List of Abbreviations
| 2G | 2nd Generation |
| 3GPP | 3rd Generation Partnership Project |
| ACK | ACKnowledged |
| ALMMSE | Approximate Linear Minimum Mean Square Error |
| AMC | Adaptive Modulation and Coding |
| ARQ | Automatic Repeat reQuest |
| AWGN | Additive White Gaussian Noise |
| BCa | Bias-Corrected and accelerated |
| BCCH | Broadcast Control Channel |
| BCH | Broadcast Channel |
| BICM | Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation |
| BER | Bit Error Ratio |
| BLEP | Block Error Probability |
| BLER | Block Error Ratio |
| CA | Content Aware |
| CAPEX | Capital Expenditure |
| CB | Code Block |
| CC | Chase Combining |
| CCCH | Common Control Channel |
| CDD | Cyclic Delay Diversity |
| cdf | cumulative density function |
| CDI | Channel Direction Indicator |
| CDMA | Code-Division Multiple Access |
| CFO | Carrier Frequency Offset |
| CL | Closed Loop |
| CLMI | Closed-Loop Mutual Information |
| CLSM | Closed-Loop Spatial Multiplexing |
| CM | Coded Modulation |
| CoMP | Coordinated Multi-Point |
| COST | European COoperation in the field of Scientific and Technical research |
| CP | Cyclic Prefix |
| C-Plane | Control Plane |
| CPICH | Common Pilot CHannel |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CQI | Channel Quality Indicator |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CSI | Channel State Information |
| CSI-RS | CSI Reference Signal |
| CTC | Convolutional Turbo Code |
| CVQ | Channel Vector Quantization |
| CW | Codeword |
| DCCH | Dedicated Control Channel |
| DCH | Dedicated Channel |
| DFT | Discrete Fourier Transform |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DiffServ | Differentiate Service |
| DL | Downlink |
| DL-SCH | Downlink Shared Channel |
| DMRS ... |
