propagation, 338-42, 658-61 NS/EP, 246 Multiple access schemes, 19, 335, 350-8, 448-52 NSCF, 189-90 see also CDMA; FDMA; OFDMA; TDMA NSPs, 34-43, 47-50, 430-6 Multiplexing, 26, 30, 78-82, 85-7, 90-5, 170, 179-83, NWG, 25 299-319, 326-7, 337, 342-55, 361-3, 411-12, Nyquist rate, 350, 384 426-48, 457-62, 476-8, 490, 495-507, 534-42, 549-50, 557-60, 575-8, 612-19, 634-56 OFDM, 19, 25, 26, 193, 278-9, 335-8, 359-94, 395-8, Multipoint-to-multipoint service class categories, 210-15 418-26, 434-6, 446, 449, 453-5, 460-7, 482-3, 491, Multipoint-to-point service class categories, 210-15 496-507, 530-36, 538-44, 551-60, 579, 589, MWG, 25 599-601, 611, 614, 629-36, 679-720 MZones, 206-9, 363-4 advantages, 349-50 see also Frequency regions; Time zones concepts, 342-55, 357, 361-94, 395-8, 446, 449, 530-34, 538-42, 551-60 NACC, 140-6 OFDMA, 19, 350-8, 360, 364-82, 384-94, 426-49, 459-62, NACK, 78-81, 153-5, 250-2, 255-62, 275-6, 289-99, 538-42, 546-8, 574-5, 610-11, 631-36, 650-55, 667 314-19, 376-82, 438-48, 470-79, 505-6, 528-30, On duration timer, 275-6, 644-8 534-8, 579-607, 614-19, 628-9, 652, 662-4, 679-80 Open-loop systems, 505, 545-8, 578-607, 611-19, 664, 681-82 NAP, 34-7, 49-52 Operating frequency requirements, 11 Narrowband, 528-37, 551, 576, 592-6, 612, 632-3 Operational states, 100-46, 217-43, 440 NAS, 43, 56-9, 89-95, 142-6, 266-78, 328-32, 653, see also State 709-12 Optical fibre connections, 2 NCC, 330-2 OSG, 134-9 NCMS, 63-9, 74-6 OSI, 12, 14-15, 23, 61-3, 149-50, 217 Index OTA, 37 PER, 253-9, 269, 278-9, 564, 593-7, 609-10, 667-9, OUI, 172 692-700, 716-17 Outage probabilities, 659-61 Performance issues, 9-13, 23-4, 26-30, 37, 46-7, 124-6, 335, Outage throughput, 660-71 336-8, 358-63, 391-2, 414-15, 416-26, 433-6, 489, Overhead static/dynamic performance issues, 662-4, 679-82, 490-528, 544-78, 601-610, 626-56, 656-721 700-720 concepts, 416-20, 489, 548-78, 657-721 definition of performance metrics, 657-61 P-GW, 56-9, 276-8 IMT-Advanced systems, 657-8, 669-74, 676-8, 686, 689, P-SCH, 472, 478-81 700, 714 P-SFH