Glossary

 

A reference for anyone lost in the alphabet soup that surrounds the world of quality:

2G
3G
3GPP
AFP
AMR
BER
BLER
BSS
Call Generator
CFO
CINR
Codec
CPICH
CQI
CSI
CSSR
DCR
Downlink
EFR
EIF
ETSI
eUTRAN
FER
FDD
GRAKE
GSM
HARQ
IBC
IMEI
IREG
ITU
LQ
LTE
MIMO
MISO
MNRU
MOS
MSC
MSISDN
OFDMA
PCI
PCIG
PCM
PESQ
PESQ-LQ
PMI
P-SCH
PSTN
QAM
QDU
QOS
RB
RS
RSRP
RSRQ
RSSI
RXLEV
RXQUAL
SC-FDMA
SCH
SwissQual Index
SNR
TCP
Uplink
Second Generation Mobile (GSM)
Third Generation Mobile
3rd Generation Partnership Project
Automated Frequency Planning
Adaptive Multi Rate Voice Coder
Bit Error Rate
Block Error Rate
Base Station System
SwissQual device used to generate test calls
Carrier Frequency Offset
Carrier to Interference plus Noise Ratio
Analogue to digital converter for voice
Common Pilot Channel
Channel Quality Indicator
Channel State Information
Call Setup Success Rate
Dropped Call Rate
Radio path from the PSTN to the mobile
Enhanced full rate voice coder
Equipment Impairment Factors
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
Frame Erasure Rate
Frequency Division Multiplex
Generalised RAKE receiver
Global System For Mobile
Hybrid Automated Repeat Request
In Building Coverage
International Mobile Equipment Identifier
International Roaming (Experts) Group
International Telecommunications Union
Listening quality (ITU-T P.800)
Long Term Evolution
Multiple Input, Multiple Output
Multiple Input, Single Output
Modulated Noise Reference Unit
Mean Opinion Score (ITU-T P.800)
Mobile Switching Centre
A mobile device’s “telephone number”
Orthogonal Frequency Division Mulitple Access
Physical Layer Cell Identity
Physical Layer Cell Identity Group
Pulse Code Modulation
Perceptual Evaluation Of Speech Quality (ITU-T P.862)
PESQ using a 1-5 MOS-like scale
Precoder Matrix Indicator
Primary Synchronisation Channel
(Fixed) Public Switched Telephone Network
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
Quantisation Distortion Unit
Quality Of Service
Resource Block
Reference Signal
Reference Signal Received Power
Reference Signal Recieved Quality
Received Signal Strength Indicator
Received signal level strength (db)
A quality measure inferred from the bit error rate of a signal
Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access
Synchronisation Channel
A combined measure for quality using MOS plus other KQIs
Signal to Noise Ratio
Transaction Control Protocol
Radio path from the mobile to the PSTN

 
 
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