TEMS Investigation 17.

2 – Welcome

2.3.3.8. Blixt (Available Bandwidth Measurement)

Enhancements
• The Blixt server can request authentication in the form of a password
given in the Service Control script.
• The Blixt algorithm underwent a number of refinements. The throughput
estimate was improved by 1) smoothing out the variation in number of
packets received per TTI by means of linear regression; 2) disregarding
spikes that result from retransmissions (what happens is that data from
intervening TTIs are queued and then released all at once to the
application layer when the retransmission succeeds).

2.3.4. Usability

2.3.4.1. TEMS Investigation Launcher

The workspace selector appearing first on start-up of TEMS Investigation
morphed into an expanded view called TEMS Investigation Launcher. It
encompasses the workspace selection function but also several others:
• Projects: See section 2.3.4.2.
• Detector configuration: Here you can change what brands of scanners
and certain other device types TEMS Investigation tries to detect. These
settings existed within the main application but are mirrored in the
Launcher so that they can be changed at start-up time.
• Tracing: This is a tool for resolving support issues.

2.3.4.2. TEMS Investigation Projects

Projects, a wholly new concept in TEMS Investigation 17.0, may be thought
of as an extension of workspaces.
When you save a project, it will hold the workspace as one part, but also the
outdoor map, indoor map set, and scripts currently loaded in the
application. Projects can be exported as compressed archives for easy
distribution via Dropbox or FTP.
Working with projects allows on-the-spot configuration of TEMS Investigation
with everything a tester needs, and the configuration can be done uniformly
and reliably across an entire team.

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