190, 230 Point-to-Point Topology, 60 Radio Channel Management is an Integral Power Boosters, 36 Function of the BSC, 56 INDEX Radio Link Control (RLC), 113, 115, 121, 125, Scope of Radio network Planning, 21, 149 127, 132, 169 Scrambling Codes, 162, 170 Radio Link Management (RLM), 13, 189 SDCCH, 24, 49, 52, 258 Radio Network Controller (RNC), 14, 15, 170, SDH, 79-81, 181, 191, 195, 196, 198, 201, 232 179, 181, 188-190, 197, 198, 200, 206, SDH Equipment Clock (SEC), 80, 81 208, 212-214, 221, 222 SDH Interface, 181, 195 Radio Network Optimisation, 47, 124, 142 SDH Network, 80, 81 Radio Network Optimisation in GSM, 125 SECBR, 201, 202 Radio Network Planning Process, 24, 117, 131, Second-Generation, 5, 10 133, 227 Second-Generation System, 5 Radio Network Pre-planning, 30-32 Security, 11, 16, 82, 92, 122, 124, 128, 243 Radio Planner, 25, 28, 30, 31, 36, 42, 47, 49, 60, Security Management, 82 61, 227-229, 235 Segmentation and Reassembly (SAR), 185 Radio Refractivity, 64, 65 Servers, 205, 222, 238, 239, 242, 245, 262 Radio Resource and Mobility Management, 46, Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), 16, 115, 116 110-114, 116, 120-122, 126, 128, 130, Radio Resource Control (RRC), 169 141, 179, 188-190, 206, 209, 213, 214, Radio Resource Management (RRM), 31, 45, 245, 247 46, 49, 115, 166, 169, 170, 181, 182, 189 Serving Mobile Location Center (SMLC), 252, Radius of the Fresnel Zone, 62 254, 255 Radome Loss, 70 Serving RNC, 222 Rain Attenuation, 68 Severe Error Seconds (SES), 86, 194 RAKE Receivers, 164 Severely Errored Cell Block Ratio (SECBR), RANAP, 189, 212, 213 194, 201, 202 Random Access Channel (RACH), 24, 46, 115, Shadowing, 28, 39 Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), 5, 240, Rate Matching, 158 243, 246 Rayleigh Fading, 29 Signal Processor (SP), 180, 200 READY, 116 Signalling, 14-18, 24, 45, 56, 58-60, 77-79, 92, Real-Time Variable Bit Rate (RT-VBR), 186, 93, 98-102, 105, 106, 111-116, 119, 120, 128, 132, 135, 137, 138, 140, 168, Received Power, 27, 34, 35, 39, 50, 64, 134, 187-190, 192, 196, 205-207, 210, 163, 178, 