Abbreviation Index

A

AAA: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AG: Access Gateway
AMC: Adaptive Modulation Coding
AODV: Ad Hoc On Demand Distance Vector
API: Application Programming Interface
APP: Application
ASIC: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATPC: Automatic Transmit Power Control
ATUR: ADSL Transceiver Unit, Remote Terminal
AUC: Authentication Center

B
BG: Beacon Group
BOSS: Business and Operation Support System
BS: Base Station
BSC: Base Station Controller
BSS: Base Station Subsystem
BT: Bluetooth
BTS: Base Transceiver Station
BWA: Broad Wireless Access

C
CAMEL: Customized Applications for Mobile Network Enhanced Logic
CAP: Contention Access Period
CBTS: Compact Base Transceiver Station
CC: Call Center
CC: Credit Control
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
CGSR: Clusterhead Gateway Switch Routing
CNGI: China Next Generation Internet
CP: Content Provider
CPE: Customer Premise Equipment
CQI: Channel Quality Indicator
CRBT: Colorful Ring Back Tone
CS: Circuit Switching
CSCF: Call Session Control Function
CSMA/CD: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CTA: Channel Time Allocation
CTAP: Channel Time Allocation Period

D
DDN: Digital Data Network
DNS: Domain Name System
DPM: Dynamic Power Management
DS-CDMA: Direct Sequence-Code Division MultiplexAccess
DSDV: Destination Sequenced Distance Vector
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM: Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSP: Digital Signal Processing
DSR: Dynamic Source Routing

E
ECCF: Emulation Call Control Function
EMS: Equipment Management System

F
FE: Fast Ethernet
FMC: Fixed-Mobile Convergence
FP-CSCF: Fixed Proxy Call Session Control Function
FTTH: Fiber to the Home
FTTO: Fiber to the Office
FWT: Fixed Wireless Terminal
FXO: Foreign Exchange Office
FXS: Foreign Exchange Station

G
GGSN: Gateway GPRS Support Node
GLMS: Group/List Management Server
GPRS: General Packet Radio Service
GPS: Global Positioning Service
GSM: Global System for Mobile Communication
GUI: Graphic User Interface

H
HARQ: Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request
HDSL: High-bit-rate Digital Subscribe Line
HFC: Hybrid Fiber Coax
HGW: Home Gateway
HLR: Home Location Register
HSDPA: High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
HSS: Home Subscriber Server

I
IAD: Integrated Access Device
IEXS: Intelligent Electronic Exchange Service
IMS: IP Multimedia Subsystem
IN: Intelligent Network
INAP: Intelligent Network Application Protocol
IP: Intelligent Peripheral
IP: Internet Protocol
IPTS: Intelligent Public Telephone Service
IP TV: Internet Protocol Television
ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
IVR: Interactive Voice Response

L
LAN: Local Area Network
LBS: Location Based Service
LE: Local Exchange

M
MAC: Medium Access Control
MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
MANET: Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
MBOA: Multiband OFDM Alliance
MB-OFDM: Multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
MCTA: Management Channel Time Allocation
MCU: Multipoint Control Unit
MED: Multi-Exit Discriminator
MEMS: Micro Electro-Mechanical System
MG: Media Gateway
MGCF: Multimedia Gateway Control Function
MGCP: Media Gateway Control Protocol
MIMO: Multi-Input Multi-Output
MMS: Multimedia Message Service
MMSC: Multimedia Service Center
MRFC: Multimedia Resource Function Controller
MRFP: Multimedia Resource Function Processor
MSAG: Multiple Service Access Gateway
MSAN: Multiple Service Access Network
MSC: Mobile Switching Center
MSH-CSCF: Centralized Scheduling Configuration of  Mesh Network
MSH-CSCH: Centralized Scheduling Channel of Mesh Network
MSH-DSCH: Distributed Scheduling Channel of Mesh Network
MSH-NCFG: Mesh Network Configuration
MSH-NENT: Mesh Network Entry
MSS: Mobile Subscriber Station
MSTP: Multi-Service Transport Platform
MTP: Message Transfer Part

N
NAT: Network Address Translation
NE: Network Element
NGN: Next Generation Networks
NIC: Network Information Center
N-LoS: Non-Line-of-Sight
NMS: Network Management System
NOC: Network Operation Center

O
OBTS: Outdoor Base Transceiver Station
OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex
OLT: Optical Line Terminal
OMA: Open Mobile Alliance
ONLY: One Number Link You
ONU: Optical Network Unit
OSA: Open Service Access
OTAPA: Over-The-Air Parameter Administration
OTASP: Over-The-Air Service Provisioning

P
PBX: Private Branch Exchange
P－CSCF: Proxy Call Session Control Function
PDA: Personal Digital Assistant
PDSN: Packet Data Serving Node
PDU: Protocol Data Unit
PHS: Personal Handy-phone System
PIM: Personal Information Management
PLMN: Public Land Mobile Network
PMP: Point to MultiPoint
PNC: PicoNet Coordinator
PoC: Push-to-talk over Cellular
POTS: Plain Old Telephone Service
PS: Packet Switching
PSPDN: Packet Switched Public Data Network
PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
PTT: Push-To-Talk

Q
QoS: Quality of Service
QPSK: Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

R
RF: Radio Frequency
RNC: Radio Network Controller
RNS: Radio Network Subsystem
RTCP：Real-time Transport Control Protocol
RTP: Real-time Transport Protocol

S
SC: Service Capability
SCCP: Signaling Connection and Control Part
SCEP: Service Creation Environment Point
SCP: Service Control Point
SDP: Service Data Point
SDR: Software Defined Radio
SG: Signaling Gateway
SGSN: Serving GPRS Support Node
SHDSL: Symmetric High-speed Digital Subscriber Line
SIB: Service Independent Building Blocks
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
S-MAC: Sensor-Media Access Control
SMAP: Service Management Access Point
SMP: Service Management Point
SMPP: Short Message Peer to Peer Protocol
SMS: Short Message Service
SMSC: Short Message Service Center
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
SP: Service Provider
SPOS: Smart Phone Operating System
SS: Softswitch
SS: Subscriber Station
SSP: Service Switching Point
STB: Set Top Box
STP: Signaling Transfer Point

T
TCAP: Transaction Capabilities Application Part
TG: Trunk Gateway
T-MAC: Timeout-Medium Access Control
TMSC: Trunking Mobile Switching Center
TORA: Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm

U
UE: User Equipment
UMA: Unified Memory Architecuure
UMS: Unified Messaging Service
USB: Universal Serial Bus
UWB: Ultra Wide Band

V
VAS: Value Added Service
VDSL: Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
VLR: Visitor Location Register
VMS: Voice Mail Service
VMSC/GMSC: Visit Mobile Switching Center and  Gateway Mobile Switching Center
VoD: Video on Demand
VoIP: Voice over IP
VPN: Virtual Private Network

W
WAI: Wireless Application Interface
WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
Wi-Fi: Wireless Fidelity
WiMAX: World Interoperability Microwave Access
WIN: Wireless Intelligent Network
WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network
WLL: Wireless Local Loop
WMAN: Wireless Metropolitan Area Network
WPAN: Wireless Personal Area Network
WSN: Wireless Sensor Network
WVPN: Wireless Virtual Private Network

X
XIP: Execute In Place
XML: Extensible Markup Language