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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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