Acronyms and Abbreviations

Chapter 8

This chapter is designed to provide the student with a list of

acronyms and abbreviations used in this course, together with an
explanation of each acronym and abbreviation.
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3G 3rd Generation
3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
8-PSK eight-Phase Shift Keying

A
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
Abis Interface between BSC and BTS in GSM Systems
ABR Available Bit Rate
AC Admission Control
ACM Address Complete Message
ADSL Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line
AICH Acquisition Indication Channel
ALI ATM Link Interface
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System
AMR Adaptive Multi Rate
ANM Answer Message
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API Application Programming Interface
APN Access Point Name
ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Business
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARQ Automatic Repeat on Request
AS Access Stratum
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASUS Application Support Server
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AUC Authentication Center

B
BCH Broadcast Channel
BER Bit Error Rate
BGW Billing Gateway
BICC Bearer Independent Call Control
BLER Block Error Rate
BP Board Processor
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
BS Base Station
BSC Base Station Controller
BSS Base Station System
BSSGP BSS GPRS Protocol
BTS Base Transceiver Station

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C
CAC Connection Admission Control
CAMEL Customized Application for Mobile Enhanced Logic
CAP CAMEL Application Part
CAS Customer Administration Systems
CATT China Academy of Telecommunication Technology
CBR Constant Bit Rate
CCCH Common Control Channel
CCN Charging Control Node
CCU Channel Codec Unit
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDR Call Data Record
CGI Cell Global Identity
CIF Common Integration Framework
CLR Cell Loss Ratio
CN Core Network
COM Common Object Model
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CPCH Common Packet Channel
CPICH Common Pilot Channel
CPP Cello Packet Platform
CPU Central Processor Unit
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CS Circuit Switching
CSCF Call State Control Function
CSE CAMEL Service Environment
CWTS China Wireless Telecommunications Standard Group

D
D-AMPS Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
DCCH Dedicated Control channel
DCH Dedicated Channel
DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DL Downlink
DNS Domain Name System
DRNC Drift Radio Network Controller
DRX Discontinuous Reception
DS-CDMA Direct-Sequence Code Division Multiple Access
DSCH Downlink Shared Channel
DSP Digital Signal Processor
DTCH Dedicated Traffic Channel
DTI Data Transmission Interface
DTMF Dual Tone Multi Frequency
DTX Discontinuous Transmission
DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
DXC Digital Cross Connector

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EDGE Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution
EIR Equipment Identity Register
EM Element Management
ERION Ericsson Optical Networking
ET Exchange Terminal
ETB Exchange Terminal Board
ETC Exchange Terminal Circuit
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards

F
FACH Forward Access Channel
FDD Frequency Division Duplex
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FEC Forward Error Correction
FER Frame Error Rate
FNR Flexible Number Register
FR Frame Relay
FTP File Transfer Protocol

G
GCP Gateway Control Protocol
GERAN GSM-EDGE Radio Access Network
GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node
GMSC Gateway MSC
GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
GPB General Processor Board
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GPS Global Positioning by Satellite
GS Group Switch
GSM Global System for Mobile Communication
GSN GPRS Support Node
GTP GPRS Tunneling Protocol
GUI graphical user interface

H
HCS Hierarchical Cell Structure
HLR Home Location Register
HO Handover
HPLMN Home Public Land Mobile Network
HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data
HTML HyperText Mark-up Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HW Hardware
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I
IAM Initial Address Message
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
IDAE Integrated Distributed Application Environment
IDL Interface Definition Language (Corba)
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IMT-2000 International Mobile Telecommunications 2000
IN Intelligent Network
INAP Intelligent Network Application Part
IP Internet Protocol
IPSec IP Security protocols
IRP Integrated Reference Point
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISL Inter-Subrack Link
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISUP ISDN User Part
IT Information Technology
ITU International Telecommunication Union
Iu Interface between WCDMA RAN and Core Network
Iub Interface between RNC and RBS
Iur Interface between RNC and RNC
IWF Inter Working Function

L
L1 Layer 1 (physical layer)
L2 Layer 2 (data link layer)
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
L3 Layer 3 (network layer)
LA Location Area
LAC Link Access Control
LAN Local Area Network
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LLC Logical Link Control

M
MA Multiple Access
MAC Medium Access Control
MAP Mobile Application Protocol
MCPA Multi Carrier Power Amplifier
Mcps Mega chip per second
MCR Minimum Cell Rate
ME Mobile Equipment
MExE Mobile Station (Application) Execution Environment
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MGW Media Gateway
MGWF Media Gateway Function
MM Mobility Management
MMI Man-Machine Interface
MO Mobile Originated
MP Main Processor
MPC Main Processor Cluster
MPC Mobile Positioning Center
MPLS Multi Protocol Label Switching
MS Mobile Station
MSB Media Streaming Board
MSC Mobile Services Switching Center
MSF Multi Switching Forum
MSS Mobile Satellite System
MT Mobile Terminated
MTP Message Transfer Part

N
NAS Network Access Server
NAS Network Access Stratum
NAT Network Address Translation
NBAP Node B Application Protocol
NE Network Element
NMS Network Management System
NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone
NNI Network to Network Interface
NRT Non-real time
NW Network

O
O&M Operation & Maintenance
OAM Operation, Administration and Maintenance
ODMA Opportunity Driven Multiple Access
OMS Operation Management System
ORB Object Request Broker
OS Operating System
OS Operating System
OSA Open System Architecture
OSA Open Service Architecture
OSE Operating System Enea
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OSS Operations and Support System
OVSF Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor

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P
PA Power Amplifier
PBN Packet Backbone Network
PC Power Control
PCH Paging Channel
PCS Personal Communications System
PCU Packet Control Unit
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDC Personal Digital Cellular
PDH Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
PDN Packet Data Network
PDP Packet Data Protocol
PDU Packet Data Unit
PICH Paging Indication Channel
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
PM Performance Management
PN Pseudo Noise
POTS Plain Old Telephony System
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PRN Provide Roaming Number Message
PS Packet Switching
PSE Personal Service Environment
PSEM Personal Service Environment Manager
PSK Phase Shift Keying
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PVC Permanent Virtual Connection

Q
QoS Quality of Service
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

R
R&D Research & Development
RA Registration Authority
RA Routing Area
RAB Radio Access Bearer
RACH Random Access Channel
RAN Radio Access Network
RANAP Radio Access Network Application Part
RANOS Radio Access Network Operation Support
RBS Radio Base Station
RF Radio Frequency
RLC Radio Link Control
RLS Radio Link Set
RMP Resource Module Platform
RNC Radio Network Controller
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RNSAP Radio Network Subsystem Application Part
RNTI Radio Network Temporary Identity
ROCCO Robust Checksum based header Compression
RRC Radio Resource Control
RRU Remote Radio Unit
RT Real Time
RTT Radio Transmission Technologies
RU Resource Unit
RX Receiver

S
SAP Service Access Point
SAPI Service Access Point Identifier
SAT SIM Application Toolkit
SCB Switch Core Board
SCCP Signaling Connection Control Part
SCF Service Control Function
SCH Synchronization Channel
SCP Service Control Point
SCS Service Capability Server
SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDU Service Data Unit
SF Spreading Factor
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node
SGW Signaling Gateway
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIP Session Initiation Protocol
SIR Symbol-to-Interference Ratio
SMS Short Message Service
SMS-C Short Message Service Center
SNDCP Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Protocol
SNM Sub Network Management system
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SOG Service Order Gateway
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
SP Signaling Point
SP Special Purpose Processor
SPB Special Purpose Processor Board
SPIC Space Switch Interface Circuit
SRI Send Routing Information
SRNC Serving Radio Network Controller
SSMA Spread Spectrum Multiple Access
STM Synchronous Transfer Mode
STM Synchronous Transport Module
STP Signaling Transfer Point
SVC Switched Virtual Connection
SW Software
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SXB Switch Extension Board

T
TCH Traffic Channel
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TD/CDMA Time Division/Code Division Multiple Access
TDD Time Division Duplex
TDM Time Division Multiplex
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TE Terminal Equipment
TFCI Transport Format Combination Indicator
TFI Transport Format Indicator
TIA Telecommunication Industry Association
TID Tunnel Identity
TMN Telecommunication Management Network
TRAM Tools for Radio Access Management
TRAU Transceiver Rate Adaption Unit
TRC Transcoder Controller
TRU Transceiver Unit
TRX transmitter/receiver
TSC Transit Switching Center
TSG Technical Specifications Group
TTA Telecommunications Technology Association
TTC Telecommunication Technology Committee
TUB Timing Unit Board
TX transmitter

U
UBR Unspecified Bit Rate
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UE User Equipment
UL Up Link
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UNI User to Network Interface
URAN UMTS Radio Access Network
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USIM UMTS Subscriber Identity Module
USIM User Services Identity Module
USSD Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
UTRA UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access
UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
Uu interface between WCDMA RAN and UE

V
VAS Value Added Service
VBR Variable Bit Rate
VHE Virtual Home Environment
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VoIP Voice over IP
VPLMN Visited Public Land Mobile Network
VPN Virtual Private Network

W
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
WISE™ Ericsson´s Wireless Internet Solution
W-LAN Wireless LAN
WML Wireless Markup Language
WPP Wireless Packet Platform
wTRU Wideband Transceiver Unit

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