| 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 |
eXpr |