Glossary for the complete course

Number to identify a certain location area

Final leg of the telecommunications networks that deliver telecommuniction services to retail end-users, customers

Provides lean control signaling, supports spectrum flexibility and a large number of very different devices for a common system access

Microwave antenna that uses a shaped piece of microwave-transparent material to bend and focus the radio waves by refraction, as an optical lens does for light

Relation between one value A₂ and another value A₁ of the same physical quantity expressed as a logarithm, e.g: voltage, current, or power

Graph showing the change of the level over a certain distance or time

Optical connection between transmitter and receiver, no obstacles obstruct the path

Shift register with feedback loop

Accounting of any of the power gains and losses that affect a signal on its way from transmitter to receiver