1	Acronyms ACM Address Complete Message AGCH Access Grant Channel AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System ANS Answer message ANSI American National Standards Institute AuC Authentication Center BCCH Broadcast Control Channel BISDN Broadband ISDN BOC Bell Operating Companies BSC Base Station Controller BSS Base Station Subsystem BSSMAP BSS Management Application Part BTS Base Transceiver Station CATV Cable Television CBCH Cell Broadcast Channel CC Call Control CCIR Comite Consultatif International Radio CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telephony and Telegraphy (French) CDMA Code Division Multiple Access CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data CEPT European Conference of Posts and Telecommunications CGSA Cellular Geographic Service Area CLNP ConnectionLess Network Protocol CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check CT2 Cordless Telephone 2 DCE Data Circuit-terminating Equipment DCS1800 Digital Communication System DECT Digital European Cordless Telephone DNS Domain Name Server DPC Destination Point Code DTAP Direct Transit Appl. Part DTE Data Terminal Equipment
2	Acronyms E-TDMA Extended TDMA EIA Electronic Industries Association EIR Equipment Identity Register ETSI European Telecommunication Standards Institute FACCH Fast Associated Control Channel FCC Federal Communications Commission FCCH Frequency Correction Channel FDD Frequency Division Duplex FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access FEC Forward Error Correction FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System GMSC Gateway MSC GMSK Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying GPCH GPRS Packet Channel GPRS General Packet Radio Service GSM Groupe Speciale Mobile, Global System for Mobile Communications HDLC High level Data Link Control HLR Home Location Register HSN Hopping Sequence Number IAB Internet Activities Board IAM Initial Address Message IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity IMTS Improved Mobile Telephone Service IN Intelligent Network IP Internet Protocol ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
3	Acronyms ISO International Standards Organization ISP Intermediate Service Part ISUP ISDN User Part ITU International Telecommunication Union ITU-T ITU Telecommunication Sector IWF Interworking Function LAI Location Area Identifier LAN Local Area Network LAP Link Access Protocol LAPB Link Access Protocol - B Channel LAPD Link Access Protocol - D Channel LAPDm LAPD Mobile LCI Local Cell Identifier LSAI Local Service Area identifier LSB Least Significant Bit M-ES Mobile End System MAC Medium Access Control MAIO Mobile Allocation Index Offset MAN Metropolitan Area Network MAP Mobile Application Part MD-IS Mobile Data Intermediate System MDBS Mobile DataBase Station MH Mobile Host MIN Mobile Identification Number MM Mobility Management MNLP Mobile Network Location Protocol MoU Memorandum of Understanding MS Mobile Station MSC Mobile services Switching Center MSIC Mobile Subscriber Identification Number MSISDN Mobile System ISDN MTA Mobile Telephone System A MTB Mobile Telephone System B MTD Mobile Telephone System D MTP Message Transfer Part MTSO Mobile Telephone Switching Office
4	Acronyms NEI Network Entity Identifier NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone OACSU Off-Air Call Set Up OAM Operations, Administration, and Maintenance OPC Origin Point Code OSI Open System Interconnection PAD Packet Assembler Disassembler PCC Power Control Channel PCCA Portable Computer and Communications Association PCH Paging Channel PCS Personal Communications System PIN Personal Identification Number PD Protocol Discriminator PLMN Public Land Mobile Network PMR Private land Mobile Radio POTS Plain Old Telephone Service PSPDN Packet Switched Packet Data Network PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network RACE Research on Advanced Communications in Europe RACH Random Access Channel RBOCs Regional Bell Operating Companies RECC Reverse Control Channel RF Radio Frequency RIL3 Radio Interface Layer 3 RLP Radio Link Protocol RR Radio Resources SACCH Slow Associated Control Channel
5	References Websites Industry Canada website on spectrum management: http://spectrum.ic.gc.ca/ GSM Association Website: http://www.gsmworld.com/ ITU website: http://www.itu.int/ IMT 2000 website: http://www.itu.int/imt/ 3rd Generation Partnership Project: http://www.3gpp.org/ 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2: http://www.3gpp2.org/ IEEE standards: http://standards.ieee.org/ WiFi Forum: http://www.wi-fi.org/ WiMax Forum: http://www.wimaxforum.org/ Bluetooth website: http://www.bluetooth.com/ IETF website http://www.ietf.org/ Open Mobile Alliance: http://www.openmobilealliance.org/ (replaces WAPFORUM)
6	References Books Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications, 2^nd edition, Pearson Education Limited 2003, ISBN 0-321-12381-6 William Stallings, Wireless Communications and Networks, Prentice Hall 2002, ISBN 0-13-040864-6. Charles E. Perkins, Ad Hoc Networking, Addison-Wesley 2001, ISBN 0-201-30976-9. Charles E. Perkins, Mobile IP: Design Principles and Practice, Addison-Wesley 1998, ISBN 0-201-63469-4. Ellen Kayata Wesel, Wireless Multimedia Communications, Addison-Wesley 1998, ISBN 0-201-63394-9. David J. Goodman, Wireless Personal Communications Systems, Addison-Wesley 1997, ISBN 0-201-63470-8. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall 1996, ISBN 0-13-349945-6. Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 1996, ISBN 1-55860-368-9. Uyless Black, Mobile and Wireless Networks, Prentice Hall 1996, ISBN 0-13-440546-3.
7	References Journals/Magazines IEEE Communications Magazine IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (was IEEE Personal Communications Magazine) IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review
8	References Conferences ACM MobiCom (Mobile Computing and Networking) ACM MobiHoc (Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing) ACM MobiSys (Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services) ACM SenSys (Sensor Systems) IEEE Infocom (IEEE Communications Society Conference) IEEE WCNC (Wireless Communications and Networking Conference) IEEE WMCSA (Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications) IEEE PerCom (Pervasive Computing and Communications) IEEE Sensors Pervasive (European Pervasive Computing Conference) And a wide range of more specialized workshops and tracks at general communications/networking-related conferences such as ICDCS (International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems) or ICPP (International Conference on Parallel Computing)