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In certain materials, the increase in electrical conductivity that results from increases in the number of free carriers generated when photons are absorbed. Note: The photons must have quantum energy sufficient to overcome the band-gap in the material in question.
Industry:Telecommunications
In certain materials, the changes in the electrical characteristics caused by photon absorption.
Industry:Telecommunications
In certain local-area-network protocols, a group of bits that serves as a symbol of authority, is passed among data stations, and is used to indicate the station that is temporarily in control of the transmission medium.
Industry:Telecommunications
In cellular technology (mobile telephone technology,) the use of a wireless telephone outside a specified tariffed geographic area defined by the service provider (which area is usually called the "home" area); outside of the home area, additional charges usually apply.
Industry:Telecommunications
In cellular mobile, the geographical area covered by the smaller of: a base station, or a subsystem (sector antenna) of that base station corresponding to a specific logical identification on the radio path. Note: Mobile stations in a cell may be reached by the corresponding radio equipment of the base station. 2. The service area of an individual transmitter location in a cellular system. 3. In communications, a string that contains a header and user information. Note 1: A cell is dedicated to one user for one session. Cells for a given system are usually of fixed length and smaller than a frame, such as 424 bits for a cell, compared to 1024 for a frame. Note 2: In asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) systems, a cell consists of 53 bytes, i.e., a 5-byte header field and a 48-byte information field. Note 3: A cell does not have error-correction capability and is therefore suited for low-BER communications systems, such as digital fiber optic systems. 4. In OSI, a fixed-length block labeled at the Physical Layer of the Open Systems Interconnection--Reference Model (OSI--RM. ) 5. In computer systems, an addressable, internal hardware location. 5. In computer applications, a single location on a spreadsheet.
Industry:Telecommunications
In cellular mobile systems, the process of transferring a phone call in progress from one cell transmitter and receiver and frequency pair to another cell transmitter and receiver using a different frequency pair without interruption of the call. Synonym handover. 2. In satellite communications, the process of transferring ground-station control responsibility from one ground station to another without loss or interruption of service.
Industry:Telecommunications
In CATV systems, a bidirectional high-speed digital communications interface, located on a subscriber's or user's premises, and used, for example, for Internet access or other digital communications.
Industry:Telecommunications
In carrier telephone transmission, equipment that accepts the signal from a group receiver output and attenuates it to the proper signal level for insertion, without frequency translation, at the input of a group transmitter.
Industry:Telecommunications
In carrier telephone transmission, equipment that accepts the multiplexed signal from a supergroup receiver output, amplifies it without frequency translation, and provides the proper signal level to the input of a supergroup transmitter equipment.
Industry:Telecommunications
In carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) networks and in carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) networks, the algorithm used to schedule retransmission after a collision such that the retransmission is delayed by an amount of time derived from the slot time and the number of attempts to retransmit.
Industry:Telecommunications
