List of Abbreviations
| ACK | ACKnowledgement |
| AODV | Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing |
| AoI | Area of Interest |
| AP | Access Point |
| APRP | Accumulated Packet Reception Probability |
| ARQ | Automatic Repeat reQuest |
| BACK | Broadcast Acknowledgement |
| BBT | Broadcast Backoff Timer |
| CBD | Contention-Based Dissemination |
| CBF | Contention-Based Forwarding |
| CBR | Constant Bit Rate |
| CCA | Clear Channel Assessment |
| CCTS | Conservative Concurrent Transmission Set |
| CDS | Connected Dominant Set |
| CLP | Coordinated Local Push |
| CR | Communication Range |
| CSA | Compressed Slotted Acknowledgment |
| CSMA-CA | Carrier Sensing Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance |
| CTF | Clear-To-Forward |
| CTS | Concurrent Transmission Set/Clear-To-Send |
| DDB | Dynamic Delayed Broadcasting |
| DIFS | Distributed Inter-Frame Space |
| DSDV | Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing |
| DSR | Dynamic Source Routing |
| DSRC | Dedicated Short Range Communications |
| DTN | Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network |
| EAR | Expected Advancement Rate |
| ECC | Error Correction Coding |
| ED | Energy Detection |
| EGOR | Energy-efficient Geographic Opportunistic Routing |
| EMDV | Emergency Message Dissemination for Vehicular environments |
| EMT | Expected Medium Time |
| EOT | Expected One-hop Throughput |
| EOTX | Expected Opportunistic Transmission Count |
| EPA | Expected Packet Advancement |
| ETF | Expected number of Transmissions over Forward links |
| ETT | Expected Transmission Time |
| ETX | Expected Transmission count |
| EWMA | Exponentially Weighted Moving Average |
| ExOR | Extremely Opportunistic Routing |
| FFD | Fast-forward-Dissemination |
| FPSP | Forwarding Priority Scheduling Problem |
| FR | Forwarding Range |
| FSA | Fast Slotted Acknowledgement |
| FSR | Fisheye State Routing |
| GCTS | Greedy Concurrent Transmission Set |
| GeRaF | Geographic Random Forwarding |
| GOR | Geographic Opportunistic Routing |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GR | Geographic Routing |
| GTR | Geographic Traditional Routing |
| IR | Interested Region |
| ITS | Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| LCOR | Least Cost Opportunistic Routing |
| LDPC | Low-Density Parity-Check |
| LMS | Live Multimedia Streaming |
| LMTOR | Least Medium Time Opportunistic Routing |
| LP | Linear Programming |
| LQM | Link Quality Measurement |
| LRR | Local Round-Robin Scheduling |
| MAC | Medium Assess Control |
| MANET | Mobile Ad hoc NETwork |
| MCD | Mobile Content Distribution |
| MCDS | Minimum Connected Dominant Set |
| MFR | Makeup-For-Reliability |
| MGOR | Multirate Geographic Opportunistic Routing |
| MIB | Management Information Base |
| MIMO | Multiple-Input Multiple-Output |
| MPR | Multipoint Relay |
| MRD | Multi-Radio Diversity |
| MTM | Medium Time Metric |
| MWN | Multihop Wireless Network |
| NADV | Normalized ADVance |
| NAV | Network Allocation Vector |
| NC | Network Coding |
| NCDD | Network Coding based Data Dissemination |
| OBCF | Opportunistic Broadcast Coordination Function |
| OBU | On-Board Unit |
| OB-VAN | Opportunistic Broadcast in VANETs |
| OEOT | Opportunistic Effective One-hop Throughput |
| OETT | Opportunistic Expected Transmission Time |
| OFDM | Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing |
| OLRR | Opportunistic Local Round-Robin scheduling |
| OLSR | Optimized Link State Routing |
| OppCast | Opportunistic Broadcast |
| OR | Opportunistic Routing |
| PCD | Popular Content Distribution |
| PD | Preamble Detection |
| PDR | Packet Delivery Ratio |
| PLNC | Packet Level Network Coding |
| PRP | Packet Reception Probability |
| PRR | Packet Reception Ratio |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| RCR | Relay Candidate Region |
| RERR | Route Error |
| RLNC | Random Linear Network Coding |
| RREP | Route Reply |
| RREQ | Route Request |
| RSSI | Received Signal Strength Indicator |
| RSU | Road Side Unit |
| RTER | Reception to Transmission Energy Ratio |
| RTF | Ready-To-Forward |
| RTS | Ready-To-Send |
| SA | Slotted Acknowledgment |
| SAV | Self Allocation Vector |
| SB | Smart Broadcast |
| SIFS | Short Inter-Frame Space |
| SINR | Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio |
| SLNC | Symbol Level Network Coding |
| SLQM | Secure Link Quality Measurement |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| TC | Topology Control |
| TCP | Transport Control Protocol |
| TORA | Temporally-Ordered Routing Algorithm |
| TR | Traditional Routing |
| UDG | Unit Disk Graph |
| UMB | Urban Multihop Broadcast protocol |
| VANET | Vehicular Ad Hoc Network |
| WCETT | Weighted Cumulative Expected Transmission Time |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
| WM | Warning Message |
| WMN | Wireless Mesh Network |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Network |
| XOR | Exclusive OR |