ABBREVIATIONS
ABAM
Associativity-Based Ad hoc Multicast Routing
ABR
Associativity-Based Routing
ACK
Acknowledgment
ACPI
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ACTP
Application Controlled Transport Protocol
A-GSM
Ad hoc GSM
AIFS
Arbitration IFS
AM
Amplitude Modulation
AMPS
Advanced Mobile Phone System
AMRIS
Ad hoc Multicast Routing Protocol Utilizing Increasing Id-numbers
AMRoute
Ad hoc Multicast Routing
ANDA
Ad hoc Network Design Algorithm
AODV
Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing
AP
Access Point
AQR
Asynchronous QoS Routing
ARAN
Authenticated Routing for Ad hoc Networks
ARC
Adaptive Transmission Rate Control
ARF
Automatic Rate Fallback
ARPANET
Advanced Research Project Agency Network
ARS
Ad hoc Relaying Station
ASK
Amplitude Shift Keying
ATCP
Ad hoc TCP
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATP
Ad hoc Transport Protocol
BA
Billing Agency
BAAR
Base-Assisted Ad hoc Routing
BAMAC
Battery-Aware MAC
BAMP
Biconnected Augmentation Min-max Power
BEB
Binary Exponential Back-off
BEE
Battery Energy-Efficient Routing
BEMRP
Bandwidth-Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol
Bit Error Rate
BFSK
Binary FSK
BIP
Broadcast Incremental Power
BLIMST
Broadcast Link-based Minimum Spanning Tree
BLU
Broadcast Least Unicast
BMBP
Base-driven Multi-hop Bridging Protocol
BPSK
Binary PSK
BR
Bandwidth Routing Protocol
BRAN
Broadband Radio Access Network
BS
Base Station
BSA
Basic Service Area
BSR
Base Station Supported Reconfiguration
BSS
Basic Service Set
BTMA
Busy Tone Multiple Access
BTS
Base Transceiver Station
CA
Certifying Authority
CAM
Core-to-group Address Mapping
CAMP
Core Assisted Mesh Protocol
CATA
Collision Avoidance Time Allocation
CB8
Cycle-Based 802.11phone
CBR
Constant Bit Rate
CCA
Clear Channel Assessment
CCK
Complementary Code Keying
CCS
Credit Clearance Service
CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access
CDPD
Cellular Digital Packet Data
CEDAR
Core Extraction Distributed Ad hoc Routing
CFS
Cost Function Switcher
CGSR
Cluster-head Gateway Switch Routing
CMMBCR
Conditional Min-Max Battery Cost Routing
CMP
Connected Min-max Power
COA
Care of Address
COMPOW
Common Power Protocol
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
CSMA
Carrier Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CA
CSMA with Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD
CSMA with Collision Detection
CTMDP
Continuous Time Markovian Decision Process
CTS
Clear-To-Send
CW
Contention Window
DAG
Directed Acyclic Graph
DAMPS
Digital-AMPS
DBASE
Distributed Bandwidth Allocation/Sharing/Extension
Differential BPSK
DBTMA
Dual Busy Tone Multiple Access
DCF
Distributed Coordination Function
DCMP
Dynamic Core-based Multicast Routing Protocol
DDM
Differential Destination Multicast Routing
DECT
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
DHT
Distributed Hash Table
DIFS
DCF IFS
DLL
Data Link Layer
DLPS
Distributed Laxity-based Priority Scheduling
D-MAC
Directional MAC
DoS
Denial of Service
DPM
Dynamic Power Management
D-PRMA
Distributed Packet Reservation Multiple Access
DPS
Distributed Priority Scheduling
DPSK
Differential PSK
DQPSK
Differential QPSK
DRP
DWiLL Routing Protocol
DS
Distribution System
DSDV
Destination Sequenced Distance Vector Routing
DSL
Digital Subscriber Loop
DSP
Digital Signal Processor
DSR
Dynamic Source Routing
DSSS
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DTROC
Distributed TDMA Receiver Oriented Channel Assignment
DVS
Dynamic Voltage Scaling
DWiLL
Directional Throughput-Enhanced Wireless in Local Loop
DWOP
Distributed Wireless Ordering Protocol
E2MRP
Energy-Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol
EAP
Extendible Authentication Protocol
EAR
Eavesdrop And Register
ECN
Explicit Congestion Notification
EDCF
Extended DCF
EDGE
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EESR
End-to-End Successful Transmission Reimbursement Scheme
EIFS
Extended IFS
EIRP
Effective Isotropically Radiated Power
ELN
Explicit Loss Notification
E-NAV
Extended NAV
ERSR
End-to-End and Retransmit Attempts Scheme of Reimbursement
Event-to-Sink Reliable Transport
ESS
Extended Service Set
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EY-NPMA
Elimination Yield Non-Preemptive Multiple Access
FA
Foreign Agent
FAMA
Floor Acquisition Multiple Access
FAMA-NTR
FAMA-Non-persistent Transmit Request
FCC
Federal Communications Commission
FDD
Frequency Division Duplex
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDMA
Frequency Division Multiple Access
FEC
Forward Error Correction
FGMP
Forwarding Group Multicast Routing Protocol
FGMP-RA
FGMP-Receiver Advertising
FHSS
Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum
FIFO
First-In-First-Out
FM
Frequency Modulation
FORP
Flow Oriented Routing Protocol
FPRP
Five-Phase Reservation Protocol
FSK
Frequency Shift Keying
FSR
Fisheye State Routing
FSU
Fixed Subscriber Unit
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
FWA
Fixed Wireless Access
GFSK
Gaussian FSK
GHT
Geographic Hash Table
GMSK
Gaussian MSK
GN
Gateway Node
GPRS
General Packet Radio Service
GPS
Global Positioning System
GPSR
Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing
GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications
HA
Home Agent
HAG
Hybrid Approach Gateway
HAWAII
Handoff Aware Wireless Access Internet Infrastructure
HCF
Hybrid Coordination Function
HHSR
Hop-by-Hop Successful Delivery Reimbursement
HIPERLAN
High-Performance Radio LAN
HLR
Home Location Register
HRMA
Hop Reservation Multiple Access
HRSR
Hop-by-Hop and Retransmit Attempts Scheme for Reimbursement
High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data
HSR
Hierarchical State Routing
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HWN
Hybrid Wireless Network
IARP
Intra-zone Routing Protocol
IBAR
Infrastructure-Based Ad hoc Routing
IBSS
Independent Basic Service Set
iCAR
Integrated Cellular Ad hoc Relaying System
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
ICSMA
Interleaved Carrier-Sense Multiple Access
IDU
Interface Data Unit
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IERP
Inter-zone Routing Protocol
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
IF
Intermediate Frequency
IFS
Inter-Frame Spacing
IMT
International Mobile Telecommunications
IN
Infrastructure Node
INSENS
Intrusion Tolerant Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
IP
Internet Protocol
IrDA
Infrared Data Association
IS
Interim Standard
ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network
ISM
Industrial, Scientific, Medical
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
ISP
Internet Service Provider
ITCP
Indirect TCP
ITU
International Telecommunications Union
L2CAP
Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol
LAN
Local Area Network
LAP
Location Addressed Protocol
LAR
Location Aided Routing
LBAR
Load Balanced Ad hoc Routing
LCC
Least Cluster Change
LCT
Link Cost Table
LEACH
Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy
LEAP
Localized Encryption and Authentication Protocol
LET
Link Expiration Time
LIFS
Long IFS
LLG
Least Loaded Gateway
LMDS
Local Multipoint Distribution Service
Least Overhead Routing Approach
LR-WPAN
Low-Rate Wireless PAN
MAC
Medium Access Control
MACA
Multiple Access Collision Avoidance
MACA-BI
MACA-By Invitation
MACA/PR
MACA with Piggy-backed Reservation
MADF
Mobile Assisted Data Forwarding
MAN
Metropolitan Area Network
MANET
Mobile Ad hoc Network
MAODV
Multicast Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing
MARCH
Media Access with Reduced Handshake
MBCR
Minimum Battery Cost Routing
MC
Multi-hop Channel
MCEDAR
Multicast Core-Extraction Distributed Ad hoc Routing
MCG
Multi-hop Connectivity Graph
MCN
Multi-hop Cellular Network
MCSMA
Multichannel CSMA
MDS
Multi-Dimensional Scaling
MECP
Minimum Energy Consumed Per Packet
MEMS
Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems
MEP
Minimum Exposure Path
MFP
Minimum Path Loss with Forward Progress
MH
Mobile Host
MINA
Multi-hop Infrastructure Network Architecture
ML
Multi-Lateration
MMAC
Multichannel MAC
MMBCR
Min-Max Battery Cost Routing
MMDS
Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service
MMNC
Minimum Maximum Node Cost
MN
Mobile Node
MPCR
Minimum Power Consumption Routing
MPD
Multipath Dispersion Heuristic
MPDU
MAC Protocol Data Unit
MPL
Minimum Path Loss
MPSP
Multicast Priority Scheduling Protocol
MRL
Message Routing Layer
MRT
Multicast Routing Table
MS
Mobile Station
MSC
Mobile Switching Center
MSDU
MAC Service Data Unit
MSK
Minimum Shift Keying
MSPR
Multiple Exclusive Shortest Path Routing
MST
Minimum Spanning Tree
MT
Mobile Terminal
Mobile TCP
MuPAC
Multi-Power Architecture for Cellular Networks
MWLAN
Multi-hop Wireless LAN
MZRP
Multicast Zone Routing Protocol
NAV
Network Allocation Vector
NDPL
Neighbor Degree-based Preferred Link Algorithm
NFL
Neighbor Feedback Loop
NRG
Nearest Ring Gateway
NSMP
Neighbor Supporting Ad hoc Multicast Routing Protocol
NTS
Not-To-Send
ODMA
Opportunity-Driven Multiple Access
ODMRP
On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol
OFDM
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OLMQR
On-demand Link-state Multipath QoS Routing
OLSR
Optimized Link State Routing
OQR
On-demand QoS Routing
ORA
Optimum Routing Approach
OSI
Open Systems Interconnection
OTA
Over-The-Air
OWWDM
Optical Wireless WDM
PACS
Personal Access Communication System
PAM
Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PAN
Personal Area Network
PC
Point Coordinator
PCF
Point Coordination Function
PCM
Pulse Code Modulation
PDA
Personal Digital Assistant
PDC
Personal Digital Cellular
PDCR-PDBR
Position-Dependent Cost-Reimbursement, Position-Dependent Bill-Rate
PDRS
Preferred Destination-Ring Routing Scheme
PDU
Protocol Data Unit
PEGASIS
Power-Efficient Gathering for Sensor Information Systems
PHRS
Preferred Hybrid Routing Scheme
PHS
Personal Handyphone System
PICR
Position-Independent Cost-Reimbursement
PICR-PDBR
PICR-Position-Dependent Bill-Rate
PIFS
PCF IFS
PIRS
Preferred Inner-Ring Routing Scheme
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
PLBA
Preferred Link-Based Algorithm
PLBM
Preferred Link-Based Multicast Routing
Predictive Location-Based QoS Routing
PLBR
Preferred Link-Based Routing
PLBU
Preferred Link-Based Unified Routing
PM
Phase Modulation
PN
Pseudo-random Noise
PORS
Preferred Outer-Ring Routing Scheme
PPM
Pulse Position Modulation
PRF
Pulse Repetition Frequency
PRMA
Packet Reservation Multiple Access
PRTMAC
Proactive RTMAC
PSFQ
Pump Slowly Fetch Quickly
PSK
Phase Shift Keying
PSRS
Preferred Source-Ring Routing Scheme
PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network
QAM
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QBSS
QoS Basic Service Set
QoS
Quality of Service
QPSK
Quadrature PSK
RBAR
Receiver-Based Autorate Protocol
RC
Route Cache
RET
Route Expiry Time
RF
Radio Frequency
RI-BTMA
Receiver-Initiated BTMA
RLL
Radio in Local Loop
RP
Radio Port
RSSI
Received Signal Strength Indicator
RSU
Radio Subscriber Unit
RSVP
Resource Reservation Protocol
RT
Routing Table
RTMAC
Real-Time MAC
RTS
Request-To-Send
RTU
Radio Transceiver Unit
SAP
Service Access Point
SAR
Security-aware Ad hoc Routing
SBS
Smart Battery Standard
SC
Single-hop Channel
SCG
Single-hop Connectivity Graph
SCN
Single-hop Cellular Network
SDMA
Space Division Multiple Access
SDU
Service Data Unit
SEAD
Secure Efficient Ad hoc Distance Vector Routing
SIFS
Short IFS
Subscriber Identity Module
SMACS
Self-organizing MAC for Sensor Networks
SMCN
Single-Interface MCN
SMECN
Small Minimum Energy Communication Network
SMRP
SMCN Routing Protocol
SMS
Short Messaging Service
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNEP
Sensor Network Encryption Protocol
SNGF
Stateless Non-Deterministic Geographic Forwarding
SNR
Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SOPRANO
Self-Organizing Packet Radio Networks with Overlay
SPIN
Sensor Protocols for Information via Negotiation
SPINS
Security Protocols for Sensor Networks
SRMA/PA
Soft Reservation Multiple Access with Priority Assignment
SS7
Signaling System 7
SSA
Signal Stability-based Adaptive Routing
STA
Station
STAR
Source-Tree Adaptive Routing
STP
Signaling Transfer Point
SWAN
Stateless Wireless Ad hoc Network
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
TCP-BuS
TCP with Buffering Capability and Sequence Information
TCP-ELFN
TCP-Explicit Link Failure Notification
TCP-F
TCP Feedback
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TCP SACK
TCP with Selective ACK
TDD
Time Division Duplex
TDMA
Time Division Multiple Access
TDR
Trigger-based Distributed QoS Routing
TELNET
Terminal Network
TGe
Task Group e
TIMIP
Terminal Independent Mobility for IP
TORA
Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm
TTCP
Transaction-oriented TCP
TTL
Time To Live
TTP
Trusted Third Party
TWiLL
Throughput Enhanced Wireless in Local Loop
UCAN
Unified Cellular and Ad hoc Network
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UNPF
Unified Network Protocol Framework
Ultra-Wide Band
UWC
Universal Wireless Communications
VBR
Variable Bit Rate
VDCF
Virtual DCF
VLR
Visitor Location Register
VMS
Velocity Monotonic Scheduling
VoIP
Voice over IP
VPN
Virtual Private Network
WAE
Wireless Application Environment
WAN
Wide Area Network
WAP
Wireless Application Protocol
WARM
Wireless Ad hoc Real-time Multicasting
WATM
Wireless ATM
WBM
Weight-Based Multicast Routing
WBPL
Weight-Based Preferred Link Algorithm
W-CDMA
Wideband CDMA
WDM
Wavelength Division Multiplexing
WDP
Wireless Datagram Protocol
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
Wi-Fi
Wireless Fidelity
WiLL
Wireless in Local Loop
WINS
Wireless Integrated Network Sensor
WLAN
Wireless LAN
WLL
Wireless in Local Loop
WMAN
Wireless MAN
WML
Wireless Markup Language
WPAN
Wireless PAN
WRP
Wireless Routing Protocol
WSP
Wireless Session Protocol
WTLS
Wireless Transport Layer Security
WTP
Wireless Transaction Protocol
WWAN
Wireless WAN
ZHLS
Zone-based Hierarchical Link State Routing
ZRP
Zone Routing Protocol