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UMTS Overview - Abbreviations
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
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2B+D 2 B channels + 1 D channel
2G second Generation
3G third Generation
3G.IP third Generation partnership for Internet Protocol
3GPP third Generation Partnership Project
3GPP2 third Generation Partnership Project 2
8-PSK 8 Phase Shift Keying

A
A interface between BSC and MSC
AAL2 ATM Adaptation Layer 2
AAL5 ATM Adaptation Layer 5
ACELP Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction
A-GPS Assisted Global Positioning System
ALCAP Access Link Control Application Part
AMR Adaptative Multi Rate
ANSI American National Standards Institute (USA)
ANSI-41 American National Standard ANSI/TIA/EIA-41
ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (Japan)
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request
AS Access Stratum
AT&T American Telephony & Telegraph
ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

B
BGCF Breakout Gateway Control Function
BICC Bearer Independent Call Control
BM-IWF Broadcast/Multicast Interworking Function
BoD Bandwidth on Demand
BS Bearer Service
BSC Base Station Controller
BSS Base Station Subsystem
BT British Telecommunications
BTS Base Transceiver Station

C
CAMEL Customized Application for Mobile Enhanced Logic
CAP CAMEL Application Part
CC Call Control
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CN Core Network
CPU Central Processing Unit
CS Coding Scheme
CS Circuit Switching
CSCF Call Session Control Function
CSCN Circuit Switched Core Network
CWTS China Wireless Telecommunications Standard Group

D
D-AMPS Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
DBm decibel referenced to a milliwatt
DCA Dynamic Channel Allocation
DCH Dedicated Channel
DL Downlink
DRNC Drift RNC

E
EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
EFR Enhanced Full Rate
EGPRS Enhanced GPRS
EIA Electronic Industries Alliance
ETSI European Telecommunications Standard Institute

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Abbreviations and Acronyms [cont.]
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F
FDD Frequency Division Duplex
FDD-DS FDD-Direct Sequence
FDD-MC FDD-Multi Carrier
FDMA Frequency Division Duplex

G
Gb BSS-SGSN interface
Gc HLR-GGSN interface
GERAN GSM EDGE Radio Access Network
GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node
GHz Giga Hertz
Gi GGSN-PDN interface
GMSC Gateway MSC
GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
Gn intra-GSS interface
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GPS Global Positioning System
Gr HLR-SGSN interface
Gs MSC-SGSN interface
GSM Global System for Mobile communications
GTP GPRS Tuneling Protocol
GTP-U GTP for transfer of user data in separated tunnels for each PDP context

H
HLR Home Location Register
HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
HS-DSCH High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel
HSPA High-Speed Packet Access
HSS Home Subscriber Service
HSUPA High-Speed Uplink Packet Access
Hz Hertz

I
IC Integrated Circuit
I-CSCF Interrogating CSCF
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IM IP Multimedia
IM CN IP Multimedia CN
IM-MGW IP Multimedia MGW
IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IMT International Mobile Telecommunications
IMT-2000 International Mobile Telecommunications-2000
IMT-DS IMT Direct Sequence
IMT-MC IMT MultiCarrier
IMT-SC IMT Single Carrier
IMTTC IMT Time Code
IP Internet Protocol
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISM Industrial Scientific Medicine
ISUP ISDN User Part
ITU International Telecommunications Unit
Iu interface between UTRAN and Core Network
Iub interface between node B and RNC
Iub-FP Iub Frame Protocol
Iu-CS interface between RNC and MSC
Iu-PS interface between RNC and SGSN
Iur interface between RNC and RNC
Iur-FP Iur Frame Protocol
Iu-UP Iu interface User Plane

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Abbreviations and Acronyms [cont.]
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K
KB KiloByte
Kbps kilobits per second

L
LAI Location Area Identity

M
m meter
MAP Mobile Application Part
Mbps Megabits per second
MB MegaByte
MB Megabits per second
MCS Modulation and Coding Scheme
ME Mobile Equipment
MExE Mobile Execution Environment
MGCF Media Gateway Control Function
MHz Mega Hertz
MM Mobility Management
mn minute
MP3 MPEG-1 audio layer 3
Ms millisecond
MSC Mobile services Switching Center
MSISDN Mobile Station ISDN Number
MSS Mobile Satellite System
MT Mobile Terminal
MTP Message Transfer Part
mW milliWatt

N
NAS Non-Access Stratum
NBAP Node B Application Part
NSS Network Subsystem

O
OS Operating System
OSA Open Service Access
OSI Open System Interconnection
OTDOA Observed Time Difference of Arrival
OTDOA-IDPL OTDOA Idle Period Downlink

P
PC Personal Computer
P-CSCF Proxy CSCF
PCU Packet Control Unit
PDC Personal Digital Cellular
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
PS Packet Switching
PSCN Packet Switched Core Network
PSE Personal Service Environment
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PTMSI Packet Temporay Mobile Subscriber Identity

Q
QoS Quality of Service

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R
RAB Radio Access Bearer
RAI Routing Area Identity
RAN Radio Access Network
RANAP RAN Application Part
RNL Radio Network Layer
RNS Radio Network Subsystem
RNSAP RNS Application Part
RRC Radio Resource Control
RTP Real-Time Transport Protocol
Rx Reception

S
s second
SAP Service Access Point
SAT SIM Application Toolkit
SCCP Signaling Connection Control Part
SCS Service Capability Server
S-CSCF Serving CSCF
SDU Service Data Unit
SF Spreading Factor
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node
SIG Special Interest Group
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIP Session Initiation Protocol
SIR Signal on Interference Ratio
SMS Short Message Service
SRNC Serving RNC
SRNS Serving Radio Network Subsystem
SS7 Signaling System no.7

T
T1 Standard Committee T1 Telecommunications
TD-CDMA Time Division and Code Division Multiple Access
TDD Time Division Duplex
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TE Terminal Equipment
TIA Telecommunications Industry Association (USA)
TMN Telecommunications Management Network
TMSI Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity
TNL Transport Network Layer
TPC Transmit Power Control
TR Technical Report
TS Technical Specification
TS Time Slot
TTA Telecommunications Technology Association (Korea)
TTC Telecommunications Technology Committee (Japan)
Tx Transmission

U
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UE User Equipment
UICC UMTS Integrated Circuit Card
UIM User Identity Module
UL UpLink
Um interface between MS and BSS
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
USAT UMTS SIM Application Toolkit
USIM UMTS Subscriber Identity Module
USSD Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
UTRA UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access

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Abbreviations and Acronyms [cont.]
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U
Uu interface between UTRAN and UE
UWCC Universal Wireless Communications Committee

V
VHE Virtual Home Environment
VLR Visitor Location Register
VMSC Visited MSC
VoIP Voice over IP

W
W Watt
WAP Wireless Application Part
WCDMA Wireless CDMA

X
XHTML eXtended Hypertext Markup Language
XML eXtended Markup Language

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