Glossary
Term or Abbreviation |
Definition |
|---|---|
| 3GPP | Third Generation Partnership Project |
| 5G NR | Fifth generation new radio |
| Aerial | Software suite that accelerates 5G RAN functions with the GPU |
| CB | Code Block |
| CORESET | Control Resource Set |
| CSI | Channel State Information |
| CSI-RS | Channel State Information Reference Signal |
| cuBB | CUDA GPU software libraries/tools that accelerate 5G RAN compute-intensive processing |
| cuMAC | CUDA-based platform for accelerating 5G/6G MAC layer scheduler functions with NVIDIA GPUs |
| cuPHY | CUDA 5G PHY layer software library of the cuBB |
| cuPHY-CP | cuPHY control-plane software |
| CDM/FDM/TDM | Code-division multiplexing, Frequency Division Multiplexing, Time-Division Multiplexing |
| CMake | CMake is a software tool for configuring the makefiles for building the CUDA examples |
| CUDA | Compute Unified Device Architecture |
| CX6-DX | Mellanox ConnectX6-DX NIC |
| DCI | Downlink Control Information |
| DL | Downlink |
| DMRS | Demodulation Reference Signal |
| DOCA | A software framework that helps developers create applications and services on top of the NVIDIA BlueField networking platform |
| DPDK | Data Plane Development Kit |
| DU or O-DU | O-RAN Distributed Unit (a logical node hosting RLC/MAC/High-PHY layers based on a lower layer functional split.) |
| eAxC | Extended Antenna Carrier: a data flow for a single antenna (or spatial stream) for a single carrier in a single sector |
| eCPRI | Enhanced Common Public Radio Interface |
| FAPI | Functional Application Programming Interface |
| FH | Fronthaul |
| GDR | GPUDirect RDMA |
| H2D | Host-to-device memory |
| HDF5 | A data file format used for storing test vectors. The HDF5 software library provides functions for reading and writing the test vector files |
| LDPC | Low-Density Parity Check Code |
| MIB | Master Information Block |
| MU-MIMO | Multi-User Multiple Input - Multiple Output |
| NIC | Network interface card |
| O-RAN | Open Radio Access Network |
| PBCH | Physical Broadcast Channel |
| PDCCH | Physical Downlink Control Channel |
| PDSCH | Physical Downlink Shared Channel |
| PUCCH | Physical Uplink Control Channel |
| PRACH | Physical Random Access Channel |
| PRB | Physical Resource Block |
| PUSCH | Physical Uplink Shared Channel |
| RAN | Radio Access Network |
| RE | Resource Element |
| REG | Resource Element Group |
| RB | Resource Block |
| RM | Reed-Muller |
| RU or O-RU | O-RAN Radio Unit: a logical node hosting Low-PHY layer and RF processing based on a lower layer functional split |
| SCF | Small Cell Forum |
| SIB/SIB1 | System Information Block |
| SSB | Synchronization Signal Block |
| SU-MIMO | Single-User Multiple Input - Multiple Output |
| SyncE | Synchronous Ethernet: An ITU-T standard to provide a synchronization signal to network resources |
| TB | Transport Block |
| TTI | Transmission Time Interval |
| TV | Test Vector |
| UCI | Uplink Control Information |
| UE-EM | UE Emulator Test Equipment |
| UL | Uplink |