E6704A EGPRS Lab Application Revision Information

Last updated: December 2, 2008

This document describes features and functionality that are part of the Agilent Technologies E6704 EGPRS Lab Application releases. This document contains the original features, as well as enhancements that have been added over time.

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D.02 Release - April 2005

This release of the E6704A EGPRS Lab Application is an extension of the E6701D GSM/GPRS Lab Application, D.01 release. The E6704A provides all of the functionality within the E6701D and additionally provides EGPRS-specific Call Processing and Measurement features. For more information on the features inherited from the E6701D, refer to E6701A/B/C/D/E/F/T/U GSM/GPRS/EGPRS Lab Application Revision Information .

This firmware release adds EGPRS Multislot Class 12 Capability. This release also adds enhancements to the EDGE Dynamic Power measurement.

Hardware Requirements

See www.agilent.com/find/8960upgrades

Call Processing

NOTE

There is currently no combined GPRS + EGPRS mode available. Therefore, a mobile station that supports GPRS but not EGPRS will not be able to attach when the serving cell is set to EGRPS. The GPRS serving cell setting should be used instead. See CALL[:CELL]:BCHannel:SCELl for more information.

More EGPRS data rate configurations are available in this release. The test set with the Lab Application license now supports EGPRS Multislot Class 12. The following multislot configurations are supported (indicated as Downlink x Uplink): 1x1, 1x2,1x3,1x4, 2x1, 2x2, 2x3, 3x1, 3x2, and 4x1. The test set with the Test Application licenses support EGPRS multislot class 10 operation. This includes the same multislot configurations as the Lab Application with the exception of: 1x3, 1x4, and 2x3.See EGPRS Data Rate Configurations for more information. The GPIB command for this feature is:
- CALL:DATA:RATE:CONFig[:EGPRs] .

Measurements

The EDGE Dynamic Power measurement has been updated to allow the testing of GMSK modulated signals in the GSM and GPRS test modes in addition existing ability to test GMSK and 8PSK modulated signals in EGPRS test modes. For more details, refer to EDGE Dynamic Power (EDP) Measurement . The new commands added for this measurement include:

D.01 Release - January 2005

This release of the E6704A EGPRS Lab Application is an extension of the E6701D GSM/GPRS Lab Application, D.01 release. The E6704A provides all of the functionality within the E6701D and additionally provides a number of EGPRS-specific Call Processing and Measurement features. For more information on the features inherited from the E6701D, refer to E6701A/B/C/D/E/F/T/U GSM/GPRS/EGPRS Lab Application Revision Information .

This firmware release adds the ability for you to assign a different Modulation Coding Scheme / Puncturing Scheme to each downlink of the multislot configuration. This release also adds the EDGE Dynamic Power measurement.

Hardware Requirements

A hardware upgrade is required to support the additional multislot configurations. For more details see:

www.agilent.com/find/8960upgrades

Call Processing

NOTE

The capability has been added to allow a different Modulation Coding Schemes / Puncturing Schemes to be assigned to each uplink burst of the multislot configuration. See Modulation Coding Scheme/Puncturing Scheme (MCS/PS) for more information. The new commands for this feature are:
- CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):MCSCheme:EBPTest[:BURSt1]
- CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):MCSCheme:EBPTest:BURSt<2|3|4|5> .
More EGPRS data rate configurations are available in this release. See EGPRS Data Rate Configurations for more information. The GPIB command for this feature is:
- CALL:DATA:RATE:CONFig[:EGPRs] .

Measurements

The EDGE Dynamic Power measurement has been added. For more details, refer to EDGE Dynamic Power (EDP) Measurement . The new commands added for this feature include:

C.03.48 Release - April 2004

This release of the E6704A EGPRS Lab Application is an extension of the E6701C GSM/GPRS Lab Application, C.03.48 release and an enhancement release to the C.03 E6704A release. The E6704A provides all of the functionality within the E6701C and additionally provides a number of EGPRS-specific Call Processing and Measurement features. For more information on the features inherited from the E6701C, refer to E6701A/B/C/D/E/F/T/U GSM/GPRS/EGPRS Lab Application Revision Information .

This firmware release enhances support for link adaptation and adds the new EGPRS SRB Bit Error measurement as well as the ability to select the demodulation type used when the system type is EGPRS. This release also includes fixes to known problems. See Known Problems Corrected in this Release below.

Hardware Requirements

Previous hardware requirements apply.

Call Processing

NOTE

Link adaptation capability has been enhanced to add downlink resegmentation. See Downlink Resegmentation for more information. The new commands for this feature are:
- CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):MCSCheme:SWITch:RESegment[:STATe] .
EGPRS Demodulation Type has been added as a parameter. See EGPRS Demodulation Type for more information. The new GPIB command added for this feature is:
- CALL:FUNCtion:EGPRs:DEMod .

Measurements

The EGPRS SRB Bit Error measurement has been added. For more details, refer to EGPRS SRB Bit Error Measurement . The new commands added for this feature include:

Known Problems Corrected in this Release

For information on issues and workarounds in specific firmware releases, see the Know Issues website at:

http://wireless.agilent.com/rfcomms/issues

Known problems that existed in early versions of firmware that no longer exist in the A.03.48 release are listed below.

SRB Loopback Connection does not work properly.
Command SET:PVT:TXP:METHOD displayed on the front panel when in Help mode for setting the PVT measurement TX Power Method is not a valid command.
Unexpected BLER measurement results when using ETSI Type B Connection Type and Modulation Coding Scheme settings of MCS-7, MCS-8, and MCS-9.
The ETXP measurement incorrectly returns a Parameter Error measurement integrity when measuring RACH signals.
During multislot uplink EGPRS transfers, the second burst of signaling information is corrupt.
If the FBER measurement is setup and started while the operating mode is EGPRS Test Mode, changing the operating mode to Active Cell (EGPRS) causes a measurement timeout failure to occur.
In EGPRS MCS5-9, the test set transmits incorrect USF values for USF values other than 0.

C.03 Release - December 2003

This release of the E6704A EGPRS Lab Application is an extension of the E6701C GSM/GPRS Lab Application, C.03 release. The E6704A provides all of the functionality within the E6701C and additionally provides a number of EGPRS-specific Call Processing and Measurement features. For more information on the features inherited from the E6701C, refer to E6701A/B/C/D/E/F/T/U GSM/GPRS/EGPRS Lab Application Revision Information .

This firmware release adds support for incremental redundancy and link adaptation. In addition, there is a new EGPRS measurement, Modulation Accuracy. Existing measurements applicable to EGPRS have been enhanced and are now able to measure signals using 8PSK modulation.

Hardware Requirements

E5515C requires option H03/K03 to support the E6704A. Starting in February 2004, the E5515C ships with this option as standard hardware.

Call Processing

NOTE

Incremental Redundancy capability has been added. See Incremental Redundancy for more information. The new command added for incremental redundancy is:
- CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):IREDundancy[:STATe]
To force the use of the incremental redundancy capability in the mobile station, the ability to configure the test set to NACK uplink blocks has been added. For more information see Forcing Uplink Retransmissions . The new commands to support this feature are:
The ability to change the puncturing scheme used for downlink PDTCHs has been added. See Puncturing Schemes for more information. The new command for this feature is:
- CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):MCSCheme:PSCHeme
Link adaptation capability has been added. See Retransmission MCS Switching for more information. The new commands for this feature are:
- CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):MCSCheme:SWITch[:STATe]
- CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):MCSCheme:SWITch:RETRansmit
To support the use of the link adaptation capability, the ability to intentionally corrupt downlink blocks has been added. See Downlink Corruption for more information. The new commands for this feature are:
The ability to set the downlink TBF window size to maximum or minimum has been added. See CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):WINDow:SIZE[:ALL] for more information.
The ability to specify whether the mobile station being tested uses symmetric or asymmetric RLC frames has been added. See CALL:MS:TX:FRAMe:SEGMentation .
The front panel user interface has been enhanced to allow changes to the Serving Cell parameter without manually switching the cell off. To accommodate this, three new selections have been added to the Operating Mode menu. These are:
- Active Cell (GSM) - GSM only BCH
- Active Cell (GPRS) - GSM + GPRS BCH
- Active Cell (EGPRS) - GSM + EGPRS BCH
In addition, the selection Active Cell is no longer available. See Active Cell Operating Mode for more information.
The default for the serving cell parameter has changed from EGPRS to GPRS. See CALL[:CELL]:BCHannel:SCELl for more information.
Control of EGPRS Supplementary Polling has been added. See CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):ESPolling for command and configuration details.
A new cell parameter has been added allowing you to specify the EGPRS Link Quality Measurement Mode. See CALL:MS:LQMMode for command and configuration details.
EGPRS data rate configurations that are not supported in the test set by default can be accessed. See EGPRS Data Rate Configurations for more information. The new command implemented to support this feature is: CALL:DATA:RATE:CONFig[:EGPRs] .

Measurements

New measurements:
- EGPRS Modulation Accuracy has been added. See Modulation Accuracy Measurement Description for more information. Information on new commands added for this measurement can be found at:
The following measurements have been enhanced to support both GMSK and 8PSK EGPRS modulation and coding schemes (MCS-1 through MCS-9).
- Output RF Spectrum - see GPRS and EGPRS Output RF Spectrum Measurement
- Phase and Frequency Error - see Phase and Frequency Error Measurement Description
- Power versus Time - see Power versus Time Measurement Description
The EGPRS Transmit Power measurement specific command SETup:ETXPower:MODulation, used to specify which modulation format is to be measured, has been replaced by a receiver control that is common to all measurements. See Modulation Format Control (EGPRS only) for more information.

C.01 Release - February 2003

These are the original features of the E6704A EGPRS Lab Application.

The E6704A EGPRS Lab Application is an extension of the E6701C GSM/GPRS Lab Application, C.01 release. The E6704A provides all of the functionality within the E6701C and additionally provides a number of EGPRS-specific Call Processing and Measurement features. For more information on the features inherited from the E6701C, refer to E6701A/B/C/D/E/F/T/U GSM/GPRS/EGPRS Lab Application Revision Information .

Hardware Requirements

Special hardware requirements apply for the E6704A EGPRS Lab Application. Please contact your local sales representative for more details.

Features Specific to the E6704A EGPRS Lab Application

The following features are available in the E6704A EGPRS Lab Application over and above the features provided by the E6701C and E1968A:

Call Processing

The following call processing commands have been added which are specific to EGPRS:
- Modulation Coding and Puncturing Schemes
  For more details refer to CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):MCSCheme , CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):MCSCheme:EBPTest[:BURSt1] , and CALL:(PDTCH|PDTChannel):MCSCheme:EBPTest:BURSt<2|3|4|5> .
- Switched Radio Block (SRB) Loopback Connection Type
  For more details refer to CALL:FUNCtion:CONNection:TYPE .

Measurements

The following measurements provide support for both GMSK and 8PSK EGPRS modulation coding schemes (MCS-1 through MCS-9):
- EGPRS Transmit Power
  For more details refer to EGPRS Transmit Power (ETXP) Measurement .
- Block Error
  For more details refer to Block Error Measurement .

The following measurements provide support for GMSK EGPRS modulation coding schemes (MCS-1 through MCS-4):
- Dynamic Power
  For more details refer to Dynamic Power Measurement Description .
- Output RF Spectrum
  For more details refer to Output RF Spectrum Measurement Description .
- Power versus Time
  For more details refer to Power versus Time Measurement Description .
- Phase and Frequency Error
  For more details refer to Phase and Frequency Error Measurement Description .
- I/Q Tuning
  For more details refer to I/Q Tuning Measurement Description .