| 3GPP |
Third Generation Partnership Project |
| 4G |
Fourth Generation |
| 5G |
Fifth Generation |
| 5GC |
5G Core Network |
| 6G |
Sixth Generation |
| ACK |
ACKnowledged |
| AKA |
Authentication and Key Agreement |
| AMM |
Alternating Majorization-Minimization |
| ARQ |
Automatic Repeat reQuest |
| AOA |
Angle of Arrival |
| AWGN |
Additive White Gaussian Noise |
| BA |
Beam Alignment |
| BCD |
Block Coordinate Descent |
| BFR |
Beam Failure Recovery |
| BPSK |
Binary Phase Shift Keying |
| BS |
Base Station |
| BWP |
Bandwidth Part |
| CCD |
Cyclic Coordinate Descent |
| CFI |
Control Format Indicator |
| CFO |
Carrier Frequency Offset |
| C/M-CCD |
Conventional/Modified CCD |
| CORESET |
COntrol REsource SET |
| CNN |
Convolutional Neural Network |
| CP |
Cyclic Prefix |
| CPE |
Common Phase Error |
| CSI |
Channel State Information |
| CW |
Codeword |
| CN |
Core Network |
| D2D |
Device-to-Device |
| DAI |
Downlink Assignment Index |
| DEL |
Deep Learning |
| DCI |
Downlink Control Information |
| DCAE |
Deep-Convolutional Autoencoder |
| DCTF |
Differential Constellation Trace Figure |
| DL |
Downlink |
| DMRS |
Demodulation Reference Signals |
| DoS |
Denial of Service |
| DDoS |
Distributed Denial of Service |
| DM-RS |
DeModulation Reference Signals |
| DWT |
Discrete Wavelet Transform |
| EPNRE |
Energy Per Null Resource Elements |
| EPC |
Evolved Packet Core |
| EPS |
Evolved Packet System |
| eNB |
Evolved Node B |
| FBS |
False Base Station |
| gNB |
gNodeB |
| FDD |
Frequency Division Duplex |
| FR |
Frequency Ranges |
| FR1 |
Frequency Range 1 |
| FR2 |
Frequency Range 2 |
| FR3 |
Frequency Range 3 |
| GP |
Guard Period |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| GTP |
GPRS Tunnelling Protocol |
| GSM |
Global System for Mobile communications |
| GT |
Guard Time |
| HARQ |
Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest |
| ICI |
Inter-Carrier Interference |
| IMSI |
International Mobile Subscriber Identity |
| IoT |
Internet of Things |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IQ |
In-Phase Quadrature |
| JCaS |
Joint Communication and Sensing |
| LAA |
License Assisted Access |
| LoRa |
Long Range |
| LPWAN |
Low-Power Wide Area Network |
| LTE |
Long Term Evolution |
| LSTM |
Long Short-Term Memory |
| MAC |
Multiple Access Channel |
| MIB |
Master Information Block |
| MIMO |
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output |
| MITM |
Man-In-The-Middle |
| ML |
Machine Learning |
| ML |
Maximum Likelihood |
| MLP |
Multi-Layer Perceptron |
| mMIMO |
massive-MIMO |
| MSA |
Multi-head self attention |
| MSE |
Mean Square Error |
| MTC |
Machine Type Communication |
| MU-MIMO |
Multi User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output |
| NACK |
Non-ACKnowledged |
| NB-IoT |
Narrow Band IoT |
| NAS |
Non-Access Stratum |
| NLP |
Natural Language Processing |
| NR |
New Radio |
| NR-U |
New Radio Unlicensed |
| NSA |
Non Stand Alone |
| NTN |
Non Terrestrial Networks |
| OFDM |
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| PBCH |
Physical Broadcast Channel |
| PC-CVR |
Principal Components of Channel Virtual Representation |
| PCFICH |
Physical Control Format Indicator Channel |
| PCI |
Physical Cell ID |
| PDCCH |
Physical Downlink Control Channel |
| PO |
PDCCH Order |
| PDSCH |
Physical Downlink Shared Channel |
| PDF |
Probability Density Function |
| PHY |
Physical |
| PHICH |
Physical Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel |
| PRACH |
Physical Random Access Channel |
| PSS |
Primary Synchronization Signal |
| PT-RS |
Phase Tracking Reference Signal |
| PUCCH |
Physical Uplink Control Channel |
| PUSCH |
Physical Uplink Shared Channel |
| QAM |
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation |
| QPSK |
Quadriphase Phase Shift Keying |
| RACH |
Random Access Channel |
| RAN |
Radio Access Network |
| RB |
Resource Block |
| RE |
Resource Element |
| RF |
Radio Frequency |
| RIS |
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces |
| RNN |
Recurrent Neural Network |
| RRC |
Radio Resource Control |
| RA |
Random Access |
| RAN |
Radio Access Network |
| RS |
Reference Signal |
| RNTI |
Radio Network Temporary Identifier |
| RS |
Reference Signal |
| RSS |
Received Signal Strength |
| RSRP |
Reference Signal Received Power |
| RSRQ |
Reference Signal Received Quality |
| SA |
Stand Alone |
| SCA |
Successive Convex Approximation |
| SCS |
Sub-Carrier Spacing |
| SW |
Software |
| SDR |
Software Defined Radio |
| SFI |
Slot Format Indicator |
| SIB |
System Information Block |
| SINR |
Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio |
| SNR |
Signal to Noise Ratio |
| SP |
Semi-Presistent |
| SP-SRS |
Single Panel Sounding Reference Signal |
| SR |
Scheduling Request |
| SRS |
Sounding Reference Signals |
| SS |
Synchronization Signal |
| SSB |
Synchronization Signal Block |
| SRS |
Sounding Reference Signal |
| CSI-RS |
Channel State Information Reference Signal |
| SSS |
Secondary Synchronization Signal |
| STAR-RIS |
Simultaneous Transmitting and Receiving RIS |
| STFT |
Short-Time Fourier transform |
| TA |
Timing Advance |
| TDD |
Time Division Duplex |
| TD-LTE |
Time Division Long Term Evolution |
| TDoA |
Time Difference of Arrival |
| TPC |
Transmit Power-Control |
| UCI |
Uplink Control Information |
| UE |
User Equipment |
| UL |
Uplink |
| UMTS |
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
| UP |
User Plane |
| V2X |
Vehicle-to-Everything |
| VLR |
Visitor Location Register |
| WiMAX |
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access |
| WLAN |
Wireless Local Area Network |
| CP |
Control Plane |
| PEI |
Permanent Equipment Identifier |
| SUPI |
Subscriber Permanent Identifier |
| SUCI |
Subscriber Concealed Identifier |
| ECIES |
Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme |
| IPsec |
IP Security |
| ESP |
Encapsulating Security Payload |
| IKEv2 |
Internet Key Exchange version 2 |
| SBI |
Service-Based Interface |
| TLS |
Transport Layer Security |
| NIA |
Network Integrity Algorithms |
| NEA |
Network Encryption Algorithms |
| PLMN |
Public Land Mobile Network |