er Split Low Mobility Large Cell Low Power Idle low-power wide area Licensed Shared Access label switched path label switch router Long-Term Evolution LTE-WLAN Aggregation Medium Access Control Management and Network Orchestration Acronyms and Abbreviations xxvii Mobile Broadband Mobile Country Code Master Cell Group maximum coupling loss Modulation Coding Scheme MCS/MPS mission-critical and priority services Minimization of Drive Tests MEC application orchestrator Mobile Edge Compute Multi-access edge computing Mobile Edge Orchestrator medium earth orbit Mobile Edge Platform Manager Master Information Block Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Massachusetts Institute of Technology machine learning mobility load balancing Mobility Management Element Mobility Management Entity Master Node Mobile Network Code management function Mobile Network Operators management service Managed Object Instance multiprotocol label switching MPLS-TP MPLS Transport Profile MR-DC Multi-Radio Dual Connectivity Mobility Robustness Optimization Minimum System Information Mobile Satellite Services mobility termination Machine Type Communication MU-MIMO multi-user MIMO N3IWF Non-3GPP Interworking Function Network-as-a-Service non-access stratum Network Elements NE-DC NR-E-UTRA dual connectivity Network Exposure Function network function nFAPI Network FAPI Network Function Management Function Network Function Virtualization xxviii Acronyms and Abbreviations NFV/SDN Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks network function virtualization infrastructure network function virtualization orchestrator NG-AP NG Application Protocol NG control plane NG-RAN 5G Radio Access Network NG user plane NG Application Protocol NGEN-DC E-UTRA-NR dual connectivity Next Generation Fronthaul Interface Next Generation Mobile Networks Neutral Host Network next hop Network Interface Card network ID non-line-of-sight network manager Network Monitor Mode network management system NNHOP next next hop Non-public networks New Radio NR-DC NR-NR dual c