Abbreviations

A

AA  Access Address

ACK  Acknowledgement

AFH   Adaptive Frequency Hopping

ARIB Association of Radio Industries & Businesses

AGV  Automated Guided Vehicles

ARQ  Automatic Repeat Request

B

BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying

BLE      Bluetooth Low Energy

C

CIOT Cellular Internet of Things

CI      Coding Indicator (for Blurtooth 5)

CI      Connection Interval (BLE)

CE    Coverage Enhancement

CRC  Cyclic Redundancy Checks

D

DMRS Demodulation Reference Signals

DETNET  DETerministic NETwork

DCI Downlink Control Information

E

ERRI Electric Power Research Institute

EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

EtherCAT Ethernet for Controlled Automation Technology

EC-GSM-IoT Extended Coverage GSM Internet of Things

FEC Forward Error Coding

F

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FDD Frequency Division Duplexing

FSK Frequency Shift Keying

G

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GSM Global System for Mobile Communications

H

HARQ Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request

I

IIOT Industrial Internet of Things

ISM Industrial, Science, and Medicine

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IP Internet Protocol

IoT Internet of Things

ISP Internet Service Provider

L

LFSR Linear Feedback Shift Register

LoRa Long Range Radio

LPWAN Low-power Wide Area Network

LTE  Long-Term Evolution

LTE-M LTE for Machine-Type Communications

M

M2M Machine To Machine

MTC Machine Type Communications

MIB Master Information Block

MNO Mobile Network Operators

MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output

N

NB-IoT Narrowband Internet of Things

NB-PLC Narrow-Band PLC

NACK Negative Acknowledgement

O

OFDM Frequency Division Multiplexing

P

PCFICH Physical Control Format Indicator Channel

PBCH  Physical Downlink Broadcast Channel

PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel

PRACH Physical Random Access Channel

PRB Physical Resource Blocks

PUCCH Physical Uplink Control Channel

PUSCH Physical Uplink Shared Channel

PLC Power Line Communication

PCP priority Code Point

Profinet Process Field Network

PCG Project Coordination Group

PDU Protocol Date Unit

Q

QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QoS Quality of Service

R

RAN Radio Access Networks

RU Resource Unit

RFID Radio Frequency Identification

S

SA Systems Aspects

SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio

SRS Sounding Reference Signal

SIG Special Interest Group

T

TSG Technical Specification Groups

TbE TeraBit Ethernet

TDD Time Division duplexing

TSG Technical Specification Groups

TBS Transport Block Size

V

V2X Vehicle-To-Everything

VLAN Virtual Local Area Network

W

WG Working Groups

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3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project