1) What is the purpose of drive test?

Ans: Noramlly we do the drive test of the particular place to identify the network status
like weather in that perticulat place whats the scenario of drop calls, block calls, call
quality, interference n data and if we getting issue related to the drop, block , interference
then the drive test engineer should be responsible for improving network in that particular
area.
2) Where we check the quality in tems kit?
Ans: We check the call quality in radio parameter window.
3) What is fdbm and sdbm? Differentiate it?
Ans: Fdbm:- when the mobile equipment stay in idle mode then it come under the Fdbm
parameter.
Sdbm:- When the call is in the active situation(dedicated mode) (eg:- when u make
phone call) then it come under the Sdbm parameter.
In Fdbm mode RF signal always less than Sdbm.
In Fdbm mode mobile equipment require less power where as in dedicated mode (Sdbm).
4) What is the ranges of Fdbm & Sdbm?
Ans:- -10 to -65dbm outdoor = Best signal
-65 to -75dbm in car= better signal
-75 to -95 outdoor = good signal
-95 to -115 wors signal
Rxlev - Avg received signal strength of the serving cell measured on all time slot and subset of
time slots.
Rxlev (Full) Rxlev of a full rate traffic channel
Rxlev(Sub)- If DTX-DL is used in the network the SUB set is used.
-10 to -65 INDOOR
-65 to -75 INCAR
-75 to -95 OUTDOOR
-95 TO -105 WORST
Rxqual - Avg received signal quality of the serving cell measured on all time slot and subset of
time slots.
It is measured on basis of BER. For call w/o hopping Rxqual should be less than 4
And for call with hopping it should be less than 5
FER : The percentage of frames being dropped due to high number of non corrected bit errors in
the frame. It is the ratio of discarded speech frames to that of received speech frames.
It should be 0.
0 TO 4% GOOD
4 TO 15 % DEGRADED
15 % < USELESS

BER Actual : Ratio of the number of bit errors to the total number of bits transmitted in a given
time interval. BER is a measure for the voice quality in network.. Depending on BER
RxQual is measured.
SQI : SQI is a more sophisticated measure which is dedicated to reflecting the quality of the
speech (as opposed to radio environment conditions). This means that when optimizing the
speech quality in your network, SQI is the best criterion to use. SQI is updated at 0.5 s intervals.
It is computed on basis of BER and FER.
18 to 30 Good
0 to 18 - Bad
C/I : The carrier-over-interference ratio is the ratio between the level of the signal strength of the
current serving cell to that of the signal strength of undesired (interfering) signal components.
It is updated twice after every sec and is measured when freq. hopping is enabled.
25 to 15 Good
15 to 9 so so
C/A : It is the ratio between the level of the signal strength of the current serving cell to that of
the signal strength of adjacent frequency
MS Power Control Level : Displays range of power control from 0 to 8 depending upon
network design. E.g. 0 means no power control and 1 means level that is defined by operator
DTX : It is based on detecting voice activity and switching on the transmitter only during period
when there is active speech to be transmitted .And switching off transmitter during silent
period reducing interference
TA : Value that the base station calculates from access bursts and sends to the mobile station
(MS) enabling the MS to advance the timing of its transmissions to the BS so as to compensate
for propagation delay. Value of 0 means MS in radius of 550mt. From BS.
RL Timeout Counter (Cur) : This parameter define the maximum value of the radio link
counter expressed in SACCH blocks. Range of 4 64 in step size of 4. it shows current value of
1) RLT. Decrease by 1 but increase by 2. When it reaches zero it results in normal DROP
Call.
5) What is handover in telecom?
Ans:- In deadicated mode while driving or moving we move from one site to another site
then the handover takes place to maintain the level and quality of the signal and to get
disconnected.
6) What is handover failure?
Handover failure happens when source failed to give handover to destination site whereas
handover already define between source and destination. It is mostly happened due to
hardware failure, due to high traffic on neighbor site, due to less neighbor.

7) How u will determine the particular cell is overshooting while performing drive test?
Ans:- If m at site name sunil and after move toward the site sanjay which is more thatn 1
km away from sunil and u r driving in city then in this case u can say that site sunil is
overshooting bcoz still u getting singal at sanjays site.
8) Whats are the reason for quality degradation?
Ans:
a) Hardware issue.
b) Cell vershooting.
c) C/I
d) Poor FER
e) Poor BER
9) Whats is BCCH frequency and what is TCH frequency?
Ans:
BCCH comes under the logical channel while the TCH come under the
deadicated channel.
BCCH is main frequency while the TCH is MAIO(mall frequency).
Whenever call active on the BCCH frequency we get the best quality
signal (smoother call) while when call active on TCH the quality is less
than the BCCH frequency.
TCH used for hopping purpose to increase the capcity and to reduce the
interference of the cell.
10) In idle mode fdbm, sdbm and RxQual value visible or not?
Ans: Yes it is visible in idle mode but we not consider the value of sdbm and RxQual for
the measurement purpose when the call is in idle mode.

11) Where you observed data in tems?

Ans: We observe data after connecting to internet in data section- data throughput- RLC
throughput value.
12) When you establish internet connection which even comes first?
Ans:- After establish dialup connection we see the first even is PDP context activated it
means data is active on the particular sector of the site.
13) What is Ec/No in 3g?
Ans: Ec/No is the ration of chip energy and noise energy. Its define the quality of the
signal its having value.
1 to 12 is good.
12 to above is wors quality.
14) What is AS, NS and DN?

Ans:- AS- It stands of active set( the cell over which mobile is latched.)
NS- neighbor set ( it shows the neighbor cell)
DN- Detected neighbor (when the source neighbor not define with the target
neighbor then the target neighbor come under the DN)
15) Pilot pollution?
Ans:- when at one particular location more than 3 cells r present with less than or equality
RSCP level then we can say we r suffering from pilot pollution.
16) How you monitor data in 3g?
Ans: We monitor data under the HSDPA and HSUPA analysis window.
17) How much active set can be there in neighbor window?
Ans: We can observe upto 3 AS( 3sector of the same site) in the neighbor window.
18) What is IRAT?
Ans: In deadicated mode when our call switch from 3g to 2g ( handover from UTRAN)
then it comes under the IRAT handover.