# CoNTe: A Core Network Temporal Blockchain for 5G
## 3 Federated Byzantine Agreement Consensus
### Transaction and Protocol Messages
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## Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript:

3 GPP 3 rd Generation Partnership Project

5G-EIR 5G-Equipment Identity Register

AF Application Function

AMF Access and Mobility Management Function

API Application Programming Interface

AUSF Authentication Server Function

BFT Byzantine Fault Tolerant

BGP Border Gateway Protocol

CAPIF Common Application Programming Interface Function

CIF Container Infrastructure Service

COE Container Orchestration Engine

CP Control Plane

CNF Container Network Function

CSMA/CD Carrier Sensing Multiple Access Collision Detection

DN Data Network

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

FBA Federated Byzantine Agreement

FBAS Federated Byzantine Agreement System

FLP Fischer, Lynch, and Paterson

GST Global Synchronization Time

IFA Interfaces and Architecture

ISP Internet Service Provider

LoRaWAN Long Range Wide-Area Network

MANO Management and Orchestration

MNO Mobile Network Operator

MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operator

NEF Network Exposure Function

NF Network Function

NFVI Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure

NFV Network Function Virtualization

NRF Network Repository Function

NSF Network Service Function

NSSF Network Slice Selection Function

NWDAF Network Data Analytics Function

PaaS Platform as a Service

PCF Policy Control Function

POP Point of Presence

POW Proof-of-Work

RAN Radio Access Network

REST Representational State Transfer

SDN Software Defined Networking

SEPP Security Edge Protection Proxy

SMF Session Management Function

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

UDM Unified Data Management

UDR Unified Data Repository

UDSF Unstructured Data Storage Function

UE User Equipment

UP User Plane

UPF User Plane Function

VF Virtual Function

VL Virtual Links

VNF Virtual Network Function

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