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)