Mobile Communication System Evolution

Mobile Communication System Evolution

Mobile Satellite Communication Networks Ray E Sheriff and Y Fun Hu

Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons Ltd ISBNs: 0-471-72047-X (Hardback); 0-470-845562 (Electronic)

Appendix A

Acronyms

1G

2G

3G

4G

3GPP

ABATE

ACCORD

ACK

ACTS

ACTS

ADPCM

AFD

AGCH

AHM

AHN

AHU

AMPS

AOR-E

AOR-W

APC

APN

ARFCN

ARQ

ASE

ASK

AUC

AWGN

B-O-QAM

BACH

BCC

BCCH

BCE

BCH

BER

First-Generation Second-Generation Third-Generation Fourth-Generation 3G Partnership Project ACTS Broadband Aeronautical Terminal Experiment ACTS Broadband-Communcation Joint Trials and Demonstrations Acknowledgement

Advanced Communications Technologies and Services Advanced Communications Technologies Satellite Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation Average Fade Duration

Access Grant Channel Authentication Handler Mobile Terminal Authentication Handler Visited Network Authentication Handler User

Advanced Mobile Phone Services Atlantic Ocean Region — East Atlantic Ocean Region — West Adaptive Predictive Coding Access Point Name

RF Channel Number Automatic Repeat Request Application Service Element Amplitude Shift Keying Authentication Centre Additive White Gaussian Noise Binary-O-QAM

Basic Alerting Channel Base Station Colour Code Broadcast Control Channel Bearer Control Function Bose—Chadhuri—Hocquenghem Bit Error Rate

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BEN

BGAN

BPSK

BS

BSC

BSIC

BSS

BSSMAP

BSSMP

BTS

BTSM

BWB

CAI

CBR

CCCH

CCE

CCF

CCT

CDG

CDMA

CDPD

CEFM

CEPT

CGI

Cl

Cl

Cl

CIMS

CM

CN

CoA

COMETS

CONUS

CPFSK

CSCF

CT-2

D-AMPS

DAB

DAB-T

DCA

DCCH

DCS1800

DDB

DECT

DMT

DPC

Beam Forming Network Broadband GAN Binary PSK Base Station Base Station Controller Base Station Identity Code Base Station System BSS Management Application Part BSS Mobile Part

Base Transceiver Station BTS Management Blended-Wing Body Common Air Interface Carrier and Bit timing Recovery Common Control Channel Capabilities Check Environment Call Control Function

Capabilities Check Terminal CDMA Development Group Code Division Multiple Access Cellular Digital Packet Data Combined EFM

Conference of European Posts and Telegraphs Cell Global Identification

Carrier Information Cell Identity Control Information Customer Information Management System Connection Management

Core Network Care-of-Address Communications and Broadcasting Engineering Test Satellite Continental United States

Continuous Phase Frequency Shift Keying Call State Control Function

Cordless Telephone-2 Digital AMPS Digital Audio Broadcasting DAB-Terrestrial

Dynamic Channel Assignment Dedicated Control Channel Digital Cellular System 1800 DataBase

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications Dual-Mode Terminal

Destination Point Code

Appendix A 343

DPSK

DQPSK

DR

DS-CDMA

DS-SSMA

DSS

DTAP

DVB

DVB-RCS

DVB-T

E-TACS

ECSD

EDGE

EFM

EGC

EGNOS

EGPRS

EIR

EIRP

EMS

ERAST

ERS

ESA

ETACS

ETSI

EU

EUTELSAT

F-FH

FACCH

FCA

FCC

FCC

FCH

FDD

FDM

FDMA

FEC

FES

FH

FM

FOCC

FPLMTS

FS

FSK

FSL

FTP

Differential PSK Differential QPSK Directory Register Direct Sequence-CDMA Direct Sequence-SSMA Direct Spreading Sequence Direct Transfer Application Part Digital Video Broadcast DVB-Return Channel via Satellite DVB-Terrestrial

Extended-TACS Enhanced HSCSD Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution Empirical Fading Model

Enhanced Group Call European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service Enhanced GPRS

Equipment Interface Register Effective Isotropic Radiated Power European Mobile Satellite Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology Empirical Roadside Shadowing

European Space Agency Extended TACS European Telecommunications Standards Institute European Union

European Telecommunication Satellite Organisation Fast FH

Fast Associated Control Channel Fixed Channel Assignment Federal Communications Commission Fundamental Code Channel

Frequency Correction Channel Frequency Division Duplex Frequency Division Multiplex Frequency Division Multiple Access Forward Error Correction

Fixed Earth Station Frequency Hopping Frequency Modulation Forward Control Channel Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication Systems Fixed Station

Frequency Shift Keying Free Space Loss File Transfer Protocol

FVC Forward Voice Channel

GAN Global Access Network

GBCCH GPS Broadcast Control Channel

GCA Guaranteed Coverage Area

GCC Gateway Control Centre

GDP Gross Domestic Product

GDPCAP GDP per Capita

GEO Geostationary Orbit

GERAN GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network

GES Gateway Earth Station

GFSK Gaussian FSK

GGSN Gateway GSN

GMR Geo Mobile Radio

GMSC Gateway MSC

GMSK Gaussian-filtered MSK

GMSS Gateway Message Switching System

GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System

GOCC Ground OCC

GPM Gross Potential Market

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GPS Global Positioning System

GRAN Generic Radio Access Network

GSC Gateway Station Control

GSM Global System for Mobile Communications

GSN GPRS Support Node

GSO Geostationary Orbit

GTP GPRS Tunnelling Protocol

GTS Gateway Transceiver Subsystem

GWS Gateway Subsystem

HALE High Altitude Long Endurance

HALO High Altitude Long Operation

HAP High Altitude Platform

HEO Highly Elliptical Orbit

HLR Home Location Register

HMI Human Machine Interface

HO HandOver

HPA High Power Amplifier

HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data

HSD High Speed Data

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IAM Initial Address Message

ICA Intermediate Coverage Area

ICO Intermediate Circular Orbit

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IF Intermediate Frequency

IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity

IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity

IMUI International Mobile User Identity

IMUN International Mobile User Number

IMT-2000 International Mobile Telecommunications — 2000

IN Intelligent Network

INMARSAT International Maritime Satellite Organisation

INSURED Integrated Satellite- UMTS Real Environment Demonstrator

IOL Inter-Orbit Link

IOR Indian Ocean Region

IP Internet Protocol

IS Interim Standard

ISC International Switching Centre

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISL Inter-Satellite Link

IST Information Society Technologies

ISUP ISDN User Part

ITU International Telecommunications Union

IWU Interworking Unit

JD Julian Date

JDC Japanese Digital Cellular system

LA Location Area

LAC LA Code

LAI LA Identifier

LAN Local Area Network

LAPD, Link Access Protocol on D,, Channel

LCR Level Crossing Rate

LE Local Exchange

LEO Low Earth Orbit

LES Land Earth Station

LHCP Left Hand Circular Polarisation

LNA Low Noise Amplifier

LO Local Oscillator

LOS Line-of-Sight

LS Location Server

MAHO Mobile Assisted HO

MAP Mobile Application Part

MAP Maximum a Posteriori

MBCF Mobile BCF

MCC Mobile Country Code

MCF Mobile Control Function

MCHO Mobile Controlled HO

MCPC Multiple Channels Per Carrier

MCT Mobile Communications Terminal

ME Mobile Equipment

MERS Modified ERS

MEO Medium Earth Orbit

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MIPv6 Mobile IP Version 6

MM Mobility Management

MNC Mobile Network Code

MoU Memorandum of Understanding

MS Mobile Station

MSAS Multi-Transport Satellite Based Augmentation System

MSC Mobile Switching Centre

MSK Minimum Shift Keying

MSRN MS Roaming Number

MT Mobile Terminal

MTP Message Transfer Part

MTRN Mobile Terminal Roaming Number

MTU Maximum Transmission Unit

MWIF Mobile Wireless Internet Forum

N-AMPS Narrowband-AMPS

NACK Negative ACK

NAHO Network Assisted HO

NCC Network Control Centre

NCC PLMN Colour Code

NCHO Network Controlled HO

NGSO Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit

NMS Network Management Station

NMSS Network Management and Switching Subsystem

NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone

NRSC National Remote Sensing Centre

NSCC Navigation System Control Centre

NSP Network Service Part

NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

O-OAM Offset-QAM

OAM Operation and Maintenance

OBP On-Board Processing

OCC Operations Control Centre

OMAP Operation, Maintenance and Administration Part

OOK On-Off Keying

OPC Originating Point Code

OQPSK Offset QPSK

OSI Open Systems Interconnection

OSS Operation Subsystem

OSS Orbitography and Synchronisation Station

P-TMSI Packet-TMSI

PACCH Packet Associated Control Channel

PAGCH Packet AGCH

PAWS Protection Against Wrapped Sequence Numbers

PBCCH Packet Broadcast Control Channel

PBX Private Business Exchange

PC Personal Computer

Appendix A 347

PCCCH

PCH

PCN

PCS

PCU

PDC

PDCCH

PDCH

PDF

PDP

PDTCH

PFD

PGSC

PHS

PN

PNC

POR

POT

PPCH

PRACH

PRMA

PS

PSK

PSDN

PSTN

PTCCH/D

PTCCH/U

PTM-M

PTT

Q-O-OAM

QAM

QoS

QPSK

RACE

RACH

RAINBOW

RC

RCS

RECC

RF

RFC

RFCN

RHCP

RHT

RHVN

RIMS

Packet Call Control Channel Paging Channel

Personal Communications Network Personal Communication Services Packet Control Unit

Personal Digital Cellular System Packet Dedicated Control Channel Packet Data Channel

Probability Density Function Packet Data Protocol Packet Data TCH Power Flux Density PSTN Gateway Switching Centre Personal Handyphone System Pseudo-Noise

Packet Notification Channel Pacific Ocean Region Plain Old Telephone Packet Paging Channel Packet RACH Packet Reserved Multiple Access Portable Station

Phase Shift Keying Public Switched Data Network Public Switched Telephone Network Packet Timing Advance Control/Downlink PTCCH/Uplink

Point-to-Multipoint-Multicast Public Telegraph & Telephony Quaternary-O-QAM

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Quality of Service

Quadrature PSK Research and Development in Advanced Communications in Europe Random Access Channel

Radio Access Independent Broadband On Wireless Radio Configuration

Recursive Systematic Convolutional Reverse Control Channel

Radio Frequency Request for Comment

RF Channel Number Right Hand Circular Polarisation Registration Handler Terminal Registration Handler Visited Network Ranging and Integrity Monitoring Station

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RLM

RMSS

RNC

RNS

RPE-LPC

RR

RS

RSC

RTO

RTT

Ru

RVC

S-AGCH

S-BBCH

S-BCCH

S-BSS

S-CDMA

S-FACCH

S-FH

S-HBCCH

S-HMSCH

S-HPACH

S-IMT-2000

S-PCH/R

S-PCN

S-PCS

S-RACH

S-SACCH

S-SCH

S-SDCCH

S-TCH/E

S-TCH/F

S-TCH/H

S-TCH/Q

S-UMTS

SACCH

SACCH

SACK

SAINT

SAN

SAT

SCADA

SC

SCC

SCC

SCCP

Rice-Lognormal Model Receiver Maximum Segment Size Radio Network Controller Radio Network Subsystem Regular Pulse Excitation — Linear Predictive Coder Radio Resource

Reed-Solomon Recursive Systematic Convolutional Retransmission Time Out

Round Trip Time Uncertainty Radius Reverse Voice Channel Satellite-AGCH Satellite-Beam Broadcast Channel Satellite-BCCH

Satellite-BSS Synchronous-CDMA Satellite-FACCH Slow FH Satellite-High Margin BCCH Satellite-High Margin SCH Satellite-High Penetration Alerting Channel Satellite-IMT-2000

Satellite-PCH/Robust Satellite-Personal Communication Network Satellite-PCS

Satellite-RACH Satellite-SACCH Satellite-SCH Satellite-SDCCH Satellite-TCH Eighth-rate Satellite-TCH Full-rate Satellite-TCH Half-rate Satellite-TCH Quarter-rate Satellite-UMTS

Slow Associated Control Channel Slow Access Control Channel Selected ACK

Satellite Integration in the Future Mobile Network Satellite Access Node

Supervisory Audio Tone Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Subscriber Communicator

Satellite Control Centre Supplemental Code Channel Signalling Connection Control Part

Appendix A 349

SCF Satellite Control Facility

SCH Synchronisation Channel

SCPC Single Channel Per Carrier

SCSS S-PCN Cell Site Switch

SDB S-PCN Data Base

SDB Security Database

SDCCH Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel

SDF Service Data Function

SDMA Space Diversity Multiple Access

SDPSK Symmetric DPSK

SECOMS Satellite EHF Communications for Mobile Multimedia Services

SGCSS S-PCN Gateway Cell Site Switch

SGSN Servicing GSN

SID Subscriber Identity Device

SIM Subscriber Identity Module

SINUS Satellite Integration into Networks for UMTS Services

SLR Satellite Location Area

SLS Signalling Link Selection

SME Small Medium Enterprise

SMS Short Message Service

SMSC SMS Centre

SMSS Sender Maximum Segment Size

SNMC Service Network Management Centre

SOCC Satellite OCC

SP Signalling Point

SPI Service Provider Identity

SS-TDMA Satellite Switched - TDMA

SSF Service Switching Function

SSMA Spread Spectrum Multiple Access

SSN Subsystem Number

SSN7 Signalling System Number 7

SSPA Solid State Power Amplifier

STP Service Transfer Part

STP Service Transfer Point

SUITED Multi-Segment System for Ubiquitous Access to Internet Services

and Demonstrator T-UMTS Terrestrial- UMTS

TA Terminal Adapter

TA Timing Advance

TACCH Terminal-to-Terminal Associated Control Channel

TACS Total Access Communications System

TCE Traffic Channel Equipment

TCH Traffic Channel

TCH/F Full-Rate Traffic Channel

TCH/H Half-Rate Traffic Channel

TCAP Transaction Capabilities Application Part

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TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TDD Time Division Duplex

TDM Time Division Multiplex

TDMA Time Division Multiple Access

TE Terminal Equipment

TIA Telecommunications Industry Association

TIMSI Temporary IMSI

TMSI Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity

TMTI Temporary Mobile Terminal Identity

TN Time-slot Number

TP Terminal Position

TTA Telecommunication Technology Association

TT&C Telemetry, Tracking and Command

TUP Telephone User Part

TWTA Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier

UE User Equipment

UHF Ultra High Frequency

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service

UPC User Profile Check

UPT Universal Personal Telecommunication

URAN UMTS Radio Access Network

USHM User Session Handler Mobile Terminal

USHV User Session Handler Visited Network

USIM User Services Identity Module

UTRA UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access

UTRAN UTRA Network

UW Unique Word

UWC Universal Wireless Consortium

VHE Virtual Home Environment

VHE Very High Frequency

VIRTUOUS Virtual Home UMTS on Satellite

VITA Volunteers in Technical Assistance

VLR Visitor Location Register

VoIP Voice over IP

VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal

VSELP Vector Sum Excited Linear Prediction

W-CDMA Wideband-CDMA

WAAS Wide Access Augmentation System

WAP Wireless Application Protocol

WARC World Administrative Radio Conference

WLL Wireless Local Loop

WRC World Radio Conference

XPD Cross Polar Discrimination

XPI Cross Polar Isolation