Acronym
[ A ]
ACCH : Associated Control Channel
AGCH : Access Grant Channel
AMPS : Advanced Mobile Phone System
AoC : Advice of Charge
APN : Access Point Name
ARFCN : Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Numbers
ARIB : Association of Radio Industries and Business
ARQ : Automatic Repeat Request
ATM : Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AuC : Authentication Center
[ B ]
BCH : Broadcast Channel
BCCH : Broadcast Control Channel
BER : Bit Error Rate
BG : Boarder Gateway
BP : Burst Period
BSC : Base Station Controller
BSIC : Base Station Identity Code
BSS : Base Station Subsystem
BSSAP : Base Station System Application Part
BSSGP : BSS GPRS Application Protocol
BSSMAP : BSS Management Part
BSSOMAP : BSS Operation and Maintenance Part
BTS : Base Transceiver Station
[ C ]
CAI : Common Air Interface
CBCH : Cell Broadcast Channel
CC : Country Code
CCBS : Customer Care and Billing System
CCCH : Common Control Channel
CCH : Control Channel
CCITT : Consultative Committee on International Telephone and Telegraph
CDMA : Code Division Multiple Access
CEPT : European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations
CFNRc : Call Forwarding on mobile subscriber Not Reachable
CFU : Call Forwarding Unconditional
CGI : Cell Global Identity
CLIP : Calling Line Identification Presentation
CLIR : Calling Line Identification Restriction
CM : Communication Management
CRC : Cyclic Redundancy Check
CS : Coding Scheme
CSPDN : Circuit Switched Public Data Network
CUG : Closed User Group
[ D ]
DAMPS : Digital AMPS
DB : Data Base
DCCH : Dedicated Control Channel
DCS : Digital Cellular System
DHCP : Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DNS : Domain Name Server
DTAP : Direct Transfer Application Part
DTMF : Dual Tone Multifrequency
DTX : Discontinuous Transmission Mode
[ E ]
EC : European Community
EDGE : Enhanced Data for GSM Environment
EFR : Enhanced Full Rate
E-GSM : Extended GSM
EIR : Equipment Identity Register
ETSI : European Telecommunications Standardization Institute
EV-DO : Evolution Data Only
EV-DV : Evolution Data & Voice
[ F ]
FAC : Final Assembly Code
FACCH : Fast Associated Control Channel
FCC : Federal Communications Commission
FCCH : Frequency Correction Channel
FDD : Frequency Division Duplexing
FDMA : Frequency Division Multiple Access
FEC : Forward Error Correction
FHMA : Frequency Hopping Multiple Access
FN : Frame Number
FSK : Frequency Shift Keying
[ G ]
GCI : Global Cell Identity
GGSN : Gateway GPRS Support Node
GIWU : GSM Interworking Unit
GMM/SM : GPRS Mobility Management and Session Management
GMSC : Gateway Mobile Switching Center
GMSK : Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying
GPRS : General Packet Radio Service
GPS : Global Positioning System
GSM : Group Special Mobile
GSM : Global System for Mobile Communication
GT : Global Title
GTP : GPRS Tunneling Protocol
[ H ]
HDLC : High level Data Link Control
HLR : Home Location Register
[ I ]
IMEI : International Mobile Equipment Identity
IMEISV : IMEI and Software Version
IMSI : International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IMSN : International Mobile Subscriber Number
IMT-2000 : International Mobile Telecommunications 2000
IMTS : Improved Mobile Telephone Service
IrDA : Infra red Data Access
ISDN : Integrated Services Digital Network
IWF : Interworking Function
[ J, K, L ]
LA : Location Area
LAC : Location Area Code
LAI : Location Area Identity
LAN : Local Area Network
LAP : Link Access Procedure
LAPD : Link Access Procedure for the D channel
LAPDm : LAPD for a mobile link
LLC : Logical Link Control
LOS : Line of Sight
LPC : Linear Predictive Coding
LTP : Long Term Prediction
[ M ]
MAC : Media Access Control
MAP : Mobile Application Part
MCC : Mobile Country Code
ME : Mobile Equipment
MM : Mobility Management
MNC : Mobile Network Code
MRS : Mobile Radio Service
MS : Mobile Station
MSC : Mobile Switching Center
MSIC : Mobile Subscriber Identification Code
MSISDN : Mobile Station ISDN Number
MSN : Mobile Service Node
MSRN : Mobile Subscriber Roaming Number
MT : Mobile Terminal
MTP : Message Transfer Part
MXE : Message Center
[ N ]
NDC : National Destination Code
NMT : Nordic Mobile Telephone
NSS : Network Subsystem
NTT : Nippon Telephone & Telegraph
[ O ]
OAM : Operation, Administration and Maintenance
OMC : Operations and Maintenance Center
OML : Operation and Maintenance Link
OSI : Open System Interconnection
OSS : Operation and Support System
[ P ]
PACCH : Packet Associated Control Channel
PAGCH : Packet Access Grant Channel
PBCCH : Packet Broadcast Control Channel
PBX : Private Branch Exchange
PC : Personal Computer
PCCCH : Packet Common Control Channel
PCH : Paging Channel
PCM : Pulse Code Modulation
PCS : Personal Communication Services
PCU : Packet Control Unit
PDC : Personal Digital Cellular
PDCH : Packet Data Channel
PDN : Packet Data Network
PDP : Packet Data Protocol
PDTCH : Packet Data Traffic Channel
PDU : Protocol Data Unit
PIN : Personal Identity Number
PLL : Physical Link Layer
PLMN : Public Land Mobile Network
PNCH : Packet Notification Channel
POTS : Plain Old Telephone Service
PPCH : Packet Paging Channel
PRACH : Packet Random Access Channel
PSK : Phase Shift Keying
PSPDN : Packet Switched Public Data Network
PSTN : Public Switched Telephone Network
PTCCH : Packet Timing Advanced Control Channel
PTM : Point To Multipoint
P-TMSI : Packet TMSI
PTP : Point To Point
PTP-CLNS : PTP Connectionless Network Service
PTP-CONS : PTP Connection-Oriented Network Service
PUK : Personal Unlocking Key
[ Q, R ]
QoS : Quality of Service
RA : Routing Area
RACH : Random Access Channel
RADIUS : Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
RF : Radio Frequency
RFL : physical RF Layer
RLC : Radio Link Control
RLP : Radio Link Protocol
RPE : Regular Pulse Excited
RR : Radio Resource Management
[ S ]
SACCH : Slow Associated Control Channel
SAP : Service Access Point
SC : Service Center
SCCP : Signaling Connection Control Part
SCH : Synchronization Channel
SDCCH : Standalone Dedicated Control Channel
SGSN : Serving GPRS Support Node
SIM : Subscriber Identity Module
SMS : Short Message Service
SMSC : Short Message Service Center
SMS GMSC : SMS Gateway MSC
SMS IWMSC : SMS Inter-Working MSC
SMS-SC : SMS Service Center
SN : Subscriber Number
SNDCP : Sub Network Dependent Convergence Protocol
SNR : Serial Number
SRES : Signed Result
SS : Switching System
SS No.7(SS7) : Signaling System No.7
[ T ]
TA : Terminal Adapter
TAC : Type Approval Code
TACS : Total Access Communication System
TBF : Temporary Block Flow
TCH : Traffic Channel
TCAP : Transaction Capability Application Part
TDMA : Time Division Multiple Access
TE : Terminal Equipment
TFI : Temporary Flow Identity
TI : Transaction Identifier
TIF : Transaction Identifier Flag
TLLI : Temporary Logical Link Identity
TMSI : Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity
TRAU : Transcoder Rate Adopter Unit
[ U ]
UDP : User Datagram Protocol
USF : Uplink State Flag
[ V ]
VAD : Voice Activity Detector
VLR : Visitor Location Register
VMS : Voice Mailing System
VOD : Video On Demand
[ W, X, Y, Z ]
WCDMA : Wide-band CDMA