ABBREVIATIONS IN COURSE MATERIALS INCLUDING WEEK 10

Abbreviation

Expansion

3G
4B/5B
ADSL
AES

Third generation
4 bit 5 bit encoding
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Advanced Encryption Standard
Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease

AIMD

AP
API

Name of Wireless Network connecting Hawaii Islands

developed at the University of Hawaii
Access Point
Application Programming Interface

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ARPANET
ARQ
AS
B
b
BDP
BEB
BER
BGP
BSTJ

Advanced Research Project Agency Network

Automatic Repeat reQuest
Autonomous systems
Byte
bit
Bandwidth Delay Product
Binary Exponential Backoff
Bit Error Rate
Border Gateway Protocol
Bell System Technical Journal

CDN

DAG
dB
DDOS
DF
DHCP
DHT
DMZ
DNS
DOS

Content Delivery Network

Cyclic Redundancy Check
Carrier Sense Multiple Access
Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection
Clear to Send
Congestion Window
Directed Acyclic Graph
Decibel
Distributed Denial Of Service
Don't Fragment
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Distribution Hash Tables
Demilitarized Zone
Domain Name System
Denial Of Service

DSCP

Differentiated Services Code Point

DSL

Digital subscriber line

ALOHA

CRC
CSMA
CSMA/CD
CTS
CWND

DV
DVB
ECMP
ECN

FDM
FEC
FIN
FTP
Gbps
GHz
GSM
GUI
HTML

HTTP
HTTPS
Hz
ICMP
IEEE
IETF
IMAP
IP
IPP
IPv4
IPv6
IS-IS
ISM Band
ISN
ISP
ITU
IXP
Kbps
LAN
LAR
LAS
LDPC
LFS
LSP
LTE
MAC
MAC
MACA

Distance vector
Digital Video Broadcasting
Equal Cost Multi Path Routes
Explicit Congestion Notification
Frequency Division Multiplexing
Forward Error Correction
Finalize (Segment)
File Transfer Protocol
Giga bits per second
Giga Hertz
Global System for Mobile Communications
Graphical User Interface
Hyper Text Markup Language
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
Hertz
Internet Control Message Protocol
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet Message Access Protocol
Internet protocol
Internet Printing Protocol
Internet Protocol version 4
Internet Protocol version 6
Intermediate system to Intermediate System
Industrial, Scientific, Medical Radio Band
Initial Sequence number
Internet Service Provider
International Telecommunications Union
Internet Exchange Point
Kilo bits per second
Local Area Network
Last Acknowledgement Received
Last Acknowledgement Sent
Low Density Parity Check
Last Frame Sent
Link State Packet
Long Term Evolution
Media Access Control
Message Authentication Code
Multiple Access Collision Avoidance

MAN
Mbps
MF
MHz
MIAD
MIMD
MIME

MPLS
MSS
MTU
NAT
NIC
NNTP

NRZ
NRZI
NSFNET
OS
OSI model
OSPF
P2P

PAN
PKI
PLT

PPP
QAM
QOS
RIP
RPC
RSA
RST
RTP
RTS
RTSP
RTT
SACK

Metropolitan Area Network

Mega bit per second
More Fragment
Mega Hertz
Multiplicative Increase Additive Decrease
Miltiplicative Increase Multiplicative Decrease
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
Multi Protocol Label Switching
Maximum Segment Size
Maximum Transmission Unit
Network Address Translation
Network Interface Card
Network News Transfer Protocol.
Non Return To Zero
Non Return To Zero Inverted
National Science Foundation Network
Operating system
Open systems interconnection model
Open Shortest Path First
Peer To Peer
Personal Area Network
Public Key Infrastructure
Page Load Time
Point to Point Protocol
Quadrature Amplitute Modulation
Quality of Service
Routing Information Protocol
Remote Procedure Call
RSA stands for Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard
Adleman, who first publicly described the algorithm.
Reset
Real-time transport protocol
Request to Send
Real Time Streaming Protocol
Round Trip Time
Selective Acknowledgement

SDP

Session Description Protocol

SIP
SMTP
SNR
SONET

Session Initiation Protocol

Simple Mail transport protocol
Signal to Noise Ratio
Synchronous Optical Networking

SRTT
SSH
SSL

TLS
TTL
UDP
UTP
VC
VoIP
VPN
W3C
WAN
WEP

Smoothed Round Trip Time

Secure Shell
Secure Sockets Layer protocol
SLOW START THRESHOLD
Spanning Tree
Smoothed variance
Synchorization (Segment)
Transmission Control Protocol
Time Division Multiplexing
Top Level Domain
Transport Layer Security
Time To Live
User Datagram Protocol
Unshielded Twisted Pair
Virtual Circuit
Voice over Internet Protocol
Virtual Private Network
World Wide Web Consortium
Wide Area Network
Wired Equivalent Privacy

WFQ

Weighted Fair Queuing

WiFi

WiFi has been erroneously taken as abbreviation for

'Wireless Fidelity'. WiFi is a commercial brand owned by WiFi Alliance. Wi-Fi refers to certain groups of Wireless
electronic devices

WiMAX
WIN

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

Window

ssthresh

ST
Svar
SYN
TCP
TDM
TLD