For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in [2] apply.
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
AM
Acknowledged Mode
AMD
Acknowledged Mode Data
ARQ
Automatic Repeat Request
BCCH
Broadcast Control CHannel
BCH
Broadcast CHannel
C-
Control-
CCCH
Common Control CHannel
CCH
Control CHannel
CCTrCH
Coded Composite Transport CHannel
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
CTCH
Common Traffic CHannel
DCCH
Dedicated Control CHannel
DCH
Dedicated CHannel
DL
DownLink
DSCH
Downlink Shared CHannel
DTCH
Dedicated Traffic CHannel
FACH
Forward link Access CHannel
FDD
Frequency Division Duplex
L1
Layer 1 (physical layer)
L2
Layer 2 (data link layer)
L3
Layer 3 (network layer)
LI
Length Indicator
LSB
Least Significant Bit
MAC
Medium Access Control
MBMS
Multmedia Broadcast Multicast Service
MCCH
MBMS point-to-multipoint Control CHannel
MRW
Move Receiving Window
MSB
Most Significant Bit
MSCH
MBMS point-to-multipoint Scheduling CHannel
MTCH
MBMS point-to-multipoint Traffic CHannel
PCCH
Paging Control CHannel
PCH
Paging CHannel
PDU
Protocol Data Unit
PHY
PHYsical layer
PhyCH
Physical CHannels
RACH
Random Access CHannel
RLC
Radio Link Control
RRC
Radio Resource Control
SAP
Service Access Point
SDU
Service Data Unit
SHCCH
SHared channel Control CHannel
SN
Sequence Number
SUFI
SUper FIeld
TCH
Traffic CHannel
TDD
Time Division Duplex
TFI
Transport Format Indicator
TM
Transparent Mode
TMD
Transparent Mode Data
TTI
Transmission Time Interval
U-
User-
UE
User Equipment
UL
UpLink
UM
Unacknowledged Mode
UMD
Unacknowledged Mode Data
UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UTRA
UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access
UTRAN
UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network