List of abbreviations

 

Abbrev. Meaning Refers to
ABC Appropriate Byte Counting TCP
ABR Available Bit Rate ATM service
AC Alternating Current  
ACK Acknowledgement  
ADU Application Data Unit ALF
AIAD Additive Increase Additive Decrease  
AIMD Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease TCP friendliness
ALF Application Level Framing increasing efficiency
ALG Application Level Gateway NAT
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System MUX, 1st-gen telephone sys
ANSI American National Standards Institute  
AODV Ad-hoc On-demand Distant Vector Routing MANET
AQM Active Queue Management TCP Congestion Control
ARP Address Resolution Protocol Ethernet (MAC resolving)
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request transmission error control L.2
AS Autonomos System EGP
ASL Analog Subscriber Line
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One OSI (host-independent format)
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode  
BDP Bandwidth * Delay Product  
BECN Backward ECN  
BER Basic Encoding Rules ASN.1 (defines rules)
BGP Border Gateway Protocol EGP, distance vector
BIC Binary Increase Congestion Control  
CA Collision Avoidance CSMA
CA Congestion Avoidance TCP
CAN Controller Area Network Network type
CBR Constant Bit Rate ATM service
CD Collision Detection CSMA
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access multiplexing
CEPT ITU-Europe  
CIDR Classless InterDomain Routing subneting, routing
CL(NS) Connection-Less (Network System)  
CO(NS) Connection-Orientated (Network System)  
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check checksum
CSMA Carrier Sence Multiple Access  
CTCP Compound TCP  
CTCP Coded TCP  
CTS Clear To Send CSMA/CA (hidden terminal)
CW Contention Window CSMA/CA (wireless)
cwnd Congestion Window TCP
CWV Congestion Window Validation TCP
D-AMPS Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System US GSM
DC Direct Current  
DCCP Datagram Congestion Control Protocol  
DCTCP Datacenter TCP
(D)DoS (Distributed) Denial of Service
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol  
DIF Distributed IPC Facility RINA
DNS Domain Name System  
DoD Department of Defense  
DQDB Dual Queue Dual Bus MAN
DSACK Duplicate SACK TCP
DSL Digital Subscriber Line  
DupACK Duplicate ACK TCP
DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing multiplexing (fibre)
ECMP Equal-Cost Multi-Path Traffic Engineering
ECN Explicit Congestion Notification  
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution 2.5-gen telephone system
EFCP Error and Flow Control Protocol RINA
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol inter-domain routing protocols
ER Explicit Rate ATM ABR ERF
ERF Explicit Rate Feedback ATM ABR
EWMA Exponentially Weighted Moving Average RED, AQM
E2E End-to-End  
FACK Forward ACK TCP
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface  
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access multiplexing
FEC Forward Error Correction  
FEC Forwarding Equivalence Class MPLS
FR/FR Fast Retransmit / Fast Recovery TCP
FSM Finite State Machine invariants
FTP File Transfer Protocol  
F-RTO Forward RTO-Recovery TCP
GAIMD General Additive Increase – Multiplicative Decrease TCP friendliness
GCC Google Congestion Control RMCAT
GEO Geostationary satellites
GPRS General Packet Radio Service 2.5-gen telephone system
GPS Global Positioning System  
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications MUX, 2nd-gen telephone sys
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol  
HTTPS Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol  
IAB Internet Activities Board  
ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers  
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol  
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers  
IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group  
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force  
IFS InterFrame Spacing CSMA/CA (Wireless)
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol IP Multicast
IGP Interior Gateway Protocol intra-domain routing protocols
IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol IGP, distance vector
IMT-2000 International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 ITU standard for UMTS
IP Internet Protocol  
IPC Inter Process Communication  
IPN InterPlaNet network type
IPNG Internet Protocol New Generation (IPv6)  
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6  
IRTF Internet Research Task Force  
IS-IS Intra-domain Intermediate System to Intermediate System Routing Protocol  
  OSI, IGP, link state
ISDN Integrated Service Digital Network
ISO International Standards Organization  
ISOC Internet Society  
ISP Internet Service Provider  
ITU International Telecommunication Union  
IW Initial Window TCP
LAG Link Aggregation Group Traffic engineering
LAN Local Area Network network type
LBT Listen Before Talk CSMA
LDP Label Distribution Protocol MPLS
LED Light Emitting Diode fiber
LEDBAT Low Extra Delay Background Transport congestion control
LEO Low Earth Orbit satellites
LSP Label Switched Path MPLS
LSR Label Switching Routers MPLS
LWT Listen While Talking CD
MA Multiple Access  
MAC Medium Access Control Link layer
MAN Metropolitan Area Network network type
MANET Mobile Ad Hoc Networks  
MEO Medium Earth Orbit satellites
MIB Management Information Base  
MIMD Multiplicative Increase Multiplicative Decrease  
MPLS Multi Protocol Label Switching traffic engineering
MPTCP Multipath TCP  
MPλS Multi Protocol Lambda Switching WDM, MPLS (L = λ)
MSC Message Sequence Chart Invariants
MTU Maximum Transfer Unit IP
MUX Multiplexing
NAK Negative Acknowledgement  
NAPT Network Address / Port Translator  
NAT Network Address Translator  
NSAP Network Service Access Point OSI
NRT-VBR Non Real Time Variable Bit Rate ATM service
NRZ(I) Non Return to Zero (Inverted) baseband encoding
OSI Open System Interconnection Invariants
OSPF Open Shortest Path First IGP, link state
OWD One-Way Delay  
P2P Peer to Peer  
PCF Point Coordination Function CSMA/CA
PCI Protocol Control Information OSI
PCM Pulse Code Modulation transmission (A->D coding)
PDU Protocol Data Unit OSI
PEP Performance Enhancing Proxy  
ping Packet InterNet Groper  
PMTU Path Maximum Transfer Unit MTU
PMTUD Path Maximum Transfer Unit Discovery PMTU
PPP Point to Point Protocol  
PRR Proportional Rate Reduction TCP
PSH Push TCP header bit
QoS Quality of Service  
RACK Recent ACK TCP
RCC Routing Control Center centralized routing (obsolete)
RED Random Early Detection (“Discard”, “Drop”) AQM
RFC Request For Comments IETF
RINA Recursive InterNetwork Architecture  
RIP Routing Information Protocol IGP, distance vector
RM Resource Management ATM ABR ERF
RMCAT RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques IETF WG
RTCP Real Time Control Protocol  
RTO Retransmission Time-Out TCP
RTOR RTO Restart TCP
RTP Real Time Protocol  
RTS Request To Send CSMA/CA (hidden terminal)
RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol  
RTT Round Trip Time  
RT-VBR Real Time Variable Bit Rate ATM service
rwnd Receiver Window TCP
RZ Return to Zero baseband encoding
SACK Selective ACK TCP congestion control
SCION Scalability, Control, and Isolation on Next-Generation Networks Network architecture
SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol  
SDMA Space Division Multiple Access multiplexing
SDU Service Data Unit OSI
SIP Serial Line Interface Protocol  
SMSS Sender Maximum Segment Size TCP Congestion Control
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol  
SNR Signal to Noise Ratio data transmission
SRTT Smoothed Round Trip Time TCP
SS Slow Start TCP
ssthresh Slow Start Threshold TCP
STP Shielded Twisted Pair cable (Layer 1)
SQ Source Quench ICMP
TAPS Transport Services IETF WG
TCB TCP Control Block TCP
TCP Transmission Control Protocol  
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access multiplexing (ATM)
TE Traffic Engineering  
TEAR TCP Emulation At Receiver TCP friendliness
TFO TCP Fast Open TCP
TFRC TCP friendly Rate Control Protocol TCP friendliness
TFO TCP Fast Open TCP
TLP Tail Loss Probe TCP
TSAP Transport Service Access Point OSI
TTL Time To Live IP
T/TCP Transactional TCP  
UBR Unspecified Bit Rate ATM service
UDP User Datagram Protocol  
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System 3rd-gen telephone system
URG Urgent TCP header bit
URL Uniform Resource Locator  
UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair cable (Layer 1)
UTO User Time-Out TCP
VC Virtual Channel ATM
VoIP Voice over IP  
VP Virtual Path ATM
VPN Virtual Private Networks  
WAN Wide Area Network network type
WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access Multiplexing (Ericsson system)
WDMA Wavelength Division Multiple Access Multiplexing (FDMA at optical)
WebRTC Web Real-Time Communication  
WG Working Group IETF
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network network type
XCP eXpress Control Protocol  
XTP eXpress Transfer Protocol  
Publisert 23. aug. 2022 22:58 - Sist endret 23. aug. 2022 23:00