Index

Access Point

Accumulated packet reception probability

acknowledgement

area of interest

broadcast acknowledgement

broadcast backoff timer

Carrier Sensing Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

clear-to-forward

clear-to-send

concurrent transmission set

connected dominant set

conservative CTS

constant bit rate

contention-based dissemination

contention-based forwarding

DDB

dedicated short range communications

Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network

Distributed Inter Frame Space

DSDV

Dynamic Source Routing

emergency message dissemination for vehicular environments

energy detection

energy-efficient geographic opportunistic routing

error correction coding

Expected Advancement Rate

expected medium time

expected one-hop throughput

Expected Opportunistic Transmission Count

expected packet advancement

expected transmission count

expected transmission time

exponentially weighted moving average

fast-forward-dissemination

fast slotted acknowledgment

fisheye state routing

forwarding priority scheduling problem

forwarding range

geographic opportunistic routing

geographic routing

GeRaF

Global Positioning System

greedy CTS

Intelligent Transportation Systems

interested region

LDPC

least cost opportunistic routing

linear programming

link quality measurement

live multimedia streaming

LRR

makeup-for-reliability

Management Information Base

mobile ad hoc networks

mobile content distribution

multiple-input multiple-output

NCDD

OB-VAN

OFDM

on board units

opportunistic broadcast

opportunistic broadcast coordination function

Opportunistic Effective One-hop Throughput

opportunistic ETT

opportunistic forwarding

Opportunistic routing

Optimized Link State Routing

Packet Delivery Ratio

packet level network coding

packet reception probability

Preamble detection

quality of service

random linear network coding

ready-to-forward

ready-to-send

reception to transmission energy ratio

relay candidate region

road side units

route error

route reply

route request

self-allocation vector

short inter frame space

signal to interference and noise ratio

Signal to Noise Ratio

slotted acknowledgment

symbol level network coding

Topology Control

traditional routing

Transport Control Protocol

unit disk graph

vehicular ad hoc networks

warning messages

Wireless mesh networks

Wireless sensor networks

WLAN