Appendix A
Acronyms
1G First-Generation
2G Second-Generation
3G Third-Generation
4G Fourth-Generation
3GPP 3G Partnership Project
ABATE ACTS Broadband Aeronautical Terminal Experiment
ACCORD ACTS Broadband-Communcation Joint Trials and Demonstrations
ACK Acknowledgement
ACTS Advanced Communications Technologies and Services
ACTS Advanced Communications Technologies Satellite
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
AFD Average Fade Duration
AGCH Access Grant Channel
AHM Authentication Handler Mobile Terminal
AHN Authentication Handler Visited Network
AHU Authentication Handler User
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Services
AOR-E Atlantic Ocean Region – East
AOR-W Atlantic Ocean Region – West
APC Adaptive Predictive Coding
APN Access Point Name
ARFCN RF Channel Number
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request
ASE Application Service Element
ASK Amplitude Shift Keying
AUC Authentication Centre
AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise
B-O-QAM Binary-O-QAM
BACH Basic Alerting Channel

BCC Base Station Colour Code
BCCH Broadcast Control Channel
BCF Bearer Control Function
BCH Bose–Chadhuri–Hocquenghem
BER Bit Error Rate
Mobile Satellite Communication Networks. Ray E. Sheriff and Y. Fun Hu
Copyright q 2001 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBNs: 0-471-72047-X (Hardback); 0-470-845562 (Electronic)
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BFN Beam Forming Network
BGAN Broadband GAN
BPSK Binary PSK
BS Base Station
BSC Base Station Controller
BSIC Base Station Identity Code
BSS Base Station System
BSSMAP BSS Management Application Part
BSSMP BSS Mobile Part
BTS Base Transceiver Station
BTSM BTS Management
BWB Blended-Wing Body
CAI Common Air Interface
CBR Carrier and Bit timing Recovery
CCCH Common Control Channel
CCE Capabilities Check Environment
CCF Call Control Function
CCT Capabilities Check Terminal
CDG CDMA Development Group
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data

CEFM Combined EFM
CEPT Conference of European Posts and Telegraphs
CGI Cell Global Identification
CI Carrier Information
CI Cell Identity
CI Control Information
CIMS Customer Information Management System
CM Connection Management
CN Core Network
CoA Care-of-Address
COMETS Communications and Broadcasting Engineering Test Satellite
CONUS Continental United States
CPFSK Continuous Phase Frequency Shift Keying
CSCF Call State Control Function
CT-2 Cordless Telephone-2
D-AMPS Digital AMPS
DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting
DAB-T DAB-Terrestrial
DCA Dynamic Channel Assignment
DCCH Dedicated Control Channel
DCS1800 Digital Cellular System 1800
DDB DataBase
DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
DMT Dual-Mode Terminal
DPC Destination Point Code
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DPSK Differential PSK
DQPSK Differential QPSK
DR Directory Register
DS-CDMA Direct Sequence-CDMA

DS-SSMA Direct Sequence-SSMA
DSS Direct Spreading Sequence
DTAP Direct Transfer Application Part
DVB Digital Video Broadcast
DVB-RCS DVB-Return Channel via Satellite
DVB-T DVB-Terrestrial
E-TACS Extended-TACS
ECSD Enhanced HSCSD
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EFM Empirical Fading Model
EGC Enhanced Group Call
EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service
EGPRS Enhanced GPRS
EIR Equipment Interface Register
EIRP Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
EMS European Mobile Satellite
ERAST Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology
ERS Empirical Roadside Shadowing
ESA European Space Agency
ETACS Extended TACS
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EU European Union
EUTELSAT European Telecommunication Satellite Organisation
F-FH Fast FH
FACCH Fast Associated Control Channel
FCA Fixed Channel Assignment
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FCC Fundamental Code Channel
FCH Frequency Correction Channel
FDD Frequency Division Duplex

FDM Frequency Division Multiplex
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FEC Forward Error Correction
FES Fixed Earth Station
FH Frequency Hopping
FM Frequency Modulation
FOCC Forward Control Channel
FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication Systems
FS Fixed Station
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FSL Free Space Loss
FTP File Transfer Protocol
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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
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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
m
Link Access Protocol on D
m
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