Abbreviation Index

A

ACS: Automatic Control Systems
ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line  
AES: Advanced Encryption Standard
AODV: Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector
AOSP: Android Open Source Project
API: Application Programming Interface
APK: Android Package

B
BBU: Base Band Unit
BCH: Broadcast Channel
BER: Bit Error Rate
BF: Beamforming
BLER: Block Error Rate
BS: Base Station

C
CAE: Chinese Academy of Engineering
CBS-HR: Constant Bandwidth Server with Hard-Reservation
CCDF: Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function
CDD: Cyclic Delay Diversity
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
CI: Carrier Interferometry
CIR: Channel Impulse Response
CMA: Context Management Architecture
CNGI: China Next Generation Internet
CORAS: Context-Aware Radio Network Simulator
CP: Cyclic Prefix
CQE: Context Quality Enabler
CSCF: Call Session Control Function
CTSE: Cloud-Based Telecommunications Service Environment

D
DAB: Digital Audio Broadcasting
DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DFT: Discrete Fourier Transform
DHT: Distributed Hash Table
DNS: Domain Name System
DoS: Denial-of-Service
DPD: Digital Pre-Distortion
D-PT: Dynamic Power Tracking
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line
DSP: Digital Signal Processor
DSR: Dynamic Source Routing
DVB: Digital Video Broadcasting

E
ECDH: Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
EDF: Earliest Deadline First
EoC: Ethernet over Coax
EPON: Ethernet Passive Optical Network
ET: Envelope Tracking
ETX: Expected Transmission Count  

F
FACH: Forward Access Channel
FDMA: Frequency Division Multiple Access
FDMMSE: Frequency-Domain MMSE
FTTB: Fiber to the Building
FTTZ: Fiber to the Zone

G

FS: Google File System
GGSN: Gateway GPRS Support Node
GPON: Gigabit Passive Optical Network
GPRS: General Packet Radio Service
GPU: Graphics Processing Unit

H
HAM: Heterogeneous Access Management
HDFS: Hadoop Distributed File System
HPA: High Power Amplifier
HSS: Home Subscriber Server

I
IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol
ICT: Information and Communication Technology
IDFT: Inverse Discrete Fourier Transform
IFFT: Inverse Fast Fourier Transform
IRNA: Intelligent Radio Network Access
ISCP: Interferencing Signal Code Power
iSCSI: Internet Small Computer System Interface
ISI: Intersymbol Interference
ISP: Internet Service Provider
IVR: Interactive Voice Response

J
JIT: Just in Time

L
LAN: Local Area Network
LDMOS: Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor
LTE: Long Term Evolution

M
MAC: Media Access Control
MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
MANET: Multihop Mobile Ad hoc Network
MCC: Mobile Cloud Computing
MCL: Mesh Connectivity Layer
MicroTCA: Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture
MIMO: Multiple Input and Multiple Output
MITM: Man-in-the-Middle
MPU: Memory Protection Unit

N
NE: Network Element
NGB: Next Generation Broadcasting
NIC: Network Interface Card
NMS: Network Management System

O
OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OFDMA: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
OS: Operating System
OSIC: Ordered Successive Interference Cancellation
OSN: Online Social Networking

P
PA: Power Amplifier
PaaS: Platform as a Service
PAPR: Peak-to-Average Power Ratio
PCH: Paging Channel
PNIC: Physical Network Interface Card

Q
QoS: Quality of Service

R
RAT: Radio Access Technology
RF: Radio Frequency
RFID: Radio Frequency Identification
ROM: Read-Only Memory
RU: Radio Frequency Unit

S
SaaS: Software as a Service
SAN: Storage Area Network
SD: Spatial Diversity
SDR: Software Defined Radio
SGSN: Serving GPRS Support Node
SM: Spatial Multiplexing
SNR: Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SOA: Service-Oriented Architectures
SOC: Security Operation Center
SoC: System on Chip
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer

T
TDD: Time Division Duplex
TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access
TDMMSE: Time-Domain MMSE
TD-SCDMA: Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access
TLS: Transport Layer Security
TPM: Trusted Platform Module
TSP: Telecommunications Service Provider

U

UDP: User Datagram Protocol
UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UWB: Ultra-Wideband

V
VHDSL: Very High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line
VM: Virtual Machine
VMM: Virtual Machine Manager
VNIC: Virtual Network Interface Card
VPN: Virtual Private Network

W
WAN: Wide Area Network
WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
WCDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WCETT: Weighted Cumulative Expected Transmission Time
Wi-Fi: Wireless Fidelity
WML: Wireless Markup Language
WPAN: Wireless Personal Area Networks
WSN: Wireless Sensor Network

Z
ZP: Zero-Padding
ZP-CI: Zero-Padding Carrier Interferometry