Ordlista
Here is a list of all acronyms used in the lecture slides.
3GPP 3rd generation partnership project
AC Access category
ACK Acknowledgement
AGCH Access grant channel
AIFSN Arbitration inter-frame spacing number
ALOHA A medium access protocol – random access with acknowledgement
AMPS Advanced mobile phone system
AN Acknowledgement number
ANSI American national standards institute
AODV Ad-hoc on demand distance vector
AP Access point
AQM Active queue management
ARQ Automatic repeat request
ARTT Average round trip time
ATM Asynchronous transfer mode
AUC Authentication centre
BCCH Broadcast control channel
BSC Base station controller
bps bits per second
BTS Base transceiver station
BRFQ Bit-round fair queueing
BW Bandwidth
CBQ Class based queueing
CC Call control
Country code
CCH Control channel
CD Collision detection
CDF Cumulative distribution function
CDMA Code division multiple access
CM Call management
CN Core network
CS Carrier-sense
CSD Circuit switched domain
CSMA Carrier-sense multiple access
CSMA/CA Carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance
CSMA/CD Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection
CTS Clear to send
CU Currently unused
CWTS Chinese wireless telecommunication standard
D Deterministic distribution (in Kendall notation)
DAMA Demand assigned multiple access
DCF Distributed co-ordination function
DCS Digital cellular service
DECT Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications
DFWMAC Distributed foundation wireless MAC
DiffServ Differentiated services
DL Downlink
DLCI Data link connection identifier
DOI Degree of interference
DRTT Deviation of round trip time
DS Differentiated services
DSCP Differentiated service code point
E2E End-to-end
EDCA Enhanced distributed channel access
EDGE Enhanced data rates for GSM evolution
EIR Equipment identity register
ERTT Expected round trip time
ETSI European telecommunications standards institute
FACCH Fast associated control channel
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FCCH Frequency control channel
FCFS First come first served
FDD Frequency division duplexing
FDMA Frequency division multiple access
FEC Forward error correction
Forwarding equivalence class
FHSS Frequency hopping spread spectrum
FIFO First in first out
FQ Fair queueing
FR Frame relay
FTP File transfer protocol
G General distribution (in Kendall notation)
GGSN Gateway GPRS support node
GMSC Gateway mobile switching centre
GPRS General packet radio service
GPS Global positioning system
Generalised processor sharing
GSM Global system for mobile communications
HCCA HCF controlled channel access
HCF Hybrid co-ordination function
HDLC High-level data link control
HLL High-level (programming) language
HLR Home location register
HO Handover
HSCSD High speed circuit switched data
ICMP Internet control message protocol
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IMEI International mobile equipment identifier
IMSI International mobile subscriber identity
IMT-2000 International mobile telecommunications 2000
IP Internet protocol
IPv4 Internet protocol version 4
IPv6 Internet protocol version 6
IMU Inertial measurement unit
IntServ Integrated services
ISDN Integrated services digital network
ISM Industrial, scientific and medical (radio bands)
ITU-T International telecommunication union standardisation sector
LAPD Link access procedures, D channel
LB Lower bound
LLC Link layer control
LSP Label switched path
LSR Label switched router
M Markovian distribution (in Kendall notation)
MAC Medium access control
MACA Multiple access with collision avoidance
MANET Mobile ad-hoc network
MM Mobility management
MPLS Multiprotocol label switching
MS Mobile station
MSC Mobile switching centre
MSISDN Mobile subscriber ISDN number
MSRN Mobile station roaming number
MSS Maximum segment size
Mobile satellite system
NDC National destination code
NMT Nordic mobile telephony
NRT Non real time
OMC Operation and managing centre
OSPF Open shortest path first
OSVF Orthogonal variable spreading factor
PAN Personal area network
PATH Path discovery packet (for RSVP)
PASTA Poisson arrivals see time averages
PCF Point co-ordination function
PCH Paging channel
PCS Personal communication service
PDF Probability density function
PHB Per hop behaviour
PLMN Public land mobile network
PPP Point-to-point protocol
PRR Packet reception rate
PS Processor sharing
PSD Packet switched domain
PSTN Public switched telephone network
PTS Post- och telestyrelsen
QoS Quality of service
RACH Random access channel
RED Random early detection
RESV Reservation packet (for RSVP)
RFC Request for comments
RIP Routing information protocol
RNC Radio network controller
RNS Radio network subsystem
RR Radio resource management
Rspec Reservation specification
RSVP Resource reservation protocol
RT Real time
RTO Retransmission timeout
RTP Real time protocol
RTS Ready to send
RTT Round trip time
Radio transmission technology
RV Random variable
Rx Receiver, reception, receiver
S-ALOHA Slotted-ALOHA – ALOHA with time slots
SACCH Slow associated control channel
SCH Synchronisation channel
SCTP Stream control transmission protocol
SDCCH Stand alone dedicated control channel
SDEV Standard deviation
SDMA Space division multiple access
SDO Standard developing organisation
SGSN Serving GPRS support node
SIM Subscriber identity module
SLA Service level agreement
SMS Short message service
SN Sequence number
Subscriber number
SON Self-organising networks
SPF Shortest packet first
SRTT Smoothed round trip time
SS Supplementary services
SS7 Singalling system no. 7
STA Station (i.e. wireless client as opposed to AP)
TCH Traffic channel
TCH/F Full rate traffic channel
TCH/H Half rate traffic channel
TCP Transmission control protocol
TDD Time division duplexing
TDMA Time division multiple access
TDOA Time difference of arrival
TETRA Terrestrial trunked radio
TMSI Temporary mobile subscriber identity
TSPEC Traffic specification
TTA Telecommunications technology association
TTC Telecommunications technology committee
TTL Time to live
Tx Transmit, transmission, transmitter
TXOP Transmission opportunity
UB Upper bound
UDP User datagram protocol
UE User equipment
UHF Ultra-high frequency
UL Uplink
UMTS Universal mobile telecommunications system
UTRAN UMTS terrestrial radio access network
VAD Voice activity decoder
VANET Vehicular ad-hoc network
VCI Virtual channel identifier
VLR Visiting location register
VoIP Voice over IP
VPI Virtual path identifier
VPN Virtual private network
W Window, window size
W-CDMA Wideband code division multiple access
WFQ Weighted fair queueing
WSN Wireless sensor network