Broadband Wireless Multimedia Networks

GLOSSARY

3D	Three dimensional
3G	Third generation
3GPP	3G partnership project
4G	Fourth generation
AAS	Adaptive antenna system
A-BFT	Association beamforming training
ABR	Adaptive bit rate
ACK	Acknowledgment
ACMA	Australian Communications and Media Authority
AES	Advanced encryption standard
AGC	Automatic gain control
AIFS	Arbitration IFS
AM	Acknowledged mode
AMC	Adaptive modulation and coding
AMI	Advanced metering infrastructure
AMPE	Authenticated mesh peering exchange
AODV	Ad hoc on-demand distance vector
AP	Access point
APECC	Antenna pattern envelope correlation coefficient
ARQ	Automatic repeat request
AS	Authentication server
ASEL	Antenna selection
AT	Announcement time
ATSC	Advanced Television Systems Committee
ATSC-M/H	ATSC-mobile/handheld
AVB	Audio video bridging
AVC	Advanced Video Coding
AWGN	Additive white Gaussian noise
AWS	Advanced wireless services
BA	Block ACK
BAR	BA request
BCC	Binary convolutional code
BCCH	Broadcast control channel
BCH	Bose Chaudhuri Hocquenghem
BER	Bit error rate
BLAST	Bell laboratories layered space–time
BLER	Block error rate
BPSK	Binary phase-shift keying
BRP	Beam refinement protocol
BS	Base station
BSA	Basic service area
BSS	Basic service set
BSSID	BSS identity
CA	Carrier aggregation
CAZAC	Constant amplitude zero autocorrelation
CBC	Cipher block chaining
CBP	Coexistence beacon protocol (802.22) or contention-based period (802.11)
CBR	Constant bit rate
CC	Carrier component
CCA	Clear channel assessment
CCCH	Common control channel
CCI	Cochannel interference
CCK	Complementary code keying
CCMP	Counter-mode ...