AAC

advanced audio coding

AAC-LC

AAC low-complexity profile

AAC-SSR

AAC scalable sample rate profile

AC

access category

ACAP

advanced common application platform

ADPCM

adaptive delta pulse code modulation

ADSL

asymmetric digital subscriber line

ADTE

adaptation decision taking engine

AES

advanced encryption standard

AIFS

arbitration interframe space

AIFSN

arbitration interframe space number

AIMD

additive-increase multiplicative decrease

ALM

application-level multicast

AMC

adaptive modulation coding

AODV

ad hoc on-demand distance vector

AP

access point

AR

auto-regressive

ARF

autorate fallback

ARIB

Association of Radio Industries and Business

ARK

Add Round Key

ARQ

automatic repeat request

AS

autonomous system

ASF

advanced system format

ASO

arbitrary slice ordering

ATIS

Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions

ATSC

Advanced Television Systems Committee

AVC

advanced video coding

BBGDS

block-based gradient descent search

BE

best-effort

BER

bit error rate

BGP

border gateway protocol

BIC

bandwidth inference congestion control

BIFS

binary format for scenes

BSAC

bit-sliced arithmetic coding

BSS

basic service set

BST-OFDM

band segmented transmission OFDM

CA

certification authority

CABAC

context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding

CAST

Carlisle Adams and Stafford Tavares

CATV