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. 2017 Jun 21;17(6):1457. doi: 10.3390/s17061457
3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
ASCI Advanced Speech Call Items
BS Base Station
BSC Base Station Controller
CA Carrier Aggregation
CBTC Communications Based Train Control
CCBG Critical Communication Broadband Group
CCTV Closed-Circuit Television
CoMP Coordinated Multi-point
DL Downlink
DSS Decision Support System
EGPRS Enhanced General Packet Radio Service
EIRENE European Integrated Railway Radio Enhanced NEtwork
eLDA enhanced Location Dependent Addressing
eMBMS Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service
eMLPP enhanced Multi-Level Precedence and Pre-emption
EMU Electric Multiple Unit
eREC enhanced Railway Emergency Call
ERA European Railway Agency
ERTMS European Rail Traffic Management System
ETCS European Train Control System
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
FA Functional Addressing
FRS Functional Requirements Specification
GCR Group Call Register
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite Systems
GSMA GSM Association
GSM-R Global System for Mobile Communications-Railways
HMI Human-Machine Interface
IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
IMT-Advanced International Mobile Telecommunications - Advanced
IoT Internet of Things
QoE Quality of Experience
QoS Quality of Service
LAS Link Assurance Signal
LDA Location Dependant Addressing
LTE-A LTE-Advanced
M2M Machine-to-Machine
MAC Medium Access Control
MBMS Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service
MBSFN Multicast and Broadcast over Single Frequency Networks
MCPTT Mission Critical Push To Talk over LTE
MRO Maintenance, Repair and Operation
MS Mobile Station
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
PoC Push-to-Talk over Cellular
ProSe Proximity Services
RAMS Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety
SIL Safety Integrity Level
TCC Train Control Center
TEDS TETRA Enhanced Data Service
TETRA Trans European Trunked RAdio
UIC Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer
UL Uplink
VBS Voice Broadcast Service
VGCS Voice Group Call Service
VoLTE Voice over LTE
WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WSN Wireless Sensor Networks