Transmission Site Selection Diversity TPC Selective Transmit Diversity Space Time Transmit Diversity Timing Advance Traffic Channel Time Division Duplex Acronyms Time Division Duplex Time Division Multiple Access Transport Format Transport Format Combination Transport Format Combination Indicator Transport Format Indicator Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity Transmit Power Control Transport Block Transport Channel T-SGW Transport Signalling Gateway Function Time Switched Transmit Diversity Transmission Time Interval Transmit Transmit Adaptive Antennas User- User Equipment Uplink (Reverse link) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System UTRAN Registration Area Uplink Shared Channel UMTS Subscriber Identity Module UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network Variable Bit Rate WCDMA Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access The UMTS Network and Radio Access Technology: Air Interface Techniques for Future Mobile Systems Jonathan P. Castro Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Print ISBN 0-471-81375-3 Online ISBN 0-470-84172-9 INDEX access preamble acquisition indicators, 127 classes of UMTS traffic, 233 ACIR, 208 code/frequency plane, 89 ACLR, 202 coded composite transport channel, 165 acquisition indicators, 127 collision detection channel, 128 adaptive multi-rate (AMR), 233 common channels, 88 adjacent channel selectivity, 205 common midamble, 153 admission control, 60, 312 complex scrambling code, 161 ALL IP multimedia services, 318 compressed mode, 111, 137, 142 antenna connectors, 298 compressed radio frame, 182 antenna diversity, 204 congestion control, 61 associated paging sub-channel, 157 convergence, 3 asynchronous soft handover, 88 conversational classes, 233 authentication, 325 convolutional coding, 168 average traffic, 270 core network, 1, 13 co-siting, 296 background class, 240 CPCH status indicator channel, 130 beacon function, 156 CS domain, 318 bit error probability, 22 bit error rate, 18 data spreading, 159 blocking characteristic, 205 dedicated channel, 88 blocking rates