3 Abbreviations
25.2213GPPPhysical channels and mapping of transport channels onto physical channels (TDD)Release 17TS
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
16QAM 16 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
BCH Broadcast Channel
CCPCH Common Control Physical Channel
CCTrCH Coded Composite Transport Channel
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CQI Channel Quality Indicator
DCH Dedicated Channel
DL Downlink
DPCH Dedicated Physical Channel
DRX Discontinuous Reception
DSCH Downlink Shared Channel
DTX Discontinuous Transmission
DwPCH Downlink Pilot Channel
DwPTS Downlink Pilot Time Slot
E-AGCH E-DCH Absolute Grant Channel
E-DCH Enhanced Dedicated Channel
E-HICH E-DCH Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel
E-PUCH E-DCH Physical Uplink Channel
E-RUCCH E-DCH Random Access Uplink Control Channel
E-UCCH E-DCH Uplink Control Channel
FACH Forward Access Channel
FDD Frequency Division Duplex
FEC Forward Error Correction
GP Guard Period
GSM Global System for Mobile Communication
HARQ Hybrid ARQ
HS-DSCH High Speed Downlink Shared Channel
HS-PDSCH High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel
HS-SCCH Shared Control Channel for HS-DSCH
HS-SICH Shared Information Channel for HS-DSCH
IMB Integrated Mobile Broadcast
MBSFN MBMS over a Single Frequency Network
MIB Master Information Block
MICH MBMS Indicator Channel
MIMO single user Multiple Input Multiple Output
MS burst MBSFN Special burst
MT burst MBSFN Traffic burst
MU-MIMO Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output
NI MBMS Notification Indicator
NRT Non-Real Time
OVSF Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor
P-CCPCH Primary CCPCH
PCH Paging Channel
PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel
PI Paging Indicator (value calculated by higher layers)
PICH Page Indicator Channel
PLCCH Physical Layer Common Control Channel
Pq Paging Indicator (indicator set by physical layer)
PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
PUSCH Physical Uplink Shared Channel
RACH Random Access Channel
RF Radio Frame
RT Real Time
S-CCPCH Secondary CCPCH
SCH Synchronisation Channel
SCTD Space Code Transmit Diversity
SF Spreading Factor
SFN Cell System Frame Number
SS Synchronisation Shift
TCH Traffic Channel
TDD Time Division Duplex
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TFC Transport Format Combination
TFCI Transport Format Combination Indicator
TFI Transport Format Indicator
TPC Transmitter Power Control
TrCH Transport Channel
TSTD Time Switched Transmit Diversity
TTI Transmission Time Interval
UE User Equipment
UL Uplink
UMTS Universal Mobil Telecommunications System
UpPTS Uplink Pilot Time Slot
UpPCH Uplink Pilot Channel
USCH Uplink Shared Channel
UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network