Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services: SMS, EMS and MMS, 2nd Edition

Acronyms and Abbreviations

3G	Third Generation
3GPP	Third Generation Partnership Project
3GPP2	Third Generation Partnership Project 2
AMR	Adaptive Multi-rate
AMR-NB	AMR Narrowband
AMR-WB	AMR Wideband
A.N.	Assigned Number
APN	Access Point Name
ARCH	Architecture, OMA Group
ARIB	Association of Radio Industries and Businesses
ARPANET	ARPA Wide Are Networking
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AT	Attention (AT Commands)
ATM	Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BARG	Billing and Accounting Roaming Group, GSMA Group
B.E.	Binary Encoding
BIFS	Binary Format for Scenes
BNF	Backus-naur Form
bpm	Beats Per Minute
BSC	Base Station Controller
BSS	Base Station Subsystem
BTS	Base Transceiver Station
CC/PP	Composite Capability/preference Profiles
CDMA	Code Division Multiple Access
CDR	Charging Data Record
CEK	Content Encryption Key
CEPT	Conference Europeenne Des Postes Et Telecommunications
CIF	Common Intermediate Format
CLI	Command Line Interface
CLP	Command Line Protocol
CN	Core Network
CO	Cache Operation
CPI	Capability and Preference Information
CR	Change Request
CSCF	Call Session Control Function
CSD	Circuit Switched Data
CSP	Client Server Protocol
CSPDN	Circuit Switched Public Data Network
CWTS	China Wireless Telecommunication Standard
DCF	DRM Content Format
DF	Dedicated File
DID	Document Identifier
DIG	Developer Interest Group, OMA Group
DM	Device Management, OMA Group
DNS	Domain Name Server ...