Amdocs Drive Test Analytics Suite, by Actix

Release Notes

Analyzer Update November 2023

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Contents
In This Version...................................................................................................................................... 4
Technology Improvements.............................................................................................................. 5
LTE-Advanced-Pro support .......................................................................................................................... 5
DSDS (MSO) support ..................................................................................................................................... 5
New collection device or technology support ........................................................................... 6
Accuver XCAL AOF Export support............................................................................................................ 6
Accuver XCAL DRM support ....................................................................................................................... 6
Infovista TEMS Investigation / Pocket / Paragon support ...................................................................... 6
Keysight Nemo support ................................................................................................................................ 7
OOKLA WINdPro/Controller support .......................................................................................................... 7
Qualcomm QXDM / chipset support......................................................................................................... 8
Rohde & Schwarz SmartONE (ROMES4) support ..................................................................................... 8
Rohde & Schwarz SmartONE (QualiPoc / SmartBenchmarker) support ............................................. 8
Samsung chipset support ............................................................................................................................ 9
Event Detection............................................................................................................................................. 9
Generic ........................................................................................................................................................... 9
Application Layer Improvements .................................................................................................10
Cellrefs........................................................................................................................................................... 10
Format Groups ............................................................................................................................................. 10
Reports .......................................................................................................................................................... 10
Thresholds ..................................................................................................................................................... 10
Platform Improvements ..................................................................................................................11
Call Flow Viewer .......................................................................................................................................... 11
Map ............................................................................................................................................................... 11
Protocol Stack Browser............................................................................................................................... 12
Documentation Changes .............................................................................................................13
Known Issues and Obsolescence.................................................................................................14
Known Issues................................................................................................................................................. 14
End of Life announcements ...................................................................................................................... 14
Product Support for previous versions ..................................................................................................... 14

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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 Configurable VoLTE event timer between RRC and SIP signaling

• New collections of devices and improvements:

o Support for Infovista TEMS TRR API 25.2, supporting 5 new devices
o Support for Keysight Nemo ff2.55
o Improvements for Accuver XCAL AOF Export 1.1.12
o OTT support for OOKLA Speedtest with Accuver XCAL
o OTT support for Fast.com testing with Keysight Nemo
o Background App monitoring with OOKLA WINdPro
o Streaming MOS support for R&S QualiPoc

• Platform improvements:
o New threshold for configurable time between LTE-RRC and SIP signaling
o Reporting support for additional Office 365 features

• Platform improvements:
o Call Flow Viewer and Protocol Stack Browser support for embedded NR-
RRC messages.
o WMS map layer support for MapInfo TAB layers requiring TLS1.2

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Technology Improvements

LTE-Advanced-Pro support
• Improvements to VoLTE event detection, where users are now able to configure a
timer threshold for an acceptable delay between the RRC Connection Setup
Request and SIP INVITE messages.

DSDS (MSO) support

• Timestamp improvements for OOKLA WINdPro DSDS transition events.

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New collection device or technology support

Accuver XCAL AOF Export support

• Support for v1.1.12 added for LTE message Primary Carrier Serving Cell
Information and Serving Cell Info for Secondary Carrier (n) messages, adding
support for attribute LTE_UE_Band_DL.

• Support for v1.1.12 added for QC 5G NR Searcher Measurement Result message,

adding support for the following fields:
o DL BW
o GSCN
o RxBeamIdx
o BRSRP2
o BRSRP3

Accuver XCAL DRM support

• Resolved a problem which caused certain SCN files to crash during file load, when
capturing Blind Scan messages with PCTel IBflex scanning receivers. Support for
the Blind Scan message for this device type will be added in a future release.

• Support added for Android Dual SIM Info messages (v1) messages, which were
causing a crash during file loading.

• Support for OTT OOKLA Speedtest app testing with XCAL (DRM 6.3.8) has been
updated, with new Test Call Event message formats, and Speedcheck Info
message.

• Support added for SIP signaling decoded from standard WinPCAP (0xDFE1)
messages when DPL Log is not enabled, enabling VoLTE / VoNR event detection.

Infovista TEMS Investigation / Pocket / Paragon support

• Support added for TEMS TRR API 25.2, adding support for new devices:
o Apple iPhone 15 (A2846, A3089, A3090)
o Apple iPhone 15 Plus (A2847, A3093, A3094)
o Apple iPhone 15 Pro (A2848, A3101, A3102)
o Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max (A2849, A3105, A3106)
o Sony Xperia 1 V (XQ-DQ54, 62 & 72)

• Support improved for iPerf tasks which were aborted by the user, now setting
App_Throughput_DL/UL_Mean at the end of these cancelled tasks.

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Keysight Nemo support

• Support added for Nemo ff2.55

• Support added for automatically loading Nemo files captured as a file group
(filename.n.NMF) where file start times are not identical across all files in the
group, when files are created by Enhancell ECHO Studio.

• Support added for Fast.com as an OTT App based test scenario, setting attributes:
o OTT_APP_Id
o OTT_APP_OperationStart
o OTT_APP_OperationEnd
o OTT_APP_Operation
o OTT_APP_Throughput_DL/UL
o OTT_APP_RTT
o Task_Application_Type
o Task_App_Bytes_DL/UL

• Support updated for Audio Quality Info (AQI) messages, adding support for AQ
Sync Method into the Message Browser.

• Support updated for Audio Quality Uplink (AQUL) messages, adding support for:
o AQ Error Code set into attribute Nemo_AQUL_ErrorCode
o AQ Sample Rate set into Message Browser only
o AQ Unique ID set into Message Browser only

• Support updated for Audio Quality Downlink (AQDL) messages, adding support for
o AQ Sample Rate set into Message Browser only
o AQ Unique ID set into Message Browser only

• Support updated for Data Content (DCONTENT) message, adding support for
“Load Failed” as a Reply option, for HTTP Browsing, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
and Linked-In operations.

• Support updated for MIMO Measurements (MIMOMEAS) messages, moving “Rx

Beam 2” identifier to reserved status, and renaming “Rx Beam 1” identifier to be
“Rx Beam”.

OOKLA WINdPro/Controller support

• Support for DSDS Transition event timestamps in message 0xC53C has been
improved, to reflect the timezone of the user, compensating for Mobile Time
Offset from GMT Preference setting. This improves the accuracy of attribute
MultiSIM_WINdPro_Transition_Duration.

• Support added for Background App Monitoring message (0xA1E9), into Message
Browser only:

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Qualcomm QXDM / chipset support

• Support added for NR5G ML1 Searcher Measurement Database Update Ext, v2.10
(0xB97F).

Rohde & Schwarz SmartONE (ROMES4) support

• Improvements made to the LTE_Mobile_CellInfo message:
o Reformatted the Neighbor information table, for improved visualization,
merging RSRQ and EARFCN into the same table as RSRP and RSSI.
o Antenna-specific attributes are now mapped from the header portion of the
message, with LTE_UE_RSRP, LTE_UE_RSRQ and LTE_UE_RSSI using
the best from all reported antennae.
o Attribute array LTE_UE_*****_for_PCI attributes are now set from the
Primary Carrier cell measurements.

• Improvements made to setting NR_UE_CA_Active, adding criteria for when

there is reported throughput from SCells, and invalidated when there is no
throughput from SCells for 1 second.

Rohde & Schwarz SmartONE (QualiPoc / SmartBenchmarker) support

• Improvements made to Analyzer stability, when corrupt QualiPoc logfiles are
attempted to be loaded. Analyzer now handles corrupt data scenarios with a
popup user warning.

• Improvements made to Capacity tests, creating two separate

Task_Application_Type options, for Capacity DL and Capacity UL.

• Improvements made to setting PING results for failed tests n PING TestEx Results
messages. Ping_RTT is no longer set to 0 for lost PINGs at timeout events.

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• Improvements made to Test Results message for streaming tests, extending the
STREAMRESULTS message contents and setting attributes at Video Status Trace
message:
o Streaming_MOS_Score_DL
o Streaming_Video_MOS_Score_DL
o Streaming_Video_MOS_Type_DL

Samsung chipset support

• Improvements made to detection of EN-DC mode, maintaining LTE measurements
from the Master Cell Group.

Event Detection
• Improvements made to VoLTE event detection, where a configurable timer has
been added to allow users to configure the acceptable time between RRC
Connection Request for a voice call and the subsequent SIP INVITE message to
IMS (default is set to 8,000ms).

• Improvements made to event detection for SRVCC scenarios, handing over from
LTE to UMTS.

• Improvements made to GSM RR Channel Release event detection, where TCH and
SDCCH are both released, all EARFCNs and associated bandwidths reported in the
cell selection indicator are now reported in the Message Browser.

Generic
• Support added for NR_NCGI attribute, set from NR-RRC messages (unless
reported as 0, or non-numeric values) in format MCC-MNC-gNBid-CI.

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Application Layer Improvements

Cellrefs
• Support added for dotted lines-to-cells drawn to Secondary Cell Group NR_Cell
layer nodes, as part of the neighbor cell list, when a UE is in EN-DC, adding a new
attribute NeighborSectorTech to allow users to determine the cell’s technology.

Format Groups
• Format Group for Task_Application_Type has been improved separating:
o Capacity DL
o Capacity UL

• New format groups have been added for Event_Task_* events, in line with
Task_End_Result, for the following attributes:
o Event_Task_Start (cyan)
o Event_Task_Fail (red)
o Event_Task_Cancelled (yellow)
o Event_Task_End (green)

Reports
• Support improved for report templates when Office 365 is used, resolving an issue
introduced with Excel dynamic arrays.

Thresholds
• New threshold added to allow users to configure the acceptable time delay
between an LTE RRC Connection Request (voice call) and the subsequent SIP
INVITE message to IMS: LTE_UE_RrcReq_to_SIPINVITE_timer, with default
of 8,000ms.

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Platform Improvements

Call Flow Viewer

• Support has been added for embedded NR-RRC layer messages within the same
LTE-RRC message container. Embedded messages are added in parentheses after
the first NR-RRC message:

Map
• Support added for TLS1.2 to enable WMS layers created using MapInfo to be
displayed in the map as separate layers. Users must define the WMS server
connection properties in MapInfo and create a TAB / XML file pair, which can be
added as a map layer in the usual way.

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Protocol Stack Browser

• Support has been added for embedded NR-RRC layer messages within the same
LTE-RRC message container, in the 5GNR Handset and All Tech Handset
templates:

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Documentation Changes
• Updates made to Actix Software Installation Guide.PDF, adding support for
Windows Server 2022 in the recommended specification, and resolution for a
TLS1.0 security error sometimes seen in Spotlight.

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Known Issues and Obsolescence

Known Issues
• None

End of Life announcements

• In line with Microsoft recommendations, Windows Server 2012 has now moved to
End of Life support, and as a minimum, should be upgraded to Windows Server
2012 R2.

Product Support for previous versions

• Versions of Analyzer supported by the Analyzer Product Support team shall be
limited to the current version and previous 12 monthly releases, in a sliding
window.

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