Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 1 of 16 - Version 11.2.0.5 Release Date: August 18, 2017 1. Dependent Tcl library version changed from 8.6 to 8.5 Resolved Issues Issue # Summary 11258 Load Tester should retry attach procedure if attach reject with certain causes received from MME. 13279 IP Traffic Emulator does not allow to create more than 10 traffic sources. 13458 Load Tester Console crashes after 152 hours. 14730 TCP traffic generation does not work if NAT (Network Address Translation) is enabled between TCP server and client. 15099 If UEs in one UE Group are served by multiple SGWs, uplink user plane traffic from all UEs always goes to a single SGW. 15153 IP Traffic Emulator crashes if a test with multiple signaling procedures and user plane traffic executes several times. 15267 Newly added Testbed Configuration and Test Scenario properties should be added automatically to the old test cases. 15296 Tcl version to be downgraded from 8.6 to 8.5. 15298 Packet Delay metric is not correct. 15301 Load Tester enodeb sends ARP request with source IP address of primary interface to SGW, instead of actual (alias) enodeb IP address. 15348 Service Request fails if sequence of Attach->UEContextRelease- >ServiceRequest->Detach procedures is repeated. 15393 Linux system, where IP Traffic Emulator is installed, sometimes gets kernel panic in time of shutdown or reboot. 15399 Attach fails if it is executed repeatedly in a loop without detach. 15418 Diameter Load Tester should support more than one Event reporting over Rx interface for an UE. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 1 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 2 of 16 - Issue # Summary 15434 Traffic generation does not start even a single UE in an UE Group fails to attach. Known Issues Issue # Summary 12137 FTP traffic generation is not supported. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 2 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 3 of 16 - Version 11.2.0.4 Release Date: June 21, 2017 1. IP Traffic Emulator: Support of fragmented IPv6 packet generation. Resolved Issues Issue # Summary 13279 IP Traffic Emulator limits maximum number of allowed traffic sources to 10. 13497 ENodeB Emulator crashes if SCTP connection between MME and enodeb goes down. 14587 IPTE generates traffic at higher than configured rate if packet size is more than MSS. Fragmentation of big packet happens in this case. 14718 IPTE sometimes fails to start all Traffic Generators (TGs) if number of TGs is more than 8. 14858 IPTE becomes unresponsive after 8 hours of regression test run. 15013 Tracking Area Update (TAU) procedures fail in long duration test run. 15017 HiPPE process crashes in time of Uplink (UL) IPv4 TCP traffic generation over IPv6 GTPu tunnel. 15020 ENodeB Emulator sometimes sends malformed S1AP packet to MME. It leads to signaling procedure failures. 15025 HiPPE process crashes in time of Uplink (UL) IPv6 TCP traffic generation over IPv6 GTPu tunnel. 15102 ENodeB Emulator incorrectly sends CSG-ID 0000000 for macro type enodeb in Service Request message. 13795 Normal user (non-super user) can not install Load Tester Console/Emulators in CentOS-7.2 64-bit (GNOME/KDE desktop environment) www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 3 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 4 of 16 - Known Issues Issue # Summary 12137 FTP traffic generation is not supported. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 4 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 5 of 16 - Version 11.2.0.2 Release Date: April 05, 2017 1. IP Traffic Emulator: Support for Jumbo packets of IPv4 using HiPPE. Resolved Issues Issue # Summary 14018 "Hipped Process" Memory utilization increases gradually during regression testing. 14427 FeNB emulator crashes when UE group does an X2 HO from cell A to cell B followed by an S1-HO from cell B to cell A. 14378 After S1-HO from enb1 to enb3; then X2-HO from enb3 to enb1, 'Pathswitch Request' is wrongly initiated by enb1, instead of enb3. 13806 Hipped Process crashed during execution of IPv4 test scenario having Signalling & User plane mix with Fragmented packets. 13811 Hipped Process crashed when loop iterates more than once with Fragmented packets. 13758 FastENB fails to respond to paging, if DL data is send over dedicated bearer to an idle UE after cellchange with relocation. 13385 LoadTester Console crashed during execution of IPv6 test scenario having Signalling & User plane mix. Known Issues Issue # Summary 12137 FTP traffic generation is not supported. 13200 Load Tester Console does not get installed on Linux KDE Desktop environment. 13279 IP Traffic Emulator limits maximum number of allowed traffic sources to 10. UDP Traffic Generator is considered as 1 traffic source. TCP Server or TCP Client is considered as 2 traffic sources. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 5 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 6 of 16 - Issue # Summary 13795 Normal user should be allowed to install LoadTester Console/Emulators in CentOS-7.2 64-bit (GNOME/KDE desktop environment) www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 6 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 7 of 16 - Version 11.1.0.8 Release Date: November 02, 2016 1. IP Traffic Emulator: Fragmentation of IPv4 packets using HiPPE. Version 11.1.0.7 Release Date: August 16, 2016 1. IP Traffic Emulator: Multi-Gbps IPv6 traffic generation. 2. Load Tester Emulator: Support on CentOS 7.2 Linux distribution. Version 11.1.0.5 Release Date: March 15, 2016 1. Load Tester Console: Display of estimated test execution time before test is run. 2. Load Tester Console: Offline Analysis of Message Counter. 3. enodeb Emulator: Support of S1 Configuration Update procedure. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 7 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 8 of 16 - Version 11.0.0.18 Release Date: March 11, 2016 1. enodeb Emulator: X2 Setup procedure. 2. IP Traffic Emulator: Generation of IP data traffic over IPv6 GTP-U tunnels. 3. Load Tester Console: Display of estimated test execution time before test is run. Version 11.0.0.17 Release Date: February 16, 2016 Version 11.0.0.16 Release Date: January 29, 2016 1. Increased enodeb simulation capacity up to 25000. Version 11.0.0.15 Release Date: January 15, 2016 Version 11.0.0.14 Release Date: December 18, 2015 1. Statistics of transmitted and received S1AP and NAS protocol messages. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 8 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 9 of 16 - Version 11.0.0.13 Release Date: November 27, 2015 1. Creation of Test Cases using Tcl scripts. Tcl tests can be executed using the Command Line Interface (CLI). Version 11.0.0.11 Release Date: October 20, 2015 1. NAS packet creation using Packet Builder for these procedures - TAU, Bearer Resource Allocation/Modification, UE-initiated Context Release, PDN Connection/Disconnection. Version 11.0.0.10 Release Date: August 27, 2015 1. Emulation of up to 32 thousand enodebs per enodeb Emulator. 2. Emulation up to 5 million subscribers (UEs) per enodeb Emulator. 3. Improved signaling rates (see KPI datasheet for details). 4. NAS packet building using Packet Builder. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 9 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 10 of 16 - Version 10.2 Release Date: July 06, 2015 1. LTE Load Tester Console: 10.2.0.7 2. IP Traffic Emulator: 10.2.0.7 3. Diameter Emulator: 10.2.0.7 4. Packet Builder: 10.2.0.7 This Version is compatible with LTE Emulator 10.2.0.11 New in Release 10.2 1. Compatible with 3GPP specification release version 10. 2. Creation of User Defined Procedures for EPC signaling and user-plane testing. Version 10.1 Release Date: September 15, 2014 1. LTE Load Tester Console: 10.1.0.3 2. IP Traffic Emulator: 10.1.0.3 3. Diameter Emulator: 10.1.0.3 New in Release 10.1 1. Compatible with 3GPP specification release version 10.1. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 10 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 11 of 16 - Version 4.0 Release Date: July 18, 2014 1. LTE Load Tester Console: 4.0.0.4 2. ENodeB Emulator: 10.1.0.8 3. IP Traffic Emulator: 4.0.0.4 4. Diameter Emulator: 4.0.0.4 New in Release 4.0 1. Support of FTP Traffic Generation. The IP Traffic Emulator emulates thousands of FTP clients and multiple FTP servers for file transfer. 2. Testing OCS on Gy Diameter interface. 3. Testing OFCS on Gz Diameter interface. 4. Testing PCRF on Gxc Diameter interface. 5. Offline analysis of test results. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 11 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 12 of 16 - Version 3.1 Release Date: January 24, 2014 1. LTE Load Tester Console: 3.1.0.5 2. ENodeB Emulator: 4.2.0.36 3. IP Traffic Emulator: 3.1.0.5 4. Diameter Emulator: 3.1.0.5 New in Release 3.1 1. Testing HSS on S6a Diameter interface. 2. Testing DRA on S6a Diameter interface. 3. Testing Home enodeb Gateway on S1-MME and S1-U interfaces. 4. Testing a system consisting of multiple nodes. For example, an EPC with multiple MMEs, SGWs and PGWs. 5. Command Line Interface (CLI) for test execution. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 12 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 13 of 16 - Version 3.0 Release Date: September 30, 2013 1. LTE Load Tester Console: 3.0.0.3 2. LTE Emulators: 4.2.0.36 3. IP Traffic Emulator: 3.0.0.3 4. Diameter Emulator: 3.0.0.3 New in Release 3.0 1. Testing PCRF on Gx, Rx and S9 Diameter interfaces. Version 2.4 Release Date: August 02, 2013 1. LTE Load Tester Console : 2.4.0.5 2. LTE Emulators: 4.2.0.33 3. IP Traffic Emulator: 2.4.0.5 New in Release 2.4 1. IPv6 Traffic generation. 2. User-plane traffic continuation across the handover of UEs. 3. Increased enodeb simulation capacity up to 4000 enodebs. 4. Importing authentication keys (K) from a file while creating a UE group. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 13 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 14 of 16 - Version 2.3 Release Date: May 06, 2013 1. LTE Load Tester Console : 2.3.0.7 2. LTE Emulators: 4.2.0.28 3. IP Traffic Emulator: 2.3.0.7 New in Release 2.3 1. TCP Traffic generation. Version 2.2 Release Date: October 19, 2012 1. LTE Load Tester Console : 2.2.0.4 2. LTE Emulators: 4.2.0.16 3. IP Traffic Emulator: 2.2.0.4 New in Release 2.2 1. Support of GTPu encapsulated traffic generation and reception by IP Traffic Emulator to achieve higher user-plane throughput over LTE EPC network. IP Traffic Emulator runs with Polaris Networks enodeb Emulator on the same machine to generate GTPu encapsulated traffic. 2. Support of run-time modification of dynamic properties like burst interval and burst size for a Traffic Generator. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 14 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 15 of 16 - Version 2.1 Release Date: September 26, 2012 1. LTE Load Tester Console : 2.1.0.9 2. LTE Emulators: 4.2.0.14 3. IP Traffic Emulator: 2.1.0.8 New in Release 2.1 1. Support of IP traffic generation using IP Traffic Emulator. IP Traffic Emulator emulates an IP traffic endpoint for thousands of sources and also receives traffic to measure latency, throughput and packet loss. It is used for user-plane data testing over an LTE network. 2. Improved User Traffic Metrics. Current, Cumulative and Peak values of the metrics are displayed. Version 2.0.0.4 Release Date: June 6, 2012 1. LTE Load Tester Console : 2.0.0.4 2. LTE Emulators: 4.2.0.9 New in Release 2.0 1. Support of OPc operator variant support. 2. Support for IPv6 address for UE and Internal Traffic Generator. 3. Provision to map different 3GPP logical interfaces to different network interfaces. 4. Support of SCTP multi-homing for S1-MME interface of enodeb. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 15 of 16 -
Load Tester v11.2 Release Notes - Page 16 of 16 - Version 1.1.0.4 Release Date: February 14, 2012 1. LTE Load Tester Console : 1.1.0.4 2. LTE Emulators: 4.1.0.4 New in Release 1.1 1. Three new procedures: Default bearer deletion, Trace Activation and Trace Deactivation. 2. Provision to add neighbour HSS, SGW or MME to an emulated MME. 3. New User Metric tab to display current and peak values of Attached UEs, S1-U Connections and PDN Connections. 4. Provision to import testbed configuration and test scenario. 5. Check point to validate certain metrics and take action based on the validation. 6. Final validation to validate certain metrics at the end of a test scenario. 7. Graph to plot metrics. Version 1.0.0.2 Beta Release Date: December 27, 2011 1. LTE Load Tester Console : 1.0.0.2 2. LTE Emulators: 4.1.0.1 New in Release 1.0 1. First Release. www.polarisnetworks.net - Page 16 of 16 -