ABBREVATIONS

Abbreviations 

ACM Adaptive Coding and Modulation
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AVC Advanced Video Coding
AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise
BB Baseband
BER Bit Error Ratio
BCH Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem multiple error correction binary block code
BS Broadcast Service
BW Bandwidth (at -3 dB) of the transponder
CBR Constant Bit Rate
CCM Constant Coding and Modulation
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
D Decimal notation
DAGC Digital AGC
DA-VT AGC Data-Aided version of the Vector-Tracker Automatic Gain Control
DD Decision Directed
DNP Deleted Null Packets
DSNG Digital Satellite News Gathering
DTH Direct To Home
DTT Digital Terrestrial Television
DTV Digital TeleVision
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting project
DVB-S DVB System for satellite broadcasting as specified in EN 300 421
DVB-S2 DVB-S2 System as specified in EN 302 307
DEMUX DEMUltipleXer
EBU European Broadcasting Union
EN European Norm
ETS European Telecommunication Standard
FDM Frequency Division Multiplex
FEC Forward Error Correction
FF Feedforward
FIFO First In First Out
GS Generic Stream
GSE Generic Stream Encapsulation
HDTV High Definition Television
HP High Priority
HPA High Power Amplifier
IBO Input Back Off
IF Intermediate Frequency
IMUX Input MUltipleXer - Filter
IRD Integrated Receiver Decoder
IS Interactive Services
ISCR Input Stream Clock Reference
ISI InterSymbol Interference
ITU International Telecommunications Union
LDPC Low Density Parity Check (codes)
LG Low Gain
LNB Low Noise Block
LP Low Priority
ML Maximum Likelihood
MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group
MPE Multi-Protocol Encapsulation
MUX Multiplex
NA Not Applicable
NCO Numerically Controlled Oscillator
NG Nominal Gain
OBO Output Back Off
OMUX Output Multiplexer - Filter
NP Null Packets
PER (MPEG TS) Packet Error Rate
PID Packet Identifier
PFA Probability of False Alarm
PND Probability of Non Detection
PL Physical Layer
PLL Phase-Locked Loop
PLS Physical Layer Signalling
PLSCODE PLS code
PS Professional Services
PSD Power Spectral Density
PSK Phase Shift Keying
QEF Quasi-Error-Free
QoS Quality of Service
QPSK Quaternary Phase Shift Keying
RF Radio Frequency
RX Receiver
RR Round Robin
SDTV Standard Definition Television
SNG Satellite News Gathering
SNR Signal to Noise Power Ratio
SMATV Satellite Master Antenna TeleVision
SOF Start of Frame
SRRC Square Root Raised Cosine Filter
TDM Time Division Multiplex
TS Transport Stream
TV Television
TX Transmitter
TWTA Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier
UW Unique Word
VCM Variable Coding and Modulation
16APSK 16-ary Amplitude and Phase Shift Keying
32APSK 32-ary Amplitude and Phase Shift Keying
8PSK 8-ary Phase Shift Keying