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3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
AFLT Advanced Forward Link Trilateration - location services
AGPS Assisted GPS - location services
APN Access Point Name (GGSN)
AUC Authentication Center
BTS Base Transceiver Station
BSC Base Station Controller
Cell area covered by one GSM base station (cell diameter macro: 20-30 km, micro: 1-2 km, pico some hundred meters)
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access. A technique of multiplexing, also called spread spectrum, in which analog signals are converted into digital form for transmission.For each communication channel, the signals are encoded in a sequence known to the transmitter and the receiver for that channel.
CLIP Calling Number Identification Presentation: display caller number
CLIR Calling Number Identification Restriction: no display of caller number
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
Coding Scheme GPRS coding per channel CS1: 9,05 BitpS, CS2: 13,5 BitpS, CS3: 15,6 BitpS, CS4: 21,4 BitpS
CPS Cambridge Positioning System
DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication
E911 Enhanced 911 emergency service (US) for wireless services and Automatic Location Identifier (AIL) as part of Phase II E911
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution: 384000 BitpS
EIR Equipment Identity Register
EFLT Enhanced Forward Link Trilateration - location services
EMS Enhanced Message Service, successor of SMS with additional picture, sound and animation features
ENUM Electronic Numbering Protocol: maps phone numbers to internet adresses using a system based on DNS architecture.
EONS Enhanced Operator Name String - could take the string from different sources e.g. sim card
EOTD Enhanced Observed Time Difference
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
Fullrate/Halfrate-CODEC full rate: voice channel at a speed of 13000 Bits/s - half rate is using half of the bandwith
GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node
GMSC Gateway Mobile Service Switching Center
GPRS General Packet Radio Service: up to 4 channels = 57.600 -> 115.200 -> 172.800 BitpS
GSM Global System for Mobile Networks: 9,6 to 14,4 kBitpS
HLR Home Location Register
HSCSD high speed circuit switched data: 4 channels a 14.400 BitpS = 57.600 BitpS
HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access, an UMTS release 5 based standard for hight speed download up to 10.8 Mbps
IMPS Instant Messaging and Presence Service
IMS Internet Protocol based multimedia subsystem
IrDA Infrared Data Association point-to-point, bi-directional communication mechanism that uses infrared. IrDA comes in two speeds: one low speed (simply called IrDA / 1.1 - 1.2), running at 9.6- to 115 Kbits/s, and the other high speed (Fast IrDA 2.0), running at 1- to 4 Mbits/s.
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
MMSC Multimedia Messaging Service Center
MS Mobile Station (e.g. mobile phone)
MSC Mobile Service Switching Center
MSISDN Mobile Station ISDN Number
MT Mobile Terminal
NITZ Network Identity Time Zone
PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
PPLMN Periodic PLMN rescan for PLMN with higher priority
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RNC Radio Network Controller
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIP Session Initiation Protocoll
SMSC Short Message Service Center
TE Terminal Equipment
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access. A multiplexing technology used with satellites and cellular phones, in which multiple channels of data are interleaved (each signal is assigned to a different time interval, and the signals are transmitted by taking turns).
TDOA Time Difference of Arrival - location services
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System: up to 2.097.152 BitpS
VLR Visitor Location Register
VPN Virtual Private Network
WCDMA-FDD Code Division Multiple Access with Frequency Division Duplex
WCDMA-TDD Code Division Multiple Access with Time Division Duplex
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CIF 352x288
LCD Light Crystal Display
LED Light Emitting Diode
OLED Organic Light Emitting Devices
QZIF 176x144
SubQZIF 96x128
TFT Thin Film Transistor, a Liquid Crystal Display technology
HDTV High Definition Television provides resolution up to 1920x1080 (digital TV formats)
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Exchange
Bluetooth Wireless transmission standard (Bluetooth Profiles)
CHTML Compact HTML (.htc)
CSS Cascading Style Sheet
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHTML Dynamic HTML
DIVX Digital Video Experience based on MPEG4 algorithms. DVD copies with typical data rate up to 400 KBit/sec. Usual resolution 352x288.
DNS Domain Name System
DOM Document Object Modul
DTD Document Type Description
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
IMAP4 Internet Message Access Protocol for connectionless access of user agents to message transfer agents.
MAC address Media Access Control adress: unique identifier for network card hardware.
MIME Multipupose Internet Mail Extension of the SMTP protocol for simplifying non binary file transmission.
MPEG1 Motion Picture Experts Group. Video on CD, Web video with typical data rate up to 1,5 MBit/sec. Usual resolution 352x288.
MPEG2 Motion Picture Experts Group. DVD and digital TV with typical data rate up to 9 MBit/sec. Usual resolution 768x576.
MPEG4 Motion Picture Experts Group. Video streaming with typical data rate up to 400 KBit/sec. Usual resolution 352x288.
NET Network Address Translation
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PING Packet Internet Gopher The simplest way to test or time the response of an Internet connection. PING sends a request to an Internet host and waits for a reply (PONG). When you PING an address, you get a response telling you the number of seconds it took to make the connection. PING clients exist for a number of platforms, or you can use a UNIX or Windows 95 prompt to issue a PING command directly.
POP Post Office Protocol A protocol designed to allow single users to read mail from a server. There are three versions: POP, POP2, and POP3. When email is sent to you, it is stored on the server until accessed by you. Once you are authenticated, the POP is used to transmit the stored mail from the server to your local mailbox on your client machine.
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol A protocol that provides a method for transmitting packets over serial point-to-point links. PPP is one of the most popular methods for dialup connections to the Internet, since it allows you to use other standard protocols (such as IPX, TCP/IP,) over a standard telephone connection, but it can also be used for LAN connections.
SAX Simple API for XML (XML parsing)
SGML Standardized General Markup Language
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol Similar to PPP, SLIP is another standard protocol used to run TCP/IP over serial lines, such as telephone circuits or RS-232 cables. Unlike PPP, however, SLIP does not work on a LAN connections. SLIP used to be the most popular way for dialup users to access the Internet. PPP has become more popular
SMIL Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language: markup language to integrate sound, text, animation and video into web sites.
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol A protocol used to transfer email. SMTP transfers mail from server to server, and the end user must use POP to transfer the messages to their machine.
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
UDP User Datagram Protocol
WebDAV Web Document Authoring and Versioning
WML Wireless Markup Language
WAP Wireless Access Protocol
XHTML XHTML is the reformulation of HTML 4 as an application of XML
XML Extensible Mark-up Language
XPath XML Database Access
XSL Extensible Style sheet Language
XSLT XSL
Transformation to transform to other document formats
Authentication Making sure that another party is actually who they claim to be.
Authorisation Determining whether a particular party has the right to perform a particular action with respect to a particular object, in a particular situation.
Confidentiality To ensure confidentiality of information it is usually encrypted.
Integrity Receiver gets exactly the information that was sent.
Non-repudiation The impossibility for the parties to a transaction to deny either that the transaction took place, or that they were party to it.
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
SSL Secure Socket Layer
TLS Transport Layer Security (formerly SSL). TLS requires a reliable transport layer (TCP).
WTLS Wireless Transport Layer Security (based on SSL). WTLS can operate on WDP and UDP and builds reliability in a higher level of the protocol stack WTP ( Wireless Transaction Protocol) and WSP (Wireless Session Protocol). WLTS class I: no authentication, class II: server authentication, class III: server and client authentication.
SET Secure Electronic Transaction. A standard for electronic transactions set by companies like VISA/Mastercard
bps bits per second
SPDIF Sony-Philips Data Interchange Format
Instant Messaging A type of communications service that enables you to create a private chat room with another individual. Typically, the instant messaging system alerts you whenever somebody on your private list is online. You can then initiate a chat session with that particular individual.
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Encoding MIME is a standardized method for organizing divergent file formats. The method organizes file formats according to the file's MIME type. When Internet (usually email) software retrieves a file from a server, the server provides the MIME type of the file, and the file is decoded correctly when transferred to your machine.
FAX
fax class 1 fax software incorporates the whole communication stack
fax class 2 modem controls communication stack
Merlin Code name for next release of Pocket PC (2002) still running Windows CE 3.0
SIP Software Input Panel
Talisker Code name for the next version of the Microsoft Windows CE (CE 4.0) operating system. It is designed for small-footprint connected mobile devices. New features included in "Talisker" beta 1 are among others better wireless and network connectivity through native support for Bluetooth, Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and new USB drivers, enhanced multimedia functionality with DVD support, and improved security with the inclusion of the Kerberos security protocol and support for secure socket layers (SSL) for the HTTP Server in "Talisker." Microsoft is targeting late 2001 for final release.
Ozon Code name for Pocket PC 2003 running Windows CE 4.0
Magneto Code name for Pocket PC 2004
AC Alternating Current
ATRAC Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (compression by Sony)
CE Communauté Europeénne
DC Direct Current
GPS Global Positioning System
ISDN Transfer rate: base channel 1 (B1) 64 kbit/s, base channel 2 (B") 64 kbit/s, control channel (D) 16 kbit/s.
PCB Printed Circuit Board