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. 2024 Aug 26;24(17):5523. doi: 10.3390/s24175523
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