Digital Communications

List of Abbreviations

ACK	acknowledgment
ADC	analog‐to‐digital conversion
ADM	adaptive delta modulation
AF	amplify and forward
AGC	automatic gain control
AJ	anti jamming
AMR	adaptive multi rate
AOA	angle of arrival
AOD	angle of departure
AOF	amount of fading
ARQ	automatic repeat request
ASK	amplitude shift keying
AT&T	American Telephone & Telegraph Company
AWGN	additive white Gaussian noise
BCH	Bose‐Chaudhuri‐Hocquenghem codes
BEP	bit error probability
BPSK	binary phase shift keying
BS	base station
BSC	binary symmetric channel
C/N	carrier‐to‐noise ratio
CCITT	International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee
CD	compact disc
CDF	cumulative distribution function
CDMA	code division multiple access
CIR	channel impulse response
COST	European Cooperation for Scientific and Technical Research
CP	cyclic prefix
CPA	co‐polar attenuation
CRC	cyclic redundancy check
CSI	channel state information
DAC	digital to analog conversion
DCT	discrete cosine transform
DF	detect and forward
DFT	discrete Fourier transform
DGPS	differential GPS
DM	delta modulation
DMC	discrete memoryless channel
DPCM	differential PCM
DPSK	differential phase shift keying
DS	direct sequence
DSSS	direct sequence spread spectrum
E1	European telephone multiplexing hierarchy
EGC	equal gain combining
EGNOS	European geostationary navigation overlay service
EHF	extremely high frequencies (30‐300 GHz)
EIRP	effective isotropic ...