Visualizing Mobile Networks

Product Configuration

NOMAD consists of a low-cost, off-the-shelf Software Defined Radio (SDR), which captures raw cellular signals across a 70MHz to 6GHz band and passes the data to a laptop running the signal analysis and a time series database.

Easy-to-Use, Comprehensive Displays & Controls

Hierarchical navigation for aggregate base station data or individual client analysis.  NOMAD supports a deep set of analysis functions, with several examples described below.

Base Station Monitoring

Aggregate Base Station Data

Comprehensive visualization & control options

Base station network load

Band observed

Select filters for desired information

Example: Failures displays all client failures

  • TMSI failure list

  • Failure cause

  • Uplink/downlink information

  • Measurement start time & duration

Scan Mode

SCAN/PAUSE control

Select metric with pulldown menu

Example: Average Spectral Efficiency for uplink & downlink


Client Monitoring

Individual Client Information

Presence & location of client

Quality of client connection & impairments

 Scheduler behavior & utilization

Security behavior & rogue device detection

Client TMSI indication

Message size & resource blocks statistics

SCAN/PAUSE control

Pulldown menu selects metric to display

Event time list – select capture time to display

Individual Client Failures List

Client TMSI indication

Sessions failure list

Start time & duration

Failure cause

Aggregate uplink/downlink information