_SubCarrierSpacing_DL.

• Changed the format group of attribute NR_UE_RLC_NumPDUs_DL to Count.

Stateforms
• New 5GNR UE-based stateforms have been added:
o 5G NR Handset Beam Measurements
o 5G NR Handset Serving Cell Parameters

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 Platform Improvements

Message Browser
• Added event panel events and filter options for LTE and 5GNR for ROMES4 and
QualiPoc formats.

• Improvements have been made to the overall layout of messages in the Message
Browser, to assist with the column alignment and reading of tables of information
elements within the same message.
o Added horizontal scrollbar for messages which span wider than the current
message panel view. Clicking Left / Right cursor keys will also scroll within
the message.
o It is important that users reset the font in the Message Browser to a fixed
width font, such as Courier New, to achieve the best results of the
alignment changes. The default font for new installations is set to Courier
New, but existing users who upgrade without deleting their
AppSettings.DAT file will need to manually change the font.

New

Previous

Preferences
• Added support to break down NR 5G MAC DCI Info (0xB885) message into
individual information elements, controlled by a Preference setting under Format
> Qualcomm > Full Attribute Support:

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Protocol Stack Browser
• New Protocol Stack Browser template All Tech Handset added for a single
combined Air Interface column listing the OTA (RRC and NAS) messages from
each radio access technology (CDMA, EVDO, GSM, WCDMA, LTE, 5GNR) in a
single column:

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 • Added filter options for LTE and 5GNR for ROMES4 and QualiPoc formats:

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Documentation Changes
• None.

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Limitations, Known Issues and Obsolescence

End of Life of 32-bit support

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

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