WIMAX Explained

Appendix 1

Acronyms

3DES- Triple Data Encryption Standard

AAS- Adaptive Antenna System

ABR- Available Bit Rate

ACK- Acknowledgment

AISN- ARQ Identifier sequence number

AK- Authorization Key

AMC- Adaptive Modulation and Coding

AOA- Angle of Arrival

AOD- Angle of Departure

AP- Access Point

ARQ- Automatic Repeat Request

ASIC- Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ATDD- Adaptive Time Division Duplex

ATM- Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATS- Abstract Test Suite

BE- Best Effort Service

BER- Bit Error Rate

BPSK- Binary Phase-Shift Keying

BRAN- Broadband Radio Access Networks

BRS- Broadband Radio Service

BS- Base Station

BSN- Block Sequence Number

BTC- Block Turbo Code

BWA- Broadband Wireless Access

BW- Bandwidth

C/I- Carrier To Interference Signal Ratio

CAC- Call Admission Control

CBC- Cipher Block Chaining

CBLER- Coded Block Error Rate

CBR- Constant Bit Rate

CC- Convolutional Coding

CDMA- Code Division Multiple Access

CID- Connection Identifier

CINR- Carrier to interference-plus-noise ratio

CLR- Cell Loss Rate

COS- Class Of Service

CPE- Customer Premises Equipment

CRC- Cyclic Redundancy Check

CSCH- Centralized Scheduling

CS- Convergence Sublayer

CSMA/CA- Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance

CTS- Clear To Send

DAMA- Demand Assigned Multiple Access

DBPC- Downlink Burst Profile Change

DCD- Downlink Channel Descriptor

DCF- Distributed Coordination Function

DES- Data Encryption Standard

DFS- Dynamic Frequency Selection

DHCP- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIUC- Downlink Interval Usage Code

DL- Downlink

DLFP- Downlink Frame Prefix

DOCSIS+- Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification +

DSA- Dynamic Service Addition

DSC- Dynamic Service Change

DSCH- Distributed Scheduling

DSCP- Differentiated Service Code Point

DSD- Dynamic Service Delete

DSL- Digital Subscriber Line

DVB- Digital Video Broadcast

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