Drive Test

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Ahmed Montaser

Sr.RNO Engineer

Mob: 01116368468
E-mail: Ahmed_Montaser_85@hotmail.com

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Course Agenda
1. Sites types.
2. Antenna Tilt & Azimuth.
3. Drive Test Tools
4. TEMS Windows

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Palm Tree Site

Green Field Site

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The different types of sites

Cow Site

Monopole Site
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Micro Indoor site

Micro outdoor Site

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Antenna Tilting

Antenna Tilting: Direction of the antenna

vertical beam.
Types of
tilting:
- No Tilt: The vertical beam of the antenna is directed towards
the horizon.
- Down Tilt: The vertical beam of the antenna is directed
lower the horizon. - Up Tilt: The vertical beam of the
Types of Tilting:
1) Mechanical
2) Electrical Tilting:
Tilting

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What is the better, Mechanical tilting or

Electrical tilting ????
) Mechanical tilting :
-With mechanical down tilting, the main beam will be down tilted but the
back lobe will be up tilted that make interference. - With mechanical
tilting you cant change the tilt of one band alone.

) Electrical tilting :
- With electrical down tilting, the main beam will be down tilted but the
back lobe will not be up tilted so back lobe interference decreased. With electrical tilting you can change the tilt of any band alone. So
Electrical Tilting is better than Mechanical Tilting

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Drive test tools

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What we need to make Drive Test

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Drive Test Software

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2G ( TEMS Windows )

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GSM Current
channel

Time: Computer system time

Cell Name: Serving cell name

CGI: Cell global identity

or No [MCC MNC , LAC , CI ]
- MCC: Mobile Country Code
1800 - MNC:
Code
- LAC: Location Area code
frequency - CI:

Cell GPRS support: Yes

Band: 900 / 900E /
Mobile network
BCCH ARFCN: BCCH
Cell Identity

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TCH ARFCN: The Frequency that carry

Traffic only.
BSIC: Base Station Identity
Code
Channel Type: BCCH
or TCH
Mode: idle /
dedicated
Time Slot: Current
time slot
Channel Codec: FR: Full rate HR: Half rate AMR:
adaptive multi rate
Ciphering Algorithm: A5/1 for
example.
Sub Channel Number: SDCCH is divided into 8
sub channels
Hopping Channel: Yes / No on the
cell level.
Hopping Frequencies: Frequencies allocated in the
hopping group.
MAIO (Mobile Allocation Index Number): On which
frequencies call will start.

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GSM Serving + Neighbors

Cell Name: Name of the serving cell and neighbor cells

BSIC: Base Station Identity Code BSIC
ARFCN: Absolute Radio Frequency Number >> BCCH Carrier of the cell
Rx lev: Received signal strength - signal strength measured by the MS
(dbm).

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GSM Radio Parameters

Rx lev: Measured signal strength

Rx Qual: Voice quality (0 > 7) depend on BER (bit
error rate) FER (Frame Erasure Rate): Percentage
of frames being dropped BER actual: (Number of
bit errors / Number of bit transmitted) SQI:
Speech Quality Index
MS Power control level: Power control,depend on
network design. DTX: Discontinuous Transmission.
TA: Timing advance (0 > 63)

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GSM Hopping Channel & GPS

ARFCN: Traffic carriers.

Rx Lev: measured signal
strength of each carrier.
C/I: Carrier to Interference ration

Latitude & Longitude

coordinates Altitude The height
from the sea surface Satellites
No. of served Satellites
Speed The velocity of the car

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How to open the 2G useful

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Map Window

This window let you see the real sites and your current position
and you can add other map layers to give you more accurate
view.

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How to open Map window and GPS

window

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Events

It includes events such as: Call attempt, call established, call

end, handover, dropped call, and blocked call.

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Cell File
What is the cell file and how to load it on the TEMS

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Cell file loading on TEMS

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Cell file with Google earth form

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DT tools connection

1) At first you should define the mobile to computer as a hardware

2) Then you will see the mobile on TEMS with this shape in the Equipment
configuration window

3) After that press the green box to connect all the tools

4) After that you will hear (Mobile Connected & Mobile connected & GPS
Connected), you will find that the
Equipment configuration window converted to this window

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Mobile properties

We can make RAT control to mobile to force it on any selected

band (UMTS, GSM)

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Mobile properties

Also we can force the mobile from this window to lock on GSM
900 or GSM 1800 (DCS)

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Call Sequence window

From this window you can make the mobile make a short calls with it self
with selected
duration and selected waiting time

Adjust the command sequence according to the DT needs as

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Types of Drive Test

Single Site Verification test.

Cluster Test.
Main Road Test.
Benchmarking Test
SWAP test.

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Types of Drive Test

Single Site Verification Test.

There are two kinds of single site verification tests:

2G verification.
- Checking the handover between the sectors of the site.
- Checking the handover (in & out) with the neighbors of the site.
- Checking the coverage of each sector.
- Checking cross feeder.
-Checking the capability to access on the internet
-Checking the capability to download files to view the GPRS
rate. (Optional)

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Types of Drive Test

Example on Single Site Verification Test

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Types of Drive Test

Cluster Test.
This test is mainly achieved using two mobiles for 2G&3G.
For checking retain ability the command sequence is adjusted as

follow:

Infinity number of

minutes. -call wait 10

to 15 sec.
For checking accessibility the command sequence is adjusted as
follow:
2 minutes per call.
call wait 10 to 15 sec.

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Types of Drive Test

Example on cluster Drive Test (Aswan City)

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Benchmarking Test.
This test is mainly used to compare between the qualities of

service of each operator.

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Types of Drive Test

Example on Benchmarking Drive Test (Aswan

international road)

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Types of Drive Test

Main Roads Drive Test.

This test is mainly used to Avoid VIP complains and enhance the

service in the important areas.

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Types of Drive Test

Example on Main Roads Drive Test (26th

July Bridge)

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Types of Drive Test

SWAP Test.
This test is mainly used in case of SWAP from vendor to

vendor for one operator.

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Example on SWAP Test

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To be continued

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