Index

Note: ‘Page numbers followed by “f” indicate figures and “t” indicate tables.’

A

AB, See Access barring (AB) , Access bursts (AB)

Absolute Radio-Frequency Channel Numbers (ARFCNs), 149–150

Absolute RF carrier number (ARFCN), 48

ACB, See Access class barring (ACB)

Access barring (AB), 354 , 373 , 411–412

Access bursts (AB), 49 , 51

Access class, 3GPP, 18–19

Access class barring (ACB), 18–19 , 160 , 223

Access control, 373

Access stratum (AS), 19 , 286–287

Acquisition time, 84

Actuators, 711

Adaptive devices devices, 618

Adaptive frequency agility, 617

ADC, See Analog-to-digital conversion (ADC)

Additive white Gaussian noise channel (AWGN), 279

Administration shell, 724–725

Advanced message queuing protocol, 716

Advertising channels, 624

Aerial vehicle identification problem, 609

Aggregation level (AL), 189 , 305 , 452

AL, See Aggregation level (AL)

Alignment delay, 568

Analogue beamforming, 530

Anchor

carrier, 284 , 392

of LTE-M-U, 640–641

NB-IoT-U, 662–665

Antenna down-tilting, 604

Antenna gain pattern, 604–606 , 605f

Antenna port, 180 , 408

Architecture layers, 723–724

ARFCN, See Absolute RF carrier number (ARFCN)

ARFCNs, See Absolute Radio-Frequency Channel Numbers (ARFCNs)

ARIB (Japan), 13

AS, See Access stratum (AS)

Asynchronous HARQ operation, 559

ATIS (US), 13

Authentication, authorization and accounting infrastructure, 688

Authentication and authorization for constrained environments, 718

Automated bootstrapping, 718–719

Automatic frequency correction, 405

Automatic repetitions, 540