3 Abbreviations

25.2013GPPPhysical layer - general descriptionRelease 17TS

For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:

16QAM 16 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

64QAM 64 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

ARQ Automatic Repeat Request

BER Bit Error Rate

CCTrCH Coded Composite Transport Channel

DCA Dynamic channel allocation

DCH Dedicated Channel

DS-CDMA Direct-Sequence Code Division Multiple Access

DSCH Downlink Shared Channel

DwPCH Downlink Pilot Channel

DwPTS Downlink Pilot Time Slot

E-DCH Enhanced Dedicated Channel

E-HICH E-DCH Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel

E-RGCH E-DCH Relative Grant Channel

FDD Frequency Division Duplex

FEC Forward Error Correction

FER Frame Error Rate

GSM Global System for Mobile Communication

HS-DSCH High Speed Downlink Shared channel

HS-SCCH HS-DSCH Shared Control Channel

L1 Layer 1 (physical layer)

L2 Layer 2 (data link layer)

L3 Layer 3 (network layer)

LAC Link Access Control

MAC Medium Access Control

MBSFN MBMS over a Single Frequency Network

Mcps Mega Chip Per Second

MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output

QPSK Quaternary Phase Shift Keying

RACH Random Access Channel

RF Radio Frequency

RLC Radio Link Control

RRC Radio Resource Control

SAP Service Access Point

SCH Synchronisation Channel

SIR Signal-to-Interference Ratio

TDD Time Division Duplex

TDMA Time Division Multiple Access

TFCI Transport-Format Combination Indicator

UE User Equipment

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

UpPTS Uplink Pilot Time Slot

UpPCH Uplink Pilot Channel

UTRA UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access

UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network

WCDMA Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access