3GPP: Third Generation Partnership Project

ACK: Acknowledgment

ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AMPS: Advanced Mobile Phone System (1st generation cellular)

ANSI: American National Standards Institute

AODV: Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (MANET)

API: Application Programming Interface (between application and transport layer)

ARP: Address Resolution Protocol (maps DLC address to IPv4 address)

ARQ: Automatic Retransmission Query / Automatic Repeat Request

ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode

BGP: Border Gateway Protocol (RFC 1771 ff.)

B-ISDN: Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network

BRAN: Broadband Radio Access Networks (ETSI project, developing HIPERLAN/2)

BS: Base Station

BT: Bluetooth

CAC: Channel Access Control; Connection Admission Control

CDPD: Cellular Digital Packet Data

CCITT: Comite Consultatif Internationale de la Telephonie et de la Telegraphie

CIDR: Classless Interdomain Routing (IP)

COTS: Commercial Off-The-Shelf

CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check

CS: Circuit Switched

CTIA: Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association (North America)

DAD: Duplicate Address Detection

DECT: Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (ETSI standard)

DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (application, uses UDP)

DLC: Data Link Control Layer (OSI layer 2)

DNS: Domain Name System (Internet, protocol uses UDP)

DQDB: Distributed Queue Dual Bus (for MANs, IEEE 802.6)

DSL: Digital Subscriber Line

DSR: Dynamic Source Routing (MANET)

EDGE: Enhanced Data Rates for GSM (Global) Evolution

EIGRP: Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (Cisco proprietary)

ETSI: European Technical Standards Institute

FCC: Federal Communication Commission (U.S.)

FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface (dual Token Ring)

FEC: Forward Error Correction

FTP: File Transfer Protocol (uses TCP)

GBN: Go-Back-N (reliable transport strategy)

GCRA: Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (used in ATM)

GPRS: General Packet Radio Service (2.5 generation cellular wireless network)

GPS: Global Positioning System
Generalized Processor Sharing (scheduling)

GW: Gateway

HAck: Handover Acknowledge (cellular wireless)

HDLC: High-Level Data Link Control (link layer protocol)

HDR: High Data Rate (Qualcomm CDMA system for data)

HI: Handover Initiate (cellular wireless)

HIPERLAN: High Performance Radio Local Area Network (ETSI standard)

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IAB: Internet Architecture Board

ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol (network layer, RFC 792)

ICNIRP: International Commission on Nonionizing Radiation Protection

ID: Internet Draft

IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force (IAB subsidiary where standards are developed)

IGP: Interior Gateway Protocol

IMAP: Internet Mail Access Protocol

IMT-2000: International Mobile Telephone by the year 2000 (3G wireless)

IPSec: Internet Security Protocol (used for VPNs)

ISDN: Interated Services Digital Network

ISO: International Standards Organization

ITU: International Telecommunications Union (agency of the United Nations)

LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LLC: Logical Link Control (part of the link layer)

LMDS: Local Multipoint Distribution Service (terrestrial cellular broadband technology)

LoS: Line of Sight

MAC: Media Access Control (part of the link layer)

MANET: Mobile Ad Hoc Network

MIB: Management Information Base

MIME:Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MN: Mobile Node

MPLS: Multi-Protocol Label Switching

MS: Mobile Station

MSL: Maximum Segment Lifetime (TCP)

MSS: Maximum Segment Size (TCP)

MTSO: Mobile Telephone Switching Office (cellular telephony)

MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit (IP)

NAK: Negative Acknowledgment (=NACK)

NAR: New Access Router

ND: Neighbor Discovery (protocol)

NFS: Network File System (uses UDP)

NIST: National Institute for Standard and Technology (U.S.)

NNTP: Network News Transfer Protocol (uses TCP)

ns2: network simulator (open source)

NTT: Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (Japan)

OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (PHY)

OLSR: Optimized Link State Routing (MANET)

OSI: Open Systems Interconnect

OSPF: Open Shortest Path First (TCP/IP routing)

PAR: Previous Access Router

PBX: Private Branch Exchange (telephony)

PCS: Personal Communications Services

PDU: Protocol Data Unit

PHY: Physical Layer (OSI layer 1)

POP3: Post Office Protocol Version 3 (mail access protocol)

POTS: Plain Old Telephony System

PPU: Protocol Processing Unit

PS: Packet Switched

PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network

RAS: Remote Access Service

RFC: Request for Comments

RIP: Routing Information Protocol (RFC 1723)

RJE: Remote Job Entry (application, RFC 407)

RLP: Radio Link Protocol

RPC: Remote Procedure Call (transport protocol, may run over UDP)

RSVP: Resource Reservation Protocol (IP, IntServ)

RTO: Retransmission Timeout (TCP)

RTP: Real Time Protocol (RFC 1889, runs over UDP)

RTT: Round Trip Time (TCP)

SAP: Service Access Point

SAR: Specific Absorption Rates (microwave radiation)

SDR: Software Defined Radio

SDU: Service Data Unit

SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (push protocol for e-mail, 7bit ASCII, RFC 0821)

SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol (uses UDP)

SRW: Short Range Wireless

SSL: Secure Sockets Layer

TCP: Transmission Control Protocol (Internet transport layer protocol)

TDD: Time Division Duplex

TLA: Three Letter Acronym

TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TOS: Type Of Service (IP)

UDP: User Datagram Protocol (Internet transport layer protocol, simple demultiplexer)
sometimes: Unreliable Datagram Protocol

UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (Europe)

URL: Uniform Resource Locator (Web)

UWB: Ultra Wide Band (bandwidth >25% of center frequency or >1.5GHz)

VCI: Virtual Circuit Identifier (Virtual Channel Identifier in ATM)

VPN: Virtual Private Network (uses IPSec protocol)

WAP: Wireless Application Protocol

WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network

WML: Wireless Markup Language (used by WAP)

WPAN: Wireless Personal Area Network (IEEE 802.15)

XML: Extensible Markup Language

ZRP: Zone Routing Protocol (MANET)
 

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M. Haenggi , 08-21-01. Last change 09-19-01