D ATA S H E E T

Nemo Outdoor
Rohde & Schwarz TSME Scanner

Test and Monitor Complex Cellular Environments and

Protocols
Nemo Outdoor from Keysight Technologies, Inc. is an unparalleled network
measurement and optimization solution for perfecting the air interface of wireless
networks. It collects measurement results and geographical coordinates,
and these measurement results further provide valuable information for
network planning, roll-out, tuning, verification, optimization, maintenance, and
benchmarking purposes. Nemo Outdoor is always among the first-to-market with
support for the very latest technologies. This data sheet lists parameters and
features available with Rohde & Schwarz’s TSME scanner and Nemo Outdoor.

Technical Information
Supported bands
• GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 + GSM-E + GSM-R
• WCDMA 850, 900, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2100AWS, 2600
• CDMA 450 MHz (band class 5), 800 MHz (band class 0, 10), 1900 MHz (band
class 1)
• EVDO 450, 800, 1900 MHz
• LTE FDD bands: 1-5, 7-14, 17-21, 24-31, 66, 71
• LTE TDD bands: 33-43, 46, 48, 87

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LTE
LTE pilot scanning parameters (Top-N)
• Reference signal (RS)
- Physical cell identity (PCI)
- Physical layer identity
- Cell specific frequency shift
- RSRP (per antenna port)
- RSRQ (per antenna port)
- CINR (per antenna port)
- Cyclic prefix (CP)
- Delay
- Delay spread
• Sync signals
- PCI (P-SCH, S-SCH)
- Physical layer identity
- Cell specific frequency shift
- Received power (P-SCH, S-SCH)
- Received quality (S-SCH)
- CINR (P-SCH, S-SCH)
- Cyclic prefix (P-SCH)
- Carrier RSSI (not available with narrow band mode, BW 1.4 MHz)
- 100 MB of free hard disk space for installation and use, 1 GB recommended
• Cell information decoding
- Band
- Channel
- PCI
- MCC, MNC, TAC, CID
- Scanned MBSFN subframe ratio (%)

MIMO
• MIMO mode
• RSRP per antenna port combination (TX-RX)
• RSRQ per antenna port combination (TX-RX)
• CINR per antenna port combination (TX-RX)
• 2x2/4x2/4x4 MIMO rank estimation (RE) per PRB
• 2x2/4x2/4x4 condition number (CN) per PRB
• 2x2/4x2/4x4 MIMO rank estimation (RE) per PCI

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 • 2x2/4x2/4x4 condition number (CN) per PCI

Pilot scanning options

• Channel style (BW): 1.4 MHz, 3 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, 20 MHz, auto detect
• Number of PCIs (1 to 32)
• Sync signal
• Reference signal
• Time offset
• Delay spread
• Cyclic prefix (auto detect, normal, extended)
• SIB decoding
• MIB decoding
• Cell info decoding
• CINR
• MIMO scanning
• Narrowband scanning
• eMBMS
• Downlink allocation analysis (DLAA)
• UL-DL configuration (TDD)
• Measurement period
• Front end selection

eMBMS measurement parameters

• MBSFN area ID
• Physical cell identity (PCI) per MBSFN area ID
• Cell identification per MBSFN area ID
• PMCH RSRP
• PMCH RSRQ
• PMCH CINR
• PMCH RSSI

Frequency scanning
• Supported bandwidths: 1.4 MHz, 3 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz and 20 MHz

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NB-IoT
Operation modes
• In-band
• Guard band
• Stand-alone

NB-IoT parameters
• RS: RSRP, RSRQ, RS RSSI, RS CINR,
• PSS: PSCH Power, PSCH RSSI, PSCH CINR
• SSS: SSCH Power, SSCH RSSI, SSCH CINR

WCDMA
WCDMA pilot scanning parameters
• Channel number
• RSSI
• CPICH scrambling code (SC)
• CPICH Ec/N0
• CPICH RSCP
• CPICH SIR
• CPICH delay spread
• CPICH delay
• P-SCH Ec/N0
• P-SCH RSCP
• P-SCH SINR
• S-SCH Ec/N0
• S-SCH RSCP
• Cell information decoding
• Band
• Channel
• SC
• MCC, MNC, LAC, CID

Pilot scanning options

• Pilot measurement mode
- High speed/ high dynamic mode
• Channels to be scanned
- Top-N scanning (1 to 32 pilots)

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 • CPICH Ec/N0 threshold
• SIR
• Data processing method (aggregated)
• Measurement period (5 to 2000 ms)
• Pilot delay spread measurements
• Time of arrival
• P-SCH measurements
• S-SCH measurements
• Cell information decoding
• System Information Block (SIB) decoding
• Neighbor list decoding
• Pilot pollution
• Front end selection

Frequency scanning
• Supported bandwidths: 200 kHz and 3.84 MHz

GSM
Frequency scanning parameters
• Channel number
• SCH RX level
• BCCH RX level
• BCCH C/I
• BSIC decoding
• System information decoding
• Measurement period (1 to 2000 ms)

CDMA/EVDO
CDMA/EVDO PN scan parameters (Top-N)
• Channel number
• Carrier RSSI
• RSCP
• Ec/I0
• Delay spread

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PN scanning options
• Multiple simultaneous Top-N PN scans supported
• Top-N number of pilots (1 to 32)
• Max 32 carriers (including both CDMA and EVDO)
• Pilot Ec/I0 threshold
• Pilot increment
• Delay spread
• Overhead message decoding
• Data processing method (aggregate)
• Front end selection

Frequency scanning
• Supported bandwidths (CDMA): 12.5 kHz, 30 kHz and 1.25 MHz
• Supported bandwidths (EVDO): 12.5 kHz, 30 kHz and 1.25 MHz

Other Scanning Features

Band scan (also possible during the measurement)
• Coordinates
• WCDMA: System, band, channel, MCC, MNC, operator, LAC, RSCP

• LTE: System, band, channel, bandwidth, MCC, MNC, operator, TAC, RSRP

Mobile band scan

• With the mobile band scanning feature, the scanner performs band scanning
automatically in the background while pilot scanning is ongoing and adds all found
channels for pilot scanning
• Mobile band scan feature supports the following technologies: WCDMA, LTE

Spectrum scanning
• Spectrum scanning can be done simultaneously either with frequency scanning,
pilot scanning, or with all modes
• Scanner does not use any priority orders between different measurement modes
• Up to 20 scanning frequency sets can be selected simultaneously
• Spectrum scanning parameters with Nemo Outdoor
- Sweep total RX level
- Frequency spectrum
• Spectrum scanning measurement options
• Start and stop frequency or center frequency and bandwidth
• RWB: 3.75 kHz, 7.5 kHz, 15 kHz, 30 kHz, 60 kHz, 120 kHz, 240 kHz

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 • Frequency range: 350 MHz to 4.4 GHz
• Max. number of sample counts: 5000

Missing neighbor detection

• Missing neighbor detection for GSM, WCDMA and CDMA
• Requires a mobile and a GSM/WCDMA/CDMA scanner or a scanner receiver only
with SI, SIB and overhead message decoding
• Scanner scans all pilots and mobile scans channels that are on its neighbor list.
Nemo Outdoor compares the measurements and reports the neighbor channels that
are seen by the scanner but are not in the mobile’s neighbor list
• Decoding is supported on numerous user-selectable BCCH frequency channels

WCDMA pilot pollution analysis

• Source system
• Source band
• Source channel number
• Pilot pollution SC
• Pilot pollution Ec/N0
• Pilot pollution RSCP

GSM interference analysis

GSM co-channel and adjacent channel analysis is done in real time during a
measurement and playback with Nemo Outdoor. Interference detection is done based
on GSM terminal and GSM scanner measurements and these measurements are
combined together.

• Cell type, serving, co- channel, adjacent channel

• Band
• BSIC

• RX level

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WiMAX™ measurements
• Supported WiMAX frequency bands: 2320 to 2365 MHz, 2365 to 2400 MHz and
2585 to 2620 MHz,
• Supported bandwidths: 3.5 MHz, 5 MHz, 7 MHz, 8.75 MHz and 10 MHz
• Frequency
• Preamble index
• Preamble RSSI
• CINR
• RSSI scanning
- Frequency
- Carrier RSSI

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Technical Performance
RF characteristics

Frequency range 350 MHz to 4.4 GHz

Level measurement < 1 dB at 350 MHz to 3 GHz

uncertainty < 1.5 dB at 3 GHz to 4.4 GHz

Maximum permissible input 20 dBm/10 VDC

level

Noise figure with 900 MHz 5 dB (typical)

preamplification on 2100 MHz 6 dB (typical)
3500 MHz 7 dB (typical)

Intermodulation- free 900 MHz –2 dBm (typical)

dynamic range (TOI) 2100 MHz –1 dBm (typical)
3500 MHz –9 dBm (typical)

RF receive paths 1

VSWR 350 MHz ≤ f ≤ 650 MHz < 3.5 (typical)

650 MHz ≤ f ≤ 1.95 GHz < 2.0 (typical)
1.95 GHz ≤ f ≤ 3.0 GHz < 2.25 (typical)
3.0 GHz ≤ f ≤ 4.4. GHz < 1.9 (typical)

LTE characteristics

Measurement modes FDD/TDD

Measurement speed Automatic detection of all 330 measurements/s maximum

504 physical cell IDs with SIB
decoding active/two adjacent
channels

Sensitivity for initial PCI SYNC signal power –128 dBm

decoding SYNC signal RE power –145.9 dBm
RSRP –147 dBm

Sensitivity after successful SYNC signal power –130 dBm

PCI decoding SYNC signal RE power –147.9 dBm
RSRP –149 dBm

PCI false detection (ghost < 10–8

code)

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 NB-IoT/Cat NB1 characteristics

Measurement modes standalone

guard-band
in-band

Measurement speed 5 Hz (single channel) (meas.)

Sensitivity for initial PCI SYNC signal power (NSSS power) –132 dBm (meas.)
decoding Reference signal power (NRSRP) –143 dBm (meas.)

Sensitivity after successful SYNC signal power –135 dBm (meas.)

PCI decoding Reference signal power (NRSRP) –146 dBm (meas.)

CINR dynamic range SYNC signal (NSSS CINR) –15 dB to +30 dB (meas.)
Reference signals (NRS CINR) –15 dB to +30 dB (meas.)

Minimum layer 3 SYNC signal power (NSSS power) –124 dBm (meas.)
demodulation threshold Reference signal power (NRSRP) –7 dB (meas.)

PCI false detection (ghost < 10–8

code)

GSM characteristics

Measurement modes In parallel SCH code power, TCH total

in-band power, GSM spectrum,
BCH demodulation for all
system information types, BSIC
decoding

Measurement speed SI decoding active 800 channels/s

Sensitivity Detection –123 dBm

BSIC decoding –119 dBm
BCH decoding –117 dBm

Sensitivity for initial C/I > –2 dB

BSIC detection

BCCH decoding C/I > 0 dB

dynamic range

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 WCDMA characteristics

Number of RF carrier 32 maximum

frequencies

Measurement speed High speed/High dynamic mode, 300/80 Hz with BCH

automatic detection of all 512 demodulation
scrambling codes

Scrambling code
detection sensitivity

Sensitivity for initial SC High speed/High dynamic –119 dBm/–127 dBm

detection

Sensitivity after High speed/High dynamic –124 dBm/–132 dBm

successful SC
detection

Scrambling code false < 10–9

detection (ghost code)

Dynamic range Ec/I0 High speed/High dynamic mode –20 dB/–26 dB

for initial detection

Dynamic range Ec/ High speed/High dynamic mode –23 dB/–31 dB

I0 after successful
detection

Min. BCH High speed/High dynamic mode > –14 dB/–20 dB

demodulation
threshold Ec/I0

CDMA2000® characteristics

Number of RF carrier 32 maximum

frequencies

Measurement speed Automatic detection of all 512 PN 70 Hz with BCH

demodulation

PN detection sensitivity –125 dBm

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 1xEVDO characteristics

Number of RF carrier 32 maximum

frequencies

Measurement speed 20 Hz with BCH

demodulation

PN detection sensitivity –122 dBm

Physical characteristics

Operating temperature 0 to +50°C

range

Permissible –10 to +55°C

temperature range

Storage temperature EN 60068-2-1 and EN 60068-2-2 –40 to +70°C

range

Dimensions (W×H×D) 151 mm × 47 mm × 93

mm
(5.95 in × 1.85 in × 3.66
in)

Weight 650 g (1.433 lb)

Power consumption 13 W Typical, 15 W MAX

10 A maximum at 9 VDC

Input voltage 10 V to 27 VDC

Input current 2 A maximum at 10 V

Calibration interval 24 months

Warranty period 36 months

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This information is subject to change without notice. © Keysight Technologies, 2018-2021, Published in USA, June 15, 2021, 5992-2037EN