Abbreviations

3GPP

Third Generation Partnership Project

ACK

Acknowledgment

ACL

Antenna Center Line

ACLR

Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio

ACP

Automatic Cell Planning

ADC

Analog Digital Conversion

AICH

Acquisition Indicator Channel

AL

Absorption Losses

ALCAP

Access Link Control Application Part

AM

Acknowledged Mode

AMR

Adaptive Multirate

ANDSF

Access Network Discovery and Selection Function

ANQP

Access Network Query Protocol

ANR

Automatic Neighbor Relations

APE

Application Engine

APNS

Apple Push Notification Service

APT

Average Power Tracking

aSRVCC

Alerting SRVCC

AWS

Advanced Wireless Services

BBIC

Baseband Integrated Circuit

BCH

Broadcast Channel

BH

Busy Hour

BiCMOS

Bipolar CMOS

BLER

Block Error Rate

BOM

Bill of Material

BPF

Band Pass Filter

BSC

Base Station Controller

BT

Bluetooth

BTS

Base Station

CA

Carrier Aggregation

CAPEX

Capital Expenses

CCCH

Common Control Channel

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access

CIO

Cell Individual Offset

CL

Closed Loop

CL-BFTD

Closed Loop Beamforming Transmit Diversity

CM

Configuration Management

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CoMP

Cooperative Multipoint

CPC

Continuous Packet Connectivity

C-PICH

Common Pilot Channel

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CQI

Channel Quality Information

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

CS

Circuit-Switched

CSFB

CS Fallback

CSG

Closed Subscriber Group

CTIA

Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association

DAC

Digital Analog Conversion

DAS

Distributed Antenna System

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