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SW Update Test Report

Release Delivery: EX3.1 MP1.0
Product Family: Base Stations
Product: Flexi Multiradio BTS, GSM/EDGE
Release: EX3.1

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Table of Contents
1 Purpose......................................................................................................................................................... 3
2 TEST PHASES AND AMOUNT OF TEST CASES ...................................................................................... 3
3 TEST ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................................................. 3
4 TEST RESULTS ........................................................................................................................................... 3
4.1 Feature Functional test ............................................................................................................................................ 3
4.1.1 Base Stations .................................................................................................................................... 3
4.1.2 Base Station Controller...................................................................................................................... 3
4.1.3 Radio Network Performance.............................................................................................................. 3
4.1.4 Data ................................................................................................................................................... 4
4.1.5 Macrocellular ..................................................................................................................................... 5
4.1.6 Microcellular ...................................................................................................................................... 5
4.1.7 Operability ......................................................................................................................................... 5
4.1.8 Transmission ..................................................................................................................................... 7
4.1.9 Value Added Services ....................................................................................................................... 7
4.2 Maintenance Functional test .................................................................................................................................... 7
4.2.1 Flexi Multiradio BTS Maintenance ..................................................................................................... 7
4.3 Flexi Multiradio BTS Site Installation validation........................................................................................................ 7
4.3.1 Flexi Multiradio BTS Site Installation ................................................................................................. 7
4.4 RELEASE DELIVERY UPGRADE TESTING........................................................................................................... 8
4.4.1 Flexi Multiradio BTS Software Deployment ....................................................................................... 8
5 REMAINING OPEN FAULTS FOUND IN TESTING .................................................................................... 8
6 APPENDICES / REFERENCES ................................................................................................................... 8

Contact:

Contact your local Nokia Siemens Networks support or GSM/EDGE BTS Technical
Support: bts.technicalsupport@nsn.com

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1 PURPOSE

This document presents the testing results for BTS software release EX3.1 MP1.0
including the findings made. The test environments are also presented in this
document.

2 TEST PHASES AND AMOUNT OF TEST CASES

The following table summarizes performed test phase entities and the amount of test
cases in corresponding test phase. These cases were executed on representative
final release builds of EX3.1 MP1.0 BTS software.

Test Phase Nbr of test cases

Feature Functional Test 107
Maintenance Functional Test 1
Flexi Multiradio BTS Site Installation validation 21
Release delivery Upgrade instruction Testing 8
Total 137

3 TEST ENVIRONMENT

Network Element Release/upgrade/update level

BSC S14.1 MP6.0, MP7.0 and PP7.0-1
MGW U4.2 CD10
NetAct OSS5.2 CD set 3
PC Operating System XP SP3
GCS R6, R6.1 and R6.2

4 TEST RESULTS

4.1 Feature Functional test

4.1.1 Base Stations

BTS Time Base Reference from PCM

Test Case ID Test Case Title

3.1.1 BTS Time Reference from PCM
3.1.2 BTS Time Reference from PWE Connection

4.1.2 Base Station Controller

Discontinuous Reception (DRX)

Test Case ID Test Case Title

4.1.2 Checking for Call Release after Loss Of TRAU Frame Synchronisation
4.1.3 DRX Behaviour for CombinedNon-combined BCCH

4.1.3 Radio Network Performance

Synthesized frequency hopping

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.1.1 Call Establishment with Synthesized Frequency Hopping Single MA List

Adaptive Multi Rate Codec

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Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.3.1 Fast Link Adaptation for Co-Channel Interference [DL]
5.3.2 Fast Link Adaptation for Co-Channel Interference [UL]
Successful AMR Call Handovers in Heavy Interference Conditions with
5.3.5
Robust AMR signaling
5.3.6 Successful SMS transfer during CS call in heavy interference conditions
5.3.7 Verifying various telecom aspect when end to end call profile is ongoing

Downlink and Uplink DTX

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.4.1 UL/DL DTX for Full Rate Speech

Handover and Power Control Algorithms

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.5.1 BCCH Power Control
5.5.2 Inter Cell Handover - Asynchronous
5.5.7 Power Control on Active Channels
5.5.8 Dynamic Power Compression and increase for CS call

Enhanced Automatic Frequency Correction

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.6.1 Enhanced Automatic Frequency Correction - TCH

Intelligent Frequency Hopping (IFH)

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.7.1 Intelligent Frequency Hopping configuration

FACCH Call Setup

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.8.1 Emergency Call Set-Up Through FACCH
5.8.2 FACCH Call Set Up

Dynamic SDCCH Allocation

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.10.1 Call Set-p, SMS using Dynamic SDCCH

4.1.4 Data

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)

Test Case ID Test Case Title

6.1.1 PS data transfer and CS call on single EDGE capable TRX
6.1.5 Dynamic power compression & increase for PS data transfer
6.1.7 PS data transfer on a single EDGE capable TRX with simultaneous CS
calls-Link Adaptation enabled

GPRS: Coding Schemes CS-3 and CS-4

Test Case ID Test Case Title

6.2.1 Link adaptation for GPRS

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Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (MCS 1-9)

Test Case ID Test Case Title

6.4.4 PS data transfer with EDGE capable mobile in EGPRS segment

4.1.5 Macrocellular

RX Antenna Diversity

Test Case ID Test Case Title

7.1.1 Rx Level Measurements when Diversity is enabled at startup

Common BCCH and Dual/Tri-band Operations

Test Case ID Test Case Title

7.3.1 BCCH reconfiguration and O&M Operation in Common BCCH
7.3.2 Configuration of Common BCCH

Mast Head Pre-Amplifier

Test Case ID Test Case Title

7.4.1 Alarm reporting for MHA with bypass capability
7.4.2 Alarm reporting for MHA without bypass Capability

4.1.6 Microcellular

MS Speed Detection

Test Case ID Test Case Title

8.1.1 MS Speed Detection

4.1.7 Operability

Intelligent Shutdown for Flexi EDGE BTS

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.1.1 Intelligent Shutdown of all (BCCH & non-BCCH) TRXs
9.1.2 Intelligent Shutdown of Non-BCCH TRXs

TRX Test

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.5.1 TRX Test Initiated from 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager In Local Mode Of
Operation
9.5.2 TRX Test Initiated From 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager In Supervisory state
9.5.3 TRX Test Initiated From BSC

BTS Local Blocking

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.6.3 Local BCF Block and Lock/Unlock

Abis Loop Test

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.8.2 Abis Loop Test For Fixed Abis Configuration

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RX antenna supervision by comparing RSSI

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.9.1 RX antenna supervision by comparing RSSI

Remote 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.10.1 Remote BTS Manager access in Read Only mode with different UALC
settings
9.10.2 Successful connection of 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager via NetAct and display
of BTS views
9.10.3 Successful execution of TRX test from 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager
connected remotely
9.10.4 Successful fetch of B2 cross-connection (32k/16k/8k) from remote 2G Flexi
BTS Site Manager
9.10.5 Successful fetch of Site Information Report (SIR) from remotely connected
2G Flexi BTS Site Manager
9.10.6 Successful launch of FlexiHub manager from remotely connected 2G Flexi
BTS Site Manager

BTS Object Control

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.12.3 BTS and TRX Object Administrative State Change from BSC
9.12.4 BTS Object behavior when Flexi Multiradio RF Module is HW Reset
9.12.5 BTS Object Recovery when Flexi Multiradio RF Module carrying BCCH TRX
is HW Reset

Runtime diagnostics and BTS alarms

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.14.4 Impact of Abis break on Flexi Multiradio BTS site

BTS SW background downloading

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.15.1 Successful background SW download during normal operation from 2G
Flexi BTS Site Manager
9.15.2 Successful background SW download during normal operation from BSC

TX Antenna VSWR Supervision

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.16.1 VSWR Alarm Handling with Lock/Unlock and Block/Unblock Operations
9.16.2 VSWR Alarm Handling with Lock/Unlock and Block/Unblock Operations for
BCCH antenna
9.16.3 VSWR Alarm Handling with Lock/Unlock and Block/Unblock Operations for
TCH antenna
9.16.4 VSWR Alarm Handling with Lock/Unlock Operations for TCH antenna with
No Ongoing Traffic

TRX Power Down for Flexi Multiradio BTS

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.17.1 TRX Power-down in low traffic conditions

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9.17.2 Verification of behavior after Repeated TRX Power down

4.1.8 Transmission

Transmission Fault Management

Test Case ID Test Case Title

10.1.2 Configuration of transmission settings of sites in PWE Mode using Remote
BTS Manager
10.1.3 Fault management for BTS Site in PWE Mode
10.1.4 Licence violation for Abis Over IP Ethernet

Transmission Performance Management

Test Case ID Test Case Title

10.3.1 Performance data (G.826) collection locally and in BSC

4.1.9 Value Added Services

Enhanced Full Rate codec

Test Case ID Test Case Title

11.1.1 Enhanced full rate call establishment

Short Message Service (SMS) Point-to-Point

Test Case ID Test Case Title

11.4.1 Point-to-Point SMS through GPRS network
11.4.2 Point-to-Point SMS when Mobiles are BUSY
11.4.3 Point-to-Point SMS when Mobiles are IDLE

4.2 Maintenance Functional test

4.2.1 Flexi Multiradio BTS Maintenance

BTS Unit Replacement

Test Case ID Test Case Title

12.1.7 Replacement of the Flexi Multiradio RF Module

4.3 Flexi Multiradio BTS Site Installation validation

4.3.1 Flexi Multiradio BTS Site Installation

BTS Site Expansion

Test Case ID Test Case Title

13.1.1 Bandwidth of MA list in RF Hopping sector higher than Radio branch BW
13.1.2 Site expansion by adding new Flexi Multiradio RF Module
13.1.3 TRX expansion to existing sector non-optimized to optimized configuration
13.1.4 Site expansion by adding another sector through Append commissioning
13.1.5 Successful deletion of a sector through Append commissioning.

BTS Site Commissioning

Test Case ID Test Case Title

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13.2.1 Commissioning Partially failed - Cumulative power of TRXs exceeds power

capacity of radio branch
13.2.2 Commissioning partially failed - Frequency band mismatch between defined
BTS object and physically connected RF module
13.2.3 Commissioning partially failed - TRXs frequency is out of radio branch
bandwidth
13.2.4 Commissioning partially Failed when Number of TRX objects exceeds the
Flexi Multiradio ESMB System Module capacity
13.2.5 Define wrong OMUSIG information during commissioning
13.2.6 Define wrong TRXSIG or TCH TS during commissioning
13.2.7 Successful Commissioning - Commission, undo and recommission with
different configuration
13.2.8 Successful Commissioning a BTS site in PWE mode
13.2.9 Successful Commissioning with EDGE optimized configurations
13.2.10 Successful Commissioning with Multi-operator BSS configurations
13.2.11 Undo and recommissioning using same SCF
13.2.12 Wrong BCF, or BSC ID during commissioning

4.4 RELEASE DELIVERY UPGRADE TESTING

4.4.1 Flexi Multiradio BTS Software Deployment

Software Package Creation and Storage

Test Case ID Test Case Title

14.1.1 Flexi Multiradio Software package creation at BSC
14.1.2 Flexi Multiradio Software placement at NetAct server
14.1.4 Flexi Multiradio Software Upgrade/Fallback at Start up from BSC

Software Release Upgrade/ Fallback

Test Case ID Test Case Title

14.2.1 Flexi Multiradio Software Upgrade Fallback using NetAct server

5 REMAINING OPEN FAULTS FOUND IN TESTING

List of Generic Faults: LGF-2GBTSmr-2011-w12

6 APPENDICES / REFERENCES

Verification Specification for Features, Release EX3.1: DN0979929 Issue 2-1 en

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