Manual - NQDI - Diversity RF Parameters

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Diversity and NetQual

Diversity RF Parameters in NQDI
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Diversity RF Parameters ─ 01
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SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Contents
Contents
1 Introduction............................................................................................ 5
2 Diversity Layer 3 Protocols...................................................................6

2.1 Release 10.4...................................................................................................................6
3 Diversity GSM Parameters.................................................................... 7

3.1 Release 10.4...................................................................................................................7
4 Diversity GPRS-EDGE Parameters.....................................................10

4.1 Release 10.4.................................................................................................................10
5 Diversity UMTS Parameters................................................................ 13

5.1 Release 10.4.................................................................................................................13
6 Diversity HSPA Parameters................................................................ 19

6.1 Release 10.4.................................................................................................................19
7 Diversity CDMA2000 Parameters........................................................23

7.1 Release 9.7...................................................................................................................23
8 Diversity DVB-H Parameters............................................................... 27

8.1 Release 9.7...................................................................................................................27
9 Diversity WiMAX Parameters.............................................................. 31

9.1 Release 10.0.................................................................................................................31
User Manual Diversity RF Parameters ─ 01 3

SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Contents

SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Introduction
1 Introduction
This document describes the L3 - L1 measurement parameters and values from Diver-
sity devices that are available in the NQDI database and post processing tool.

SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Diversity Layer 3 Protocols
Release 10.4
2 Diversity Layer 3 Protocols

This section describes the layer 3 protocols.
2.1 Release 10.4
NQDI Layer 3 Information Reference
RRC Trace 3GPP TS 25.3313GPP TS 23.331
RR Trace 3GPP TS 44.018
CC Trace 3GPP TS 24.008
MM Trace 3GPP TS 24.008
SM Trace 3GPP TS 24.008
GMM Trace 3GPP TS 24.008
GPRS RLC/MAC 3GPP TS 44.060

SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Diversity GSM Parameters
Release 10.4
3 Diversity GSM Parameters
3.1 Release 10.4

This section describes the GSM parameters.
NQDI Info Description Reference
GSM GSM Serving cell radio parameters.
Radio GSM Serving cell radio parameters. 3GPP TS 45-series
RF Band Active channel RF band
BCCH Broadcast Control Channel of the Serving cell
TCH(s) Traffic channel (or channels in case of Fre-

quency hoping) of the Serving cell
RxLev Serving cell RxLevel. Sub value used on TCH

channel.
FER Active channel TDMA Frame Erasure Ratio.
Config RLC Max Radio Link Timeout counter value set by

network.
Current RLC Actual Radio Link Timeout counter value.
RxLevFull Serving cell dedicated channel RxLevel of full

set of TDMA frames.
RxLevSub Serving cell dedicated channel RxLevel of sub

set of TDMA frames. This subset of frames is
always transmitted when DTX is used.
RxQualFull Serving cell dedicated channel RxQual of full

set of TDMA frames.
RxQualSub Serving cell dedicated channel RxQual of sub

TxPwr Serving cell dedicated channel Timeslot Trans-

mit Power control level.
TA Dedicated channel Timing Advance value. Mul-

tiply with 550m to get min distance to BTS.
Timeslot Active channel receive Timeslot.
DTX Downlink Discontinuous Transmission indica-

tion status.
Hopping Dedicated channel Frequency Hopping indica-

tor.
MAIO Dedicated hopping channel Mobile Allocation

Index Offset.
HSN Dedicated channel Hopping Sequence Number.

Release 10.4
Codec TCH channel speech codec.
DL codec rate Speech Codec Downlink bitrate.
UL codec rate Speech Codec Uplink bitrate.
RxLev BCCH Serving cell BCCH RxLevel in idle mode.
C1 Serving cell selection path loss criteria C1.
C2 Serving cell selection path loss criteria C2.
RxLevAccMin Minimum received signal level at the MS for

which it is permitted to access the system.
MsTxPwrMacCCH Maximum transmit power level allowed to the

MS when accessing the cell.
GPRS Ind Serving cell GPRS support indicator.
Neighbor Cell Table GSM Neighbour cells radio parameters 3GPP TS 45-series
BCCH Neighbour cell BCCH Absolute Radio Fre-

quency Number.
BSIC Neighbour cell Base Station Identity Code.
RxLev Neighbor cell BCCH RxLevel.
GPRS Ind Neighbor cell GPRS support indicator.
Measurement Report GSM MS Measurement Report values taken 3GPP TS 45-series

from Layer 3 messages
BCCH Neighbor cell BCCH Absolute Radio Frequency

Number.
BSIC Neighbor cell Base Station Identity Code.
RxLev Neighbor cell BCCH RxLevel.
GPRS Ind Neighbor cell GPRS support indicator.
RxLevFull Serving cell dedicated channel RxLevel of full

set of TDMA frames.
RxLevSub Serving cell dedicated channel RxLevel of sub

RxQualFull Serving cell dedicated channel RxQual of full

set of TDMA frames.
RxQualSub Serving cell dedicated channel RxQual of sub

C/I GSM Carrier to Interference measurement

information.
ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Number of the Serv-

ing cell channel.

Release 10.4
C/I Serving cell average Carrier to Interference

ratio measured on TCH and PDTCH timeslots
for a given hopping frequency only.
Best C/I Best C/I and the corresponding ARFCN of all

hopping channels measured in 480 ms period
Worst C/I Worst C/I and the corresponding ARFCN of all

hopping channels measured in 480 ms period

SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Diversity GPRS-EDGE Parameters
Release 10.4
4 Diversity GPRS-EDGE Parameters

This section describes the GPRS-EDGE parameters.
4.1 Release 10.4
GPRS/EDGE GPRS/EDGE MS Analysis
Transmission Plane GPRS/EDGE packet transmission informa-

tion.
SNDCP Information Sub Network Dependant Convergence Protocol 3GPP TS 44.065

information.
Header Compression Status of Network Layer Protocol header com-

pression, for example, TCP/IP header, in
SNDCP layer.
Data Compression Status of User Data compression in SNDCP

layer.
LLC Information Logical Link Control protocol information 3GPP TS 44.064
Ciphering Key Kc GPRS 64 bit ciphering key
Kc Sequence Nr Ciphering key sequence number
Ciphering Ciphering status
Mode LLC Unacknowledged or Acknowledge mode
SAPI Service Access Point Identifier
RLC Information Radio Link Control protocol information 3GPP TS 44.060
Mode RLC Unacknowledged or Acknowledge mode
UL CS Uplink Coding Scheme in use.
DL CS Downlink Coding Scheme in use.
UL TBF Uplink TBF status.
DL TBF Downlink TBF status.
BEP Info EDGE Bit Error Probability quality report values 3GPP TS 45.008
Mean Average of measured Bit Error Probability.
CV Coefficient of Variance of BEP.
Throughput
UL LLC Data Rate Uplink data rate of LLC frames.
DL LLC Data Rate Downlink data rate of LLC frames.
UL RLC Data Rate Uplink data rate of RLC blocks.

Release 10.4
DL RLC Data Rate Downlink data rate of RLC blocks.
UL LLC Retrans Frame Rate Uplink LLC retransmission rate. LLC Ack mode
only.
DL LLC Retrans Frame Rate Downlink LLC retransmission rate. LLC Ack
mode only.
UL RLC Retrans Block Rate Uplink RLC retransmission rate. RLC Ack mode
only.
DL RLC Retrans Block Rate Downlink RLC retransmission rate. RLC Ack
mode only.
DL RLC BLER Downlink RLC Block Error Rate
MAC Information 3GPP TS

45.008,44.060
Access Burst Type GPRS Access Burst Type
C Value GPRS received level.
UL TS Allocation Uplink Timeslots allocated.
DL TS Allocation Downlink Timeslots allocated.
MS Class Mobile Multislot Class 3GPP TS 45.002
MS Output Power GPRS MS output power.
Network Control Order Type of cell selection mode used for GPRS.
PC Meas Chan Type of channel used for GPRS DL power

measurements.
Control Ack Type Control Acknowledge RLC message type. 4

access burst or RLC Control block
Type of Allocation MAC mode of UL TBF allocation.
SIGN VAR Average variance of received signal strength
Split PG Cycle Support of Split Paging Group Cycle in cell
RxQual GPRS RxQuality value.
Priority Access Thrld Packet access control priority level supported in

cell.
Signalling Plane GPRS/EDGE MS to Core network signalling 3GPP TS 24.008
SM Information Session Management protocol information
SM State Session Management state.
PDP Type Packet Data Protocol type.
PDP Address Packet Data Protocol address, for example, IP

address.
NSAPI Network Service Access Point Identifier. Used to

identify a PDP Context in the MS.
Radio Priority Level PDP Context QoS profile parameter.

Release 10.4
Precedence Class PDP Context QoS profile parameter.
Delay Class PDP Context QoS profile parameter.
Reliability Class PDP Context QoS profile parameter.
Peak Throughput PDP Context QoS profile parameter.
Mean Throughput PDP Context QoS profile parameter.
GMM Information GPRS Mobility Management protocol informa-

tion
GMM Service State GPRS MS Services states.
Attach State GPRS MS to Core network Attach state.
Network Mode of Op. GPRS Network operation mode for paging coor-
dination.
P_TMSI Packet Temporary MS Identity, unique within the

Routing Area.
TLLI Temporary Logical Link Identifier, derived from

P-TMSI. Used for identification over the Radio
resource sub layer.
MCC Mobile network Country Code.
MNC Mobile Network Code.
LAC Location Area Code.
RAC Routing Area Code.
T3314 Timer T3314, timer for controlling GPRS service

state 'Ready'.
Coding Scheme/TS Allocation
Coding Scheme
Coding Scheme GPRS Time of particular coding scheme usage in

GPRS
Coding Scheme EDGE DL Time of particular coding scheme usage in

EDGE DL
Coding Scheme EDGE UL Time of particular coding scheme usage in

EDGE UL
Time Slot Allocation
Downlink Time of particular time slot allocation in UL

GPRS/EDGE
Uplink Time of particular time slot allocation in DL

GPRS/EDGE

SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Diversity UMTS Parameters
Release 10.4
5 Diversity UMTS Parameters

This section describes the UMTS parameters.
5.1 Release 10.4
UMTS
WCDMA Radio
UL ARFCN Uplink Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number of the 25.101

central frequency of the 5MHz band
DL ARFCN Downlink Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number of the

UL Freq Uplink central frequency of the 5MHz band
DL Freq Downlink central frequency of the 5MHz band
Aggregate AS RSCP Aggregate RSCP value over all the pilot channels in the
Active Set
Aggregate AS Ec/Io Aggregate Ec/Io value over all the pilot channels in the
Active Set
Best AS Ec/Io Best Ec/Io value out of all the Ec/Io values from the pilots of
the Active set
Best MS Ec/Io Best Ec/Io value out of all the Ec/Io values from pilots of the
Monitor set
Best DS Ec/Io Best Ec/Io value out of all the Ec/Io values from pilots of the
Detected set
UE UTRA RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator (total wideband power at

the 3.84 MHz band)
UE Tx Pwr Uplink UE transmitting power in dedicated mode (Nokia

phones)
UE Max Tx Pwr Maximum UE transmitting power of the same time period

when the (averaged) UE Tx power is measured (Nokia
phones)
BLER [%] Block Error Rate - indicates number of received blocks with
erroneous CRC over the overall number of received blocks
Target SIR Target Signal to Interference Ratio used in DL power control
Current SIR Current or Measured SIR in the DL
Active Set Details
Reference Reference cell to which the uplink frame transmission is

defined. Uplink transmission frame timing is defined with ref-
erence to the downlink frame timing of the reference cell.

Release 10.4
PSC Primary Scrambling Code
Ec/Io Aggregate Ec/Io of the pilot channel of the Active set con-
nection, calculated over the all fingers of that PSC
RSCP RSCP of the pilot channel of the Active set connection (cal-
culated using aggregated Ec/Io and RSSI)
Pos PN position; 0 to 38400*8 – 1 (in chipx8)
Spread Delay Spread (maximum position difference between the

locked fingers in chips)
Sec Pilot Indication of the Secondary Pilot channel
SSC ID Secondary scrambling code of the primary CPICH
TPC TPC Idx field for that PSC
CPICH Div Indicator for the diversity

● True – Diversity pilot available (STTD)
● False – No diversity pilot (No STTD)
Ch Code ID The OVSF code of the CPICH that this finger is using for
demodulation (0 for primary CPICH)
Neighbor Info
UARFCN UTRA Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number of the

PSC Primary Scrambling Code of the Neighbor cell
Ec/Io Ec/Io of the pilot of the Neighbor cell
RSCP RSCP of the pilot channel of the neighbor cell
Div Indicates if the diversity is used
Set Indicates to which set the cell belongs (Monitored or Detec-

ted)
Neighbor Set Indicates if the cell is part of the neighbor list
Cell type Indicates the neighbor cell type
Neighbor Set
DL Freq DL UARFCN
Diversity Indication of Diversity
Finger General
PSC Primary Scrambling Code of the reported cell
CPICH Ec/Io Ec/Io of that finger of the CPICH of the reported cell

Release 10.4
Pos Finger PN position; unsigned quantity that shall not exceed

the range of the PN circle [0, 38400*8-1]
Finger ID Finger ID, 0 to 11
Lock Locked means the finger energy is above certain threshold
TPC Idx Radio links with the same FING_TPC have TPC bits that for
the UE are the same. This is the ID of the TPC combiner to
use, from 0 to 5, 0xFF not applicable. The TPC_IDX field is
only valid when the UE is in soft handover.
CPICH OVSF The OVSF code of the CPICH that this finger is using for
demodulation (0 for primary CPICH)
Finger Div
CPICH Ec/Io Ec/Io CPICH of the finger
Pos Finger PN position; unsigned quantity that shall not exceed

the range of the PN circle [0, 38400*8-1]
Finger ID Finger ID, 0 to 11
Lock Finger lock bits – Combiner lock status of the finger:

● 0x01 Lock Detection State – Shows whether finger
RSSI is > high threshold regardless of whether the
given type of lock is enabled
● 0x02 Time Tracking Lock – Shows when time tracking
lock is enabled, that finger RSSI > upper lock threshold
● 0x04 Data Combining Lock – Shows when data com-
bining lock is enabled, that finger RSSI > upper lock
threshold
● 0x08 Power Control Bit Lock – Shows when data com-
bining lock is enabled, that finger RSSI > power control
bit threshold
CPICH Div Indicator for the diversity:

● True – Diversity pilot available (STTD)
● False – No diversity pilot (No STTD)
CPICH Ec/Io Div CPICH energy for the diversity arm
Path Info
CPICH Ec/Io Ec/Io CPICH
Pos Path PN position [0,38400*8-1] in chipx8
Finger ID Finger ID
SSC ID Secondary scrambling code of the primary CPICH
SSC Idx S_CPICH Secondary scrambling code of the secondary CPICH
OVSF S_CPICH OVSF of the CPICH that this finger is using for demodulation
(0 for primary CPICH)
Power Control

Release 10.4
UE initial Power on Initial Tx Power on RACH

RACH
UE RACH Preamble Number of preambles transmitted on RACH.

Count
UE Tx Power Control Type of the algorithm used during the inner loop power con-
Algorithm trol to derive a TxPwrStep. There are 2 algorithms. In Alg 1
TxPwrStep is dervied in response to a single TPC com-
mand, in Alg 2 in response to 5 TPC commands.
UE Power Control Step TPC step size [dB] valid only if Power Control Algorithm = 1
Size ● 1–1
● 2–2
Tx DecHist (DL Power Control) DL TPC decision history – mDSP

selects the correct DL Power Bit to be sent out during the
next 2560 chips; a 0 or 1 value; 15 bits per frame.
Rx DecHist (Uplink Power Control) TPC decision history; a 0 or 1 value;

15 bits per frame. These are power control bits on the DL
telling the UL what to do.
BER Bit Error Rate
Rx Power before FIR Received power measured before FIR filter
Rx Power after FIR Received power measured after FIR filter
WCDMA Layer 3
DCH Spreading Factor DL Spreading factor

(downlink)
DCH Spreading Factor UL Spreading factor

(uplink)
UMTS NAS QoS
Timestamp Timestamp of the SM Layer 3 message Activate PDP Con- 3GPP TS24.008
text Accept, where the QoS set by the network is sent to the and TS23.107
mobile
Delay Class Delay class attribute for this connection
Reliability Class Reliability class attribute for this connection
Peak Throughput Peak throughput attribute for this connection
Precedence Class Precedence class attribute for this connection
Mean throughput Mean throughput attribute for this connection
Traffic Class Traffic class attribute for this connection
Delivery Order Delivery order
Delivery of erroneous Defines if the erroneous SDUs are delivered from the MAC
SDUs to the RLC layer
Max SDU size Maximum SDU size at the MAC layer
Max Uplink Bitrate Maximum UL Bitrate allowable
Max Downlink Bitrate Maximum DL Bitrate allowable

Release 10.4
Residual BER Bit error ratio
SDU Error Rate error rate
Transfer Delay Only for streaming and conversational class
Traffic Handling Priority Only relevant for interactive class
UMTS Layer 2
RLC
RLC state (table)
Channel RLC logical channel ID from 0 to 19
RLC STATE State of the RLC state machine:

● 0 – UL_NULL_STATE
● 1 – TM_UL_DATA_TRANSFER_READY
● 2 – UM_UL_DATA TRANSFER READY
● 3 – UM_UL_WAITING TO SUSPEND
● 4 – UM_UL_SUSPENDED
● 5 – AM_UL_DATA_TRANSFER_READY
● 6 – AM_UL_WAITING TO SUSPEND
● 7 – AM_UL_SUSPENDED
● 8 – AM_UL_RESET_PENDING
● 9 – AM_UL_CONFIG_PENDING
RLC DL AM Statistics
PDU Throughput DL RLC AM PDU Throughput
SDU Throughput DL RLC AM SDU Throughput
PDU BLER DL RLC AM PDU Block Error Rate
Table
Data Chn DL AMD logical channel ID; integer from 0 to 255
Ctrl Chn DL control logical channel ID; integer from 0 to 255
Chn typ Type of DL logical channel

● 0 – BCCH
● 1 – PCCH
● 2 – CCCH
● 3 – DCCH
● 4 – CTCH
● 5 – DTCH
Throughput RLC DL AM Throughput
% Nak PDU Percentage of AMD PDUs NAK’d by the peer entity
% Error PDU Percentage of erroneous PDUs
RLC UL AM Statistics
PDU Throughput UL RLC AM PDU Throughput
SDU Throughput UL RLC AM SDU Throughput
PDU BLER Block Error Rate of the UL RLC AM PDU
Table

Release 10.4
Data Chn Data logical channel UL RLC ID; integer from 0 to 18
Ctrl Chn Control logical channel UL RLC ID; integer from 0 to 18
Chn typ Type of AM UL logical channel

● 3 – DCCH
● 5 – DTCH
Throughput RLC UL AM Throughput
% Nak PDU Percentage of Negatively Acknowledged PDUs
% Error PDU Percentage of Erroneous PDUs

SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Diversity HSPA Parameters
Release 10.4
6 Diversity HSPA Parameters

This section describes the HSPA parameters.
6.1 Release 10.4
HSDPA
HS_SCCH statistics
SCCH decoding attempts num- Percentage of decoding attempts of SCCH sub-

bers frames
SCCH usage Percentage of decoding attempts SCCH subframes

scheduled to UE
HSDPA Parameters
H RNTI Abbreviation for HS-DSCH Radio Network Transac-

tion Identifier. H-RNTI shall be unique within the cell
carrying the HS-DSCH.
Number of HARQ processes Number of active HARQ processes
ACK/NACK repetition factor Ack-Nack repetition factor which controls how often 3GPP TS
the UE repeats each ACK or NACK. If it is >1, the 25.214 s6A.1.1
UE repeats ACK/NACK information during defined
number of subsequent subframes
OVSF Codes Number of OVSF codes used
HSDPA mode Indicates the WCDMA Release number
HSDPA Throughput
Category UE HSDPA Category
CQI HS-DSCH Channel Quality Indicator reported by UE
Requested throughput Requested HS-DSCH (MAC-hs) throughput for

received CQI estimation and the UE category type
( There is a table that for given CQI and UE cate-
gory gives Requested TB size)
Scheduled throughput Throughput scheduled by the network to the UE
HS-DSCH throughput Throughput of the transport HS-DSCH channel

(MAC-hs throughput)
UL HS DPCCH
Number of ACK Number of Acknowledged HS-DPCCH subframes

(ack is sent upon successful receiving of the HS-
DPDCH subframe). The value is measured in the
200 ms time frame

Release 10.4
Number of NACK Number of Negative Acknowledged HS-DPCCH

subframes (ack is sent upon successful receiving of
the HS-DPDCH subframe). The value is measured
in the 200 ms time frame
Number of DTX Number of DTX (non-active) HS-DPCCH subframes

measured in the 200 ms time frame
HS DSCH HARQ statistics
Number of sub frames Number of decoded HS-DPDCH subframes in last

set
Avg number of Rx Bits Average number of received Rx bits
Avg number of new transmissions Average number of subframes with new data over
all HARQ processes
Avg number of block errors Average number of erroneous blocks over all HARQ
processes
HSPDA Modulation
Decoded subframes Number of decoded subframes
Transport block (average) Average Transport Block Size indicated by the

scheduled HS-SSCH subframes measured in 200
ms. Note that HS-SSCH subframe carries a TBS
index which is mapped to the real value according
to the special table stored in the UE
Transport block size (cumulated) Cumulated Transport block Size value
Average number of code chan- Average number of code channels used in the DL
nels
Modulation scheme 64QAM Percentage of 64QAM in decoded HS-SSCH sub-

frames, measured in 200ms period
Modulation scheme 16QAM Percentage of 16QAM in decoded HS-SSCH sub-

frames, measured in 200ms period
Modulation scheme QPSK Percentage of QPSK modulations in decoded HS-

SSCH subframes, measured in 200ms period
Modulation scheme per session Percentage of 64QAM, 16QAM and QPSK usage
per session
HSUPA
EUL Activity status of the HSUPA.
Radio Link Set monitor
PSC Primary scrambling code of the RLS cell.
Serving Cell Indicator if that cell is the serving cell.
RLS Index RLS index . Cells with the same RLX index belong
to the same RLS.
Serving RLS Indicates if that cell belongs to the RLS
AGCH Indicates if Absolute Grant Channel is configured in 3GTS 25.211

that cell

Release 10.4
RGCH Indicates if Relative Grant Channel is configured in 3GTS 25.211

that cell
HICH Indicates if the HARQ Acknowledgement Channel is 3GTS 25.211

configures in that cell
EUL Active Indicates of the HSUPA is active in that cell
MAC Statistics
Start Frame Number Starting EUL Frame number or Subframe number

for E-DPCH.
TTI Time Transmission Interval
ETFCI Table E-DCH Transport Format Combination Identifier 25.321

Table
Number of Frames Number of Frames
AGCH/RGCH AGCH is common control channel while RGCH is

dedicated control channel
Num AGCH Messages Number of AGCH messages
Average AGCH Average Absolute Grant Value
Serving RG Up rate Percentage of relative grants from RLS to increase

the rate
Serving RG Down Rate Percentage of relative grants from RLS to decrease

the rate
Serving RG Hold rate Percentage of relative grants from RLS to hold the
rate
Non Serving RG Down rate Percentage of relative grants from Non -RLS to
decrease the rate
Non Serving RG Hold rate Percentage of relative grants from Non -RLS to
increase the rate
E-DPDCH
Happy rate Percentage of E-DPCCH messages with a happy bit

set up as happy. It indicates to what extent the UE
was able to transmit at its maximum possible bitrate
within the current channel conditions.
PwLimit TxRate Transmission rate limited by power.
SGLimit TxRate Transmission rate limited by service grant.
BufferLimit TxRate Transmission rate limited by available buffer status.
Max Power Maximum power allowed.
E-HICH E-HICH carries HARQ acknowledgement indicator

ACK or NACK
New Tx Rate Transmission Rate including new data
Retransmission rate Transmission Rate including retransmitted data
DTX rate Transmission Rate of DTX frames

Release 10.4
Max NACK Tx rate Transmission Rate of the frames that were NAKd
after reaching the maximum number of retransmis-
sions
Throughput
Average E-TFCI Average E-TFCI, calculated over the overall number

of new transmissions.
Average SG Average Service Grant value, calculated over the

overall number of new transmissions.
Average TB size Average Transport Block size, calculated over the

overall number of new transmissions.
Granted Throughput Available E-DCH throughput taking into account

only the grant given from the network
Used Throughput E-DCH throughput including retransmission
EDCH Throughput E-DCH Throughput excluding retransmissions.
E-DCH UL L1
TTI Time Transmission Interval
UL channel config group Uplink Channel configuration Group
Slot format E-DPDCH Slot Format
Channel bit rate Channel bit rate = 3.84Mbps/SF
Max EUL SF Maximum Spreading Factor for the E-DCH signalled

by the network
UE max SF Maximum Spreading Factor for the E-DCH derived

from the UE Category and TTI used
E-DPCCH power offset E-DPCCH power offset relative to DPCCH channel.
Initial serving grant Initial serving grant
UE max tx power Maximum allowed/supported UE transmission

power
UMTS Layer 2
MAC-hs
HSPDA MAC HS Throughput
HS MAC Thput MAC-d Throughput /HS-DSCH is actually MAC-hs

throughput)
HS CQI Reported Channel Quality Indicator form UE
HS BLER Ratio of negatively acknowledged blocks from the

HARQ processes over all received blocks.
MAC-e
HS MAC Thput MAC-e throughput
Decoded EUL MAC-e/es configu- MAC-d flows and RLC information

ration

SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Diversity CDMA2000 Parameters
Release 9.7
7 Diversity CDMA2000 Parameters

This section describes the CDMA2000 parameters.
7.1 Release 9.7
IS2000
Radio
Carrier Channel Carrier channel number
Total Ec/Io Total Ec/Io from all the active set cells
Rx Vocoder Rate Receiving Vocoder Rate
Tx Vocoder Rate Transmitting Vocoder Rate
FER Frame error rate
Voice Activity Rate Voice Activity Rate
Active Set monitor
Candidate Set monitor
Neighbor set monitor
Finger monitor A RAKE receiver assigns one or more fingers to each

received signal. Before assigning a finger, the correlation
energy of each signal is compared to a threshold. A finger
may be assigned to the signal when the correlation energy
satisfies the threshold. Locked means that the signal strength
is above the certain threshold.
Access parameters
Data
RLP Throughput monitor
RLP Rx Throughput mon- Reverse RLP throughput

itor
RLP Tx Throughput mon- Forward RLP throughput

itor
Supplemental channel
rate
Forward SCH Rate Rate of the forward SCH channel
Reverse SCH Rate Rate of the reverse SCH channel
Supplemental channel Frame error rate of the forward SCH channel

FER
Supplemental channel Walsh code of the supplemental channel

Walsh Code

Release 9.7
Power control
Tx Power monitor
Tx Adjust Adjustment of the Tx power due to the closed power loop
Tx Power monitor
Max Tx Power Maximum allowable Tx power
FCH Rev Tx Power Tx power of the FCH channel
Rx Power Monitor
Carrier Channel RSSI Carrier Channel RSSI
Decision history monitor
Forward Decision history of the TPC (Transmit Power Control) bits,

sent in the forward direction (reverse power control)
Reverse Decision history of the TPC (Transmit Power Control)

bits ,sent in the reverse direction (forward power control)
Forward setpoint monitor
Fundamental Channel Setpoint (typically based on FER) is the reference power

used during the inner power control loop for the forward chan-
nel. Setpoint gets adjusted during the outer power control
process.
Supplemental Channel Setpoint (typically based on FER) is the reference power

used during the inner power control loop for the reverse chan-
nel. Setpoint gets adjusted during the outer power control
process.
EvDO
Radio
Phone parameter monitor
Radio status
Carrier Channel
Total Ec/Io
Modem state
UATI
Active set monitor
Candidate set monitor
Neighbor set monitor
Finger monitor
Data
Forward link user packet

throughput

Release 9.7
SUP throughput
MUP throughputs
Reverse Link Gain Ratio
PA State
DRC/Pilot Ratio
RRI/Pilot Ratio
DSC/Pilot Ratio
Data/Pilot Ratio
Aux/Pilot Ratio
Ack/Pilot Ratio
Reverse Link T2P Statis-

tics
Normal HDR Mode
FRAB
QRAB
T2P Outflow
Delta T2P Inflow
T2P Inflow
Bucket level
Bucket Saturation Level
Bucket factor
Air link summary
Best ASP
Requested Data Rate
Packet Error Rate
Filtered RPC
Power control
Power state
Power amplifier state
TX Power monitor
TX Open Loop
TX Closed Loop
TX Power monitor
Rx Power monitor

Release 9.7
Rx Antenna 0
Rx Antenna 1

SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Diversity DVB-H Parameters
Release 9.7
8 Diversity DVB-H Parameters

This section describes the DVB-H parameters.
8.1 Release 9.7
DVB-H DVB-H parameters read from hand- ETSI EN 302 304

set
Signal Measurements RF Signal Measurement values
Signal Quality Dibcom proprietary signal quality ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
value.
Noise Estimation Noise estimation. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Signal Estimation Signal estimation. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
C/N Signal over Noise ratio. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
AD Power A/D converter power, the power seen ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
by de A/D converter after filtering and
amplifying.
RF Power Estimation RF Power estimation of the signal ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
power seen at the antenna.
Bit error rate Bit error rate. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
TPS Transmission Parameter Signalling ETSI EN 300 744
Dec ETSI EN 300 744
Symbol number ETSI EN 300 744
Frame number OFDM frame number in a super frame. ETSI EN 300 744
NQAM Modulation. ETSI EN 300 744
HRCH Hierarchical Modulation status. Non ETSI EN 300 744

Hierarchical (0) and Hierarchical (1).
Vit alpha Alpha value for hierarchical modula- ETSI EN 300 744
tion.
NFFT Transmission mode. ETSI EN 300 744
Code rate HP High Priority stream code rate. ETSI EN 300 744
Code rate LP Low Priority stream code rate. ETSI EN 300 744
Guard Guard interval. ETSI EN 300 744
Native INTLV Interleaving mode. ETSI EN 300 744
DVB-H DVB-H signaling indication. ETSI EN 300 744
Time slicing HP Status of Time slicing for High priority ETSI EN 300 744
stream.

Release 9.7
Time slicing LP Status of Time slicing for Low priority ETSI EN 300 744
stream.
MPE FEC HP Status of MultiProtocol Encapsulation ETSI EN 300 744

Forward error correction for High prior-
ity stream.
MPE FEC LP Status of MultiProtocol Encapsulation ETSI EN 300 744

Forward error correction for Low prior-
ity stream.
Cell ID Cell identification value (8 bits). ETSI EN 300 744
Len TPS length indicator. ETSI EN 300 744
Reserved Reserved bits.
Dec lock
Sync lock
Data lock
BCH uncor
Cell ID lock
DVB-H Scan DVB-H parameters read from scan-

ner
Signal Monitor RF Signal Monitor values
Signal quality Dibcom proprietary formula to give a ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
fine signal quality.
C/N Signal over Noise ratio. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
BER Bit error rate. N/A
AGC power Receiver Automatic Gain Control N/A

stage power level.
AGCglobal Receiver Automatic Gain Control N/A

stage value.
Wgn fp Noise estimation calculated as: N/A

10*log10(wgfp/2^32)
Sig fp Signal Estimation calculated as: N/A

10*log10(sig_fp/2^32)
RF Power RF Power estimation of the signal ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
power seen at the antenna.
RF front end total gain RF front-end total gain (LNA + AGC) .
Fec ber rs Bit Error Rate (Viterbi decoder output).
Fec mpfail count
AGC lock AGC lock status.
Coff lock
Corm lock

Release 9.7
Lmod4 lock
Pha3 lock
Equal lock
Vit lock
Fec lock frm Status DVB-T synchronization byte

(0x47) has been found.
Fec lock mpeg Status Mpeg data is valid.
Dec lock
Sync lock
Data lock
Bch uncor
Cellid lock
Dvsy lock
V agc 1
V agc 2
AGC wbd
AGC split offset
Lna status Low Noise Amplifier status.
Signal quality fast
Tune channel Receiver channel tuning settings ETSI EN 300 744
Constellation Modulation. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Guard interval Guard interval. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Intlv native Interleaving mode. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Nfft Transmission mode. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
RF frequency RF Frequency. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Spectral inversion Spectral inversion setting. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Tps cell id Cell identification value (8 bits). ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Tps code rate HP High Priority stream code rate. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Tps code rate LP Low Priority stream code rate. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Tps Hrch Hierarchical Modulation status. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Tps mpe fec HP Status of MultiProtocol Encapsulation ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Forward error correction for High prior-
ity stream.
Tps fec LP Status of MultiProtocol Encapsulation ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Forward error correction for Low prior-
ity stream.

Release 9.7
Tps time slicing HP Status of Time slicing for High priority ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
stream.
Tps time slicing LP Status of Time slicing for Low priority ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
stream.
Tps channel number ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Vit alpha Alpha value for Hierarchical modula- ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
tion.
Vit code rate HP High Priority stream Viterbi code rate. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Vit code rate LP Low Priority stream Viterbi code rate. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Vit hrch Hierarchical Modulation status. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Vit select hp Selected HP or LP stream. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
RxLev
Monitor DVB-H Monitor values
PID Packet Identifier, identifies the elemen- MPEG2 13818-1

tary stream.
Total tables Total number of tables received. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Error table before fec Number of tables requiring MPE FEC. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Error table after fec Number of uncorrected tables. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Total packet data Total number of TS packet. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Error packet data before fec TS packets received with error. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Error packet data after fec TS packets not corrected by FEC. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
MPE padding Nb padding columns in Application ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Data.
MPE puncturing Nb puncturing columns in FEC table. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Table size Number of rows (256, 512, 768, 1024). ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
DeltaT stream Time between bursts (from stream). ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
DeltaT detected Time between bursts (from chip). ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Burst stream Burst duration (from stream). ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Burst detected Burst duration (from chip). ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
Power up time Adaptive power up time (from chip). ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 3770
Channel ID TS channel number. ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
MPE FER MPE FER is the ratio of uncorrected ETSI EN 302 304 & 102 377
MPE-FEC frames .

SwissQual®... Diversity and NetQual Diversity WiMAX Parameters
Release 10.0
9 Diversity WiMAX Parameters

This section describes the WiMAX parameters.
9.1 Release 10.0
Radio
Frequency Frequency of the Downlink.
Bandwidth
Preamble Index
RSSI Received Signal Strength Indica-

tor. Reported by MS to the BS as
one of the channel quality indica-
tors. It is obtained by averaging
measured power level samples
over the frame preamble.
RSSI Dev Standard deviation of the RSSI.

Reported by MS to the BS as one
of the channel quality indicators.
CINR Mean Carrier-to-Interference and

Noise Ratio. Averaging is calcula-
ted using the same method as for
RSSI. Reported by MS to the BS
as one of the channel quality indi-
cators
CINR Dev Standard Deviation of CIRN.

Reported by MS to the BS as one
of the channel quality indicators
Tx Power
Tx Reference Power
Tx Power Headroom
Tx Power BS Offset
Power Work Mode (optional)
Neighbor monitor
BS ID
Cell ID
Frequency
RSSI mean
CINR mean

Release 10.0
SNR mean
FA Index
Preamble Index Index of the AAS (Adaptive

Antenna System) preamble used
on AAS transmissions to the SS
Ranging Monitor (optional)
UL Ranging code
DL Ranging code
Initial Ranging code start
Initial Ranging code end
Periodic Ranging code start
Periodic Ranging code end
Bandwidth Ranging code start
Bandwidth Ranging code end
Data
Link state
Frame Number
Local Frame Number
PER
DL Discard Frame Number
DL Traffic connections
DL SDU Number
DL PDU Number
DL Packet Rate
DL Bit Rate
UL Traffic connections
UL SDU Number
UL PDU Number
UL Packet Rate
UL Bit Rate
Physical State
DL Frame Ratio
DL Burst Data Zone
DL Burst Data CID

Release 10.0
DL Burst Data DIUC
DL Burst Data FEC Scheme
DL Burst Data FEC Repetition
DL Burst Data Duration
DL Burst Data Size
UL Frame Ratio
UL Burst Data Zone
UL Burst Data CID
UL Burst Data DIUC
UL Burst Data FEC Scheme
UL Burst Data FEC Repetition
UL Burst Data Duration
UL Burst Data Size
UL Burst Data Ranging Seed
Modulation
Convergence sublayer
CS info number
Service Flow Id Service Flow Identifier.
Direction
Connection Id Connection Identifier. Some CIDs

are reserved for specific proce-
dures.
SrcPort low
SrcPort high
DstPort low
DstPort high
CS type
QoS set flag provisioned
QoS set flag admitted
QoS set flag active
PHS rule index Payload Header Suppression rule

Index. It refers to which PHSF
(Payload Header Suppression
Field) to suppress.
PHS size of PHS rule

Release 10.0
PHS valid of PHS rule Payload Header Suppression

Valid is an PHS option to verify
the payload before suppressing it.
PHS mask of PHS rule Payload Header Suppression

Mask is an option to allow a
choice of bytes that cannot be
suppressed.
PHS field value of PHS rule
Classifier Priority
IP Protocol Number
Tos low
Tos high
Tos mask
IP Src Address
IP Src Mask Address
IP Dst Address
IP Dst Mask Address
Service Class Name

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SwissQual®...

Diversity and NetQual

2 Diversity Layer 3 Protocols...................................................................6

3 Diversity GSM Parameters.................................................................... 7

4 Diversity GPRS-EDGE Parameters.....................................................10

5 Diversity UMTS Parameters................................................................ 13

6 Diversity HSPA Parameters................................................................ 19

7 Diversity CDMA2000 Parameters........................................................23

8 Diversity DVB-H Parameters............................................................... 27

9 Diversity WiMAX Parameters.............................................................. 31

User Manual Diversity RF Parameters ─ 01 3

User Manual Diversity RF Parameters ─ 01 4

User Manual Diversity RF Parameters ─ 01 5

2 Diversity Layer 3 Protocols

2.1 Release 10.4

NQDI Layer 3 Information Reference

RRC Trace 3GPP TS 25.3313GPP TS 23.331

RR Trace 3GPP TS 44.018

CC Trace 3GPP TS 24.008

MM Trace 3GPP TS 24.008

SM Trace 3GPP TS 24.008

GMM Trace 3GPP TS 24.008

GPRS RLC/MAC 3GPP TS 44.060

User Manual Diversity RF Parameters ─ 01 6

3 Diversity GSM Parameters

3.1 Release 10.4

NQDI Info Description Reference

GSM GSM Serving cell radio parameters.

Radio GSM Serving cell radio parameters. 3GPP TS 45-series

RF Band Active channel RF band

BCCH Broadcast Control Channel of the Serving cell

TCH(s) Traffic channel (or channels in case of Fre-

RxLev Serving cell RxLevel. Sub value used on TCH

FER Active channel TDMA Frame Erasure Ratio.

Config RLC Max Radio Link Timeout counter value set by

Current RLC Actual Radio Link Timeout counter value.

RxLevFull Serving cell dedicated channel RxLevel of full

RxLevSub Serving cell dedicated channel RxLevel of sub

RxQualFull Serving cell dedicated channel RxQual of full

RxQualSub Serving cell dedicated channel RxQual of sub

TxPwr Serving cell dedicated channel Timeslot Trans-

TA Dedicated channel Timing Advance value. Mul-

Timeslot Active channel receive Timeslot.

DTX Downlink Discontinuous Transmission indica-

Hopping Dedicated channel Frequency Hopping indica-

MAIO Dedicated hopping channel Mobile Allocation

HSN Dedicated channel Hopping Sequence Number.

User Manual Diversity RF Parameters ─ 01 7

NQDI Info Description Reference

Codec TCH channel speech codec.

DL codec rate Speech Codec Downlink bitrate.

UL codec rate Speech Codec Uplink bitrate.

RxLev BCCH Serving cell BCCH RxLevel in idle mode.

C1 Serving cell selection path loss criteria C1.

C2 Serving cell selection path loss criteria C2.

RxLevAccMin Minimum received signal level at the MS for

MsTxPwrMacCCH Maximum transmit power level allowed to the

GPRS Ind Serving cell GPRS support indicator.

BCCH Neighbour cell BCCH Absolute Radio Fre-