ACRONYMS
- AAL2 ATM Adaptation Layer Type 2
- AAL5 ATM Adaptation Layer Type 5
- ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- BHCA Busy Hour Call Attempt
- CAMEL A version of IN standardised for the mobile environment
- CCB Customer Care and Billing
- CDR Call Detail Record
- CPS Call Processing Server
- CSE CAMEL Service Environment
- ACIR Adjacent Channel Interference Ratio
- ACLR Adjacent Channel Leakage power Ratio
- ACS Adjacent Channel Selectivity
- AH Address Handling
- AI Acquisition Indicator
- AICH Acquisition Indicator Channel
- ALCAP Access Link Control Application Part
- AMR Adaptive MultiRate (speech codec)
- AP Access Preamble
- AP-AICH Access Preamble Acquisition Indicator Channel
- API Access Preamble Indicator
- ARQ Automatic Repeat Request
- ASC Access Service Class
- BCCH Broadcast Control Channel
- BCH Broadcast Channel
- BER Bit Error Rate
- BLER Block Error Ratio
- BMC Broadcast/Multicast Control
- BM-IWF Broadcast Multicast Interworking Function
- BS Base Station
- BSS Base Station Subsystem
- C- Control-
- CA Channel Assignment
- CAI Channel Assignment Indicator
- CBC Cell Broadcast Centre
- CBR Constant Bit Rate
- CBS Cell Broadcast Service
- CC Call Control
- CCC CPCH Control Command
- CCCH Common Control Channel
- CCF Call Control Function
- CCH Control Channel
- CCPCH Common Control Physical Channel
- CCTrCH Coded Composite Transport Channel
- CD Collision Detection
- CD/CA-ICH Collision Detection/Channel Assignment Indicator Channel
- CDI Collision Detection Indicator
- CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
- CFN Connection Frame Number
- Chip Rate Chip rate of W CDMA system, equals to 3,84 M chips per second
- CN Core Network
- CPCH Common Packet channel
- CPICH Common Pilot Channel
- CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
- CS Circuit Switched
- CSCF Call State Control Function
- CSICH CPCH Status Indicator Channel
- CTCH Common Traffic Channel
- CW Continuous Wave (un-modulated signal)
- DC Dedicated Control (SAP)
- DCA Dynamic channel allocation
- DCCH Dedicated Control Channel
- DCH Dedicated Channel, which is mapped into Dedicated Physical Channel.
- DL Downlink
- DPCCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel
- DPCH Dedicated Physical Channel
- DPCH_Ec Average energy per PN chip for DPCH
- DPDCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel
- DRNC Drift Radio Network Controller
- DRNS Drift RNS
- DRX Discontinuous Reception
- DS-CDMA Direct-Sequence Code Division Multiple Access
- DSCH Downlink Shared Channel
- DSMA-CD Digital Sense Multiple Access - Collison Detection
- DTCH Dedicated Traffic Channel
- DTX Discontinuous Transmission
- EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
- EFR Enhanced Full Rate speech codec
- Ec/No Received energy per chip divided by the power density in the band
- FACH Forward Link Access Channel
- FAUSCH Fast Upink Signalling Channel
- FBI Feedback Information
- FCS Frame Check Sequence
- FDD Frequency Division Duplex
- FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
- FDR False transmit format Detection Ratio
- FEC Forward Error Control
- FER Frame Error Rate
- FTP File Transfer Protocol
- FSW Frame Synchronization Word
- Fuw Frequency of unwanted signal.
- GC General Control (SAP)
- GF Galois Field
- GGSN Gateway GPRS support node
- GMSC Gateway MSC
- GP Guard Period
- GPRS General Packet Radio System
- GSM Global System for Mobile Communication
- GTP GPRS Tunnelling Protocol
- HLR Home Location register
- HO Handover
- HSS Home Subscriber Server
- IC Interference Cancellation
- ICGW Incoming call gateway
- IETF Internet engineering task force
- IMSI International Mobile Subscriber identity
- IN Intelligent network
- Ioc The power spectral density of a band limited white noise source.
- Ior The total transmit power spectral density of the DL at the BS antenna connector
- IP Internet Protocol
- ISDN Integrated services digital network
- ISI Inter-symbol interference
- ITU International Telecommunication Union
- JD Joint Detection
- kbps kilo-bits per second
- L1 Layer 1 (physical layer)
- L2 Layer 2 (data link layer)
- L3 Layer 3 (network layer)
- LAC Link Access Control
- LAI Location Area Identity
- LCS Location Services
- LLC Logical Link Control
- LAN Local Area Network
- MA Multiple Access
- MAC Medium Access Control
- Mbps Mega bit per second
- Mcps Mega Chip Per Second
- ME Mobile Equipment
- MER Message Error Ratio
- MF Matched filter
- MGCF Media Gateway Control Function
- MGW Media Gateway Function
- MM Mobility Management
- MPEG Motion picture expert group
- MRF Multimedia Resource Function
- MS Mobile Station
- MT Mobile Terminated
- MUD Multiuser detection
- MUI Mobile User Identifier
- NAS Non Access Stratum
- NBAP Node B Application Protocol
- NRT Non-Real Time
- Nt Notification (SAP)
- OVSF Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor (codes)
- PAD Padding
- PC Power Control
- PCCC Parallel Concatenated Convolutional Code
- PCCH Paging Control Channel
- PCCPCH Primary Common Control Physical Channel
- PCH Paging Channel
- PCPCH Physical Common Packet Channel
- PCS Personal Communications System
- PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol
- PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel
- PDSCH Physical Dedicated Shared Channel
- PDP Packet Data Control
- PDU Protocol Data Unit
- PhCH Physical Channel
- PHY Physical layer
- PhyCH Physical Channels
- PI Paging Indicator
- PICH Paging Indicator Channel
- PICH Page Indicator Channel
- PN Pseudo Noise
- PPM Parts Per Million
- PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
- PSC Primary Synchronisation Code
- PSCH Physical channel
- PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
- PU Payload Unit
- PUSCH Physical Uplink Shared Channel
- QoS Quality of Service
- QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
- RAB Radio Access Bearer
- RACH Random Access Channel
- RAI Routing Area identity
- RANAP Radio Access Network Application Part
- RB Radio Bearer
- RF Radio Frequency
- RL Radio Link
- RLC Radio Link Control
- RNC Radio Network Controller
- RNS Radio Network Subsystem
- RNS Radio Network Subsystem
- RNSAP Radio Network Subsystem Application Part
- RNTI Radio Network Temporary Identity
- RRC Radio Resource Control
- RRM Radio Resource Management
- RSC Recursive Systematic Convolutional Coder
- RSCP Received Signal Code Power
- RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator
- RT Real Time
- RTP Real Time Protocol
- RU Resource Unit
- RX Receive
- SAB Service Area Broadcast
- SAP Service Access Point
- SCCC Serial Concatenated Convolutional Code
- SCCP Signalling Connection Control Part
- S-CCPCH Secondary Common Control Physical Channel
- SCH Synchronisation Channel: Primary + Secondary synchronisation channels
- SDP Session Description Protocol
- SDU Service Data Unit
- SF Spreading Factor
- SFN System Frame Number
- SHCCH Shared Channel Control Channel
- SI Status Indicator
- SIR Signal to Interference Ratio
- SMS Short Message Service
- SN Sequence Number
- SNR Signal to Noise Ratio
- SPD Serving Profile Database
- SRNC Serving Radio Network Controller
- SRNS Serving Radio Network Subsystem
- SSC Secondary Synchronisation Code
- SSCH Secondary Synchronisation Channel
- SSDT Site Selection Diversity Transmission
- SSDT Site Selection Diversity TPC
- STD Selective Transmit Diversity
- STTD Space Time Transmit Diversity
- TA Timing Advance
- TCH Traffic Channel
- TDD Time Division Duplex
- TDD Time Division Duplex
- TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
- TF Transport Format
- TFC Transport Format Combination
- TFCI Transport Format Combination Indicator
- TFI Transport Format Indicator
- TMSI Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity
- TPC Transmit Power Control
- TrBk Transport Block
- TrCH Transport Channel
- T-SGW Transport Signalling Gateway Function
- TSTD Time Switched Transmit Diversity
- TTI Transmission Time Interval
- TX Transmit
- TxAA Transmit Adaptive Antennas
- U- User-
- UE User Equipment
- UL Uplink (Reverse link)
- UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
- URA UTRAN Registration Area
- USCH Uplink Shared Channel
- USIM UMTS Subscriber Identity Module
- UTRA UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access
- UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
- VBR Variable Bit Rate
- WCDMA Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access
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This is a good list for the wiki system
This is a good list for the wiki system in the wireless section. Many of the terms have internal lnks already. It is nice to see a complete UMTS list to connect all the useful concepts.
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