Prepared By:

JARIWALA VISHAL P.
Electronics & Communication Department
INTRODUCTION

 Drive Test is a recording of RX Level using

TEMS software.
 It is used for checking coverage area in
existing cell site.
Equipments required in
Drive Test
How to connect?

 Connect the GPS and mobile phone(TEMS)

on the COM ports of the laptop.
 Open the TEMS investigation Tool & load the
updated map file.
 Load the appropriate MIPT file and select the
desired mode of operation.
How to connect ports?
Open TEMS window during
DRIVE TEST
 Module
Module Objectives
Objectives
 On completion of the module one should be clear about the parameters
required during drive test what does it mean and how much it is
important.
 Parameters regarding in windows like :

 a) Current Channel
b) Radio parameters
c) Serving + Neighbors
Current Channel

 Definitions:
1. Time: It is system time of computer.
2. Cell name: It displays the name of the
sector which is serving according to the
cell file that is loaded in TEMS.
3. CGI : It stands for the Cell Global Identity
which is unique for every sector of the site.
It consists of MCC,MNC,LAC,CI.
MCC: Mobile Country Code 0 – 999 (e.g.
404), MNC: Mobile Network Code 0 – 99
(e.g. 98) LAC : Location Area Code 0 -
65535 (e.g. 5101) CI: Cell Identity 0 –
65535 (e.g. 11001)
Current Channel

 Cell GPRS Support: Tells sector is having

GPRS or not. Values are Yes or No .
 Band : It tells in which Freq. Band mobile is
operating e.g. GSM 900/ 1800.
 BCCH ARFCN: It tells by which BCCH is
the mobile station getting served.
 TCH ARFCN: On which Traffic Freq. call is
going on.
 BSIC (Base Station Identity Code) : It is
combination of Network Color Code (NCC)
(0 – 7) & Base Station Color Code (BCC) (0
– 7). e.g. 62. It is decoded by mobile on every
Sync. Channel Message.
 Mode: It is shows in which state is mobile
operating, Idle, Dedicated & Packet.
 Time slot: On which time slot of current
TCH call is going on. Viz. time slot no. of
TRX.
Current Channel

 Channel Type: Type of channel mobile

is getting now. Like BCCH / SDCCH/8
+ SACCH/C8 or CBCH / TCH/F
+FACCH/F +SACCH/F.
 Channel Mode : Shows mode of
coding like Speech Full Rate of Half
Rate.
 Speech Codec: It shows FR for Full
Rate, HR for Half Rate & EFR for
Enhanced Full Rate.
 Sub Channel Number: It is displayed
at a time when mobile is on dedicated
mode at time of call setup when it is
getting SDCCH at that time it shows
which SDCCH it is getting out of 8
available. E.g. 2.
Current Channel

 Hopping Channel : It shows that

current sector is having hopping
feature or not. Values are Yes or
No.
 Hopping Frequencies : It
displays no. of freq. on which
mobile is allowed to hop. viz. MA
List for hopping of that sector.
 Hopping Sequence Number
(HSN) : Indicates sequence in
which frequencies are allowed to
hop from the MA List. 0- 63. 0
for Cyclic Hopping, 1 – 63
random hopping sequences.
Radio Parameters

 RxLev : Receiving level in terms of dBm that

mobile is receiving from the site. Range of -
30 dBm to -110dBm.
 RxQual : Quality of voice which is measured
on basis of BER. Range of RxQual 0 -7.
 BER Actual : Ratio of the number of bit
errors to the total number of bits transmitted
in a given time interval. BER is a measure for
the voice quality in network.. Depending on
BER RxQual is measured. E,g, BER 0 to 0.2
% corresponds to RxQual 0. Max. BER
countable and useful is up to 12.8 % which
corresponds to RxQual of max. 7.
Radio Parameters

 SQI : SQI is a more sophisticated measure

which is dedicated to reflecting the quality of
the speech (as opposed to radio environment
conditions). This means that when optimizing
the speech quality in your network, SQI is the
best criterion to use. SQI is updated at 0.5 s
intervals. It is computed on basis of BER and
FER. For EFR 30, FR – 21 & HR – 17 are
respectively ideal values.
 C/I : The carrier-over-interference ratio is the
ratio between the signal strength of the
current serving cell and the signal strength of
undesired (interfering) signal components. It
should be at least > 9 .
 MS Power Control Level : Displays range
of power control from 0 to 8 depending upon
network design. E.g. 0 means no power
control and 1 means level that is defined by
operator viz. 2 dBm less acc. To airtel.
Radio Parameters

 DTX : Discontinuous transmission (DTX) is

a mechanism allowing the radio transmitter to
be switched off during speech pauses. This
feature reduces the power consumption of the
transmitter, which is important for MSs, and
decreases the overall interference level on the
radio channels affecting the capacity of the
network..
 TA : Value that the base station calculates
from access bursts and sends to the mobile
station (MS) enabling the MS to advance the
timing of its transmissions to the BS so as to
compensate for propagation delay. Value of 0
means MS in radius of 550mt. From BS.
Radio Parameters

 RL Timeout Counter (Cur) : This

parameter define the maximum value of the
radio link counter expressed in SACCH
blocks. Range of 4 – 64 in step size of 4. it
shows current value of RLT. Decrease by 1
but increase by 2. When it reaches zero it
results in normal DROP Call.
 RL Timeout Counter (MAX) : This
parameter define the maximum value of the
radio link counter expressed in SACCH
blocks. Range of 4 – 64 in step size of 4. it
shows current value of RLT. Normally 16,
20, 24.
 MS Behavior Modified : This window
shows current settings for the mobile station,
for instance whether handover is disabled or
multiband reporting enabled.
Serving + Neighbor

 Cell Name : Name that describes the neighboring cell as per the cellfile.
 ARFCN : Channel number mobile receives as neighbor.
 BSIC : BSIC of the neighboring cell.
 RxLev : Receiving Level in dBm of neighboring cell.
 C1 & C2 : These are the cell path loss criterion and cell reselection criteria. Valid during idle mode of mobile
station.
 C31 & C32 : GPRS signal strength threshold criterion C31 and GPRS cell ranking criterion C32. Valid both in
packet idle and packet dedicated mode.
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