List of Acronyms in LTE GSM WCDMA
List
of Acronyms in LTE GSM WCDMA
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ACI Adjacent Channel
Interference A-SEM
Additional SEM
ACIR Adjacent Channel
Interference Ratio ACK Acknowledgement
ACLR Adjacent Channel
Leakage Ratio ACS Adjacent
Channel Selectivity
ADC Analogue to Digital
Converter ADSL Asymmetric
Digital Subscriber Line
AGI Antenna Gain
Imbalance AM
Acknowledged Mode
AMC Adaptive Modulation
and Coding AMPS Analogue
Mobile Phone System
AMR Adaptive MultiRate ANR Automatic
Neighbour Relation
ANRF Automatic Neighbour
Relation Function AoA Angle-of-Arrival
AoD Angle-of-Departure APN Access
Point Name
APP A-Posteriori
Probability ARFCN Absolute
Radio Frequency Channel Number
ARIB Association of Radio
Industries and Businesses AS Angular Spread
ARP Almost Regular
Permutation ARP Allocation
and Retention Priority
ARQ Automatic Repeat request AS
Access Stratum
ATIS Alliance for
Telecommunications Industry Solutions
AuC Authentication Centre AWGN Additive
White Gaussian Noise
BCC Base station Colour
Code BCH Broadcast
CHannel
BCCH Broadcast Control Channel BER
Bit Error Rate
BLER BLock Error Rate BM-SC Broadcast-Multicast
Service Centre
BP Belief Propagation BPRE Bits
Per Resource Element
bps bits per second BPSK
Binary Phase Shift Keying
BSIC Base Station
Identification Code BSR Buffer
Status Reports
CCCH Common Control Channel CCE
Control Channel Element
CCI Co-Channel
Interference CCO
Cell Change Order
CCSA China Communications
Standards Association
CDF Cumulative
Distribution Function CDL
Clustered Delay Line
CDM Code Division
Multiplexing) CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access
C/I Carrier-to-Interference
ratio CF Contention-Free
CFI Control Format
Indicator CFO
Carrier Frequency Offset
CINR Carrier-to-Interference-and-Noise
Ratio CIR Channel Impulse
Response
CN Core Network CODIT
UMTS Code DIvision Testbed
COFDM Coded OFDM CP Cyclic
Prefix
CPICH Common PIlot Channel CPR
Common Phase Rotation
CPT Control PDU Type CQI Channel
Quality Indicator
CRC Cyclic Redundancy
Check C-RNTI Cell
Radio Network Temporary Identifier
CS Circuit-Switched CSG
Closed Subscriber Group
CSI Channel State
Information CSIT
Channel State Information at the Transmitter
CTF Channel Transfer
Function CVA Circular
Viterbi Algorithm
CVQ Channel Vector
Quantization CW Continuous-Wave
DAB Digital Audio
Broadcasting DAC
Digital to Analogue Converter
dB deci-Bel d.c.
direct current
DCCH Dedicated Control Channel DCFB
Direct Channel FeedBack
DCI Downlink Control
Information DFT Discrete
Fourier Transform
DFT-S-OFDM DFT-Spread OFDM Diffserv Differentiated
Services
DL DownLink DL-SCH
DownLink Shared CHannel
DMB Digital Mobile
Broadcasting DM
RS DeModulation RS
DOA Direction Of Arrival DPC Dirty-Paper
Coding
DRB Data Radio Bearer DRX Discontinuous
Reception
DS-CDMA Direct-Sequence Code
Division Multiple Access
DSP Digital Signal
Processor DTCH
Dedicated Traffic CHannel
DTX Discontinuous
Transmission DVB-H
Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld
DVB-T Digital Video
Broadcasting – Terrestrial DwPTS Downlink
Pilot TimeSlot
ECM EPS Connection
Management EDGE Enhanced
Data rates for GSM Evolution
EESM Exponential Effective
SINR Mapping EMM EPS Mobility
Management
eNodeB evolved NodeB EPA Extended
Pedestrian A
EPC Evolved Packet Core EPS Evolved
Packet System
ESP Encapsulating
Security Payload ETSI European
Telecommunications Standards Institute
ETU Extended Typical
Urban E-UTRA
Evolved-UTRA
E-UTRAN Evolved-UTRAN EVA Extended
Vehicular A
EVM Error Vector
Magnitude FACH
Forward Access CHannel
FB Frequency Burst FCCH
Frequency Control CHannel
FDD Frequency Division
Duplex FDE Frequency
Domain Equalizer
FDM Frequency Division
Multiplexing FDMA Frequency
Division Multiple Access
FDSS Frequency Domain
Spectral Shaping FFT Fast
Fourier Transform
FI Framing Info FIR
Finite Impulse Response
FMS First Missing SDU FSTD Frequency
Switched Transmit Diversity
FTP File Transfer
Protocol FTTH
Fibre-To-The-Home
GBR Guaranteed Bit Rate GCL Generalized
Chirp-Like
GERAN GSM EDGE Radio Access
Network GGSN Gateway GPRS
Support Node
GMSK Gaussian
Minimum-Shift Keying GPRS General
Packet Radio Service
GPS Global Positioning
System GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications
GT Guard Time GTP
GPRS Tunnelling Protocol
GTP-U GTP-User plane HARQ Hybrid
Automatic Repeat reQuest
HD-FDD Half-Duplex FDD HFN Hyper
Frame Number
HII High Interference
Indicator HLR
Home Location Register
HRPD High Rate Packet Data HSDPA High
Speed Downlink Packet Access
HSPA High Speed Packet
Access HSPA+ High
Speed Packet Access Evolution
HSS Home Subscriber
Server HSUPA
High Speed Uplink Packet Access
HTTP HyperText Transfer
Protocol ICI InterCarrier
Interference
ICIC InterCell
Interference Coordination IDFT
Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform
IFDMA Interleaved Frequency
DivisionMultiple Access
IFFT Inverse Fast Fourier
Transform IMS IP
Multimedia Subsystem
IMSI International Mobile
Subscriber Identity IMT International
Mobile Telecommunications
IP Internet Protocol IRC
Interference Rejection Combining
ISD InterSite Distance ISI InterSymbol
Interference
IST-WINNER Information Society Technologies-Wireless
world Initiative NEw Radio
ITU International
Telecommunication Union ITU-R ITU
Radiocommunication sector
J-TACS Japanese Total Access
Communication System
LA Local Area LB
Long Block
LBP Layered Belief
Propagation LBRM
Limited Buffer Rate Matching
LCID Logical Channel ID LDPC Low-Density
Parity Check
LI Length Indicator LLR
Log-Likelihood Ratio
LMMSE Linear MMSE LNA Low
Noise Amplifier
LO Local Oscillator LOS
Line-Of-Sight
LS Least Squares LSF
Last Segment Flag
LTE Long-Term Evolution MA Metropolitan
Area
MAC Medium Access Control MAC-I Message
Authentication Code for Integrity
MAN Metropolitan Area
Network MAP Maximum
A posteriori Probability
MBMS Multimedia
Broadcast/Multicast Service MBMS GW MBMS
GateWay
MBR Maximum Bit Rate MBSFN Multimedia
Broadcast Single Frequency Network
MCCH Multicast Control Channel MCE
Multicell/Multicast Coordination Entity
MCH Multicast Channel MCL
Minimum Coupling Loss
MCS Modulation and Coding
Scheme Mcps Megachips
per second
MDS Minimum Discernible
Signal MediaFLO Media
Forward Link Only
MIB Master Information
Block MIMO Multiple-Input
Multiple-Output
MIP Mobile Internet Protocol MISO Multiple-Input
Single-Output
ML Maximum Likelihood MLD Maximum
Likelihood Detector
MME Mobility Management
Entity MMSE Minimum
MSE
MO Mobile Originated M-PSK
M-ary Phase-Shift Keying
MQE Minimum Quantization
Error MRC Maximum
Ratio Combining
MSAP MCH Subframe
Allocation Pattern MSB Most
Significant Bit
MSE Minimum Squared Error MSR Maximum
Sensitivity Reduction
MTCH Multicast Traffic Channel MU-MIMO
Multi-User MIMO
NACC Network Assisted Cell
Change NACK Negative
ACKnowledgement
NACS NonAdjacent Channel
Selectivity NAS Non
Access Stratum
NCC Network Colour Code NCL Neighbour
Cell List
NDI New Data Indicator NF Noise
Figure
NGMN Next Generation
Mobile Networks NLMS Normalized
Least-Mean-Square
NLOS Non-Line-Of-Sight NMT Nordic
Mobile Telephone
NNSF NAS Node Selection
Function NodeB The
base station in WCDMA systems
O&M Operation and
Maintenance OBPD Occupied
Bandwidth Power De-rating
OBW Occupied BandWidth OFDM Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple
Access
OI Overload Indicator OOB Out-Of-Band
P/S Parallel-to-Serial PA Power
Amplifier
PAN Personal Area Network PAPR Peak-to-Average
Power Ratio
PBCH Physical Broadcast Channel PBR
Prioritized Bit Rate
PCC Policy Control and
Charging PCCH Paging
Control CHannel
P-CCPCH Primary Common
Control PhysicalCHannel
PCEF Policy Control
Enforcement Function PCFICH Physical
Control Format Indicator CHannel
PCG Project Coordination
Group PCH Paging
CHannel
PCI Physical Cell
Identity P-CPICH
Primary Common PIlot CHannel
PDCCH Physical Downlink
Control Channel PDCP Packet
Data Convergence Protocol
PDN Packet Data Network PDP Power
Delay Profile
PDSCH Physical Downlink
Shared Channel PDU Protocol
Data Unit
PF Paging Frame PFS
Proportional Fair Scheduling
P-GW PDN GateWay PHICH
Physical Hybrid ARQ Indicator CHannel
PLL Phase-Locked Loop PLMN Public
Land Mobile Network
P-MCCH Primary MCCH PMCH Physical
Multicast CHannel
PMI Precoding Matrix
Indicators PMIP
Proxy MIP
PN Pseudo-Noise PO
Paging Occasion
PRACH Physical Random
Access Channel PRB Physical
Resource Block
P-RNTI Paging RNTI PS Packet-Switched
P-SCH Primary
Synchronization Channel PSD Power
Spectral Density
PSS Primary
Synchronization Signal PUCCH
Physical Uplink Control CHannel
PUSCH Physical Uplink
Shared Channel PVI Precoding Vector
Indicator
QAM Quadrature Amplitude
Modulation QCI QoS
Class Identifier
QoS Quality-of-Service QPP Quadratic
Permutation Polynomial
QPSK Quadrature Phase
Shift Keying RA Random
Access
RACH Random Access Channel RAN
Radio Access Network
RAR Random Access
Response RA-RNTI
Random Access Radio Network
Temporary Identifier RAT
Radio Access Technology
RB Resource Block RE
Resource Element
REG Resource Element
Group RF Radio
Frequency
RFC Request For Comments RI Rank
Indicator
RLC Radio Link Control RLS Recursive
Least Squares
RM Rate Matching RNC
Radio Network Controller
RNTI Radio Network
Temporary Identifier RNTP Relative
Narrowband Transmit Power
ROHC RObust Header
Compression RoT Rise
over Thermal
RPF RePetition Factor R-PLMN
Registered PLMN
RRC Radio Resource
Control RRC
Root-Raised-Cosine
RRM Radio Resource
Management RS Reference
Signal
RSCP Received Signal Code
Power RSRP Reference
Signal Received Power
RSRQ Reference Signal
Received Quality RSSI Received
Signal Strength Indicator
RTCP Real-time Transport
Control Protocol RTD Round-Trip
Delay
RTP Real-time Transport
Protocol RTT Round-Trip
Time
RV Redundancy Version S/P Serial-to-Parallel
S1AP S1 Application
Protocol SAE System
Architecture Evolution
SAP Service Access Point SAW Stop-And-Wait
SBP Systematic Bit
Puncturing
SC-FDMA Single-Carrier
Frequency Division Multiple Access
SCH Synchronization Channel SCM
Spatial Channel Model
SCME Spatial Channel Model
Extension SCTP Stream
Control Transmission Protocol
SDMA Spatial Division
Multiple Access SDO Standards
Development Organization
SDU Service Data Unit SEM Spectrum
Emission Mask
SFBC Space-Frequency Block
Code SFDR Spurious-Free
Dynamic Range
SFN System Frame Number SGSN Serving
GPRS Support Node
S-GW Serving GateWay SI System
Information
SIB System Information
Block SIC Successive
Interference Cancellation
SIMO Single-Input
Multiple-Output SINR
Signal-to-Interference plus Noise Ratio
SIP Session Initiation
Protocol SIR Signal-to-Interference
Ratio
SI-RNTI System Information
Radio Network Temporary Identifier
SISO Single-Input
Single-Output SISO Soft-Input Soft-Output
S-MCCH Secondary MCCH SMS Short
Message Service
SN Sequence Number SNR Signal-to-Noise
Ratio
SO Segmentation Offset SON Self-Optimizing
Networks
SPA Sum-Product Algorithm SPS Semi-Persistent
Scheduling
SPS-C-RNTI Semi-Persistent
Scheduling C-RNTI
SR Scheduling Request SRB Signalling
Radio Bearer
SRNS Serving Radio Network
Subsystem SRS Sounding
Reference Signal
S-SCH Secondary
Syncronization Channel SSS Secondary
Synchronization Signal
STBC Space-Time Block Code S-TMSI SAE-Temporary
Mobile Subscriber Identity
STTD Space-Time Transmit
Diversity SU-MIMO Single-User
MIMO
SVD Singular-Value
Decomposition TA Tracking
Area
TACS Total Access
Communication System TB Transport
Block
TCP Transmission Control
Protocol TDD Time
Division Duplex
TDL Tapped Delay Line TDMA Time
Division Multiple Access
TD-SCDMA Time Division
Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access
TEID Tunnelling End ID TF Transport
Format
TFT Traffic Flow Template TM Transparent
Mode
TMD Transparent Mode Data TNL Transport
Network Layer
TNMSE Truncated Normalized
Mean-Squared Error
TPC Transmitter Power
Control TPD Total
Power De-rating
TR Tone Reservation TSC Training
Sequence Code
TSG Technical
Specification Group TTA
Telecommunications Technology Association
TTC Telecommunications
Technology Committee TTI Transmission Time Interval
UDP User Datagram
Protocol UE User
Equipment
UL UpLink UL-SCH
UpLink Shared CHannel
UM Unacknowledged Mode UMB Ultra-Mobile
Broadband
UMTS Universal Mobile
Telecommunications System
UP Unitary Precoding UpPTS Uplink
Pilot TimeSlot
US Uncorrelated-Scattered USIM Universal
Subscriber Identity Module
UTRA Universal Terrestrial
Radio Access UTRAN Universal
Terrestrial Radio Access Network
VCB Virtual Circular
Buffer VCO
Voltage-Controlled Oscillator
VoIP Voice-over-IP VRB
Virtual Resource Block
WA Wide Area WAN
Wide Area Network
WCDMA Wideband Code
Division Multiple Access WFT Winograd Fourier Transform
WG Working Group WiMAX
Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access
WINNER Wireless world
INitiative NEw Radio WLAN Wireless
Local Area Network
WPD Waveform Power
De-ratin WRC World
Radiocommunication Conference
WSS Wide-Sense Stationary
WSSUS Wide-Sense Stationary
Uncorrelated Scattering
ZCZ Zero Correlation Zone ZF Zero-Forcing
ZFEP Zero-Forcing Equal
Power