| 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 |
List of abbreviations
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