Actix Release Notes Analyzer Update August 2008 1

Analyzer Update
Release Notes

August 2008
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1 In this version

This release contains support for new and updated file formats. There are updates
for most technologies that Actix supports, with changes falling under the following
categories:

New collection device support

Decode improvements
New attributes / modifications to existing attributes
New mobile device support in existing formats
Improvements to existing decodes
Improvements to event detection
Format Group issues (for example, binning)
Stability improvements
Event detection and Application layer improvements
Spotlight improvements
Known issues / obsolescence
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2 New collection device support

Support for Nokia N95 chipset has been added. In this release,
GSM and UMTS technologies are supported. HSPA technology is only
partially implemented. There will be further improvements to the level of
support for Nokia N95 chipsets for GSM, UMTS and HSPA technologies in
future releases.
Initial support for VIA chipset has been added.
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3 Decode improvements

3.1 Agilent support

A problem has been resolved that caused streams containing HSUPA

messages but no HSDPA messages to miss some HSUPA attributes.

3.2 Comarco Seven.Five

Added support for Nokia N95 chipset, see also New collection device
support above.

3.3 Couei support

A problem has been resolved that prevented Couei log files to be

loaded if they only contained a scanner stream.

3.4 Ericsson CT support

The RR, A and Abis cause codes are now set in attributes for GSM call
trace log files.
Batch loading of GPEH log files does not fail anymore when one of the
log files is missing in the series. With the fix, all the files up to the missing file
get loaded.

3.5 Invex3G support

The attribute ScannRSSI_by_Frequency is now set for iDEN

scanners.

3.6 Nokia Call Trace support

Improvements have been made to the file load performance of Nokia

Call Trace Viewer log files.
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3.7 Nokia Handset support

Added support for Nokia N95 chipset, see also paragraph New
collection device support above.

3.8 Panasonic support

Added support of GPS Transformation for Panasonic file format.

3.9 Qualcomm chipset support

Added support for Log code 0x1FF1 CAIT GPS Info. The attribute
SpeedMph is now set at this message.
A problem has been resolved that prevented some Qualcomm log files
from loading in Analyzer.
A problem has been resolved that caused the CDMA attribute
HandoffState to be set incorrectly. The fix also affects the attributes
PN_for_Nth_Best_Pilot and EcIo_for_Nth_Best_Pilot.

3.10 Spirent support

New attributes under Data Testing node have been added for
Spirent file format.

3.11 TEMS Investigation support

A problem has been resolved that caused the date not to be

incremented by 1 day after midnight.
A problem has been resolved that could cause the CDMA attribute
ServFreqChannel to be set incorrectly.

3.12 VIA chipset support

Initial support for VIA chipset has been added.

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3.13 Other / Generic

A problem has been resolved that could cause the Active Set
attributes to report too many cells after a handover when the preference Load
Time Message Filtering was enabled.
The decoding of GSM message System Information Type 2Quater
has been improved. A new attribute is set at that message: FDD_Qoffset.
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4 Event detection and Application layer

improvements

The HSPA Status Time attributes are now set at the end of Tasks (that is,
at the last message before the attribute Task_Id is reset). The purpose of this
change is to make it easy to obtain in a query the time spent by the UE in different
states (HSPA, PS R99, 2G) during a task.
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5 Spotlight improvements

The HSDPA Spotlight report has updated to include many HSUPA

KPIs and has been renamed to HSPA Spotlight report.
A wording mistake in the Limited Coverage KPI explanation has
been corrected.
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6 Known Issues / Obsolescence

The HSUPA UE category field in the HSDPA Network Acceptance report

does not work yet. This is because Analyzer cannot set the attribute from the
RRC field in RRC Connection Setup Complete that provides this information.
This will be fixed in future releases of Analyzer.
The HSDPA UE category field can be set wrongly when the HSDPA Network
Acceptance report is run on several files / streams corresponding to devices of
different categories. For instance, if some of the streams the report is run on
are for handsets of HSDPA category 8 and some for handsets of HSDPA
category 12, then the report will indicate 12 whereas it should indicate 8
because it is a better category.
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7 Previous Release Notes

These are the release notes for releases since GA10 in August 2007:
ReleaseNotes_Analyzer_Update_July2008.pdf
ReleaseNotes_Analyzer_Update_June2008.pdf
ReleaseNotes_Analyzer_Update_May2008.pdf
ReleaseNotes_Platform_FileFormat_2008Apr_FF22.pdf
ReleaseNotes_Platform_FileFormat_2008Feb_FF21.pdf
Actix Analyzer Chart Updates Release Notes_Feb08.pdf
ReleaseNotes_Spotlight_1_4.pdf
ReleaseNotes_Platform_FileFormat_2007Dec_FF20.pdf
ReleaseNotes_Platform_FileFormat_2007Nov_FF19.pdf
ReleaseNotes_Spotlight_1_3.pdf
ReleaseNotes_Platform_FileFormat_2007Oct_FF18.pdf
ReleaseNotes_GA10+TEMS_Investigation.pdf
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