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Appendix A. UMTS Abbreviations

This appendix also includes some general abbreviations.

AM Acknowledged Mode
AMR Adaptive Multi Rate
APM Advanced Power Management
AQM Audio Quality Measurement
ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
AS Active Set
BCC Base Station Colour Code
BCCH Broadcast Control Channel
BEP Bit Error Probability
BER Bit Error Rate
BLEP Block Error Probability
BLER Block Error Rate
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol
BSIC Base Station Identity Code
BSN Block Sequence Number
C/A Carrier-to-Adjacent (Ratio)
C/I Carrier-to-Interference (Ratio)
CBCH Cell Broadcast Channel
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CGI Cell Global Identity
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CI Cell Identity
CPICH Common Pilot Channel
CQI Channel Quality Indicator
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CS Coding Scheme
CSD Circuit-Switched Data
CW Continuous Wave
DCH Dedicated Channel
DGPS Differential GPS
DL Downlink
DNS Domain Name System (Service, Server)
DPCCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel
DR Dead Reckoning
DSC Downlink Signalling Counter
DSC Downlink Signalling Counter
DTX Discontinuous Transmission
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (= EGPRS)
EFR Enhanced Full Rate
EGPRS Enhanced GPRS (= EDGE)
EIRP Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
FACCH Fast Associated Control Channel
FACH Forward Access Channel
FER Frame Erasure Rate
FR Full Rate
GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node
GMM GPRS Mobility Management
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GPS Global Positioning System
GRR GPRS Radio Resource

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GSM Global System for Mobile Communication

HARQ Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request
HO Handover
HR Half Rate
H-RNTI HSDPA Radio Network Temporary Id
HSCSD High Speed Circuit-Switched Data
HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access
HS-DSCH High Speed Downlink Shared Channel
HSN Hopping Sequence Number
HS-PDSCH High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel
HS-SCCH High Speed Shared Control Channel
IE Information Element
IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity
IP Internet Protocol
IPCP Internet Protocol Control Protocol
JPEG Joint Photographic Expert Group
KML Keyhole Markup Language
KPI Key Performance Indicator
LA Location Area
LAC Location Area Code
LAT Latitude
LCP Link Control Protocol
LLC Logical Link Control
LON Longitude
LUT Location Update Type
MCC Mobile Country Code
MCS Modulation Coding Scheme
MCS Modulation Coding Scheme
MDM Mobile Diagnostic Monitor
MM Mobility Management
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
MMSC MMS Center
MN Monitored Neighbor
MNC Mobile Network Code
MO Mobile-originated
MOS Mean Opinion Score
MS Mobile Station (may represent phone or scanner)
MT Mobile-terminated
MTR Mobile Traffic Recording
MTU Mobile Test Unit
NBDS NetBIOS Datagram Service
NBNS NetBIOS Name Service
NCC Network Colour Code
NMO Network Mode of Operation
OVSF Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
PBCCH Packet Broadcast Control Channel
PCCCH Packet Common Control Channel
PCH Paging Channel
PDCH Packet Data Channel
PDP Packet Data Protocol
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PESQ Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality
PI Performance Indicator
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
PN Pseudo Noise
PPCH Packet Paging Channel
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPS Precise Positioning Service
P-SCH Primary Synchronisation Channel

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QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
RA Routing Area
RAC Routing Area Code
RACH Random Access Channel
RAN Radio Access Network
RAS Remote Access Service
RAT Radio Access Technology
RB Radio Bearer
RLA Received Level Average
RLC Radio Link Control
RLP Radio Link Protocol
RNC Radio Network Controller
RR Radio Resource (Management)
RRC Radio Resource Control
RSCP Received Signal Code Power
RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator
RTCP Real Time Control Protocol
RTP Real Time Transport Protocol
RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol
SACCH Slow Associated Control Channel
SAN Serving/Active Set + Neighbors
SAPI Service Access Point Identifier
SC Scrambling Code
SCH Synchronisation Channel
SDCCH Standalone Dedicated Control Channel
SDU Signaling Data Unit
SF Spreading Factor
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node
SHO Soft Handover
SIB System Information Block
SID Silence Descriptor
SIR Signal-to-Interference Ratio
SMS Short Message Service
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNDCP Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Protocol
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SPS Standard Positioning Service
SQI Speech Quality Index
SS Signal Strength
S-SCH Secondary Synchronisation Channel
TA Timing Advance
TAB (umbrella term for various MapInfo file types)
TCH Traffic Channel
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TFI Temporary Flow Id
TI Transaction Identifier
TIF Tag Image File
TLLI Temporary Logical Link Identifier
TM Transparent Mode
TS Timeslot
TSC Training Sequence Code
TTI Transmission Time Interval
UARFCN UMTS Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
UCS Universal Character Set
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UE User Equipment
UL Uplink
UM Unacknowledged Mode

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UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

URA UTRAN Registration Area
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTF UCS Transformation Format
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WSP Wireless Session Protocol
VSQI Video Streaming Quality Index
VTQI Video Telephony Quality Index
XML Extensible Markup Language

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