Wireless Optical Telecommunications

Acronyms

A	Ampere
AAC	Automatic attenuation control
Ac	Area cover
ACG	Automatic control gain
AEL	Accessible emission limit
AIR	Advanced infrared
AP	Access point
APD	Avalanche photodiode
APPM	Amplitude pulse position modulation
ARIB	Association of Radio Industries and Businesses
ARP	Address resolution protocol
ASCII	American standard code for information interchange
ASK	Amplitude shift keying
ATM	Asynchronous transfer mode
ATPC	Automatic transmit power control
AWGN	Additive white Gaussian noise
BCH	Bose–Chaudhury–Hocquenghem code
BCJR	Bahl–Cocke–Jelinek–Raviv code
BER	Binary error rate
BPM	Beam propagation method in time domain
BT	British Telecom
CAO	Concentrateur amplificateur optique (Fireball)
BC	Conduction band
CC	Convolutional code
CCD	Charge coupled device
CCETT	Centre Commun d’Etudes de Télévision et de Télécommunications
CD	Compact disc
CDMA	Code division multiple access
CEI	Commission Electrotechnique Internationale
CEPT	Conférence Européenne des Postes et Télécommunications
CIR	Channel impulse response
CNES	Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
CNET	Centre National d’Etudes des Télécommunications
COFDM	Coded orthogonal frequency division multiplex
CPG	Conference Preparatory Group
CQI	Color quality indication
CRC	Cyclic redundancy check
CSI	Channel state information
CSMA	Carrier sense multiple access
CSMA/CA	Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance
CSMA/CD	Carrier sense multiple ...