Appendix - Acronyms
Appendix - Acronyms
3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
AAL ATM Adaptation Layer
ABR Available BitRate
ACF Association Control Function
ACH Access feedback CHannel
ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
ACK ACKnowledgement
ACL Asynchronous Connectionless Link
ACT Ad-hoc Controller Terminal
ADA Alias DA
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AESA ATM End System Address
AFS Andrew File System
AGCH Access Grant CHannel
AIB Alias Information Base
AID Acknowledgement IDentifier
AIDCS AID CheckSum
AK-HCPDU AcKnowledgement HCPDU
AM Amplitude Modulation
AMA Active Member Address
AMES ATM Mobility Extension Service
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AODV Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector
AP Access Point
APC AP Controller
APCF AP Control Function
APCM AP Connection Management
APCP AP Control Protocol
APT AP Transceiver
ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Broadcasting
ARQ Automatic Repeat reQuest
ARQN ARQ sequence Number
ASA Alias SA
ASCH Association Control CHannel
ASCI Advanced Speech Call Items
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASK Amplitude Shift Keying
ASP Active Server Page
Assoc Association
AT ATtention sequence
ATIM Ad-hoc TIM
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATMC ATM Connection function
AuC Authentication Centre
AUS AUthentication Server
Auth Authentication
BCA Borrowing Channel Allocation
BCCH Broadcast CCH
BCH Broadcast CHannel
BCH Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem
BER Bit Error Rate
BFSK Binary FSK
B-ISDN Broadband ISDN
BLI Block Length Indicator
BLIR Block Length Indicator Replica
BLIRCS BLIR CheckSum
BMP BitMaP
BNEP Bluetooth Network Encapsulation Protocol
BPSK Binary PSK
BRAN Broadband Radio Access Networks
BSC Base Station Controller
BSS Base Station (Sub)system
BSS Basic Service Set
BSSAP BSS Application Part
BSSGP BSS GPRS Protocol
BTS Base Transceiver Station
BTSM BTS Management
BW BackWard
CAC Channel Access Control
CAC Connection Admission Control
CAC Channel Access Code
CAMEL Customized Application for Mobile Enhanced Logic
CATV Community Antenna Television
CBR Constant BitRate
CC Call Control
CC Country Code
CC/PP Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles
CCA Clear Channel Assessment
CCCH Common CCH
CCF Call control and Connection Function
CCH Control CHannel
CCIR Consultative Committee for International Radiocommunication
CCK Complementary Code Keying
CD Compact Disc
CDM Code Division Multiplexing
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
CDV Cell Delay Variation
CEPT European Conference for Posts and Telecommunications
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CGSR Clusterhead-Gateway Switch Routing
cHTML compact HTML
CID Channel ID
CIDR Classless InterDomain Routing
CIF Common Interleaved Frame
CKSN Ciphering Key Sequence Number
CL Convergence Layer
CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration
CLI Common Language Infrastructure
CLMS Connectionless Message Service
CM Call Management
CM Centralized Mode
CN Core Network
CN Correspondent Node
Cnf Confirmation
COA Care-Of Address
Codec Coder/decoder
COFDM Coded OFDM
COMS Connection Oriented Message Service
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COS Cross Over Switch
CPM Continuous Phase Modulation
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CS CheckSum
CS Coding Scheme
CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative Work
CSD Circuit Switched Domain
CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CA CSMA with Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD CSMA with Collision Detection
CT Cordless Telephone
CTS Clear To Send
CU Capacity Unit
CVSD Continuous Variable Slope Delta
CW Contention Window
DA Destination Address
DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting
DAC Device Access Code
DAMA Demand Assigned Multiple Access
D-AMPS Digital-AMPS
DBPSK Differential Binary PSK
DC Direct Current
DCA Dynamic Channel Allocation
DCC DLC user Connection Control
DCCH Dedicated CCH
DCF Distributed Coordination Function
DCS Digital Cellular System
DCS Dynamic Channel Selection
DDIB Duplicate Detection Information Base
DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
DES Data Encryption Standard
DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection
DFWMAC Distributed Foundation Wireless MAC
DH Diffie, Hellman
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIFS DCF IFS
Disassoc Disassociation
DLC Data Link Control
DM Direct Mode
DNS Domain Name System
DPCCH Dedicated Physical Control CHannel
DPCH Dedicated Physical CHannel
DPDCH Dedicated Physical Data CHannel
DQPSK Differential QPSK
DRNC Drift RNC
DS Distribution System
DSDV Destination Sequence Distance Vector
DSL Digital Subscriber Loop
DSMA Digital Sense Multiple Access
DSR Dynamic Source Routing
DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DT-HCPDU DaTa-HCPDU
DTIM Delivery TIM
DTMF Dual Tone Multiple Frequency
DUCC DLC User Connection Control
DV Distance Vector
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
DVB-C DVB-Cable
DVB-S DVB-Satellite
DVB-T DVB-Terrestrial
DVD Digital Versatile Disk
DVTR Digital Video Tape Recorder
ECDH Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman
ECMA ECMA International - European association for standardizing information and communication systems (was: European Computer Manufacturers Association until 1994)
ECN Explicit Congestion Notification
EDGE Enhanced Data rates for [Global|GSM] Evolution
EDTV Enhanced Definition TV
EFI External Functionality Interface
EFR Enhanced Full Rate
EHF Extremely High Frequency
EIR Equipment Identity Register
EIRP Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power
EIT Event Information Table
EMAS End-user Mobility-supporting ATM Switch
EMAS-E EMAS-Edge
EMAS-N EMAS-Network
EMF ElectroMagnetic Fields
EMS Enhanced Message Service
ESS Extended Service Set
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EY-NPMA Elimination-Yield Non-preemptive Priority Multiple Access
FA Foreign Agent
FACCH Fast Associated Dedicated CCH
FCA Fixed Channel Allocation
FCC Federal Communications Commission (USA)
FCCH Frame CCH
FCCH Frequency Correction CHannel
FCH Frame CHannel
FDD Frequency Division Duplex
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FEC Forward Error Correction
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
FIB Fast Information Block
FIC Fast Information Channel
FM Frequency Modulation
FOMA Freedom Of Mobile multimedia Access
FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System
FR Frame Relay
FR Full Rate
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FSLS Fuzzy Sighted Link State
FSR Fisheye State Routing
FT Fixed Radio Termination
FW ForWard
GEO Geostationary (or Geosynchronous) Earth Orbit
GFSK Gaussian FSK
GGSN Gateway GSN
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GIPS Giga Instructions Per Second
GMM Global Multimedia Mobility
GMSC Gateway MSC
GMSK Gaussian MSK
GP Guard Period
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GPS Global Positioning System
GPSR Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing
GR GPRS Register
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
GSM Groupe Spéciale Mobile, Global System for Mobile communications
GSN GPRS Support Node
GTP GPRS Tunnelling Protocol
GWL GateWay Link
HA Home Agent
HAP High-Altitude Platform
HBR High Bit-Rate
HC HIPERLAN CAC
HCPDU HIPERLAN CAC PDU
HCQoS HIPERLAN CAC QoS
HCSAP HIPERLAN CAC SAP
HCSDU HIPERLAN CAC SDU
HDA Hashed Destination HCSAP Address
HDACS HDA CheckSum
HDB Home Data Base
HDLC High level Data Link Control
HDML Handheld Device Markup Language
HDTP Handheld Device Transport Protocol
HDTV High Definition TV
HEC Header Error [Control | Check]
HEO Highly Elliptical Orbit
HF High Frequency
HI HBR-part Indicator
HIB Hello Information Base
HID HIPERLAN IDentifier
HIPERLAN High-PERformance LAN
HLR Home Location Register
HM HIPERLAN MAC
HMPDU HIPERLAN MAC PDU
HMQoS HIPERLAN MAC QoS
HO HandOver
HO-HMPDU HellO-HMPDU
HP HIPERLAN PHY
HR Half Rate
HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data
HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access
HSR Hierarchical State Routing
HTML HyperText Markup Language
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
IAC Inquiry Access Code
IAPP Inter Access Point Protocol
IBSS Independent BSS
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICO Intermediate Circular Orbit
ID IDentifier
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IFS Inter Frame Spacing
ILR Interworking Location Register
IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity
IMF Identity Management Function
IMS IP-based Multimedia Services
IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IMT International Mobile Telecommunications
IN Intelligent Network
IOT Isolation Only Transactions
IP Internet Protocol
IR InfraRed
IrDA Infrared Data Association
IS Interim Standard
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISI InterSymbol Interference
ISL Inter Satellite Link
ISM Industrial, Scientific, Medical
ISMA Inhibit Sense Multiple Access
ISO International Organization for Standardization[1]
I-TCP Indirect TCP
ITU International Telecommunication Union
ITU-R ITU Radiocommunication sector
ITU-T ITU Telecommunication sector
IV Initialization Vector
IWF InterWorking Function
JCT Japanese Cordless Telephone
JDC Japanese Digital Cellular
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
KID Key IDentifier
L2CAP Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol
LA Location Area
LAI Location Area Identification
LAN Local Area Network
LAP Lower Address Part
LAPC Link Access Procedure for the C-Plane
LAPD Link Access Procedure for the D-channel
LAPDm LAPD for mobile
LBR Low Bit-Rate
LC Link Controller
LCCH Link Control CHannel
LCH Long transport CHannel
LED Light Emitting Diode
LEO Low Earth Orbit
LF Low Frequency
LI Length Indicator
LIR Least Interference Routing
LLC Logical Link Control
LM Link Manager
LMP Link Manager Protocol
Loc Location
LOS Line-Of-Sight
LR-WPAN Low-Rate WPAN
LRU Last Recently Used
LS Location Server
LS Link State
M-QoS Mobile QoS
MAC Medium Access Control
MACA Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
MANET Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork
MAP Mobile Application Part
MATM Mobile ATM
MBS Mobile Broadband System
MBWA Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
MCC Mobile Country Code
MCI Multiplex Configuration Information
MCM MultiCarrier Modulation
MEO Medium Earth Orbit
MExE Mobile Execution Environment
MF Medium Frequency
MFi Melody Format for i-mode
MH Mobile Host
MHEG Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Experts Group
MIB Management Information Base
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIDP Mobile Information Device Profile
MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output
MKK Radio Equipment Inspection and Certification Institute (Japan)
ML MSDU Lifetime
MM Mobility Management
MMF Mobility Management Function
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service§
MN Mobile Node
MNC Mobile Network Code
MOC Mobile Originated Call
MOT Multimedia Object Transfer
MPEG Moving Pictures Expert Group
MPLS Multi Protocol Label Switching
MQ Message Queuing
MS Mobile Station
MS Mobile Switch
MSAP MAC SAP
MSC Mobile (Services) Switching Centre
MSC Mobile Switch Controller
MSC Main Service Channel
MSDU MAC SDU
MSIN Mobile Subscriber Identification Number
MSISDN Mobile [Station (International)|Subscriber] ISDN Number
MSK Minimum Shift Keying
MSRN Mobile [Station|Subscriber] Roaming Number
MSS Mobile Satellite [Service|System]
MT Mobile Terminal
MT Mobile Termination
MTC Mobile Terminated Call
M-TCP Mobile TCP
MTSA Mobile Terminal Security Agent
MUL Mobile User Link
NA-TDMA North American-TDMA
NAV Net Allocation Vector
NAT Network Address Translator
NDC National Destination Code
NEMO NEtwork MObility
NFS Network File System
NIB Neighbour Information Base
NIT Network Information Table
NMAS Network Mobility-supporting ATM Switch
NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone
NNI Network-to-Network Interface
NNI+M NNI+Mobility
NRL Normalized Residual HMPDU Lifetime
NSA Network Security Agent
NSS Network and Switching Subsystem
NTSC National Television Standards Committee
OBEX OBject EXchange
OFDM Orthogonal FDM
OHG Operators Harmonisation Group
OLSR Optimized Link State Routing
OMC Operation and Maintenance Centre
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
OSS Operation Subsystem
OTA Over The Air
OVSF Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor
PACS Personal Access Communications System
PACS-UB PACS-Unlicensed Band
PAD PADding
PAD Program Associated Data
PAL Phase Alternating Line
PAP Push Access Protocol
PBCC Packet Binary Convolutional coding
PC Personal Computer
PCF Point Coordination Function
PCH Paging Channel
PCM Pulse Code Modulation
PCS Personal Cellular System
PCS Personal Communications Service
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDC Pacific Digital Cellular
PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol
PDF Portable Document Format
PDN Public Data Network
PDO Packet Data Optimized
PDTCH Packet Data TCH
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PEP Performance Enhancing Proxy
PHS Personal Handyphone System
PHY PHYsical layer
PI Push Initiator
PIFS PCF IFS
PIN Personal Identity Number
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PLCP Physical Layer Convergence Protocol
PLI Padding Length Indicator
PLL Phase Lock Loop
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
PLW PLCP-PDU Length Word
PM Phase Modulation
PMA Parked Member Address
PMD Physical Medium Dependent
POS Personal Operating Space
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
PPG Push Proxy Gateway
PPM Pulse Position Modulation
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
PRMA Packet Reservation Multiple Access
PS Power Saving
PSD Packet Switched Domain
PSF PLCP Signalling Field
PSK Phase Shift Keying
PSM Protocol/Service Multiplexor
PSN PDU Sequence Number
PSPDN Public Switched Packet Data Network
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PT Portable radio Termination
PTM Point-to-Multipoint
PTP Point-to-Point
PTP-CLNS PTP-ConnectionLess Network Service
PTP-CONS PTP-Connection Oriented Network Service
PUK PIN Unblocking Key
QAM Quadrature AM
QoS Quality of Service
QPSK [Quadrature | Quaternary] PSK
RA Receiver Address
RACH Random Access Channel
RAL Radio Access Layer
RAND Random number
RBCH RLC Broadcast CHannel
RCH Random CHannel
Req Request
Res Response
RF Radio Frequency
RFCOMM RF COMMunications
RFID RF IDentification
RFC Request For Comments
RFCH Random access Feedback CHannel
RIB Route Information Base
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RL Residual Lifetime
RLC Radio Link Control
RLP Radio Link Protocol
RM Resource Management
RNC Radio Network Controller
RNS Radio Network Subsystem
ROM Read Only Memory
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RR Radio Resource
RRC Radio Resource Control
RRM Radio Resource Management
RSA Rivest, Shamir, Adleman
RSS Radio SubSystem
RT Radio Transceiver
RTR Radio Transmission and Reception
RTS Request To Send
RTT Radio Transmission Technologies
RTT Round Trip Time
S-DMB Satellite-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
SA Source Address
SAAL Signalling AAL
SACCH Slow Associated Dedicated CCH
SAMA Spread Aloha Multiple Access
SAP Service Access Point
SAT SIM Application Toolkit
SATM Satellite ATM Services
SC Sanity Check
SC Synchronization Channel
SCF Service Control Function
SCH Short transport CHannel
SCH Synchronization Channel
SCO Synchronous Connection-Oriented link
SCPS Space Communications Protocol Standards
SCPS-TP SCPS-Transport Protocol
SDCCH Stand-alone Dedicated CCH
SDM Space Division Multiplexing
SDMA Space Division Multiple Access
SDP Service Discovery Protocol
SDR Software Defined Radio
SDT Service Description Table
SDTV Standard Definition TV
SDU Service Data Unit
SEC-SAP Security SAP
SEQN SEQuence Number
SFD Start Frame Delimiter
SFN Single Frequency Network
SGSN Serving GSN
SH Supervisory Host
SHF Super High Frequency
SI Service Indication
SIFS Short IFS
SIG Signalling
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIP Session Initiation Protocol
SL Service Loading
SMF Standard MIDI File
SMRIB Source Multipoint Relay Information Base
SMS Short Message Service
SN Subscriber Number
SNACK Selective Negative ACKnowledgement
SNAP Sub-Network Access Protocol
SNDCP Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Protocol
SRES Signed Response
SRNC Serving RNC
SS Supplementary Service
SS7 Signalling System No. 7
S-SAP Session-SAP
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
STA STAtion
SUMR Satellite User Mapping Register
SW Short Wave
SwMI Switching and Management Infrastructure
T Terminal
TA Transmitter Address
TBRPF Topology Broadcast based on Reverse Path Forwarding
TCH Traffic CHannel
TCH/F TCH Full rate
TCH/FS TCH/F Speech
TCH/H TCH Half rate
TCH/HS TCH/H Speech
TC-HMPDU Topology Control-HMPDU
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCS BIN Telephony Control protocol Specification - BINary
TD-CDMA Time Division-CDMA
TDD Time Division Duplex
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TDT Time and Data Table
TE Terminal
TEDDI TErms and Definitions Database Interactive
TETRA Terrestrial Trunked Radio
TFI Transport Format Identifier
TFO Tandem Free Operation
TFTS Terrestrial Flight Telephone System
TI Type Indicator
TIB Topology Information Base
TIM Traffic Indication Map
TINA Telecommunication Information Networking Architecture
TLLI Temporary Logical Link Identity
TLS Transport Layer Security
TM Traffic Management
TMN Telecommunication Management Network
TMSI Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity
TOS Type Of Service
TPC Transmit Power Control
TR-SAP Transaction SAP
T-SAP Transport SAP
TSF Timing Synchronization Function
T-TCP Transaction TCP
TTC Telecommunications Technology Council
TTL Time To Live
TV TeleVision
U-NII Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure
UBCH User Broadcast CHannel
UBR Unspecified BitRate
UD User Data
UDCH User Data CHannel
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UE User Equipment
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UIM User Identification Module
UMCH User Multicast CHannel
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UN United Nations
UNI User-to-Network Interface
UNI+M UNI+Mobility
UP User Priority
UPT Universal Personal Telecommunications
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USAT UMTS SAT
UTRA Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
UTRAN UTRA Network
UUID Universally Unique ID
UWB Ultra WideBand
UWC Universal Wireless Communications
V+D Voice and Data
VAD Voice Activity Detection
VBR Variable BitRate
VBR-nrt VBR non real-time
VBR-rt VBR real-time
VC Virtual Circuit
VCC Visitor Country Code
VDB Visitor Data Base
VHE Virtual Home Environment
VHF Very High Frequency
VLF Very Low Frequency
VLR Visitor Location Register
VNDC Visitor National Destination Code
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WAE Wireless Application Environment
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WATM Wireless ATM
WCAC Wireless Connection Admission Control
W-CDMA Wideband-CDMA
WCMP Wireless Control Message Protocol
W-CTRL Wireless ConTRoL
WDP Wireless Datagram Protocol
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
WHO World Health Organization
WIM Wireless Identity Module
WLAN Wireless LAN
WLL Wireless Local Loop
WML Wireless Markup Language
WMLScript Wireless Markup Language Script
WMT Wireless Mobile Terminal
WPAN Wireless Personal Area Network
WP-CDMA Wideband Packet-CDMA
WRC World Radio Conference
WSP Wireless Session Protocol
WSP/B Wireless Session Protocol/Browsing
WTA Wireless Telephony Application
WTAI Wireless Telephony Application Interface
WTLS Wireless Transport Layer Security
WTP Wireless Transaction Protocol
WWAN Wireless WAN
WWRF Wireless World Research Forum
WWW World Wide Web
XHTML eXtensible HTML
XHTMLMP XHTML Mobile Profile
XML eXtensible Markup Language
XOR eXclusive OR
ZRP Zone Routing Protocol
[1] This is not the ‘International Standards Organization’ or the ‘International Standardization Organization’ or whatever some authors write. ISO is not an acronym, but is derived from the Greek word isos which means equal as used (as prefix) in isometric, isomorphic etc. (http://www.iso.ch/).