List of Abbreviations

3GPP

3^rd Generation Partnership Project

ACS

Adjacent Channel Selectivity

ACIR

Adjacent Channel Interference Ratio

ACLR

Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio

AP

Antenna Plugin

BS

Base Station

CDF

Cumulative Distribution Function

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access

CDMAE

CDMA Engine

CEPT

European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations

CRP

Coverage Radius Plugin

CR

Cognitive Radio

DL

Downlink

dRSS

desired Received Signal Strength

DTH

Direct To Home

ECC

Electronic Communications Committee

ECO

European Communication Office

EPP

Event Processing Plugin

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

E-UTRA

Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access

FDD

Frequency Division Duplex

GSM

Global System for Mobile communication

GUI

Graphical User Interface

ICE

Interference Calculation Engine

ILR

Interfering link receiver

ILT

Interfering link transmitter

iRSS

interfering Received Signal Strength

It

Interefering link transmitter

ITU-R

International Telecommunication Union – Radiocommunication Sector

LTE

Long Term Evolution

MCL

Minimum Coupling Loss

NF

Noise Figure

OFDM

Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplex

OFDMA

Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access

PDF

Probability Distribution Function

PMP

Propagation model plugin

RF

Radio Frequency

Rx

Receiver

SEAMCAT

Spectrum Engineering Advanced Monte Carlo Analysis Tool

SINR

Signal to Infererence plus Noise Ratio

sRSS

sensing Received Signal Strength

STG

SEAMCAT Technical Group

sws

SEAMCAT WorkSpace

TDD

Time Division Duplex

TETRA

Terrestrial Trunked Radio

TS

Terminal Station

Tx

Transmitter

UE

User Equipment

UI

User Interface

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

VLR

Victim Link Receiver

VLT

Victim Link Transmitter

WG SE

Working Group Spectrum Engineering

WSD

White Space Device