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

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

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

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

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)

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.

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

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)


	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


	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


	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


	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


	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)


	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.


	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


	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)