Week 2

MS: Mobile Station, AKA Duplexer. BS: Base Station. BTS: Base Transceiver Station. C/I: Carrier to Interference Ratio (Co-Channel Interference in dB). FDD: Frequency Division Duplexing. TDD: Time Division Duplexing. FCC: Forward Control Channel. RCC: Reverse Control Channel. FVC: Forward Voice Channel. RVC: Reverse Voice Channel. MSC: Mobile Switching Center. MTSO: Mobile Telephone Switching Office. PSTN: Public Switch Telephone Network. MTC: Mobile Terminated Call. MOC: Mobile Originated Call. MIN: Mobile Identity Number. C/A: Adjacent Channel Interference (in dB). MRP: Multi-Reuse Patterns. QoS: Quality of Service. TRX: Transceiver. SFH: Slow Frequency Hopping. FFH: Fast Frequency Hopping. HSN: Hop Sequence Number. MAIO: Mobile Allocation Index Offset. GoS: Grade of Service. CCS: Call Centum Second. DTX: Discontinuous Transmission. UL: Uplink. DL: Downlink. UE: User Equipment.

Week 3
- GSM: Global System for Mobile Communication. - ETSI: European Telecommunication Standardization Institute. - PLMN: Public Land Mobile Network. - LR: Location Register. - RSS: Radio Subsystem. - BSS: Base Station Subsystem. - BSC: Base Station Controller. - NSS: Network and Switching Subsystem. - OSS: Operation Subsystem. - HLR: Home Location Register. - VLR: Visitor Location Register. - AuC: Authentication Center. - GMSC: Gateway MSC. - EIR: Equipment Identity Register. - OMC: Operations and Maintenance Center. - Um: Air Interface for GSM. - IWF: Inter-Working Function. - ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network. - SS7: Signaling System #7. - ME: Mobile Equipment. - SIM: Subscriber Identity Module. - IMSI: International Mobile Subscribers Identity. - Ki: Authentication Key. - IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity. - PSPDN: Packet-Switched Public Data Network. - CSPDN: Circuit-Switched Public Data Network. - SMS: Short Message Service. - MSRN: Mobile Station Roaming Number. - MAHO: Mobile-Assisted Handover. - PIN: Personal Identification Number. - TMSI: Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity. - LUP: Location Update. - SRES: Signed Response. - Kc: Cipher Key. - MHS: Message Handling System. - DTMF: Dual Tone Multi-Frequency.

Week 4
- P-GSM: Primary GSM. - E-GSM: Extended GSM. - DCS: Digital Communication System. - PCS: Personal Communication System. - ARFCN: Absolute Radio Frequency Carrier Number. - TS: Time Slot. - TCH/F: Traffic Channel/Full Rate. - TCH/H: Traffic Channel/Half Rate. - BCH: Broadcast Channel. - BCCH: Broadcast Control Channel. - FCCH: Frequency Correction Channel. - SCH: Synchronization Channel. - FN: Frame Number. - BSIC: Base Station Identity Code. - LAI: Location Area Identity. - CBCH: Cell Broadcast Channel. - CCCH: Common Control Channels. - PCH: Paging Channel. - RACH: Random Access Channel. - AGCH: Access Grant Channel. - NCH: Notification Channel. - SDCCH: Standalone Dedicated Control Channel. - SACCH: Slow Associated Control Channel. - FACCH: Fast Associated Control Channel. - DCCH: Dedicated Control Channels. - ACCH: Associated Control Channels. - RSSI: Received Signal Strength Indicator. - TA: Time Advance. - GMSK: Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying. - PCM: Pulse Code Modulation. - ASC: Advanced Speech Coding. - RPE-LTP: Regular Pulse ExcitationLong Term Prediction. - ARQ: Automatic Repeat Request. - FEC: Forward Error Correction. - SAP: Service Access Point. - SAPI: SAP Identifier. - CC: Call Control. - MM: Mobility Management. - RR: Radio Resources. - GSC: GSM Speech Codec. - TRAU: Transcoding & Rate Adaption Unit. - LAPDm: Link Access Procedure on Dm Channels. - AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate. - DFCA: Dynamic Frequency and Channel Assignment. - TFO: Tandem Free Operation. - HSCSD: High-Speed Circuit Switched Data.

- GPRS: General Packet Radio Service. - EDGE: Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution. - CAMEL: Customized Application for Mobile Enhanced Logic. - GSN: GPRS Support Nodes. - GGSN: Gateway GSN. - SGSN: Serving GSN. - PDN: Packet Data Network. - GR: GPRS Register. - PCU: Packet Control Unit.

Week 5
- CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access. - W-CDMA: Wide-CDMA. - TD-SCDMA: Time DivisionSynchronous CMDA. - PN: Pseudo-noise/Pseudorandom Number. - FHSS: Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum. - DSSS: Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum. - CPS: Chip per Second. - MAI: Multiple Access Interference. - ML: Maximum Length (Shift Register). - OVSF Codes: Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor Codes.

Week 6
- ITU: International Telecommunication Union. - IMT: International Mobile Telecommunications. - PDA: Personal Digital Assistant. - UMTS: Universal Mobile Telephone Service. - GMM: Global Multimedia Mobility. - UTRAN: UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network. - RNS: Radio Network Subsystem. - RNC: Radio Network Controller. - USIM: UMTS Subscriber Identity Module. - 3GPP: 3G Partnership Project. - IMS: IP Multimedia Subsystem. - SIP: Session Initiation Protocol. - GERAN: GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network. - MGW: Media Gateway. - SGW: Serving Gateway. - TrFO: Transcoder Free Operation. - DSR: Distributed Speech Recognition. - VAD: Voice Activity Detection.