Acronyms and Abbreviations

Radio Network Features

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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

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AGCH Access Grant Channel

AGL Antenna elevation, Above Ground Level

ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number

AW Assignment to Worse Cell

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BA BCCH Allocation

BCC Base station Color Code

BCCH Broadcast Control Channel

BER Bit Error Rate

BPC Basic Physical Channel

BSC Base Station Controller

BSIC Base Station Identity Code

BTA Basic Trading Area

BTS Base Transceiver Station

BTSPC BTS Power Control

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C/A Carrier to Adjacent channel interference Ratio

C/I Carrier to (co-channel) Interference Ratio

C/N Carrier to Noise Ratio

C/R Carrier to Reflection Ratio

CAPL Channel Allocation Priority Level

CB Cell Broadcast

CBCH Cell Broadcast Channel

Radio Network Features

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CCCH Common Control Channel

CCITT Comité Consultatif International de Télégraphieet Téléphonie

CDD Cell Design Data

CDU Combining and Distribution Unit

CER Channel Event Recording

CGI Cell Global Identity

CHAP Channel Allocation Profile

CHGR Channel Group

CI Cell Identity

CM Mobile station Class Mark

CM3 Mobile station Class Mark 3

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DCA Differential Channel Allocation

DCS Digital Cellular System

DL Down Link

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DRX Discontinuous Reception

DTX Discontinuous Transmission

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EET Ericsson Engineering Tool

EFR Enhanced Full Rate

EG Engineering Guidelines

EIRP Effective Isotropic Radiated Power

EPH Enhanced Priority Handling

ERP Effective Radiated Power

Acronyms and abbreviations

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FACCH Fast Associated Control Channel

FAS Frequency Allocation Support

FCCH Frequency Correction Channel

FER Frame Erasure Rate

FER Frame Erasure Ratio

FH Frequency Hopping

FIFO First In First Out

FIR Finite Impulse Response

FR Full Rate

FRV Full Rate speech Version

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GoS Grade of Service

GOS Grade Of Service

GS Group Switch

GSM Global System for Mobile communications

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HCS Hierarchical Cell Structures

HFS Hopping Frequency Set

HLR Home Location Register

HO Hand Over

HR Half Rate

HRV Hale Rate speech Version

HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data

HSN Hopping Sequence Number

Radio Network Features

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ICHO Intra-Cell Hand Over

ICM Idle Channel Measurement

IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity

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LA Location Area

LAC Location Area Code

LAI Location Area Identity

LNA Low Noise Amplifier

LU Location Updating

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MAHO Mobile Assisted Handoff

MAIO Mobile Allocation Index Offset

MAP Mobile Application Part

MCC Mobile Country Code

MNC Mobile Network Code

MO Mobile Originated

MRP Multiple Reuse Pattern

MS Mobile Station

MSC Mobile services Switching Center

MSPC MS Power Control

MT Mobile Terminated

MTA Major Trading Area

MTBF Mean Time Between Failure

MTR Mobile Traffic Recording

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NCC Network Color Code

NCS Neighboring Cell Support

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OL Overlaid

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PA Power Amplifier

PCH Pagin Channel

PCI Pre-emption Capability Indicator

PCM Pulse Code Modulation

PCS Personal Communications System

PLMN Public Land Mobile Network

PP Priority Profile

PRL Priority Level

PVI Pre-emption Vulnerability Indicator

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QoS Quality of Service

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RACH Random Access Channel

RBS Radio Base Station

RCR Radio Channel Requirement

RF Radio Frequency

RPD Regional Processor Device

RR Radio Resource

RT Resource Type

RTPL Resource Type Priority List

Radio Network Features

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RX Receiver

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SACCH Slow Associated Control Channel

SCH Synchronization Channel

SCLD Subcell Load Distribution

SCRT Selected Channel Rate and Type

SCVL Speech Coder Version List

SDCCH Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel

SID Silence Descriptor

SIM Subscriber Identity Module

SMS Short Message Services

SMS CB Short Message Services Cell Broadcast

SMSp-p Short Message Services point to point

SORC Supervision Of Radio Connection

SPP Signal Processor Part

SPU Signal Processor Unit

SSCVL Selected Speech Coder Version List

ST Selection Type

STS Statistics and Traffic measurements Subsystem

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TA Timing Advance

TACS Total Access Communication System

TCH Traffic Channel

TDMA Time Division Multiple Access

TEMS Test Mobile Station

TF Timing Function

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TG Transceiver Group

TGC Transceiver Group Controller

TMLNA Tower Mounted Low Noise Amplifier

TMSI Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity

TRA Transcoder and Rate Adapter

TRU Transceiver Unit

TRX Transceiver

TRXC Transceiver Controller

TS Timeslot

TSA Telecommunications Service Analysis

TSC Training Sequence Code

TX Transmitter

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UD User Description

UL Underlaid

UL Uplink

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VAD Voice Activity Detector

VLR Visitor Location Register

VTA Virtual Timing Advance

Radio Network Features

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