WiMAX and LTE Acronym

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Wimax

Acronym Description

AAA Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

AAS Advanced Antenna Systems

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber LoopAES Advanced Encryption Standard

ARQ Automatic Repeat Request

ASN Access Services Network

ASP Application Service Provider

BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying

BWA Broadband Wireless Access

CCK Complementary Coded Keying

CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier

CIR Committed Information Rate

CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (Ethernet)

DCF Distributed Control Function

DES Digital Encryption Standard

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

EDCA Enhanced Distributed Control Access

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

ED-VO Enhanced Version-Data Only (Data Optimized)

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FDD Frequency Division Duplex

FDX Full Duplex

FEC Forward Error Correction

FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread SpectrumHz Hertz (Prefix Kilo = Thousands, Mega = Millions, Giga = Billions)

HARQ Hybrid-ARQ

HIPERMAN High-Performance Metropolitan Area Network

HUMAN High-speed Unlicensed Metropolitan Area Network

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

ILEC Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISM Industrial, Scientific, and Medical

ITU International Telecommunications Union

LAN Local Area Network

LR Location Register

LS Least Squares

MAC Media Access Control

MBS Multicast Broadcast Service

MIMO Multiple Input-Multiple Output

MMDS Multi-channel Multipoint Distribution Service

MMS Multimedia Messaging Service

MPDU MAC Protocol Data Unit


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LTE

Acronym Description

3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project

3GPP2 Third Generation Partnership Project 2

4G Fourth Generation Wireless SystemsAAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

AAS Adaptive Antenna System

AC Authentication Center

ACK Acknowledge or Acknowledgement

AM Acknowledged Mode

AMBR Aggregate Maximum Bit Rate

AMC Adaptive Modulation and Coding

AN Access Network

APN Access Point Name

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ARP Allocation and Retention Priority

ARQ Automatic Repeat reQuest

AS Access Stratum

AS Application Server

BCCH Broadcast Control Channel

BCH Broadcast Channel

BER Bit Error Rate

BLER Block Error Rate

BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying

BW Bandwidth

C-RNTI Cell Radio Network Temporary Identity

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CE Cyclic ExtensionCFI Channel Format Indicator

CN Core Network

CoA Care Of Address

CP Cyclic Prefix

CQI Channel Quality Indicator

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check

CS Circuit-Switched

CS-CN Circuit Switched Core Network

CSCF Call Session Control Function

CSI Channel State Information

DCCH Dedicated Control Channel

DCI Downlink Control Information

DFT Discrete Fourier Transform

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DL Downlink

DL-SCH Downlink Shared Channel

DRA Dynamic Resource Allocation

DRX Discontinuous Reception

DS Direct Spread


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DSCP Differentiated Service Code Point

DTCH Dedicated Traffic Channel

DTX Discontinuous Transmission

E-UTRA Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access

E-UTRAN Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network

ECM EPS Connection Management

eNB E-UTRAN Node B

EMM EPS Mobility ManagementEPC Evolved Packet Core

EPS Evolved Packet System

ESP Encapsulating Security Payload

EUTRAN Evolved UTRAN

EV-DO Evolution for Data Optimized

FA Foreign Agent

FDD Frequency Division Duplex

FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing

FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access

FEC Forward Error Correction

FFT Fast Fourier Transform

FMC Fixed Mobile Convergence

GBR Guaranteed Bit Rate

GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node

GI Guard Interval

GP Guard Period

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GSM Global System for Mobile Communication

GUTI Globally unique Temporary UE identity

GUMMEI Globally Unique MME Identity

GT Guard Time

GTP GPRS Tunneling Protocol

GTP-U GTP User planeGW Gateway

H-FDD Half-Frequency Division Duplex

HA Home Agent

H-ARQ Hybrid ARQ

HDTV Hi Definition TV

HLR Home Location Register

HO Handover

HPLMN Home PLMN

HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access

HSPA High Speed Packet Access

HSS Home Subscriber Server

HSUPA High Speed Uplink Packet Access

ICI Inter-Carrier Interference

ICIC Inter-cell Interference Coordination

IDFT Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IFFT Inverse Fast Fourier Transform

IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity


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IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem

IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity

IMT International Mobile Telecommunication

IN Intelligent Networks

IP Internet Protocol

IPSec Internet Protocol Security

IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4

ISI Inter-Symbol InterferenceISUP ISDN Signaling User Part

ITU International Telecommunication Union

kbps kilo-bits per second

KHz Kilo Hertz

L1 Layer 1 (physical layer)

L3 Layer 3 (network layer)

LB Load Balancing

LCR Low Chip Rate

LI Lawful Intercept

LTE Long Term Evolution

MAC Medium Access Control

MAC Message Authentication Code

MBMS Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service

MBR Maximum Bit Rate

MBSFN MBMS Single Frequency Network

MCCH Multicast Control Channel

MCH Multicast Channel

MCM Multi-Carrier Modulation

ME Mobile Equipment

MGCF Media Gateway Control Function

MGW Media Gateway

MHz Mega Hertz

MIB Master Information BlockMIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output

MIP Mobile IP

MISO Multiple Input Single Output

MMD Multimedia Domain

MME Mobility Management Entity

MMEGI MME Group Identity

MMS Multimedia Messaging Service

MS Mobile Station

MSC Mobile Switching Center

MTCH MBMS Traffic Channel

NACK Negative ACK

NAS Non-Access Stratum

NBM Network Based Mobility

OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access

OSS Operations System Support

P-GW PDN Gateway

P-SCH Primary Synchronization Channel

PAPR Peak-to-Average Power Ratio


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PBCH Physical Broadcast Channel

PCCH Paging Control Channel

PCH Paging Channel

PCFICH Physical Control Format Indicator Channel

PCRF Policy and Charging Rule Function

PDCCH Physical Dedicated Control Channel

PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol

PDN Packet Data NetworkPDP Packet Data Protocol

PDP Policy Decision Point

PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel

PDU Protocol Data Unit

PHICH Physical Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel

PHY Physical Layer

PLMN Public Land Mobile Network

PMCH Physical Multicast Channel

PMIP Proxy MIP

PN Pseudo-random Noise

PRACH Physical Random Access Channel

PRB Physical Resource Block

PRI Primary Rate Interface

P-RNTI Paging Radio Network Temporary Identity

PSDU Protocol Service Data Unit

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

PUCCH Physical Uplink Control Channel

PUSCH Physical Uplink Shared Channel

QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QCI QoS Class Identifiers

QoS Quality of Service

QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

RACH Random Access ChannelRAN Radio Access Network

RAT Radio Access Technology

RB Radio Bearer

RB Resource Block

RF Radio Frequency

RLC Radio Link Control

ROCH Robust Header Compression

RRC Radio Resource Control

RRM Radio Resource Management

RSRP Reference Symbol Received Power

RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator

S-GW Serving Gateway

S1-U S1 - User Plane

SAE System Architecture Evolution

SC Single Carrier

SC-FDMA Single Carrier - Frequency Division Multiple Access

SCH Synchronization Channel

SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol

SDMA Space (or Spatial) Division Multiple Access


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SDF Service Data Flows

SDU Service Data Unit

SG Signaling Gateway

SI System Information

SI-1 System Information message 1

SIB System Information Block

SIMO Single Input Multiple Output

SIP Session Initiation ProtocolSIR Signal-to-Interference Ratio

SMS Short Message Service

SN Service Node

SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio

SOFDMA Scalable Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access

SRNC Serving Radio Network Controller

STC Space Time Coding

TA Tracking Area

TAI Tracking Area Identifier

TDD Time Division Duplex

TEID Tunnel Endpoint Identifier

TFT Traffic Flow Template

TM Transparent Mode

TTI Transmission Time Interval

UCI Uplink Control Information

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UE User Equipment

UL Uplink

UL-SCH Uplink Shared Channel

UM Unacknowledged Mode

UMA Unlicensed Mobile Access

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

UpPTS Uplink Pilot Time SlotUpTS Uplink Time Slot

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol

VPLMN Visited PLMN

VRB Virtual Resource Blocks

WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access

Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity

WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WLAN Wireless Local Area Networks


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LTE Acronyms

LTE Wireless Networking Acronym Guide

This list is provided as a resource to help understand the acronyms in the wireless n

1xEV-D 1x Evolution for Data Optimized


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3GPP

Third

Generati

onPartners

hip

Project


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3GPP2

Third

Generati

on

Partners

hip

Project 2

4G

Fourth

Generati

on

Wireless

Systems

AAA

Authenti

cation,

Authoriz

ation

and

Accounti

ng

AAS

Adaptive

Antenna

System

AC

Authenti

cationCenter

ACK

Acknowl

edge or

Acknowl

edgeme

nt

AM

Acknowl

edged

Mode

AMBR

Aggrega

te

Maximu

m Bit

Rate


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AMC

Adaptive

Modulati

on and

Coding

ANAccessNetwork

APN

Access

Point

Name

ARP

Address

Resoluti

on

Protocol

ARP

Allocatio

n and

Retentio

n Priority

ARQ

Automat

ic

Repeat

reQuest

AS

Access

Stratum

AS

Applicati

on

Server

BCCH

Broadca

st

Control

Channel

BCH

Broadcast

Channel

BER

Bit Error

Rate

BLER

Block

Error

Rate


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BPSK

Binary

Phase

Shift

Keying

BW

Bandwid

th

C-RNTI

Cell

Radio

Network

Tempor

ary

Identity

CDMA

Code

Division

Multiple

Access

CE

Cyclic

Extensio

n

CFI

Channel

Format

Indicator

CNCoreNetwork

CoA

Care Of

Address

CP

Cyclic

Prefix

CQI

Channel

Quality

Indicator

CRC

Cyclic

Redund

ancy

Check

CS

Circuit-

Switche

d


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CS-CN

Circuit

Switche

d Core

Network

CSCF

Call

Session

Control

Function

CSI

Channel

State

Informati

on

DCCH

Dedicate

d

Control

Channel

DCI

Downlin

k

Control

Informati

on

DFT

Discrete

FourierTransfor

m

DHCP

Dynamic

Host

Configur

ation

Protocol

DL

Downlin

k

DL-SCH

Downlin

k

Shared

Channel


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DRA

Dynamic

Resourc

e

Allocatio

n

DRX

Discontinuous

Receptio

n

DS

Direct

Spread

DSCP

Different

iated

Service

Code

Point

DTCH

Dedicate

d Traffic

Channel

DTX

Disconti

nuous

Transmi

ssion

E-UTRA

EvolvedUMTS

Terrestri

al Radio

Access

E-

UTRAN

Evolved

UMTS

Terrestri

al Radio

Access

Network

ECM

EPS

Connecti

on

Manage

ment


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eNB

E-

UTRAN

Node B

EMM

EPS

Mobility

Manage

ment

EPC

Evolved

Packet

Core

EPS

Evolved

Packet

System

ESP

Encapsu

lating

Security

Payload

EUTRA

N

Evolved

UTRAN

EV-DO

Evolutio

n for

Data

Optimize

d

FA

Foreign

Agent

FDD

Frequen

cy

Division

Duplex

FDM

Frequen

cy

Division

Multiplexing

FDMA

Frequen

cy

Division

Multiple

Access


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FEC

Forward

Error

Correcti

on

FFT

Fast

Fourier

Transform

FMC

Fixed

Mobile

Converg

ence

GBR

Guarant

eed Bit

Rate

GGSN

Gateway

GPRS

Support

Node

GI

Guard

Interval

GP

Guard

Period

GPRS

General

Packet

Radio

Service

GSM

Global

System

for

Mobile

Commu

nication

GUTI

Globally

unique

Tempor

ary UEidentity

GUMME

I

Globally

Unique

MME

Identity

GT

Guard

Time


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GTP

GPRS

Tunnelin

g

Protocol

GTP-U

GTP

Userplane

GW Gateway

H-FDD

Half-

Frequen

cy

Division

Duplex

HA

Home

Agent

H-ARQ

Hybrid

ARQ

HDTV

Hi

Definitio

n TV

HLR

Home

Location

Register

HO

Handov

er

HPLMN

Home

PLMN

HSDPA

High

Speed

Downlin

k Packet

Access

HSPA

High

Speed

Packet

Access

HSS

Home

Subscrib

er

Server


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HSUPA

High

Speed

Uplink

Packet

Access

ICI

Inter-

CarrierInterfere

nce

ICIC

Inter-cell

Interfere

nce

Coordin

ation

IDFT

Inverse

Discrete

Fourier

Transfor

m

IEEE

Institute

of

Electrica

l and

Electroni

cs

Engineers

IETF

Internet

Enginee

ring

Task

Force

IFFT

Inverse

Fast

Fourier

Transfor

m

IMEI

Internati

onal

Mobile

Equipme

nt

Identity


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IMS

IP

Multime

dia

Subsyst

em

IMSI

Internati

onalMobile

Subscrib

er

Identity

IMT

Internati

onal

Mobile

Telecom

municati

on

IN

Intellige

nt

Network

s

IP

Internet

Protocol

IPSec

Internet

ProtocolSecurity

IPv4

Internet

Protocol

version

4

ISI

Inter-

Symbol

Interfere

nce

ISUP

ISDN

Signalin

g User

Part


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ITU

Internati

onal

Telecom

municati

on

Union

kbps

kilo-bitsper

second

KHz

Kilo

Hertz

L1

Layer 1

(physical

layer)

L3

Layer 3

(network

layer)

LB

Load

Balancin

g

LCR

Low

Chip

Rate

LI

Lawful

Intercept

LTE

Long

TermEvolutio

n

MAC

Medium

Access

Control

MAC

Messag

e

Authenti

cationCode

MBMS

Multime

dia

Broadca

st

Multicast

Service


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MBR

Maximu

m Bit

Rate

MBSFN

MBMS

Single

Frequency

Network

MCCH

Multicast

Control

Channel

MCH

Multicast

Channel

MCM

Multi-

Carrier

Modulati

on

ME

Mobile

Equipme

nt

MGCF

MediaGateway

Control

Function

MGW

Media

Gateway

MHz

Mega

Hertz

MIB

MasterInformati

on Block

MIMO

Multiple

Input

Multiple

Output

MIP

Mobile

IP


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MISO

Multiple

Input

Single

Output

MMD

Multime

dia

Domain

MME

Mobility

Manage

ment

Entity

MMEGI

MME

Group

Identity

MMS

Multime

dia

Messagi

ng

Service

MS

Mobile

Station

MSC

Mobile

Switchin

g Center

MTCH

MBMS

TrafficChannel

NACK

Negative

ACK

NAS

Non-

Access

Stratum

NBM

Network

Based

Mobility

OFDM

Orthogo

nal

Frequen

cy

Division

Multiplex

ing


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OFDMA

Orthogo

nal

Frequen

cy

Division

MultipleAccess

OSS

Operatio

ns

System

Support

P-GW

PDN

Gateway

P-SCH

Primary

Synchro

nization

Channel

PAPR

Peak-to-

Average

Power

Ratio

PBCH

Physical

Broadca

st

Channel

PCCH

Paging

Control

Channel

PCH PagingChannel


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PCFICH

Physical

Control

Format

IndicatorChannel

PCRF

Policy

and

Chargin

g Rule

Function

PDCCH

Physical

Dedicate

d

Control

Channel

PDCP

Packet

Data

Converg

ence

Protocol

PDN

Packet

Data

Network

PDP

Packet

Data

Protocol

PDP

Policy

Decision

Point

PDSCH

Physical

Downlin

k

Shared

Channel


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PDU

Protocol

Data

Unit

PHICH

Physical

HybridARQ

Indicator

Channel

PHY

Physical

Layer

PLMN

Public

Land

Mobile

Network

PMCH

Physical

Multicast

Channel

PMIP

Proxy

MIP

PN

Pseudo-

random

Noise

PRACH

Physical

Random

Access

Channel

PRB

PhysicalResourc

e Block

PRI

Primary

Rate

Interface


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P-RNTI

Paging

Radio

Network

Tempor

ary

Identity

PSDU

Protocol

Service

Data

Unit

PSTN

Public

Switche

d

Telepho

ne

Network

PUCCH

Physical

Uplink

Control

Channel

PUSCH

Physical

Uplink

SharedChannel

QAM

Quadrat

ure

Amplitud

e

Modulati

on

QCI

QoS

Class

Identifier

s

QoS

Quality

of

Service


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QPSK

Quadrat

ure

Phase

Shift

Keying

RACH

Random

Access

Channel

RAN

Radio

Access

Network

RAT

Radio

Access

Technol

ogy

RB

Radio

Bearer

RB

Resourc

e Block

RF

Radio

Frequen

cy

RLC

Radio

LinkControl

ROCH

Robust

Header

Compre

ssion

RRC

Radio

Resourc

e

Control

RRM

RadioResourc

e

Manage

ment


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RSRP

Referen

ce

Symbol

Receive

d Power

RSSI

Receive

d Signal

Strength

Indicator

S-GW

Serving

Gateway

S1-U

S1 -

User

Plane

SAE

System

Architect

ure

Evolutio

n

SC

Single

Carrier

SC-

FDMA

SingleCarrier -

Frequen

cy

Division

Multiple

Access

SCH

Synchro

nizationChannel

SCTP

Stream

Control

Transmi

ssion

Protocol


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SDMA

Space

(or

Spatial)

Division

Multiple

Access

SDF

Service

Data

Flows

SDU

Service

Data

Unit

SG

Signalin

g

Gateway

SI

System

Informati

on

SI-1

System

Informati

on

messag

e 1

SIB

System

Information Block

SIMO

Single

Input

Multiple

Output

SIP

Session

InitiationProtocol

SIR

Signal-to

Interfere

nce

Ratio


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SMS

Short

Messag

e

Service

SN

Service

Node

SNR

Signal-to

Noise

Ratio

SOFDM

A

Scalable

Orthogo

nal

Frequen

cy

Division

Multiplex

ing

Access

SRNC

Serving

Radio

Network

Controll

er

STC

SpaceTime

Coding

TA

Tracking

Area

TAI

Tracking

Area

Identifier

TDD

TimeDivision

Duplex

TEID

Tunnel

Endpoin

t

Identifier


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TFT

Traffic

Flow

Templat

e

TM

Transpa

rent

Mode

TTI

Transmi

ssion

Time

Interval

UCI

Uplink

Control

Informati

on

UDP

User

Datagra

m

Protocol

UE

User

Equipme

nt

UL Uplink

UL-SCH

Uplink

Shared

Channel

UM

Unackno

wledged

Mode

UMA

Unlicens

ed

Mobile

Access

UMTS

Universal Mobile

Telecom

municati

ons

System


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UpPTS

Uplink

Pilot

Time

Slot

UpTS

Uplink

Time

Slot

VoIP

Voice

over

Internet

Protocol

VPLMN

Visited

PLMN

VRB

Virtual

Resourc

e Blocks

WCDMA

Wideba

nd Code

Division

Multiple

Access

Wi-Fi

Wireless

Fidelity

WiMAX

Worldwi

de

Interope

rability

for

Microwa

ve

Access

WLAN

Wireless

LocalArea

Network

s


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