Network) 45, 51 7, 9-13, 20-23, 35, 36, 273, 276, 324 HSS (Home Subscriber Server) 40, 51, 52, ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector) 28, 351, 352, 356, 358-360, 367, 369, 370-372, 376, I/Q (In-phase & Quadrature) 128-130, 191-193, 195-197, 200, 206, 207, 391 IWF (Interworking Function) 128, 285-288 IAB (Integrated Access-Backhaul) 3, 61, 216, 235-255, 367 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Engineers) 8, 18, 24, 26, 28, 29, 38, 330, 344 64, 78, 79, 190, 192, 193, 200, 202, 212, 287, 324, 325, 349, 351-353, 355-359, 367, 372, 375 K8S (Kubernetes) 283, 286, 289 IET (Interspersing Express Traffic) IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) 29, 57, 58, 62, 79, 155, 229, 233, 256, L1-RSRP (Layer 1 Reference Signal 310, 349, 371, 373, 375 Received Power) 113, 117, 118 iFFT (Inverse FFT) 126, 136, 196-198 L3VPN (Layer 3 VPN) 363, 365 Index LAA (Licensed Assisted Access) MIB (Master Information Block) 97, 108, LAG (Link Aggregation) 352 120, 148, 152, 154, 228 LBT (Listen-Before-Talk) MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) LCM (Life Cycle Management) 100, 101, 112, 115, 126, 130, 131, 192, 307, 328, 332, 335, 337, 341 195, 197, 221, 264, 339, 340, 357, 358 LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 118-120 LEO (Low Earth Orbit) 257-259, ML (Machine Learning) 283, 342 266, 267, 269, 271, 274 MLB (Mobility Load Balancing) 343 LFA (Loop Free Alternates) 356, 371 MME (Mobility Management Entity) 39-42, LLC (Logical Link Control) 49-52, 158, 160, 161, 169, 170, 172, LLS (Lower-Layer Split) 191-212 173, 189, 299, 364 LMLC (Low Mobility Large Cell) MN (Master Node) 61, 82, 156, 157, LPI (Low Power Idle) 360 160-174, 185 LPWA (Low-Power Wide Area) 39, 50 MNC (Mobile Network Code) LSA (Licensed Shared Access) 7, 8, 16, 17 MnF (Management Function) LSP (Label Switched Path) 372, 377 MNO (Mobile Network Operators) 20, 43, LSR (Label Switch Router) 369, 371 61, 221, 222, 304, 321 LWA (LTE-WLAN Aggregation) MnS