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2G |
Second Generation |
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3GPP |
Third-Generation Partnership Project |
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ACK |
Acknowledgment |
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AF |
Assured – forwarding |
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APN |
Access Point Name |
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AUC |
Authentication Center |
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BA |
behavior aggregate |
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BE |
best-effort |
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BHT |
Busy Hour Traffic |
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Bps |
bits per second |
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BSC |
Base Station Controller |
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BSR |
Broadband Service Router |
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BTS |
Base Transceiver Station |
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BU |
business |
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CDMA |
Code Division Multiple Access |
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CEIR |
Central Equipment Identity Register |
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CIR |
Committed Information Rate |
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CLO |
Command Line Interface |
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CNTR |
control traffic |
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CoS |
Class of Service |
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CT |
class type |
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cwnd |
congestion window |
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DA |
data |
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DF |
Don’t Fragment |
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DHCP |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
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DiffServ |
Differentiated Services |
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DNS |
Domain Name System |
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DRR |
Deficit Round Robin |
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DSCP |
Differentiated Services Code Point |
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DSL |
Digital Subscriber Line |
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DSLAM |
Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer |
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DWRR |
Deficit Weighted Round Robin |
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EBGP |
Border Gateway Protocol |
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EF |
Expedited – forwarding |
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EIR |
Equipment Identity Register |
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EPC |
Evolved Packet Core |
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ERO |
Explicit Routing Object |
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eUTRAN |
evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network |
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FIFO |
First in, first out |
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FQ |
Fair queuing |
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GBR |
Guaranteed Bit Rate |
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GGSN |
Gateway GPRS Support Node |
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GPRS |
General Packet Radio Service |
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GPS |
Generic Processor Sharing |
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GSM |
Global System for Mobile Communications |
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GTP |
GPRS Tunneling Protocol |
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HLR |
Home Location Register |
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ICMP |
Internet Control Message Protocol |
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IMEI |
International Mobile Equipment Identity |
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IMS |
IP Multimedia System |
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IMSI |
International Mobile Subscriber Identity |
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IntServ |
Integrated Services |
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L2 |
Layer 2 |
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L3 |
Layer 3 |
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LBE |
lower than that for best – effort |
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LFI |
Link Fragmentation and Interleaving |
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LSP |
Label – Switched Path |
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LTE |
Long – Term Evolution |
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MAD |
dynamic memory allocation |
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ME |
Mobile Equipment |
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MED |
Multi – exit Discriminator |
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MF |
Multifield |
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MME |
Mobility Management Entity |
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MPLS |
Multi Protocol Label Switching |
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MPLS – TE |
MPLS network with traffic engineering |
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MS |
Mobile System |
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ms |
milliseconds |
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MSC |
Mobile Switching Center |
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MSS |
Maximum Segment Size |
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MTU |
Maximum Transmission Unit |
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NAS |
Non – Access Stratum |
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NC |
Network – control |
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P2P |
point – to – point |
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PB – DWRR |
Priority – based deficit weighted round robin |
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PCR |
Program Clock Reference |
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PCRF |
Policy and Charging Rules Function |
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PDN |
Packet Data Networks |
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PDN – GW |
Packet Data Network Gateway |
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PDP |
Packet Data Protocol |
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PE |
Provider Edge |
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PHB |
per- hop behavior |
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PID |
Packet ID |
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PIR |
Peak Information Rate |
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PLMN |
Public LAN Mobile Network |
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PMTU |
Path MTU |
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pps |
packets per second |
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PQ |
Priority queuing |
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PSTN |
Public Switched Telephone Network |
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Q0 |
queue zero |
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Q1 |
queue one |
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Q2 |
queue two |
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QCI |
QOS Class Identifier |
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QOS |
Quality of Service |
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RAN |
Radio Access Networks |
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RED |
Random Early Discard |
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RNC |
Radio Network Controller |
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RSVP |
Resource Reservation Protocol |
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RT |
real time |
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RTCP |
RTP Control Protocol |
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RTT |
Round Trip Time |
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SACK |
selective acknowledgment |
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SAE |
System Architecture Evolution |
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SCP |
Secure Shell Copy |
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SCTP |
Stream Control Transmission Protocol |
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SDP |
Session Description Protocol |
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SGSN |
Serving GPRS Support Node |
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S – GW |
Serving Gateway |
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SIM |
Subscriber Identity Module |
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SIP |
Session Initiation Protocol |
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SLA |
Service – level Agreement |
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SSRC |
Synchronization Source Identifier |
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STP |
Spanning Tree Protocols |
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TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
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TE |
Traffic Engineering |
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TOS |
Type of Service |
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TS |
Transport Stream |
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UDP |
USER Datagram Protocol |
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UE |
User Equipment |
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UMTS |
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
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UTP |
Unshielded Twisted Pair |
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VLAN |
Virtual LAN |
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VLR |
Visitor Location Register |
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VoD |
Video On Demand |
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VoIP |
Voice – over IP |
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VPLS |
Virtual Private LAN Service |
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VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
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WFQ |
Weighted Fair Queuing |
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WRED |
Weighted RED |
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WRR |
Weighted Round Robin |
