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Abbreviations and Acronyms

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Cat A- Category A CBSD, permitted to transmit a maximum EIRP of 1 W (20 dBm/MHz) and only to be deployed indoors or outdoors with antenna heights less than 6 m above average terrain height.

Cat B- Category B CBSD, permitted to transmit a maximum EIRP of 50 W (37 dBm/MHz) outdoors and are expected to have antenna heights greater than 6 m above average terrain height.

CBRS- Citizens Broadband Radio Service

CBSD- Citizens Broadband Radio Service Device, a fixed station that authorizes and controls End User Devices on a Priority Access or General Authorized Access basis, as defined in Part 96 of Title 47 in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations.

CFR- Code of Federal Regulations

CONUS- continental United States

DPA- Dynamic Protection Area

E_UTRA- Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access

EIRP- equivalent isotropic radiated power

ESC- environmental sensing capability, a system that detects and communicates the presence of a signal from an Incumbent User to an SAS to facilitate shared spectrum access

FAD- full activity dump

FCC- Federal Communications Commission

GAA- General Authorized Access

ITS- Institute for Telecommunication Sciences

NTIA- National Telecommunications and Information Administration

NR- 5G New Radio

OCONUS- outside the continental United States

PAL- Priority Access License

SAS- Spectrum Access System

U.S.- United States

WInnForum- Wireless Innovation Forum

 

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