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Verification Document
Release Delivery: EX3.1
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.............................................................................................................. 4
4.1.4 Data ................................................................................................................................................... 5
4.1.5 Macrocellular ..................................................................................................................................... 5
4.1.6 Microcellular ...................................................................................................................................... 6
4.1.7 Operability ......................................................................................................................................... 6
4.1.8 Transmission ..................................................................................................................................... 8
4.1.9 Value Added Services ....................................................................................................................... 9
4.2 Maintenance Functional test .................................................................................................................................... 9
4.2.1 Flexi Multiradio BTS Maintenance ..................................................................................................... 9
4.3 Flexi Multiradio BTS Site Installation validation...................................................................................................... 10
4.3.1 Flexi Multiradio BTS Site Installation ............................................................................................... 10
4.4 RELEASE DELIVERY UPGRADE TESTING......................................................................................................... 10
4.4.1 Flexi Multiradio BTS Software Deployment ..................................................................................... 10
5 REMAINING OPEN FAULTS FOUND IN TESTING .................................................................................. 11
6 APPENDICES / REFERENCES ................................................................................................................. 11

Contact:

Contact your local Nokia Siemens Networks support or GSM/EDGE BTS Technical
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1 PURPOSE

This document presents the testing results for BTS software release EX3.1 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 BTS software.

Test Phase Nbr of test cases

Feature Functional Test 169
Maintenance Functional Test 8
Flexi Multiradio BTS Site Installation validation 16
Release delivery Upgrade instruction Testing 7
Total 200

3 TEST ENVIRONMENT

Network Element Release/upgrade/update level

BSC S14.1 PP4.1, S14.1 EP5.1 & MP6.0
LMUB SW 1 CD6.0
MGW U4.2 CD7
NetAct OSS5.1 CD set 2 and OSS5.2 CD set 2
XP SP2, XP SP3, Vista 32-bit SP2,
PC Operating System Vista 64-bit SP2, Server 2003 and
Server 2008 32-bit
GCS R5, R6 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

4.1.2 Base Station Controller

Discontinuous Reception (DRX)

Test Case ID Test Case Title

4.1.1 CCCH structure for Combined and Non-combined BCCH

Call Release after Loss of TRAU Frame Synchronization

Test Case ID Test Case Title

4.2.1 Checking for Call Release after Loss Of TRAU Frame Synchronization

Ciphering

Test Case ID Test Case Title

4.3.1 Testing A5/0, A5/1 and A5/3 Algorithms with A5/3 BTS Package

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4.3.2 Testing A5/0 Algorithm with A5/0 BTS Package

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

Half Rate

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.2.1 Establishment and Release of Half Rate Calls

Adaptive Multi Rate Codec

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]
Fast Link Adaptation for Co-Channel Interference with Robust AMR
5.3.3
Signaling [UL]
Fast Link Adaptation for Co-Channel Interference with Robust AMR
5.3.4
Signaling [UL] [DL]
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

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
5.5.3 Inter Cell Handover - Synchronous, AMR/FR and AMR/HR calls
5.5.4 Intra Cell Handover
5.5.5 Intra Cell Handover - AMR Packing/Unpacking
5.5.6 Intra Cell Handover Within Same Carrier
5.5.7 Power Control on Active Channels

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

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5.8.2 FACCH Call Set Up

Base Band Frequency Hopping

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.9.1 CS Call Support in a BB Hopping Sector
5.9.2 PS Data Transfer Support in a BB Hopping Sector

Dynamic SDCCH Allocation

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.10.1 Call Set-up, SMS using Dynamic SDCCH

BSS Site Synchronization Recovery Improvement

Test Case ID Test Case Title

BSS Synchronization Recovery when LMU GPS Signal Lost and Regained
5.11.1
after 4 hours

Wideband AMR and TFO for AMR

Test Case ID Test Case Title

5.12.1 CS Call Support for AMRWB
5.12.2 DTMF support with AMR/WB

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
6.1.2 PS data transfer with GPRS capable MS
6.1.3 Territory upgrade and downgrade in GPRS capable segment

GPRS: Coding Schemes CS-3 and CS-4

Test Case ID Test Case Title

6.2.1 Link adaptation for GPRS

Dynamic Abis Pool modification

Test Case ID Test Case Title

6.3.1 EGPRS Data Transfer after EDAP Modification
6.3.2 EGPRS Data Transfer after EDAP Modification using Abis mapping

Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (MCS 1-9)

Test Case ID Test Case Title

6.4.1 Link adaptation in uplink in EGPRS segment
6.4.2 Link adaptation in downlink in EGPRS segment
6.4.3 PS data transfer on a single EDGE capable TRX with simultaneous CS calls
6.4.4 PS data transfer with EDGE capable mobile in EGPRS segment

4.1.5 Macrocellular

RX Antenna Diversity

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Test Case ID Test Case Title

7.1.1 Rx Level Measurements when Diversity is enabled at startup

Multi BCF Control

Test Case ID Test Case Title

7.2.1 BCF Recovery after Master BCF reset
7.2.2 Slave BCF Recovery after reset when clock is missing
7.2.3 Slave clock recovery after Sync Cable re-connection

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

Auto detection

Test Case ID Test Case Title

Auto detection of BTS Internal units at Site Startup with ESMx and FXxx HW
9.2.1
Module

External Battery Back Up Unit Support

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.3.1 External Battery Back Up - Alarms Reporting

BTS External Alarms and Controls

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.4.1 External Input Line Alarm Control - Reporting route is ACT
9.4.2 External Output Line Control
Verification of External Output Line Control for Flexi Multiradio RF Module
9.4.3
EAC lines

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9.4.4 Verification of Flexi Power Module and EAC Alarms

TRX Test

Test Case ID Test Case Title

TRX Test Initiated from 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager In Local Mode Of
9.5.1
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

9.6.1 Local BCF Block and Unblock
9.6.2 Local BTS Block and Unblock

Forced Handover for O&M Reason

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.7.1 Forced handover of CS call to another BTS object

Abis Loop Test

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.8.1 Abis Loop Test For Dynamic Abis Configuration
9.8.2 Abis Loop Test For Fixed Abis Configuration

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

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

Modification of BCF Parameters by Append Commissioning

Test Case ID Test Case Title

Append commissioning from remotely connected 2G Flexi BTS Site
9.11.1
Manager
9.11.2 Upload of SCF from remotely connected 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager

BTS Object Control

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Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.12.1 Alarm Reporting after Object Administrative State Change from BSC
BCF Object reset from 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager with bypass traffic
9.12.2
unaffected
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
BTS Object Recovery when Flexi Multiradio RF Module carrying BCCH TRX
9.12.5
is HW Reset

BTS Supervision

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.13.1 Sector Reconfiguration Support in a Baseband Hopping Sector
9.13.2 Supervision of Flexi Multiradio RF Module Fan Unit when Fans are faulty
Supervision of Flexi Multiradio System Module Fan Unit when Fans are
9.13.3
faulty
Supervision of Flexi Multiradio System Module Fan Unit when Fans are
9.13.4
faulty
9.13.5 Supervision Of Q1 Bus

Runtime diagnostics and BTS alarms

Test Case ID Test Case Title

Alarm Handling when ARFN in MA list attached is outside the band capacity
9.14.1
for Radio branch
9.14.2 Alarms Reporting for Incorrect RP3 Cabling from that Mentioned in SCF
9.14.3 Alarms Reporting for Missing Flexi Multiradio RF Module at Startup
9.14.4 Impact of Abis break on Flexi Multiradio BTS site

BTS SW background downloading

Test Case ID Test Case Title

Successful background SW download during normal operation from 2G
9.15.1
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
VSWR Alarm Handling with Lock/Unlock and Block/Unblock Operations for
9.16.2
BCCH antenna
VSWR Alarm Handling with Lock/Unlock and Block/Unblock Operations for
9.16.3
TCH antenna

TRX Power Down for Flexi Multiradio BTS

Test Case ID Test Case Title

9.17.1 TRX Power-down in low traffic conditions
9.17.2 Verification of behavior after Repeated TRX Power down

4.1.8 Transmission

Transmission Fault Management

Test Case ID Test Case Title

10.1.1 Remote BTS Alarm Handling and Reporting (BTS Polling)

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Transmission Management

Test Case ID Test Case Title

10.2.1 Remote configuration of cross connections
10.2.2 Remote configuration of loop synchronization bits
10.2.3 Remote configuration of Q1

Transmission Performance Management

Test Case ID Test Case Title

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

Compressed O&M Abis Signaling

Test Case ID Test Case Title

10.4.1 Compressed Abis Functionality (OMU SIG on TCH)

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 Cell Broadcast with DRX

Test Case ID Test Case Title

11.2.1 Short message cell broadcast - DRX ON

Short Message Cell Broadcast

Test Case ID Test Case Title

11.3.1 Short message cell broadcast - DRX OFF

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

Remote Interrogation of Serial and Version Numbers

Test Case ID Test Case Title

Remote Interrogation of Serial Number & Version Number After Passive
11.5.1
Unit Details are Changed Through Append Commissioning
Remote Interrogation of Serial Number & Version Number when Flexi
11.5.2
Multiradio RF Module is replaced

4.2 Maintenance Functional test

4.2.1 Flexi Multiradio BTS Maintenance

BTS Unit Replacement

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Test Case ID Test Case Title

12.1.1 BCF Recovery after Auxiliary Power Supply Unit replacement
12.1.2 BCF Recovery after FIEA (E1) Unit replaced with FIFA Unit
12.1.3 BCF Recovery after FIFA Unit replacement
12.1.4 BCF Recovery after Transmission Unit Replacement
12.1.5 Replacement of Flexi Multiradio System Module
12.1.6 Replacement of FSEB Flexi System External Alarm module
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

BTS Site Commissioning

Test Case ID Test Case Title

Commissioning Partially failed - Cumulative power of TRXs exceeds power
13.2.1
capacity of radio branch
Commissioning partially failed - Frequency band mismatch between defined
13.2.2
BTS object and physically connected RF module
Commissioning partially failed - TRXs frequency is out of radio branch
13.2.3
bandwidth
Commissioning Partially Failed when Number of TRX objects exceeds the
13.2.4
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
Successful Commissioning - Commission, undo and recommission with
13.2.7
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 decommissioning 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
14.1.3 Multiradio Software placement at NetAct server
14.1.4 Flexi Multiradio Software Upgrade/Fallback at Start up from BSC
14.1.5 Flexi Multiradio Software Upgrade/Fallback using NetAct server

Software Release Upgrade/ Fallback

Test Case ID Test Case Title

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14.2.1 Flexi Multiradio Software Upgrade Fallback using NetAct server

5 REMAINING OPEN FAULTS FOUND IN TESTING

List of Generic Faults: LGF-2GBTSmr-2010-w42

6 APPENDICES / REFERENCES

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