 access procedure, 94, 95 Shadowing, 41 Rate Matching, 472 SHO process, 99 Rayleigh Fading, 41, 172 Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), 326, 352 Real-Time Variable Bit Rate (RT-VBR), 231 Signaling Payload, 174 Receive Block Bitmap (RBB), 180 Signalling Links (SL), 296, 304, 307, 353-356, Received Power, 38, 40, 249, 250 399, 407 Receiver Diversity, 426, 427 Signalling Network Dimensioning, 347 Redundancy, 24, 162, 376, 396, 397 Signalling Overhead, 173 Reflections, 41, 44, 45, 53, 297, 484 Signalling Plans, 399 Refractivity, 242, 243, 244, 253, 263 Signalling Point Codes (SPC), 295, 318, 323, 378 Reliability, 123, 191, 221, 456 Signalling Points (SP), 324, 346, 354, 355, 356, Reports generation, 128 Retainability, 178, 307, 308, 409 Signalling Transfer Point (STP), 331, 335, 376 Re-Transmissions, 173, 174, 308, 471, 472 Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR), 90, 101, 102, RLC Block Transmission, 25 Index SIM Card, 26, 136 TBF Blocking, 174, 175, 179, 180 Site follow-up, 122 TBF Performance, 157, 180 Site re-engineering, 114, 115, 126, 160 TBF Release Delay, 35, 174, 179 Site Selection, 440 TCH and SDCCH availability, 132 Site survey, 18 TCH strategy, 117 Slave Clock - Synchronisation Supply Unit TDD, 11, 97 (SSU), 289 Technical automation, 122, 124 Slow Associated Control Channels (SAACH), 34, Temporary Block Flow (TBF), 35, 66, 173, 175, 61, 133 177, 178, 179, 181 Slow Fading, 41, 47-49, 256 TETRA, 493-506 Smart antenna, 143, 508 The A Interface, 328, 329, 349, 384 Smart Radio Concept, 142 The I Interface, 273, 276, 328, 329, 333 Smooth-Sphere Diffraction, 254, 255 The Iub Interface, 273, 274, 276, 279, 471, 474 SMS, 3, 4, 77, 82, 352, 408 The Iur Interface, 100, 274, 277 SMS establishment phases, 138 Third-Generation, 10, 11, 13, 485 Soft Capacity, 70 Third-Generation Networks, 1 Soft Handover (SHO), 97-102, 479 Thresholds, 21, 35, 48, 104, 157 Softer handover, 98 Time Slots (TS), 9, 23, 24, 35, 60, 63, 65-67, 78, Spatial Multiplexing, 426, 427 79, 163, 269-271, 355, 384, 500 Spectrum Efficiency, 73, 74, 494 Time