5G Acronyms/Abbreviations

Drowned in the Sea of Acronyms?This might help you!

Sunku R
9 min readDec 4, 2021

The set of specifications around 5G and in general 5G protocol standards, has a complex list of acronyms that might be intimidating for the first time reader.

Confused on all the terms on 5G? (source)

This article is intended to help you understand the full forms to start with. I presume not everyone has to work with every abbreviation out there but generally its good to have the list bookmarked.

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Find any abbreviations and/or acronyms missing? Feel free to comment below to have them updated.

Acronyms Generic to 5G Networks

5G-NR — 5G New Radio

QoS — Quality of Service

QoE — Quality of Experience

NWDAF — Network Data Analytics Function

OAM — Operations Administration and Management

PTP — Precision Time Protocol

RSRP — Reference Signal Recieved Power

SS — Synchronization Signal

CSI — Channel State Information

SS-RSRP — Synchronization Signal Reference Signal Received Power

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Sunku R
Sunku R

Written by Sunku R

Principal Product Manager | Edge Compute | 5G | EB1 Coach. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunkuranganath/

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