E1968A Datasheet, PDF (5/22 Pages) Keysight Technologies – GSM/GPRS/EGPRS Test Application

05 | Keysight | E1968A GSM/GPRS/EGPRS Test Application - Technical Overview
GPRS and EGPRS PDTCH parameters
–– Settable downlink PDTCH power including power in unused
bursts, uplink band, channel number, and power level
–– GPRS coding schemes of CS-1, CS-2, CS-3, or CS-4
–– EGPRS uplink modulation coding schemes of MCS-1, MCS-2,
MCS-3, MCS-4, MCS-5, MCS-6, MCS-7, MCS-8, or MCS-9
–– EGPRS downlink modulation coding schemes: Same as
uplink, MCS-1, MCS-2, MCS-3, MCS-4, MCS-5, MCS-6,
MCS-7, MCS-8, or MCS-9
–– EGPRS2-A downlink modulation coding schemes: MCS1 to
MCS9, DAS5 to DAS12
–– EGPRS2-A uplink modulation coding schemes: MCS1 to
MCS6, UAS7 to UAS11
–– EGPRS modulation coding scheme of 8PSK clear coded in
EGPRS BCH+PDTCH operating mode
–– (E)GPRS multislot configurations of 1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 1x5,
1x6, 2x1, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 3x1, 3x2, 3x3, 4x1, 4x2, 5x1, 6x1
(downlink x uplink)
–– Selection of which contiguous down- link bursts to loop
back on the uplink with connection type ETSI type B or SRB
loopback
–– Selection of which uplink burst to use for multislot-tolerant
RF measurements
Cell parameters
–– Three-digit MNC off or on in PCS 1900 MHz and GSM
850 MHz bands
–– Settable MCC, MND, LAC, RAC, NCC, and BCC
–– Option to get IMEI at call setup
–– Mobile DTX on or off
–– Paging mode reorganized or normal
–– Settable paging multiframes of 2 to 9
–– Repeat paging on or off
–– Tx level FACCH signaling on or off
–– Symmetric or asymmetric uplink frame segmentation
–– Settable random frequency offset for BCH and PDTCH
Handover setup
–– GSM traffic band, traffic channel, timeslot, channel mode,
half-rate speech subchannel, MS Tx level
–– GPRS traffic band, traffic channel, coding scheme, multislot
configuration, P0, MS Tx level burst 1 to 6
–– EGPRS traffic band, traffic channel, downlink modulation
coding scheme, uplink modulation coding scheme, multislot
configuration, P0, MS Tx level burst 1 to 6
Protocol control
–– RLC/MAC header off or on in GPRS BCH+PDTCH operating
mode
–– RLC/MAC header selectable as uplink or downlink in EGPRS
BCH+PDTCH operating mode
–– RLC/MAC packet timeslot reconfigure off or on
–– RLC/MAC packet power timing advance on or off
–– Settable RLC/MAC block poll rate of 1 to 256
–– RLC/MAC frame start position of relative, absolute, or
immediate
–– LLC BLER FCS of valid or corrupt
Protocol control (continued)
–– Settable LLC payload patterns for connection types ETSI
type B or for BLER with corrupt FCS of all zeros, all ones,
alternate bits, alternate pairs, alternate quads, PRBS-9,
PRBS-15, fixed 2B (hex), custom, GMM information for BLER
Receiver control
–– Expected power control auto or manual
–– Manual power bursts 1 to 6 settable in dBm
–– Measurement frequency auto or settable in MHz
–– Modulation formal control auto or manual
–– Manual modulation of bursts 1 to 6 selectable as GMSK or
8PSK
DUT information
–– International mobile subscriber identity (IMSI)
–– International mobile equipment identity (IMEI) (if selected)
–– GPRS multislot class
–– EGPRS multislot class
–– GMSK power class
–– 8PSK power class
Counters reported
–– RACH count
–– Corrupt burst count
–– Page count
–– Decode error count
–– Missing burst count
Errors reported
–– Burst timing error
–– BLER (block error rate)
Last location information reported
–– Location area code (LAC)
–– Mobile country code (MCC)
–– Mobile network code (MNC)
SACCH reports (on a GSM voice call)
–– Timing advance
–– Tx level
–– Rx level
–– Rx qual
Neighbor cell reports
–– Channel number
–– Base station color code (BCC)
–– Rx level
–– Network color code (NCC)