1 Introduction........................................................................................................ 3
About this document...........................................................................3
BER – a measurement of receiver sensitivity.....................................3
General aspects of BTS- Testing .......................................................4
2 Preparing BER Tests: the pop-up menu CONNECTION CONTROL for
general settings................................................................................................. 6
Controlling the BTS ............................................................................6
Connecting the BTS to the CMU300 .................................................6
Determining uplink and downlink signals (channel numbers; level
settings; channel types etc.) and the test path .......................................8
Synchronisation Procedure ................................................................9
3 Testing without channel coding (RAW BER Test / “BURST BY BURST”)....... 13
Test method description ...................................................................13
Supported test-path..........................................................................13
Running the raw BER test ................................................................14
4 Testing Circuit Switched Traffic Channels (TCHs) ....................................... 15
Test method description ...................................................................15
Supported test environment .............................................................17
Running the TCH BER test ..............................................................17
5 Testing packet switched traffic-channels (PDTCHs).................................... 21
Test method description ...................................................................21
Supported test environment .............................................................23
Running the test ...............................................................................23
6 Abbreviation .................................................................................................... 24
7 References...................................................................................................... 25
8 Ordering information....................................................................................... 25
9 Appendix ......................................................................................................... 26