| Acronym |
Description |
| AAA |
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting |
| AAS |
Advanced Antenna Systems |
| ADSL |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop |
| AES |
Advanced Encryption Standard |
| ARQ |
Automatic Repeat Request |
| ASN |
Access Services Network |
| ASP |
Application Service Provider |
| BPSK |
Binary Phase Shift Keying |
| BWA |
Broadband Wireless Access |
| CCK |
Complementary Coded Keying |
| CLEC |
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier |
| CIR |
Committed Information Rate |
| CSMA/CA |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance |
| CSMA/CD |
Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (Ethernet) |
| DCF |
Distributed Control Function |
| DES |
Digital Encryption Standard |
| DSL |
Digital Subscriber Line |
| DSSS |
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum |
| EDCA |
Enhanced Distributed Control Access |
| ETSI |
European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| ED-VO |
Enhanced Version-Data Only (Data Optimized) |
| FCC |
Federal Communications Commission |
| FDD |
Frequency Division Duplex |
| FDX |
Full Duplex |
| FEC |
Forward Error Correction |
| FHSS |
Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum |
| Hz |
Hertz (Prefix Kilo = Thousands, Mega = Millions, Giga = Billions) |
| HARQ |
Hybrid-ARQ |
| HIPERMAN |
High-Performance Metropolitan Area Network |
| HUMAN |
High-speed Unlicensed Metropolitan Area Network |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force |
| ILEC |
Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier |
| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISM |
Industrial, Scientific, and Medical |
| ITU |
International Telecommunications Union |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LR |
Location Register |
| LS |
Least Squares |
| MAC |
Media Access Control |
| MBS |
Multicast Broadcast Service |
| MIMO |
Multiple Input-Multiple Output |
| MMDS |
Multi-channel Multipoint Distribution Service |
| MMS |
Multimedia Messaging Service |
| MPDU |
MAC Protocol Data Unit |
| MS |
Mobile Station |
| MS |
Mobile Station |
| NLOS |
Non-Line-of-Sight |
| NWG |
Network Working Group |
| OFDM |
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| PCF |
Point Control Function |
| PoP |
Point of presence |
| x-QAM |
x-level Quadrature Amplitude Modulation |
| QoS |
Quality of Service |
| QPSK |
Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
| RC4 |
Ron.s Code-4 |
| SIM |
Subscriber Identity Module |
| SONET |
Synchronous Optical Network Interface |
| TDD |
Time Division Duplex |
| TKIP |
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol |
| U-NII |
Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure |
| VoIP |
Voice over IP |
| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
| WEP |
Wired Equivalent Privacy |
| Wi-Fi |
Wireless Fidelity |
| WiMax |
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access |
| WISP |
Wireless Internet Service Provider |
| WLAN |
Wireless LAN |
| WMAN |
Wireless Metropolitan Area Network |
| WME |
Wi-Fi Multimedia Extensions |
| WPA |
Wi-Fi Protected Access |
| WRAN |
Wireless Regional Area Network |
| WSM |
Wi-Fi Scheduled Multimedia |
| WPA |
Wi-Fi Protected Access |
| ZF |
Zero Forcing |
