acronym.txt

acronyms of ad hoc networks

Acronym	Definition
ACK	Acknowlegment
AODV	Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector routing protocol 
AP	Access Point 
API	Application interface
AQOR	Ad hoc QoS on-demand routing
ARPANET	Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
AWFQ	Ad hoc Weighted Fair Queueing
AWNs	Ad hoc Wireless Networks
BSS	Basic Set service
CBR	Constant Bit Rate
CCITT	Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone
CEDAR	Core Extraction Distributed Ad hoc Routing
CFP	Contention Free Period
CP	ContentionPeriod
CRC	Cyclic Redundancy Check 
CSMA	Carrier Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CA	Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
CTS	Clear To Send 
DAG	Directed Acyclic Graph
DARPA	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DCF	IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function
DiffServ	Differentiated Services  
DIFS	Distributed Inter Frame Space
DSDV	Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing protocol
DSR	Dynamic Source Routing
DSSS	Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DVR	Distance Vector Routing
DYMO	Dynamic MANET On-demand
ECN	Explicit Congestion Notification 
EIFS	Extended Inter Frame Space 
FHSS	Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum 
FQMM	Flexible QoS Model for MANETs 
FTP	File Transfert Protocol
GLOMOSIM	Global Mobile Information System Simulator 
GPS	Global Positionning System
HD-PPAODV	High Definition PPAODV
HTTP	hypertext transfer protocol
IBSS	Independent Basic Set service
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IM-BSS	Infrastructure Mode Basic Service Set 
IntServ	Integrated Services 
IR	Infra Red
ISM	unlicensed Industrial/Scientific/Medical frequency bands 
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
ITU	International Telecommunication Union
LAN	Local Area Network
LAR	Location-Aided Routing 
LET	Link Expiration Time 
LLC	Logical Link Control
LSLP	Link Stability and Lifetime Prediction Based QoS Aware Routing 
LSR	Link State Routing
MAC	Media access control
MACA	Mobile Assisted Channel Allocation
MANET	Mobile Ad hoc Networks
M-OSPF	Mobile OSPF
MPR	multipoint relay 
NAV	Network Allocation Vector 
ODMRP	On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol
OFDM	orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
OLSR	Optimized Link State Routing protocol 
OSI	Open Systems Interconnection
OSPF	Open Shortest Path First
PARSEC	Parallel Simulation Environment for Complex Systems
PC	Point Coordinator 
PCF	IEEE 802.11 Point Coordination Function
PHY	Physical Layer
PLRR	Preemptive Local Route Repair
PPAODV	Predictive Preemptive Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector 
PQR	Prediction Based QoS Routing 
PrAODV	Preemptive Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector 
PRNet	DARPA Packet Radio Network
QAODV	Quality of service for Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector
QMRB-AODV	Quality of service Mobile Routing Backbone over AODV 
QoS	Quality of service
RERR	Route ERRor Message
RFC	Request For Comments
RIP	Routing Information Protocol
RREP	Route REPly message
RREQ	Route REQuest message
RSS	Recieved Signal Strength
RSVP	ReSerVation Protocol , Resource Reservation Protocol
RTS	Request To Send
SIFS	Short Inter Frame Space
SWAN	Service differentiation in stateless Wireless Ad hoc Networks 
TBRPF	Topology Broadcast Based on Reverse-Path Forwarding
TCP	Transport Control Protocol
TDMA	Time Division Multiple Access
TORA	Temporally-Ordered Routing Algorithm
TOS	Type of Service
TSMA	Time-Spread Multiple-Access
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
UNII	Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure  bands
VGA	virtual grid architecture 
VGAP	virtual grid architecture Protocol 
WFQ	weighted fair queueing 
WLAN	Wireless Local Area Network
WRP	Wireless Routing Protocol
ZRP	Zone Routing Protocol