3rd Generation Partnership Project
3GPP
Long Term Evolution
LTE
LTE-Advanced
LTE-A
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OFDM
Peak Data Rate
PDR
GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network
GERAN
Base Station Controller
BSC
UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
UTRAN
Radio Network Controller
RNC
Mobility Management Entity
MME
Evolved Packet System
EPS
User Plane Entity
UPE
Home Subscribe Server
HSS
Home Location Register
HLR
Policy Charging Rule Function
PCRF
Quality of Service
QoS
Serving SAE Gateway
System Architecture Evolution
NB
eNB
PDN SAE Gateway
Public Data Network
PDN
Evolved Packet Core
EPC
Evolved UTRAN
EUTRAN
UE
User Equipment
Evolved Node B
Iu-CS
Circuit Switch
Iu-PS
Packet Switch
Automatically Neighbor Relations
ANR
Multi Input Multi Output
MIMO
Inter Symbol Interference
ISI
Inter Carrier Interference
ICI
Cyclic Prefix
CP
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Access
OFDMA
Frequency Division Multi Access
FDMA
Single Carrier FDMA
SC-FDMA
Power Amplifier
PA
Carrier Aggregation
CA
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit
RF IC
Coordinated Multi Point
CoMP
Relay Station
RS
Self-Organized Network
SON
Wireless LAN
WLAN
Access Point
AP
Radio Remote Unit
RRU
