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Telecommunications
Of or pertaining to the transmission of information over a distance, and the technology used to achieve this communication.
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block error rate (BLER)
Telecommunications; Wireless communication
The ratio of the number of erroneous blocks received to the total number of blocks sent. An erroneous block is defined as a Transport Block, the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of ...
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
Telecommunications; Wireless communication
A digital transmission technique that uses a large number of carriers spaced apart at slightly different frequencies.
air interface
Telecommunications; Wireless communication
The technology used for the radio transmission between base station and mobile units in a wireless network.
carrier
Telecommunications; Wireless communication
A continuous signal, or waveform, at a certain frequency on a circuit, or within a certain frequency range, and that can be modulated to support an information-bearing signal.
channel
Telecommunications; Wireless communication
A single communications patch in a transmission medium connecting two or more points in a network, each patch being separated by some means; e.g., spatial or multiplex separation, ...
channel state information (CSI)
Telecommunications; Wireless communication
Information which represents the state of a communication link from the transmit source(s) to the receiver source(s).
code rate
Telecommunications; Wireless communication
A measure of the efficiency of a code, consisting in the number of information bits divided by the code length.
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