•Ec/No (actually Ec/Io, but ASN.

1 source code of RRC protocol uses Ec/No) stands for

Energy per Chip-to-Total Noise and Interference power spectral density. In other
words, it is the Received Signal Code Power (RSCP) of a P-CPICH in relation to the
total signal strength (RSSI) of UTRA carrier frequency, which must me imagined as the
sum of all signals coming from cells received at a certain location. Ec/No = P-CPICH
RSCP/UTRA Carrier RSSI

•RSCP is an acronym used in UMTS and other CDMA cellular communications

systems and stands for Received Signal Code Power.
While RSCP can be defined generally for any CDMA system, it is more specifically
used in UMTS. Also, while RSCP can be measured in principle on the downlink
(DL) as well as on the uplink (UL), it is usually associated only with the downlink
and thus it is presumed to be measured by the UE and reported to the Node-B. It
is defined by 3GPP as follows:
Definition: the received power on one code after de-spreading measured by UE on
the pilot bits on a given channel. The reference point for the RSCP is the antenna
connector of the UE. If Tx diversity is applied on the measured channel then the
received code power from each antenna is separately measured and summed
together in watt to produce a total received code power on the measured channel.