3GPP

Third Generation Partnership Project

ACK

acknowledgment (packet)

ACL

Asynchronous Connection-Less

AFD

average fade duration

AFRD

average fade region duration

AGC

automatic gain control

AMPS

Advance Mobile Phone Service

AOA

angle of arrival

AODV

ad hoc on-demand distance vector

APP

a posteriori probability

ARQ

automatic repeat request (protocol)

ASE

area spectral efficiency

AWGN

additive white Gaussian noise

BC

broadcast channel

BCH

Bose Chadhuri Hocquenghem

BER

bit error rate

BICM

bit-interleaved coded modulation

BLAST

Bell Labs Layered Space Time

BPSK

binary phase-shift keying

BS

base station

CCK

complementary code keying

CD

code division

cdf

cumulative distribution function

CDI

channel distribution information

CDMA

code-division multiple access

CDPD

cellular digital packet data

CLT

central limit theorem

COVQ

channel-optimized vector quantizer

CPFSK

continuous-phase FSK

CSI

channel side information

CSIR

CSI at the receiver

CSIT

CSI at the transmitter

CSMA

carrier-sense multiple access

CTS

clear to send (packet)

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

D-BLAST

diagonal BLAST

DCA

dynamic channel assignment

DCS

Digital Cellular System

DECT

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications

DFE

decision-feedback equalization

DFT

discrete...