List of Abbreviations
| 3G | 3rd Generation (Cellular Systems) |
| 3GPP | 3rd Generation Partnership Project |
| AAA | Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting function |
| AAS | Active Antenna System |
| ABS | Almost Black Subframe |
| AC | Admission Control |
| ACI | Autonomic Computing Initiative |
| ACS | Auto-Connection Server |
| AF | Amplify and Forward |
| AGP | Automatic Generation of Initial Parameters for eNodeB Insertion |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| ANDSF | Access Network Discovery and Selection Function |
| ANR | Automatic Neighbour(s) Relation/Relationship setup |
| AP | Application Protocol |
| APN | Access Point Name |
| ARCF | Automatic Radio Configuration Function |
| ARPU | Average Revenue Per User |
| ARRM | Advanced RRM |
| AS | Access Stratum |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| B3G | Beyond 3G |
| BB | Basic Biasing |
| BCCH | Broadcast Channel |
| BH | Busy Hour |
| BFD | Bidirectional Forward Detection |
| BLER | Block error rate |
| BN | Bayesian Network |
| BP | Blocking Probability |
| BPM | Business Process Management |
| BS | Base Station |
| BW | Bandwidth |
| CA | Carrier Aggregation |
| CA | Certificate Authority |
| CAC | Composite Available Capacity |
| CAPEX | Capital Expenditure |
| CBL | Case Based Learning |
| CBR | Case Based Reasoning |
| CBRA | Contention-Based RA |
| CC | Component Carrier |
| CCO | Coverage and Capacity Optimisation |
| CDF | Cumulative Distribution Function |
| CF | Cooling Factor |
| CIO | Cell Individual Offset |
| CM | Configuration Management |
| CMDB | Configuration Management Database |
| CMP | Certificate Management Protocol |
| CN | Cognitive Networks |
| COC | Cell Outage Compensation ... |
