3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations

38.5223GPPApplicability of radio transmission, radio reception and radio resource management test casesNRRelease 17TSUser Equipment (UE) conformance specification

3.1 Definitions

For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in TR 21.905 [9] and the following apply. A term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in TR 21.905 [9].

DL_nCC: DL_nCC(table_index) includes all supported n-carrier CA/DC configurations in Table table_index in TS 38.508-2 [8].

DL_NR_nCC: DL_NR_nCC(table_index) includes all supported DC configurations with n-carrier NR DL CA configuration in Table table_index in TS 38.508-2 [8].

EIRP(Link=Link angle, Meas=Link angle): measurement of the UE such that the link angle is aligned with the measurement angle. EIRP (indicator to be measured) can be replaced by EIS, Frequency, EVM, carrier Leakage, In-band emission and OBW. Beam peak search grids, TX beam peak direction, and RX beam peak direction can be selected to describe Link.

EIRP(Link=Link angle, Meas=beam peak direction): measurement of the EIRP of the UE such that the measurement angle is aligned with the beam peak direction within an acceptable measurement error uncertainty.

Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS): statement made by the supplier of an implementation or system claimed to conform to a given specification, stating which capabilities have been implemented

ICS proforma: document, in the form of a questionnaire, which when completed for an implementation or system becomes an ICS

Implementation extra Information for Testing (IXIT): A statement made by a supplier or implementer of an UEUT which contains or references all of the information (in addition to that given in the ICS) related to the UEUT and its testing environment, which will enable the test laboratory to run an appropriate test suite against the UEUT

Inter-band carrier aggregation: Carrier aggregation of component carriers in different operating bands.

NOTE: Carriers aggregated in each band can be contiguous or non-contiguous.

Intra-band contiguous carrier aggregation: Contiguous carriers aggregated in the same operating band.

Intra-band non-contiguous carrier aggregation: Non-contiguous carriers aggregated in the same operating band.

IXIT proforma: A document, in the form of a questionnaire, which when completed for an UEUT becomes an IXIT

Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS): An ICS for an implementation or system claimed to conform to a given protocol specification

Protocol Implementation eXtra Information for Testing (PIXIT): An IXIT related to testing for conformance to a given protocol specification

Static conformance review: A review of the extent to which the static conformance requirements are claimed to be supported by the UEUT, by comparing the answers in the ICS(s) with the static conformance requirements expressed in the relevant specification(s)

TRP(Link=Link angle): measurement of the TRP of the UE such that the measurement angle is aligned with the beam peak direction within an acceptable measurement uncertainty. TX beam peak direction and RX beam peak direction can be selected to describe Link.

NOTE: For requirements based on EIRP/EIS, the radiated interface boundary is associated to the far-field region

UL: UL(table_index) includes all supported CA Configurations where at least one UL CA configuration was declared in column "Supported CA Bandwidth Class(es) in UL" in Table table_index in TS 38.508-2 [8].

UL_nCC: UL_nCC(table_index) includes all supported CA Configurations where at least one n-carrier UL CA configuration was declared in column "Supported CA Bandwidth Class(es) in UL" in Table table_index in TS 38.508-2 [8].

UL_NR_nCC: UL_NR_nCC(table_index) includes all supported DC Configurations where at least one DC configuration with n-carrier NR UL CA configuration was declared in column "Supported EN-DC Bandwidth Class(es) in UL" in Table table_index in TS 38.508-2 [8].

ULTxSwitching: ULTxSwitching(table_index) includes all supported CA/DC/SUL Configurations where at least one uplink band pair was declared in column “Supported ULTxSwitching Band Pair" in Table table_index in TS 38.508-2 [8].

3.2 Symbols

No specific symbols have been identified so far.

3.3 Abbreviations

For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in TR 21.905 [9] and the following apply. An abbreviation defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same abbreviation, if any, in TR 21.905 [9].

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

5GS 5G System

ACLR Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio

AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise

BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying

BWP Bandwidth Part

CA Carrier Aggregation

CBW Channel Bandwidth

CC Component Carrier

CMR Channel Measurement Resource

CQI Channel Quality Indicator

CSI Channel State Information

DAPS Dual Active Protocol Stack

DC Dual Connectivity

DCI Downlink Control Information

DL Downlink

DRX Discontinuous Reception

EIRP Effective Isotropic Radiated Power

E-UTRA Evolved UTRA

EVM Error Vector Magnitude

FDD Frequency Division Duplex

EN-DC E-UTRA/NR Dual Connectivity

FR1 Frequency Range 1 (410 MHz – 7125 MHz)

FR2 Frequency Range 2 (24250 MHz – 52600 MHz)

HST High Speed Train

ICS Implementation Conformance Statement

IMR Interference Measurement Resource

IXIT Implementation eXtra Information for Testing

L1 Layer 1

MAC Medium Access Control

MCG Master Cell Group

MPR Allowed maximum power reduction

NR New Radio

NSA Non-Standalone, a mode of operation where operation of another radio is assisted with another radio

PCell Primary Cell

PDCCH Physical Downlink Control Channel

PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel

PIXIT Protocol Implementation eXtra Information for Testing

PMI Pre-coding Matrix Indicator

PRACH Physical Random Access Channel

PSCell Primary SCG Cell

QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

RF Radio Frequency

RLM Radio Link Monitoring

RRC Radio Resource Control

RRM Radio Resource Management

RSRP Reference Signal Received Power

RSRQ Reference Signal Received Quality

SA Standalone

SC Single Carrier

SCC Secondary Component Carrier

SCell Secondary Cell

SCG Secondary Cell Group

SCS System Conformance Statement / Subcarrier Spacing

SDL Supplementary Downlink

SFN System Frame Number

SFTD SFN and Frame Timing Difference

SINR Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio

SL Sidelink

SL-MIMO Sidelink-Multiple Antenna Transmission

SRS Sounding Reference Signal

SSB Synchronization Signal Block

SS-RSRP Synchronization Signal based RSRP

SS-RSRQ Synchronization Signal based RSRQ

SS-SINR Synchronization Signal based SINR

SUL Supplementary UpLink

TC Test Case

TDD Time Division Duplex

TRP Total Radiated Power

TxD Tx Diversity

UEUT User Equipment Under Test

UL Uplink

UL MIMO Uplink Multiple Antenna transmission

UTRA UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access

V2X Vehicle to Everything