The RF bandwidth in which a UE transmits and receives multiple contiguously aggregated carriers.

The number of resource block allocated within the aggregated channel bandwidth.

Aggregation of two or more component carriers in order to support wider transmission bandwidths.

A set of one or more operating bands across which multiple carriers are aggregated with a specific set of technical requirements.

A class defined by the aggregated transmission bandwidth configuration and maximum number of component carriers supported by a UE.

A combination of CA operating band(s) and CA bandwidth class(es) supported by a UE.

The lowest and highest frequency of the carrier, separated by the channel bandwidth.

The RF bandwidth supporting a single E-UTRA RF carrier with the transmission bandwidth configured in the uplink or downlink of a cell. The channel bandwidth is measured in MHz and is used as a reference for transmitter and receiver RF requirements.

Emission mask requirement for intraband non-contiguous carrier aggregation which is a combination of individual sub-block spectrum emissions masks.

Spurious emission requirement for intraband non-contiguous carrier aggregation which is a combination of individual sub-block spurious emission requirements.

A set of two or more carriers configured in a spectrum block where there are no RF requirements based on co-existence for un-coordinated operation within the spectrum block.

A resource allocation of consecutive resource blocks within one carrier or across contiguously aggregated carriers. The gap between contiguously aggregated carriers due to the nominal channel spacing is allowed.

Spectrum consisting of a contiguous block of spectrum with no sub-block gaps.

This defines performance requirements for downlink control channel assuming as baseline receiver reference symbol based linear minimum mean square error interference rejection combining plus CRS interference cancellation.

This defines performance requirements for downlink control channel assuming as baseline receiver reference symbol based enhanced linear minimum mean square error interference rejection combining plus CRS interference cancellation.

This defines performance requirements assuming as baseline receiver reference symbol based linear minimum mean square error interference rejection combining.

This defines performance requirements assuming as baseline receiver using network assisted interference cancelation and suppression.

This defines performance requirements assuming as baseline receiver inter-stream interference cancellation.

Carrier aggregation of component carriers in different operating bands.

Contiguous carriers aggregated in the same operating band.

Non-contiguous carriers aggregated in the same operating band.

The frequency at the lower edge of one sub-block. It is used as a frequency reference point for both transmitter and receiver requirements.

category NB1/NB2 is operating standalone when it utilizes its own spectrum, for example the spectrum used by GERAN systems as a replacement of one or more GSM carriers, as well as scattered spectrum for potential IoT deployment.

category NB1/NB2 is operating in guard band when it utilizes the unused resource block(s) within a E-UTRA carrier's guard-band.

category NB1/NB2 is operating in-band when it utilizes the resource block(s) within a normal E-UTRA carrier or within a normal NR carrier plus 15 kHz at each edge (and not within NR minimum guard band).

Spectrum consisting of two or more sub-blocks separated by sub-block gap(s).

A UE that supports ProSe requirements and associated procedures.

A communication between two or more UEs in proximity that are ProSe-enabled.

A procedure employed by a ProSe-enabled UE to discover other ProSe-enabled UEs in its vicinity.

A transmission time interval (TTI) of either one slot or one subslot as defined in TS 36.211 on either uplink or downlink.

This is one contiguous allocated block of spectrum for transmission and reception by the same UE. There may be multiple instances of sub-blocks within an RF bandwidth.

The bandwidth of one sub-block.

A frequency gap between two consecutive sub-blocks within an RF bandwidth, where the RF requirements in the gap are based on co-existence for un-coordinated operation.

Operation of TDD in two different systems, where no simultaneous uplink and downlink occur.

Operation of TDD in two different systems, where the conditions for synchronized operation are not met.

The frequency at the upper edge of one sub-block. It is used as a frequency reference point for both transmitter and receiver requirements.

V2X (Vehicle to Everything) service is operating in ITS spectrum and/or LTE licensed operating bands.

Channel bandwidth

Sub-block bandwidth, expressed in MHz. BW_{Channel,block} = F_{edge,block,high} - F_{edge,block,low}.

Aggregated channel bandwidth, expressed in MHz.

Virtual guard band to facilitate transmitter (receiver) filtering above / below edge CCs.

Transmitted energy per RE for reference symbols during the useful part of the symbol, i.e. excluding the cyclic prefix, (average power normalized to the subcarrier spacing) at the eNode B transmit antenna connector

The averaged received energy per RE of the wanted signal during the useful part of the symbol, i.e. excluding the cyclic prefix, at the UE antenna connector; average power is computed within a set of REs used for the transmission of physical channels (including user specific RSs when present), divided by the number of REs within the set, and normalized to the subcarrier spacing

Frequency

Aggregated Transmission Bandwidth Configuration. The lowest frequency of the simultaneously transmitted resource blocks.

Aggregated Transmission Bandwidth Configuration. The highest frequency of the simultaneously transmitted resource blocks.

Frequency offset of the interferer (between the center frequency of the interferer and the carrier frequency of the carrier measured)

Frequency of the interferer

Frequency offset of the interferer (between the center frequency of the interferer and the closest edge of the carrier measured)

Frequency of the carrier centre frequency

Aggregated Transmission Bandwidth Configuration. Center frequency of the aggregated carriers.

Center frequency of the highest transmitted/received carrier in a sub-block.

Center frequency of the lowest transmitted/received carrier in a sub-block.

The centre frequency of the lowest carrier, expressed in MHz.

The centre frequency of the highest carrier, expressed in MHz.

The lowest frequency of the downlink operating band

The highest frequency of the downlink operating band

The lowest frequency of the uplink operating band

The highest frequency of the uplink operating band

The lower sub-block edge, where F_{edge,block,low} = F_C,block,low - F_offset.

The upper sub-block edge, where F_{edge,block,high} = F_C,block,high + F_offset.

The lower edge of aggregated channel bandwidth, expressed in MHz.

The higher edge of aggregated channel bandwidth, expressed in MHz.

Frequency offset from F_{C_high} to the higher edge or F_{C_low} to the lower edge.

Separation between lower edge of a sub-block and the center of the lowest component carrier within the sub-block

Separation between higher edge of a sub-block and the center of the highest component carrier within the sub-block

Frequency offset in MHz needed if NS_23 is used

The boundary between the E-UTRA out of band emission and spurious emission domains.

The power spectral density of the total input signal (power averaged over the useful part of the symbols within the transmission bandwidth configuration, divided by the total number of RE for this configuration and normalised to the subcarrier spacing) at the UE antenna connector, including the own-cell downlink signal

The total transmitted power spectral density of the own-cell downlink signal (power averaged over the useful part of the symbols within the transmission bandwidth configuration, divided by the total number of RE for this configuration and normalised to the subcarrier spacing) at the eNode B transmit antenna connector

The total received power spectral density of the own-cell downlink signal (power averaged over the useful part of the symbols within the transmission bandwidth configuration, divided by the total number of RE for this configuration and normalised to the subcarrier spacing) at the UE antenna connector

The received power spectral density of the total noise and interference for a certain RE (average power obtained within the RE and normalized to the subcarrier spacing) as measured at the UE antenna connector

Transmission bandwidth which represents the length of a contiguous resource block allocation expressed in units of resources blocks

Transmission bandwidth which represents the length of a contiguous sub-carrier allocation expressed in units of tones

Cyclic prefix length

Downlink EARFCN

The power spectral density of a white noise source (average power per RE normalised to the subcarrier spacing), simulating interference from cells that are not defined in a test procedure, as measured at the UE antenna connector

The power spectral density of a white noise source (average power per RE normalized to the subcarrier spacing), simulating interference in non-CRS symbols in ABS subframe from cells that are not defined in a test procedure, as measured at the UE antenna connector.

The power spectral density of a white noise source (average power per RE normalized to the subcarrier spacing), simulating interference in CRS symbols in ABS subframe from all cells that are not defined in a test procedure, as measured at the UE antenna connector.

The power spectral density of a white noise source (average power per RE normalised to the subcarrier spacing), simulating interference in non-ABS subframe from cells that are not defined in a test procedure, as measured at the UE antenna connector

The power spectral density (average power per RE normalised to the subcarrier spacing) of the summation of the received power spectral densities of the strongest interfering cells explicitly defined in a test procedure plus , as measured at the UE antenna connector. The respective power spectral density of each interfering cell relative to is defined by its associated DIP value, or the respective power spectral density of each interfering cell relative to is defined by its associated Es/Noc value.

Offset used for calculating downlink EARFCN

Offset used for calculating uplink EARFCN

The power spectral density of a white noise source (average power per RE normalised to the subcarrier spacing) simulating eNode B transmitter impairments as measured at the eNode B transmit antenna connector

Transmission bandwidth configuration, expressed in units of resource blocks

The number of the aggregated RBs within the fully allocated Aggregated Channel bandwidth.

Total number of simultaneously transmitted resource blocks in Channel bandwidth or Aggregated Channel Bandwidth.

The transmission bandwidth configuration of component carrier c, expressed in units of resource blocks

The largest transmission bandwidth configuration of the component carriers in the bandwidth combination, expressed in units of resource blocks

Number of receiver antennas

Transmission bandwidth configuration for category NB1 and NB2, expressed in units of tones.

Transmission bandwidth configuration for category NB1 and NB2 with 3.75 kHz sub-carrier spacing, expressed in units of tones.

Transmission bandwidth configuration for category NB1 and NB2 with 15 kHz sub-carrier spacing, expressed in units of tones.

Uplink EARFCN.

Minimum average throughput per RB.

The configured maximum UE output power.

The configured maximum UE output power for serving cell c.

Maximum allowed UE output power signalled by higher layers. Same as IE P-Max, defined in [7].

Maximum allowed UE output power signalled by higher layers for serving cell c. Same as IE P-Max, defined in [7].

Modulated mean power of the interferer

PPowerClass is the nominal UE power (i.e., no tolerance).

PPowerClass_Default is the default nominal UE power (i.e., no tolerance) for the band.

The measured configured maximum UE output power.

Power of an unwanted DL signal

Power of a wanted DL signal

Indicates the lowest RB index of transmitted resource blocks.

Indicates the highest RB index of transmitted resource blocks.

Transmission period within a TTI duration when consecutive symbols are transmitted without applying any frequency hopping

Δ Frequency of Out Of Band emission.

Adjustment to maximum output power for a given power class.

Allowed reference sensitivity relaxation due to support for inter-band CA operation, for serving cell c.

Reference sensitivity adjustment due to support for 4 antenna ports.

Reference sensitivity adjustment due to support for 8 antenna ports.

Allowed maximum configured output power relaxation due to support for inter-band CA operation, for serving cell c.

Allowed operating band edge transmission power relaxation.

Allowed operating band edge transmission power relaxation for serving cell c.

Allowed operating band transmission power relaxation due to support of E-UTRA ProSe on an operating band.

According to Clause 5.2 in TS 36.213

According to Clause 5.2 in TS 36.213

Test specific auxiliary variable used for the purpose of downlink power allocation, defined in Annex C.3.2.

Sub-block gap size

Sub-block gap size between lowest two CCs in frequency domain on CA_X-X-X

Sub-block gap size between highest two CCs in frequency domain on CA_X-X-X

Almost Blank Subframe

Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio

Adjacent Channel Selectivity

Additional Maximum Power Reduction

Additive White Gaussian Noise

Base Station

Carrier Aggregation

Intra-band contiguous CA of component carriers in one sub-block within Band X where X is the applicable E-UTRA operating band

Intra-band non-contiguous CA of component carriers in two sub-blocks within Band X where X is the applicable E-UTRA operating band

Intra-band non-contiguous CA of component carriers in three sub-blocks within Band X where X is the applicable E-UTRA operating band

Intra-band non-contiguous CA of component carriers in four sub-blocks within Band X where X is the applicable E-UTRA operating band

Inter-band CA of component carrier(s) in one sub-block within Band X and component carrier(s) in one sub-block within Band Y where X and Y are the applicable E-UTRA operating band

CA of component carriers in two sub-blocks within Band X and component carrier(s) in one sub-block within Band Y where X and Y are the applicable E-UTRA operating bands

Component Carriers

Carrier Group

Customer Premise Equipment

Customer Premise Equipment for E-UTRA operating band X

Continuous Wave

Dual Connectivity

Inter-band DC of component carrier(s) in one sub-block within Band X and component carrier(s) in one sub-block within Band Y where X and Y are the applicable E-UTRA operating band

Downlink

Dominant Interferer Proportion

E-UTRA Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number

Effective Isotropic Radiated Power

Energy Per Resource Element

Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access

Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network

Error Vector Magnitude

Frequency Division Duplex

Fixed Reference Channel

Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Half-Duplex for Sidelink Operation

Half- Duplex FDD

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Modulation and Coding Scheme

Master Cell Group

Maximum Output Power

Maximum Power Reduction

Maximum Sensitivity Degradation

OFDMA Channel Noise Generator

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access

Out-of-band

Power Amplifier

Primary Component Carrier

Power Management Maximum Power Reduction

Proximity-based Services

Physical Sidelink Broadcast CHannel

Physical Sidelink Control CHannel

Physical Sidelink Discovery CHannel

Primary Synchronization Signal

PSS-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel PSS

Secondary Sidelink Synchronization Signal

Physical Sidelink Shared CHannel

Primary Sidelink Synchronization Signal

Resource Element

Reference Sensitivity power level

Root Mean Square

Secondary Component Carrier

Secondary Cell Group

Signal-to-Interference-and-Noise Ratio

Signal-to-Noise Ratio

Secondary Synchronization Signal

SSS-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel SSSSSSS Secondary Sidelink Synchronization Signal

Time Division Duplex

User Equipment

Uplink

Up Link Multiple Antenna transmission

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access

UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network

Vehicle to Everything

xCH-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel xCH in all transmitted OFDM symbols not containing cell-specific RS

xCH-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel xCH in all transmitted OFDM symbols containing cell-specific RS