Glossary of Acronyms

A

AAA:

Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

ACK:

Acknowledgment

ADPCM:

Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

ADSL:

Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line

AES:

Advanced Encryption Standard

AIFS:

Arbitrated Inter-Frame Spacing (802.11e)

AM:

Amplitude Modulation

ANSI:

American National Standards Institute

AP:

Access Point (802.11)

ARP:

Address Resolution Protocol

ARQ:

Automatic Retransmission Request

ATIM :

Announcement Traffic Indication Message

ATM :

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

B

BPSK:

Binary Phase Shift Keying

BRI:

Basic Rate Interface (ISDN)

BRS:

Broadband Radio Service

BS/BTS:

Base Station/Base Transceiver Station

BSS:

Basic Service Set (802.11)

BSSID:

Basic Service Set Identifier

C

CAVE:

Cellular Authorization and Voice Encryption

CCK:

Complementary Coded Keying (802.11b)

CCMP:

Counter Code with CBC MAC

CCX:

Cisco Compatible Extensions

CDMA:

Code Division Multiple Access

CF:

Contention Free

CIR:

Committed Information Rate (Frame Relay)

CoS:

Class of Service

CSMA/CA:

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (802.11)

CSMA/CD:

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (Ethernet)

CTS:

Clear to Send

CW:

Contention Window (802.11)

D

DCF:

Distributed Control Function (802.11)

DES:

Digital Encryption Standard

DHCP:

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIFS:

DCF Inter-Frame Spacing (802.11)

DOCSIS:

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification

DoS:

Denial of Service

DSL:

Digital Subscriber Line

DBPSK:

Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying

DQPSK:

Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

DSSS:

Direct Sequence Spread...