List of Acronyms

* An asterisk indicates that the acronym can have different meanings depending on the context. The meaning is clearly indicated in the text when used.

3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project

3GPP2 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2

ABS Almost Blank Subframe

AC Access Class

ACI Adjacent Channel Interference

ACIR Adjacent Channel Interference Ratio

ACK Acknowledgement

ACLR Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio

ACS Adjacent Channel Selectivity

ADC Analogue to Digital Converter

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AGI Antenna Gain Imbalance

A-GNSS Assisted Global Navigation Satellite System

AM Acknowledged Mode

AMC Adaptive Modulation and Coding

AMPS Analogue Mobile Phone System

AMR Adaptive MultiRate

ANR Automatic Neighbour Relation

ANRF Automatic Neighbour Relation Function

AoA Angle-of-Arrival

AoD Angle-of-Departure

APN Access Point Name

APP A-Posteriori Probability

ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number

ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Businesses

ARP Almost Regular Permutation*

ARP Allocation and Retention Priority*

ARQ Automatic Repeat reQuest

AS Access Stratum*

AS Angular Spread*

A-SEM Additional SEM

ATDMA Advanced TDMA

ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions

AuC Authentication Centre

AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise

BCC Base station Colour Code

BCH Broadcast CHannel

BCCH Broadcast Control CHannel

BCJR Algorithm named after its inventors, Bahl, Cocke, Jelinek and Raviv

BER Bit Error Rate

BLER BLock Error Rate

BM-SC Broadcast-Multicast ...

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