Aerial CUDA-Accelerated RAN
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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
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