Appendix – Acronyms

3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project

AAL ATM Adaptation Layer

ABR Available BitRate

ACF Association Control Function

ACH Access feedback CHannel

ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability

ACK ACKnowledgement

ACL Asynchronous Connectionless Link

ACT Ad-hoc Controller Terminal

ADA Alias DA

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AES Advanced Encryption Standard

AESA ATM End System Address

AFS Andrew File System

AGCH Access Grant CHannel

AIB Alias Information Base

AID Acknowledgement IDentifier

AIDCS AID CheckSum

AK-HCPDU AcKnowledgement HCPDU

AM Amplitude Modulation

AMA Active Member Address

AMES ATM Mobility Extension Service

AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System

ANSI American National Standards Institute

AODV Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector

AP Access Point

APC AP Controller

APCF AP Control Function

APCM AP Connection Management

APCP AP Control Protocol

APT AP Transceiver

ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Broadcasting

ARQ Automatic Repeat reQuest

ARQN ARQ sequence Number

ASA Alias SA

ASCH Association Control CHannel

ASCI Advanced Speech Call Items

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASK Amplitude Shift Keying

ASP Active Server Page

Assoc Association

AT ATtention sequence

ATIM Ad-hoc TIM

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATMC ATM Connection function

AuC Authentication Centre

AUS AUthentication Server

Auth Authentication

BCA Borrowing Channel Allocation

BCCH Broadcast CCH

BCH Broadcast CHannel

BCH Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem

BER Bit Error Rate

BFSK Binary FSK

B-ISDN Broadband ISDN

BLI Block Length Indicator

BLIR Block Length Indicator Replica

BLIRCS BLIR CheckSum

BMP BitMaP

BNEP Bluetooth Network Encapsulation Protocol

BPSK Binary PSK

BRAN Broadband Radio Access Networks

BSC Base Station Controller

BSS Base Station (Sub)system

BSS Basic Service Set

BSSAP BSS Application Part

BSSGP BSS GPRS Protocol

BTS Base Transceiver Station

BTSM BTS Management

BW BackWard

CAC Channel Access Control

CAC Connection Admission Control

CAC Channel Access Code

CAMEL Customized Application for Mobile Enhanced Logic

CATV Community Antenna Television

CBR Constant BitRate

CC Call Control

CC Country Code

CC/PP Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles

CCA Clear Channel Assessment

CCCH Common CCH

CCF Call control and Connection Function

CCH Control CHannel

CCIR Consultative Committee for International Radiocommunication

CCK Complementary Code Keying

CD Compact Disc

CDM Code Division Multiplexing

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data

CDV Cell Delay Variation

CEPT European Conference for Posts and Telecommunications

CGI Common Gateway Interface

CGSR Clusterhead-Gateway Switch Routing

cHTML compact HTML

CID Channel ID

CIDR Classless InterDomain Routing

CIF Common Interleaved Frame

CKSN Ciphering Key Sequence Number

CL Convergence Layer

CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration

CLI Common Language Infrastructure

CLMS Connectionless Message Service

CM Call Management

CM Centralized Mode

CN Core Network

CN Correspondent Node

Cnf Confirmation

COA Care-Of Address

Codec Coder/decoder

COFDM Coded OFDM

COMS Connection Oriented Message Service

CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COS Cross Over Switch

CPM Continuous Phase Modulation

CPU Central Processing Unit

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check

CS CheckSum

CS Coding Scheme

CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative Work

CSD Circuit Switched Domain

CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access

CSMA/CA CSMA with Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD CSMA with Collision Detection

CT Cordless Telephone

CTS Clear To Send

CU Capacity Unit

CVSD Continuous Variable Slope Delta

CW Contention Window

DA Destination Address

DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting

DAC Device Access Code

DAMA Demand Assigned Multiple Access

D-AMPS Digital-AMPS

DBPSK Differential Binary PSK

DC Direct Current

DCA Dynamic Channel Allocation

DCC DLC user Connection Control

DCCH Dedicated CCH

DCF Distributed Coordination Function

DCS Digital Cellular System

DCS Dynamic Channel Selection

DDIB Duplicate Detection Information Base

DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications

DES Data Encryption Standard

DFS Dynamic Frequency Selection

DFWMAC Distributed Foundation Wireless MAC

DH Diffie, Hellman

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIFS DCF IFS

Disassoc Disassociation

DLC Data Link Control

DM Direct Mode

DNS Domain Name System

DPCCH Dedicated Physical Control CHannel

DPCH Dedicated Physical CHannel

DPDCH Dedicated Physical Data CHannel

DQPSK Differential QPSK

DRNC Drift RNC

DS Distribution System

DSDV Destination Sequence Distance Vector

DSL Digital Subscriber Loop

DSMA Digital Sense Multiple Access

DSR Dynamic Source Routing

DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

DT-HCPDU DaTa-HCPDU

DTIM Delivery TIM

DTMF Dual Tone Multiple Frequency

DUCC DLC User Connection Control

DV Distance Vector

DVB Digital Video Broadcasting

DVB-C DVB-Cable

DVB-S DVB-Satellite

DVB-T DVB-Terrestrial

DVD Digital Versatile Disk

DVTR Digital Video Tape Recorder

ECDH Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman

ECMA ECMA International - European association for standardizing information and communication systems (was: European Computer Manufacturers Association until 1994)

ECN Explicit Congestion Notification

EDGE Enhanced Data rates for [Global|GSM] Evolution

EDTV Enhanced Definition TV

EFI External Functionality Interface

EFR Enhanced Full Rate

EHF Extremely High Frequency

EIR Equipment Identity Register

EIRP Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power

EIT Event Information Table

EMAS End-user Mobility-supporting ATM Switch

EMAS-E EMAS-Edge

EMAS-N EMAS-Network

EMF ElectroMagnetic Fields

EMS Enhanced Message Service

ESS Extended Service Set

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

EY-NPMA Elimination-Yield Non-preemptive Priority Multiple Access

FA Foreign Agent

FACCH Fast Associated Dedicated CCH

FCA Fixed Channel Allocation

FCC Federal Communications Commission (USA)

FCCH Frame CCH

FCCH Frequency Correction CHannel

FCH Frame CHannel

FDD Frequency Division Duplex

FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing

FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access

FEC Forward Error Correction

FFT Fast Fourier Transform

FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

FIB Fast Information Block

FIC Fast Information Channel

FM Frequency Modulation

FOMA Freedom Of Mobile multimedia Access

FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System

FR Frame Relay

FR Full Rate

FSK Frequency Shift Keying

FSLS Fuzzy Sighted Link State

FSR Fisheye State Routing

FT Fixed Radio Termination

FW ForWard

GEO Geostationary (or Geosynchronous) Earth Orbit

GFSK Gaussian FSK

GGSN Gateway GSN

GIF Graphics Interchange Format

GIPS Giga Instructions Per Second

GMM Global Multimedia Mobility

GMSC Gateway MSC

GMSK Gaussian MSK

GP Guard Period

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GPS Global Positioning System

GPSR Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing

GR GPRS Register

GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation

GSM Groupe Spéciale Mobile, Global System for Mobile communications

GSN GPRS Support Node

GTP GPRS Tunnelling Protocol

GWL GateWay Link

HA Home Agent

HAP High-Altitude Platform

HBR High Bit-Rate

HC HIPERLAN CAC

HCPDU HIPERLAN CAC PDU

HCQoS HIPERLAN CAC QoS

HCSAP HIPERLAN CAC SAP

HCSDU HIPERLAN CAC SDU

HDA Hashed Destination HCSAP Address

HDACS HDA CheckSum

HDB Home Data Base

HDLC High level Data Link Control

HDML Handheld Device Markup Language

HDTP Handheld Device Transport Protocol

HDTV High Definition TV

HEC Header Error [Control | Check]

HEO Highly Elliptical Orbit

HF High Frequency

HI HBR-part Indicator

HIB Hello Information Base

HID HIPERLAN IDentifier

HIPERLAN High-PERformance LAN

HLR Home Location Register

HM HIPERLAN MAC

HMPDU HIPERLAN MAC PDU

HMQoS HIPERLAN MAC QoS

HO HandOver

HO-HMPDU HellO-HMPDU

HP HIPERLAN PHY

HR Half Rate

HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data

HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access

HSR Hierarchical State Routing

HTML HyperText Markup Language

HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol

IAC Inquiry Access Code

IAPP Inter Access Point Protocol

IBSS Independent BSS

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

ICO Intermediate Circular Orbit

ID IDentifier

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IFS Inter Frame Spacing

ILR Interworking Location Register

IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity

IMF Identity Management Function

IMS IP-based Multimedia Services

IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity

IMT International Mobile Telecommunications

IN Intelligent Network

IOT Isolation Only Transactions

IP Internet Protocol

IR InfraRed

IrDA Infrared Data Association

IS Interim Standard

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISI InterSymbol Interference

ISL Inter Satellite Link

ISM Industrial, Scientific, Medical

ISMA Inhibit Sense Multiple Access

ISO International Organization for Standardization[1]

I-TCP Indirect TCP

ITU International Telecommunication Union

ITU-R ITU Radiocommunication sector

ITU-T ITU Telecommunication sector

IV Initialization Vector

IWF InterWorking Function

JCT Japanese Cordless Telephone

JDC Japanese Digital Cellular

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

KID Key IDentifier

L2CAP Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol

LA Location Area

LAI Location Area Identification

LAN Local Area Network

LAP Lower Address Part

LAPC Link Access Procedure for the C-Plane

LAPD Link Access Procedure for the D-channel

LAPDm LAPD for mobile

LBR Low Bit-Rate

LC Link Controller

LCCH Link Control CHannel

LCH Long transport CHannel

LED Light Emitting Diode

LEO Low Earth Orbit

LF Low Frequency

LI Length Indicator

LIR Least Interference Routing

LLC Logical Link Control

LM Link Manager

LMP Link Manager Protocol

Loc Location

LOS Line-Of-Sight

LR-WPAN Low-Rate WPAN

LRU Last Recently Used

LS Location Server

LS Link State

M-QoS Mobile QoS

MAC Medium Access Control

MACA Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

MANET Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork

MAP Mobile Application Part

MATM Mobile ATM

MBS Mobile Broadband System

MBWA Mobile Broadband Wireless Access

MCC Mobile Country Code

MCI Multiplex Configuration Information

MCM MultiCarrier Modulation

MEO Medium Earth Orbit

MExE Mobile Execution Environment

MF Medium Frequency

MFi Melody Format for i-mode

MH Mobile Host

MHEG Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Experts Group

MIB Management Information Base

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIDP Mobile Information Device Profile

MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output

MKK Radio Equipment Inspection and Certification Institute (Japan)

ML MSDU Lifetime

MM Mobility Management

MMF Mobility Management Function

MMS Multimedia Messaging Service§

MN Mobile Node

MNC Mobile Network Code

MOC Mobile Originated Call

MOT Multimedia Object Transfer

MPEG Moving Pictures Expert Group

MPLS Multi Protocol Label Switching

MQ Message Queuing

MS Mobile Station

MS Mobile Switch

MSAP MAC SAP

MSC Mobile (Services) Switching Centre

MSC Mobile Switch Controller

MSC Main Service Channel

MSDU MAC SDU

MSIN Mobile Subscriber Identification Number

MSISDN Mobile [Station (International)|Subscriber] ISDN Number

MSK Minimum Shift Keying

MSRN Mobile [Station|Subscriber] Roaming Number

MSS Mobile Satellite [Service|System]

MT Mobile Terminal

MT Mobile Termination

MTC Mobile Terminated Call

M-TCP Mobile TCP

MTSA Mobile Terminal Security Agent

MUL Mobile User Link

NA-TDMA North American-TDMA

NAV Net Allocation Vector

NAT Network Address Translator

NDC National Destination Code

NEMO NEtwork MObility

NFS Network File System

NIB Neighbour Information Base

NIT Network Information Table

NMAS Network Mobility-supporting ATM Switch

NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone

NNI Network-to-Network Interface

NNI+M NNI+Mobility

NRL Normalized Residual HMPDU Lifetime

NSA Network Security Agent

NSS Network and Switching Subsystem

NTSC National Television Standards Committee

OBEX OBject EXchange

OFDM Orthogonal FDM

OHG Operators Harmonisation Group

OLSR Optimized Link State Routing

OMC Operation and Maintenance Centre

OSI Open Systems Interconnection

OSS Operation Subsystem

OTA Over The Air

OVSF Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor

PACS Personal Access Communications System

PACS-UB PACS-Unlicensed Band

PAD PADding

PAD Program Associated Data

PAL Phase Alternating Line

PAP Push Access Protocol

PBCC Packet Binary Convolutional coding

PC Personal Computer

PCF Point Coordination Function

PCH Paging Channel

PCM Pulse Code Modulation

PCS Personal Cellular System

PCS Personal Communications Service

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDC Pacific Digital Cellular

PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol

PDF Portable Document Format

PDN Public Data Network

PDO Packet Data Optimized

PDTCH Packet Data TCH

PDU Protocol Data Unit

PEP Performance Enhancing Proxy

PHS Personal Handyphone System

PHY PHYsical layer

PI Push Initiator

PIFS PCF IFS

PIN Personal Identity Number

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PLCP Physical Layer Convergence Protocol

PLI Padding Length Indicator

PLL Phase Lock Loop

PLMN Public Land Mobile Network

PLW PLCP-PDU Length Word

PM Phase Modulation

PMA Parked Member Address

PMD Physical Medium Dependent

POS Personal Operating Space

POTS Plain Old Telephone Service

PPG Push Proxy Gateway

PPM Pulse Position Modulation

PPP Point-to-Point Protocol

PRACH Physical Random Access Channel

PRMA Packet Reservation Multiple Access

PS Power Saving

PSD Packet Switched Domain

PSF PLCP Signalling Field

PSK Phase Shift Keying

PSM Protocol/Service Multiplexor

PSN PDU Sequence Number

PSPDN Public Switched Packet Data Network

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

PT Portable radio Termination

PTM Point-to-Multipoint

PTP Point-to-Point

PTP-CLNS PTP-ConnectionLess Network Service

PTP-CONS PTP-Connection Oriented Network Service

PUK PIN Unblocking Key

QAM Quadrature AM

QoS Quality of Service

QPSK [Quadrature | Quaternary] PSK

RA Receiver Address

RACH Random Access Channel

RAL Radio Access Layer

RAND Random number

RBCH RLC Broadcast CHannel

RCH Random CHannel

Req Request

Res Response

RF Radio Frequency

RFCOMM RF COMMunications

RFID RF IDentification

RFC Request For Comments

RFCH Random access Feedback CHannel

RIB Route Information Base

RIP Routing Information Protocol

RL Residual Lifetime

RLC Radio Link Control

RLP Radio Link Protocol

RM Resource Management

RNC Radio Network Controller

RNS Radio Network Subsystem

ROM Read Only Memory

RPC Remote Procedure Call

RR Radio Resource

RRC Radio Resource Control

RRM Radio Resource Management

RSA Rivest, Shamir, Adleman

RSS Radio SubSystem

RT Radio Transceiver

RTR Radio Transmission and Reception

RTS Request To Send

RTT Radio Transmission Technologies

RTT Round Trip Time

S-DMB Satellite-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

SA Source Address

SAAL Signalling AAL

SACCH Slow Associated Dedicated CCH

SAMA Spread Aloha Multiple Access

SAP Service Access Point

SAT SIM Application Toolkit

SATM Satellite ATM Services

SC Sanity Check

SC Synchronization Channel

SCF Service Control Function

SCH Short transport CHannel

SCH Synchronization Channel

SCO Synchronous Connection-Oriented link

SCPS Space Communications Protocol Standards

SCPS-TP SCPS-Transport Protocol

SDCCH Stand-alone Dedicated CCH

SDM Space Division Multiplexing

SDMA Space Division Multiple Access

SDP Service Discovery Protocol

SDR Software Defined Radio

SDT Service Description Table

SDTV Standard Definition TV

SDU Service Data Unit

SEC-SAP Security SAP

SEQN SEQuence Number

SFD Start Frame Delimiter

SFN Single Frequency Network

SGSN Serving GSN

SH Supervisory Host

SHF Super High Frequency

SI Service Indication

SIFS Short IFS

SIG Signalling

SIM Subscriber Identity Module

SIP Session Initiation Protocol

SL Service Loading

SMF Standard MIDI File

SMRIB Source Multipoint Relay Information Base

SMS Short Message Service

SN Subscriber Number

SNACK Selective Negative ACKnowledgement

SNAP Sub-Network Access Protocol

SNDCP Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Protocol

SRES Signed Response

SRNC Serving RNC

SS Supplementary Service

SS7 Signalling System No. 7

S-SAP Session-SAP

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

STA STAtion

SUMR Satellite User Mapping Register

SW Short Wave

SwMI Switching and Management Infrastructure

T Terminal

TA Transmitter Address

TBRPF Topology Broadcast based on Reverse Path Forwarding

TCH Traffic CHannel

TCH/F TCH Full rate

TCH/FS TCH/F Speech

TCH/H TCH Half rate

TCH/HS TCH/H Speech

TC-HMPDU Topology Control-HMPDU

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TCS BIN Telephony Control protocol Specification - BINary

TD-CDMA Time Division-CDMA

TDD Time Division Duplex

TDM Time Division Multiplexing

TDMA Time Division Multiple Access

TDT Time and Data Table

TE Terminal

TEDDI TErms and Definitions Database Interactive

TETRA Terrestrial Trunked Radio

TFI Transport Format Identifier

TFO Tandem Free Operation

TFTS Terrestrial Flight Telephone System

TI Type Indicator

TIB Topology Information Base

TIM Traffic Indication Map

TINA Telecommunication Information Networking Architecture

TLLI Temporary Logical Link Identity

TLS Transport Layer Security

TM Traffic Management

TMN Telecommunication Management Network

TMSI Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity

TOS Type Of Service

TPC Transmit Power Control

TR-SAP Transaction SAP

T-SAP Transport SAP

TSF Timing Synchronization Function

T-TCP Transaction TCP

TTC Telecommunications Technology Council

TTL Time To Live

TV TeleVision

U-NII Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure

UBCH User Broadcast CHannel

UBR Unspecified BitRate

UD User Data

UDCH User Data CHannel

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UE User Equipment

UHF Ultra High Frequency

UIM User Identification Module

UMCH User Multicast CHannel

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

UN United Nations

UNI User-to-Network Interface

UNI+M UNI+Mobility

UP User Priority

UPT Universal Personal Telecommunications

URI Uniform Resource Identifier

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USAT UMTS SAT

UTRA Universal Terrestrial Radio Access

UTRAN UTRA Network

UUID Universally Unique ID

UWB Ultra WideBand

UWC Universal Wireless Communications

V+D Voice and Data

VAD Voice Activity Detection

VBR Variable BitRate

VBR-nrt VBR non real-time

VBR-rt VBR real-time

VC Virtual Circuit

VCC Visitor Country Code

VDB Visitor Data Base

VHE Virtual Home Environment

VHF Very High Frequency

VLF Very Low Frequency

VLR Visitor Location Register

VNDC Visitor National Destination Code

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

WAE Wireless Application Environment

WAN Wide Area Network

WAP Wireless Application Protocol

WATM Wireless ATM

WCAC Wireless Connection Admission Control

W-CDMA Wideband-CDMA

WCMP Wireless Control Message Protocol

W-CTRL Wireless ConTRoL

WDP Wireless Datagram Protocol

WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy

WHO World Health Organization

WIM Wireless Identity Module

WLAN Wireless LAN

WLL Wireless Local Loop

WML Wireless Markup Language

WMLScript Wireless Markup Language Script

WMT Wireless Mobile Terminal

WPAN Wireless Personal Area Network

WP-CDMA Wideband Packet-CDMA

WRC World Radio Conference

WSP Wireless Session Protocol

WSP/B Wireless Session Protocol/Browsing

WTA Wireless Telephony Application

WTAI Wireless Telephony Application Interface

WTLS Wireless Transport Layer Security

WTP Wireless Transaction Protocol

WWAN Wireless WAN

WWRF Wireless World Research Forum

WWW World Wide Web

XHTML eXtensible HTML

XHTMLMP XHTML Mobile Profile

XML eXtensible Markup Language

XOR eXclusive OR

ZRP Zone Routing Protocol

[1] This is not the International Standards Organization or the International Standardization Organization or whatever some authors write. ISO is not an acronym, but is derived from the Greek word isos which means equal as used (as prefix) in isometric, isomorphic etc. (http://www.iso.ch/).