For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in
TR 21.905 and the following apply. A term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in
TR 21.905.
Any Cell Selection state:
Asynchronous Dual Connectivity:
Carrier aggregation:
aggregation of two or more component carriers in order to support wider transmission bandwidths
TS 36.104.
Dual Connectivity:
EN-DC:
E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity as defined in
TS 37.340.
en-gNB:
Extended IDLE-mode DRX:
extended DRX cycles in IDLE mode as specified in
TS 24.008, where one extended DRX cycle is a time period between two first paging occasions within two consecutive PTWs.
Extended CONNECTED-mode DRX:
extended DRX cycles in CONNECTED mode as specified in
TS 36.331.
FeMBMS/Unicast mixed cell:
an MBMS/Unicast cell performing MBMS transmissions as defined in
TS 36.300.
Frame Structure 3:
frame structure type 3 as defined in
TS 36.211
gNB:
High operating band:
an operating band with a higher downlink frequency with respect to another, low, operating band.
Inter-band carrier aggregation:
carrier aggregation of component carriers in different operating bands
TS 36.104.
Intra-band contiguous carrier aggregation:
contiguous carriers aggregated in the same operating band
TS 36.104.
Intra-band non-contiguous carrier aggregation:
non-contiguous carriers aggregated in the same operating band
TS 36.104.
IDC autonomous denial subframes:
The maximum number of uplink subframes in which the UE is allowed not to transmit E-UTRAN signals when configured with IDC autonomous denial (
TS 36.331).
IDC autonomous denial validity:
It is the period over which the autonomous denial subframes are counted (
TS 36.331).
IDC solution:
This refers to DRX or IDC autonomous denial configured by eNodeB in response to receiving InDeviceCoexIndication from the UE (
TS 36.331).
Low operating band:
an operating band with a lower downlink frequency with respect to another, high, operating band.
Master Cell Group:
Master eNB:
MBSFN ABS:
ABS configured in MBSFN-configurable subframe.
NB-IoT Cell:
A cell for NB-IoT.
NB-IoT:
ng-eNB:
NE-DC:
NR-E-UTRA Dual Connectivity as defined in clause 4.1.3.2 of
TS 37.340.
NGEN-DC:
NG-RAN E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity as defined in clause 4.1.3.1 of
TS 37.340.
Non-MBSFN ABS:
ABS configured in any downlink subframe.
Normal Performance Group:
For UE which supports Increased UE carrier monitoring UTRA or E-UTRA the group of inter-frequency carriers or inter-RAT carriers is divided into two groups. The group which has a better delay performance compared to the other group is refered to as the normal performance group.
Paging Time Window:
Primary Cell:
ProSe Direct Communication:
ProSe Direct Discovery:
Primary SCell:
Primary Secondary Timing Advance Group:
Timing Advance Group containing the PSCell.
Primary Timing Advance Group:
Timing Advance Group containing the PCell.
Reduced Performance Group:
For UE which supports Increased UE carrier monitoring UTRA or E-UTRA the group of inter-frequency carriers or inter-RAT carriers is divided into two groups. The group which has worse delay performance compared to the other group is refered to as the reduced performance group
Secondary Cell:
Secondary eNB:
Serving Cell:
Secondary Cell Group:
Secondary Timing Advance Group:
SSB:
sTTI :
A transmission time interval (TTI) of either one slot or one subslot transmission duration as defined in
TS 36.211 on either uplink or downlink.
Synchronous Dual Connectivity:
TDD-FDD carrier aggregation:
Carrier aggregation of component carriers in E-UTRA TDD and E-UTRA FDD operating bands
TS 36.104.
Timing Advance Group:
WLAN RSSI:
As defined in TS36.214 [4].
x_RA:
x-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel or physical signal x in all transmitted OFDM symbols not containing RS.
x_RB:
x-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel or physical signal x in all transmitted OFDM symbols containing RS.