Glossary

ACPR

adjacent channel power ratio

ALC

automatic leveling control

Arb

arbitrary, as in arbitrary waveform

AWGN

additive white Gaussian noise

BBG

baseband generator

BER

bit error rate

BPSK

binary phase shift keying

BS

base station

CCDF

complementary cumulative distribution function

CID

connection identifier

C/N

carrier to noise ratio

CP

cyclic prefix

CRC

cyclic redundancy check

dB

decibels

dBm

decibels relative to 1 mW

DCD

downlink channel descriptor

DIUC

downlink interval usage code

DL

downlink

DLFP

downlink frame prefix

EVM

error vector magnitude

FCH

frame control header

Fs/BW

ratio between OFDM FFT sample rate and the nominal channel bandwidth referred to as n in the standard

GPIB

general purpose interface bus

I

in-phase channel

IE

information element

I/Q

in-phase and quadrature channels

LAN

local area network

LSB

least significant bit

ms

milliseconds

MAC PDU

medium access control protocol data unit

MSB

most significant bit

PC

personal computer

PHY

physical layer

PN

pseudo-random number

QAM

quadrature amplitude modulation

OFDM

orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

OSR

oversampling ratio

QPSK

quadrature phase shift keying

RCE

relative constellation error

RTG

receive/transmit transition gap

RS-CC

Reed-Solomon-Convolution Coding

SS

subscriber station

TDD

time division duplex or duplexing

TTG

transmit/receive transition gap

UCD

uplink channel descriptor

UIUC

uplink interval usage code

UL

uplink