s, 45 Class of Service (CoS) VS. Quality of Service (QoS), 194 coaxial line characteristic impedance, 46 class-based queuing (CBQ), 196-7 microstrip line characteristic impedance, 46-8 differential services, 194 twin parallel wire characteristic impedance, 46 IEEE 802.1 p/Q, 194 Linear block codes, 206 prioritized queuing, 196 CRC codes, 208 priority queuing, 196 digital fountain codes, 209 Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), 195-6 irregular repeat-accumulate (IRA) codes, 209 UDP ports, 194 lattice codes, 209 VLANs, 194 LDPC codes, 208-9 weighted fair queuing (WFQ), 196 Reed-Solomon codes, 208 IP softphone, 190-1 Tornado codes, 209 IrDA (Infrared Data Association), 418 Linear finite state machine (LFSM), 210 Iridium, 7 Linear programming (LP), 100 Irregular repeat-accumulate (IRA) codes, 209 Link adaptation, 295-6 Isotropic antenna, 24, 148 and channel-dependent scheduling, 300 Isotropic light source, 23 List Viterbi algorithm (LVA), 212 Iterative Sensitivity Adjustment (ISA) algorithm, 225 Listed directory number (LDN), 163 ITU, IMT-2000 in, 263-4 Lloyd-Max, 514 ITU BT.709, 484 LoadableDevice class, 105 ITU BT.1358, 484 Local Access and Transport Areas (LATAs), 158 ITU-R BT.709, 495, 496 Local Area Network (LAN), 153-4, 155, 157, 383-4 ITU-T Reference Model 8 (RM8), 521 Local area systems, 4, 6-7 IXCs, see Interexchange Carriers (IECs) Bluetooth personal area networks, 7 Infrared Data Association (IrDA), 6 infrared signals, 6 Jaguar PRC-116, 119 wireless local area networks, 7 Java, 109-10 Local Exchange Carriers (LECs), 160 Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), 110 Local multipoint distribution system (LMDS), 6 Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), 110 Log Periodic Yagis, 28 Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), 109 Logical Channel Number (LCN), 155 Java VM (JVM), 109 Logical link control (LLC) layer, 415 Jitter, 182, 188 Long-Term Evolution (LTE), 259, 270 Joint Pictures Expert Group (JPEG), 503 drivers and philosophy, 271 Index Long-term fading, 352-4 fading prediction, 367-70 LoS formula, 339 long-term fading, 352-4 Loss-con