List of Abbreviations with Full form

1G First generation of mobile phone standards and technology
2G Second generation of mobile phone standards and technology
3G Third generation of mobile phone standards and technology
3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
3GPP2 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2
ADSL Asynchronized Digital Subscriber Loop
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System
APEX Application Exchange
API Application Programming Interfaces
APRU Average Revenue Per User
AR Application Router
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
AS Application Server
AST Application Server Toolkit
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B2BUA Back to Back User Agent
BGCF Breakout Gateway Control Function
BICC Bearer Independent Call Control
BPEL Business Process Execution Language
CAMEL Customized Applications for Mobile network Enhanced Logic
CapEx Capital Expenditure
CBE Common Base Event
CCXML Call Control Extensible Markup Language
CDC Connected Device Configuration
CDMA Code division multiple access
CDMA2000 Code division multiple access Hybrid of 2.5G/3G Mobile standard
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CIR Connection Initiation Request
CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration
CLI Command Line Interface
CLP Command Line Protocol
CMP Container Managed Persistence
CN Core Network
COPS Common Open Policy Services
CPIM Common Profile for Instant Messaging
CPP Common Profile for Presence
CRs Change Requests
CSCF Call Session Control Function
CSE CAMEL Service Environment
CSNs Circuit Switched Networks
CSP Client-Server Protocol
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DOM Document Object Model
DSL Digital subscriber line
DTDs Document Type Definition
EAR Enterprise Archive
EDA Event Drive Architecture
EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
EJB Enterprise Java Beans
EMS Enhanced Messaging Service
ESB Enterprise Service Bus
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EV-DO Evolution-Data Optimized
FDM Frequency Division Multiplex
FHoSS FOKUS HSS
FMC Fixed Mobile Convergence
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node
GLMS Group and List Management Server
GNU Genuinely Not Unix
GPL GNU Public License
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GSM Global System for Mobile communications
HLR Home Location Register
HLR/AUC Home Location Register and Authentication Center
HSS Home Subscribe Server
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
I-CSCF Interrogating Call Session Control Function
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
iFC initial Filter Criteria
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
IMIN IMS Interworking Network
IMPP Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol
IMPP WG Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol Working Group
IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
IMS-MGW IMS Media Gateway
IM-SSF IP Multimedia Service Switching Function
IMTS Improved Mobile Telephone System
IMXP former to XMPP
IN Intelligent Network
INAP Intelligent Network Application Part
IOP Inter-Orb Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
IPGW IP Gateway
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6
IPX IP Interworking Exchanged
ISC IMS Service Control
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISUP ISDN User Part
IT Information Technology
ITU International Telecommunication Union
J2ME Java 2 Micro-Edition
J2SE Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
JAIN Java Advanced Intelligent Network
JCP Java Community Process
JDBC Java DataBase Connectivity
JDK Java Development Kit
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JSP Java Server Page
JSR Java Specification Request
JST J2EE standard Tools
JTAPI Java telephony API
JTWI Java Technology for the Wireless Industry
JVM Java Virtual Machine
LAN Local Area Network
LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License
MAHO Mobile Assisted Handover
MG Media gateway
MGCF Media Gateway Control Function
MH Mobile Host
MIDI Musical Iinstrument Digital Interface
MIDP Mobile Information Device Profile
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
MIPv6 Mobile IPv6
MMD Multimedia Domain
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
MRFP Multimedia Resource Function Processor
MSA Mobile Service Architecture
MSC Mobile Switching Center
MSCF Media Server Function Control
MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol
MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol
MVC Model View Controller
NAT Network Address Translators
NGN Next Generation Network
NGN-FG NGN Focus Group
N-ISDN Narrowband Integrated Services Digital Network
OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity
OMA Open Mobile Alliance
OMA Open Mobile Alliance
OPEX Operating Expenses
OSA Open Service Architecture
P2P Person-to-person
PA Presence Agent
P-CSCF Proxy Call Session Control Function
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PIDF Presence Information Data Format
PLMN Public land mobile network
PNG Portable Network Graphics
POC Push to talk over cellular
POP Post Office Protocol
POTS Plain old telephone service
PRIM Presence and Instant Messaging Protocol
PS Presence Server
PSNs Packet-Switched Networks
PSTN Public switched telephone network
PTT Push-to-Talk
QoE Quality of Experience
QoS Quality of Services
RAN Radio Access Network
REST Representation State Transfer
RFC Request For Comment
RLS Resource List Server
RMI Remote Method Invocation
RMS Record Management System
RPID Rich Presence Information Data Format
RPP Receiving Party Pays
RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol
RTP Real-time Transport Protocol
RTT Round Trip Times
SAR SIP application resource
SAs Security Associations
SBC Single Board Computer
SCP Service Control Point
SCS Service Capability Server
S-CSCF Serving Call Session Control Function
SDP Service Delivery Platforms
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node
SGW Signalling Gateway
SIB Service Independent Building Block
SIGCOMP Signaling Compression
SIMPLE SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions
SIP Session Initiation Protocol
SIP–AS SIP Applications Server
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLEE Service Logic Execution Environment
SLS Service Level Specification
SMCNP Server Mobile Core Network Protocol
SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMS Short message service
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOA Service Oriented Architecture
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SRV Service LookUp
SS7 Signalling System No. 7
SSP Service Switching Point
SSV Shared Streaming Video
STUN Simple Transversal of UDP through NATs
TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface
TAPI Telephony API
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TDM Time Division Mutiplexing
TISPAN Telecom & Internet converged Services & Protocols for
Advanced Networks
TLS Transport Layer Security
TMF Tele management Forum
TR Technical Reports
TS Technical Specifications
TWSS Telecom Web Services Toolkit
UAC User Agent Client
UAS User Agent Server
UCT University of Cape Town
UDDI Universal Description Discovery and Integration
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UE User Equipment
UMM Unified Mobility Manager
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UOA User Oriented Architecture
URI Universal Resource Identifier
USCE Unified Service Creation Environment
UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network
VAS Value Added Services
VOIP Voice over IP
VXML Voice XML
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WBXML Wireless Binary XML
W-CDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
Wi-fi Wireless Fidelity
WLAN Wireless LAN
WSDL Web Services Description Language
WS-I Web Services Interoperability Organization
WSIF Web Services Invocation Framework
WSP Wireless Session Protocol
WST Web standard tool
WTK Wireless Toolkit
XCAP XML Configuration Access Protocol
XML Extensible Markup Language
XMLNS XML Namespaces
XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
XSD XML Schema Definition