3 Definitions, abbreviations and symbols

34.1083GPPCommon test environments for User Equipment (UE)Conformance testingRelease 15TS

3.1 Definitions

For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in 3GPP TR 21.905 [9], 3GPP TR 25.990 [10] and the following apply:

maximum average power: average transmitter output power obtained over any specified time interval, including periods with no transmission, when the transmit time slots are at the maximum power setting

3.2 Abbreviations

For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in 3GPP TR 21.905 [9], 3GPP TR 25.990 [10] and the following apply:

4C-HSDPA Four-Carrier HSDPA. HSDPA operation configured on 3 or 4 DL carriers

AFC Automatic Frequency Control

A-GPS Assisted – Global Positioning System

AM Acknowledgement Mode

ATT ATTenuator

BCCH Broadcast Control Channel

CBS Cell Broadcast Service

CC Convolutional Coding

CCCH Common Control Channel

CCTrCH Coded Composite Transport Channel

CS Circuit Switching

DB-DC-HSDPA Dual Band Dual Cell HSDPA

DB-DF-3C Dual Band Dual Frequency Three Cell

DB-DF-4C Dual Band Dual Frequency Four Cell

DC-HSDPA Dual Cell HSDPA

DCCH Dedicated Control Channel

DL DownLink

DPCH Dedicated Physical Channel

DT Direct transfer

DTCH Dedicated Traffic Channel

FTM File Tunnelling Mode

GPS Global Positioning System

GSS GPS System Simulator

HYB HYBrid

IMB Integrated Mobile Broadcast

MF-HSDPA Multiflow HSDPA

NAS Non-Access Stratum

OBW Occupied BandWidth

OCNS Orthogonal Channel Noise Simulator

NOTE: A mechanism used to simulate the users or control signals on the other orthogonal channels of a downlink.

PRACH Physical Random Access Channel

PS Packet Switching

RAB Radio Access Bearer

RB Radio Bearer

RRC Radio Resource Control

NOTE: (for sub-Layer of layer 3) but also Root-Raised Cosine (for Filter shape).

SB-DF-3C Single Band Dual Frequency Three Cell

SCCPCH Secondary Common Control Physical Channel

SMS Short Message Service

SRB Signalling Radio Bearer

SS System Simulator

SSD Source Statistics Descriptor

TC Turbo Coding

TLM TeLeMetry word

NOTE: It contains an 8-bits preamble (10001011).

TM Transparent Mode

TOW Time Of Week

TTFF Time To First Fix

UL UpLink

UM Unacknowledgement Mode

3.3 Symbols

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

Ioc The power spectral density of a band limited white noise source (simulating interference from other cells) as measured at the UE antenna connector.