Mobile Communication System Evolution

Appendix A

Acronyms

1G First-Generation

2G Second-Generation

3G Third-Generation

4G Fourth-Generation

3GPP 3G Partnership Project

ABATE ACTS Broadband Aeronautical Terminal Experiment

ACCORD ACTS Broadband-Communcation Joint Trials and Demonstrations

ACK Acknowledgement

ACTS Advanced Communications Technologies and Services

ACTS Advanced Communications Technologies Satellite

ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

AFD Average Fade Duration

AGCH Access Grant Channel

AHM Authentication Handler Mobile Terminal

AHN Authentication Handler Visited Network

AHU Authentication Handler User

AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Services

AOR-E Atlantic Ocean Region – East

AOR-W Atlantic Ocean Region – West

APC Adaptive Predictive Coding

APN Access Point Name

ARFCN RF Channel Number

ARQ Automatic Repeat Request

ASE Application Service Element

ASK Amplitude Shift Keying

AUC Authentication Centre

AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise

B-O-QAM Binary-O-QAM

BACH Basic Alerting Channel

BCC Base Station Colour Code

BCCH Broadcast Control Channel

BCF Bearer Control Function

BCH Bose–Chadhuri–Hocquenghem

BER Bit Error Rate

Mobile Satellite Communication Networks. Ray E. Sheriff and Y. Fun Hu

Copyright q 2001 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBNs: 0-471-72047-X (Hardback); 0-470-845562 (Electronic)