Ap Rf Interface

Available 802.11 Interfaces and Settings

Scan

• Interface
• Include
• Type
• Band (s)
• BW
• Channel

• Power Level
• Ant 1
• Ant 2
• Ant 3
• MCS Index
• Guard

AP Settings

• Access Point Name
• Assigned to
• Beacon Interval
• UE to UE Data

SSIDs

• Number of SSIDs
• SSID #
• SSID Name

Select SSID in table to view settings

• Authentication Type
• Pass Phrase

SCAN

The Scan Button will be enabled when an interface is selected. 

The on demand scan can only happen when the TS is READY and not running tests, you will get an error back if the TS is unable to scan.

When you click the scan button, a request is sent to the TS and when the TS finishes the scan it sends back a report which is displayed in a Scan Results Window.

Click for additional details.

Interface

Power setting ranges are defined by FCC. Power range for the US is from 0 ~ 30 dBm.

The following chart shows the TX power setting flow in TX chain:

Power setting dynamic range supported by QCA9880 chip from 5 to 25 dBm.

Tx power set to 0 dBm, read back from chip register: 5 dBm ( d_tx_power: 10)

Tx power set to 30 dBm, read back from hardware register: 25 dBm (d_tx_power:50)

Chip power output range is from 5 ~ 25 dBm.

Power setting actual range from customer PCIe card. The real TX power output from antenna port is up to module/card vendor’s design and implementation.

For Compex PCIe card, the external PA (power amplifier) supports:

802.11ac card: 2.4GHz max 19dBm output power & 5GHz max 18dBm output power (per chain) with (-+ 2dB accuracy)

802.11n card: 2.4GHz max 19dBm output power & 5GHz max 19dBm output power (per chain) with (-+ 2dB accuracy)

TX power output from Compex PCIe antenna port is in the range from 5~19 dBm.                                                                                                        

Guard

Access Point Name

Number of SSIDs

Max of 1 SSID.

SSID #

Array of the number of SSIDs selected above. Only one SSID is supported.

SSID Name

A text string used as the SSID Name.

Tcl Parameter: SsidName_1

There are currently 2 authentication types that can be configured.  

None - No Authentication, used for OPEN networks

WPA2-PSK (AES) - WPA Pre-Shared Keys. Standard Wi-Fi Pass-phrase based Authentication. Requires Pass Phrase to be specified that matches APs pre-configured pass phrase.

Tcl Parameter: AuthType_1_1 (SSID# and AP# based indexes)

The Password to use if WPA-PSK is the selected authentication type.

Default = password

Range from 8 to 63 characters

Tcl Parameter: PassPhrase_1_1 to (SSID# and AP# based indexes)

Select an Interface and the Scan button is enabled.

A Timeout field is available in both the Scan and Aggregate Scan dialogs. It will default to 60 seconds for Aggregate Scan and 20 Seconds for single port scan. Auto-scan will skip scans that take longer than 10 seconds to complete. It will attempt to perform a scan however, it will skip it if the previous scan is still processing.

An optional -timeout N argument has been added to the Tcl API WLAN Scan perform function. This timeout value is provided for when the scan has to process many SSIDs and it takes a very long time.

When you click the scan button, a request is sent to the TS and when the TS finishes the scan, it sends back a report which is displayed in a Scan Results Window:

- Use the Copy button to copy SSIDs/BSSIDs. Use the paste button to paste the selected SSIDs/BSSIDs.

When you scan from within the test case, you also get auto-highlighting of SSIDs/BSSIDs that match something in your test case:

The rows that match ciscoRoam-PSK SSID are auto-selected.

On the results menu:

• "Re-Scan" button - Select to rescan the currently display WLAN.

• "[ ] 1 Minute Auto-Scan" option -  automatically sends the scan request about every 10 seconds for about 1 minute. When that checkbox is checked, it will prevent other scans from happening on that WLAN until the 1 minutes period is completed.

The Results window has sortable columns and data can be copied, either by cell or groups of cells (rows/columns).

Can Paste Copied data directly to AP RF Interface SSIDs/BSSIDs tab:

click the Paste button:

You can paste any CSV format from clipboard, it expects rows of SSID, BSSID, may paste from a Spreadsheet

This pops up dialog to assign APs to each SSID/BSSID pair:

Will get enough APs to match the number of SSID/BSSID pairs you have, then click OK it will automatically fill in your test case: