3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations

36.5083GPPCommon test environments for User Equipment (UE) conformance testingEvolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC)Release 17TS

3.1 Definitions

For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in TR 21.905 [1] apply, unless specified below:

B: a value followed by "B" is a binary value.

H: a value followed by "H" is a hexadecimal value.

3.2 Symbols

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

N_DL Downlink EARFCN

N_RB Transmission bandwidth configuration, expressed in units of resource blocks

N_{RB_agg} Aggregated Transmission Bandwidth Configuration. The number of the aggregated RBs within the fully allocated Aggregated Channel bandwidth.

N_UL Uplink EARFCN

3.3 Abbreviations

For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations specified in TR 21.905 [1] apply, with any additional abbreviations specified below:

1xRTT 1x Radio Transmission Technology

BR Bandwidth Reduced

BR-BCCH Bandwidth Reduced Broadcast Control Channel

BL Bandwidth reduced Low complexity

CA Carrier Aggregation

CC Component Carrier

CE Coverage Enhancement

DRB (user) Data Radio Bearer

EARFCN E-UTRA Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number

ECM EPS Connection Management

eIMTA Enhanced Interference Management and Traffic Adaptation

EMM EPS Mobility Management

ENB Evolved Node B

EPRE Energy Per Resource Element

ESM EPS Session Management

HRPD High Rate Packet Data

MAC Media Access Control

MBS Metropolitan Beacon System

MCS Mission Critical Services

MTC Machine Type Communication

NTN Non-Terrestrial Networks

OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

RBs Resource Blocks

ROHC Robust Header Compression

SS System Simulator

TH Temperature High

TL Temperature Low

TP Transmission Point

V2X Vehicle-to-Everything

VH Higher extreme Voltage

VL Lower extreme Voltage

xCH_RA xCH-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel xCH in all transmitted OFDM symbols not containing RS

xCH_RB xCH-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel xCH in all transmitted OFDM symbols containing RS