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Glossary

Explore our library of thousands of telecoms terms and acronyms defined for on-the-job reference or learning new material.

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PHB

Per Hop Behaviour

Pilot Beacon

Pilot Beacon

Port Number

Port Number

Power Control Bit

Power Control Bit

PRB

Physical Resource Block

Public Key

Public Key

QBSS

Quality Basic Service Set

QIB

Quality Indicator Bit

QoS Subscribed

QoS Subscribed

RAB

Radio Access Bearer

Radio Block

Radio Block

RANDBS

Base Station Random Variable

RB

Resource Block

RB

Radio Bearer

RBG

Resource Block Group

RBOC

Regional Bell Operating Companies

RBSN

Reduced Block Sequence Number

Reliability

Reliability

Required Eb/No+Io

Required Eb/(No+Io) (dB)

Reverse Power Control Subchannel

Reverse Power Control Subchannel

RRBP

Relative Reserved Block Period

S-Band

S-Band

SABM

Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode

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