5G_Abbreviations

Abbrev Explanation
3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
5G 5th Generation
5GC 5G Core Network
5G-PPP 5G Public-Private Partnership
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIV Air Interface Variant
AKA Authentication & Key Agreement
AMF Access & Mobility Management Function
AP Access Point
AR Augumented Reality
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request
BFDM Bi-orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
BH Backhaul
BSS Business Support System
BW Bandwidth
BWP Bandwidth Part
CBRS Citizens Broadband Radio Service
CC Component Carrier
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CoMP Cooperative Multipoint Transmission/Reception
CoRRM Cooperative RRM
CP Cyclic Prefix
CP Control Plane
CPE Customer Premise Equipment
CP-OFDM Cyclic Prefix OFDM
CRAN Cloud RAN
CSI Channel State Information
CSI-RS CSI Reference Signal
CSMA Carrier Sensing Multiple Access
CT Core Network & Terminal
CU Central Unit
D2D Device-to-Device
DC Dual Connectivity
DFT-s-OFDMA Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-OFDMA (aka SCFDMA)
DL Downlink
DM-RS Demodulation Reference signals
DRB Data Radio Bearer
DTX Discontinuous Transmission
DU Distributed Unit
eMBB enhanced Mobile Broadband (aka xMBB)
eMTC enhanced Machine Type Communications (aka LTE-M)
eNB evolved Node B
EPC Evolved packet Core
EPS Evolved Packet System
EU European Union
FBMC Filter-Bank Multi Carrier
FD/EB-MIMO Full Dimension/Elevation Beamforming MIMO
FDD Frequency Division Duplex
FFS For Further Study
FH Fronthaul
FP7 7th framework programme
FWA Fixed-Wireless Access
GBR Guaranteed Bit Rate
GFBR Guaranteed Flow Bit Rate
GFDM Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing
gNB next generation Node B
GT Guard Time
GTP GPRS Tunneling Protocol
H2020 Horizon 2020
HARQ Hybrid ARQ
HSS Home Subscriber Server
HW Hardware
I/F Interface
ICIC Inter-cell interference coordination
ICN Information-centric Networking
IFFT Inverse Fast Fourier Transform
IMT-2020 International Mobile Telecommunication for 2020
IoT Internet of Things
IP Internet Protocol
ISD Inter-site distance
ISM Industrial, Scientific, Medical band
ITS Intelligent Transportation System
ITU-R International Telecommunication Union - Radiocommunication Sector
KPI Key Performance Indicator
LAA Licensed Assisted Access
LDPC Low Density Parity Check
LOS Line of Sight
LSA Licensed Shared Access
LWA LTE-WiFi Aggregation
MAC Medium Access Control
MANO Management & Orchestration
MCS Modulation & Coding
MFBR Maximum Flow Bitrate
MIMO Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output
MME Mobility Management Entity
MMIMO Massive MIMO
mMTC massive MTC
mmW milimeter Wave
MNO Mobile Network Operator
MOCN Multi-Operator Core Network
MTC Machine Type Communications
MUD Multi-user Detection
MU-MIMO Multi-User MIMO
NaaS Network as a Service
NAS Non-Access Stratum
NB NodeB
NB-IoT Narrowband IoT
NFV Network Functions Virtualization
NGMN Next Generation Mobile Networks
NG-RAN Next Generation RAN
NLOS non-Line of Sight
NOMA Non-orthogonal multiple access
NR New Radio
NSA Non-Standalone
NSSAI Network Slice Selection Assistance Information
NSSF Network Slice Selection Function
NW Network
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple-Access
OoB Out-of-Band
OQAM Orthogonal Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
OSS Operations Support System
P/S Paralell-to-Serial
PAPR Peak to Average Ratio
PBCH Physical Broadcast Channel
PCF Policy & Charging Function
PDCCH Physical Downlink Control Channel
PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol
PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel
PDU Packet Data Unit
PGW PDN Gateway
PHY Physical Layer
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
PNF Physical Network Function
PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
PRB Physical Resource Block
PSS Primary Sync Signal
PT-RS Phase Tracking Reference Signal
PUCCH Physical Uplink Control Channel
PUSCH Physical Uplink Shared Channel
QoE Quality of Experience
QoS Quality of Service
RA Random Access
RACH RA Channel
RAN Radio Access Network
RAT Radio Access Technology
RF Radio Frequency
RLC Radio Link Control
RoHC Robust Header Compression
RRC Radio Resource Control
RRH Remote Radio Head
RRM Radio Resource Management
RSMA Resource Spread Multiple Access
RSU Road Side Unit
RTT Round Trip Time
S/P Serial-to-Parallel
SA System Architecture
SC Small Cell
SCMA Sparse Code Multiple Access
SDAP Service Data Adaptation Protocol
SDN Software Defined Networking
SDR Software Defined Radio
SE Spectral Efficiency
SGW Serving Gateway
SI Study Item
SLA Service Level Agreement
SMF Session Management Function
SON Self-Organizing Network
SRB Signalling Radio Bearer
SRS Sounding Reference Signal
SSB Sync Signal Block
SSS Secondary Sync Signal
STA Station (WiFi)
SU-MIMO Single User MIMO
SW Software
TCO Total Cost of Ownership
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TDD Time Division Duplex
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TR Technical Report
TRP Transmission/Reception Point
TRx Transceiver
TS Technical Specification
TTI Transmission Time Interval
TTM Time To Market
UC Use Case
UDN Ultra Dense Network
UDP Universal Datagram Protocol
UE User Equipment
UFMC Universal Filtered Multi Carrier
UL Uplink
uMTC ultra reliable MTC (aka URLLC)
UP User Plane
UPF User Plane Function
URLLC Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications
V2X Vehicular to Anything communication
VM Virtual Machine
VNF Virtual Network Function
VR Virtual Reality
VSCNO Virtual Small Cell Network Operator
WCDMA Wideband CDMA
WI Work Item
WRC World Radiocommunications Conference
xMBB extreme Mobile Broadband (aka eMBB)