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Drive test: Live testing

Drive test: Live testing

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Drive test: Live testing

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Let's talk about the drive test in real world. In this video, we have captured the vast amount of network data for analysis, and the drive test is a key method for collecting it. There are various tools which are available for this. Today, we are using one such tool with the Samsung handset connected to the software. The first step is to connect the phone, and typically a gps for a location tracking and then the laptop would run the drive to software this allows the tool to collect the data samples that to specific locations since i'm testing indoors i'll deselect the gps and connect only the handset this lets us explore the information we can gather we have the handset which is 4g enabled so i'll select the corresponding 4G monitoring window in this case. Initially we see nothing but as the device connects we are now linked to a particular device to see certain parameters. I won't record a full log just yet but let's connect and observe how the statistics populate in this case. It…

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