Glossary

This glossary constitutes the E2R Project Glossary of technical terms and expressions often used within the project. It is expected that during the course of the project, more expressions are to be clarified and added in it.

The following terms are defined in the E2R Project Glossary:

3rd Generation (3G), 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), 3GPP Generic User Profile (GUP), 3GPP IP Bearer Service Manager, 3GPP OSA Interface, 3GPP Policy Decision Function (PDF), 3GPP Value Added Service Provider (VASP), 3GPP Virtual Home Environment, Access Control, Access Point (AP), Active Configuration, Adaptation (ADPT), Adaptation Manager, Adaptation Module, Adaptive Radio Multi-Homing (ARMH), Advanced Radio Resource Management (ARRM), Advanced Spectrum Management (ASM), Agent Communication Language (ACL), Agent, Analogue Front-End (AFE), Application Programming Interface (API), Application Specific Digital Signal Processor, Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Audit Guard, Authentication, Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA), Authentication Token (AUTN), Authorization, Authorization Policy, Availability, Aware-Adaptive Radio, Bandwidth Management Module (BMM), Baseband Frequency, Bluetooth, Broadcast Multicast Source (BMSC), Busy Hour (BH), Bug Fixing (BGFIX), Central Processing Unit (CPU), Choreography, Cipher, Classmark, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Cognitive Network, Cognitive Radio, Common Library Modules, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Common Open Policy Service (COPS), Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI), Communication Resource, Communication Security, Component, Compressed Mode (CMODE), Confidentiality, Configurable Execution Module (CEM), Configurable, Configuration, Configuration Active, Configuration Control Module (CCM), Configuration Data, Configuration Database, Configuration Default, Configuration Description, Configuration Management Agents (CMA), Configuration Management Module (CMM), Configuration Management Server (CMS), Configuration Management Tool (CMT), Configuration Model, Configuration Profile, Configuration Script, Configuration Service Interface, Configuration Space, Configuration Store, Configuration Version, Context Interpretation, Context Sensing, Context, Core Network (CN), Corporate IT (CIT), Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), Data Processing Resource, Device Capabilities, Device Management (DM), Digital Certificate, Digital Front-End (DFE), Digital Signal Processor (DSP), Digital Signature, Digital Video Broadcast (DVB), Discovery, Dynamic Channel Allocation (DCA), Dynamic Network Planning and Management (DNPM), Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (DSA), Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS), Environment, Equipment Reconfiguration Manager (ERM), European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI), Execution Environment (ExENV), Execution Hardware (ExHW), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Fixed Channel Allocation (FCA), Flexible Spectrum Management (FSM), Frequency Division Duplex (FDD), Full-duplex Transceiver, Functional Block, Functional Description, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Generic Resource Interface, Global Positioning System (GPS), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), Graphical User Interface (GUI), Half-duplex Transceiver, Handover (HO), Hard Mode Handover, Hardware (HW), Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), Hardware Architecture, Hardware Description Language (HDL), Hardware Resource, Hash Function, HAVi Interoperability API, Havlet, Home Reconfiguration Manager (HRM), Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), I/O Processor, Information Technology (IT), Infrastructure-less Multihop Networks, Installation, Installation Manager, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Integrity, Interface Definition Language (IDL), Inter-Frequency Handover (IFH), Intermediate Frequency (IF), Internet Protocol (IP), Inter-Proxy-Interface (IPI), Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI), Inter-System Handover (ISH), Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Joint Load Control (JOLDC), Joint Radio Resource Management (JRRM), Joint Session Admission Control (JOSAC), Joint Session Scheduling (JOSCH), Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), Key Performance Indicator (KPI), Load Sharing, Local Area Network (LAN), Location Sensor, Location Server, Location Update Module (LUM), Loose Coupling Structure (LSC), Local Equipment, Low-level Communication API, Management Information Base (MIB), Mass-Upgrade, Medium Access Control (MAC), Message (MSG), Message Digest, Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), Microkernel, Mobile Agent Management System, Mobile Device Administrator (MDA), Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Mobility Management (MM), Mode, Mode Identification and Monitoring Module (MIMM), Mode Negotiation and Switching Module (MNSM), Modem, Monitoring, Multi-Homing, Multiband Radio, Multicast Broadcast Multimedia Service (MBMS), Multimode/Standard Radio, Negotiation, Negotiation Protocol, Network-Initiated Scenario, Network on Chip (NoC), Network Operator (NO), Network Planning, Network Profile, Object Management Group (OMG), Object-Oriented (OO), Obligation Policy, Ontology, Open Systems Interconnection (OSI), Operating System (OS), Operational Configuration, OSGi Activator, OSGi Service Factory, OSGi Service Gateway, Outsourcing Policy Model (Outsourced Policy), Over-The-Air (OTA), Over-The-Air Download (OTA_DL), Parameterizeable, Partial Reconfiguration, Patch, Permission Guard, Physical Context, Physical Interface, Physical Layer, Physical Mapping Description, Policy, Policy Action, Policy Condition, Policy Core Information Model (PCIM), Policy Decision, Policy Decision Point (PDP), Policy Domain, Policy Enforcement Point (PEP), Policy Guard, Policy Information Base (PIB), Policy Repository, Policy Rule, Primitives, Programmability, Programmable, Provisioning Class (PRC), Provisioning Instance (PRI), Provisioning/Configuration Policy Model, Proxy Reconfiguration Manager (PRM), Public Key Certificate, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Pull Scenario, Push Scenario, Quality of Service (QoS), Radio Access Network (RAN), Radio Access Technology (RAT), Radio Frequency (RF), Radio Frequency Front-End, Radio Resource Control (RRC), Radio Resource Unit (RRU), Radio System Mode, Radio System Standard, Reconfigurability, Reconfigurable Component, Reconfigurable Protocol Stack, Reconfiguration, Reconfiguration Control, Reconfiguration Controller, Reconfiguration Decision Engine, Reconfiguration Deployment, Reconfiguration Management Equipment Interface, Reconfiguration Management Plane (RMP), Reconfiguration Manager (RCM), Reconfiguration Procedures, Reconfiguration Script, Reconfiguration Trigger, Recoverable Error, Recovery, Recovery Manager, Register Procedure, Remote Front-End, Remote Inventory, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Reprogrammability, Resource Scheduling (RS), Restricted Execution Environment, Robust Reconfiguration, Role, Rollback, SAX, Scenario, SDR Component, SDR Component Framework, Seamless Mode/Standard Handover, Secure Configuration Channel, Secure Connection, Secure Hardware Configuration, Secure Memory, Secure Operating System, Secure State, Secure Software Configuration, Security, Security Manager, Security Policy, Semantic Language, Service, Service Capability Feature (SCF), Service Class, Service Profile, Service Provider, Service Specification, Serving Reconfiguration Manager (SRM), Session Admission Control (SAC), Signed Code (Signed Content), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Simultaneous Multimode/Standard Radio, Single Instruction Multiple Data, Soft Handover (SHO), Software Architecture, Software Communications Architecture, Software Component, Software Defined Radio (SDR), Software Download (SW_DL), Software Download and Profile Repository (SPRE), Software Download and Reconfiguration Controller (SDRC), Software Download Module (SDM), Software Module, Software Radio (SR), Spatial Scheduling, Spectrum, Spectrum Brokerage, Spectrum Coordinator (SC), Spectrum Holder (SH), Spectrum Pooling (SP), Spectrum Sharing, Stream Processor, Synchronous Transfer Architecture, System on Chip (SoC), Temporal Scheduling, Terminal-Initiated Scenario, Terminal Mobility Manager (TMM), Terminal Profile, Terminal Reconfiguration Serving Area (TRSA), Tight Coupling Structure (TCS), Trigger, Update Data, Update Package, Unrecoverable Error, User, User Agent Profile (UAProf), User Equipment (UE), User Preferences, User Profile, Validation, Vertical Handover (VHO), Vocabulary, Web Service (WS), Web Service Description Language (WSDL), Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), XML Schema (XML-S).