Abbreviation Index

Abbreviation Index

A

ACL: Access Control List
AF: Assured Forwarding
AGW: Access Gateway 
AHP: Analytical Hierarchy Process
APS: Automatic Protection Switching
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
ASN: Access Services Network
ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode

B
BA: Behavior Aggregates
BC: Boundary Clock
BER: Bit Error Rate
BITS_P: Building Integrated Timing Supply_Protection
BITS_W: Building Integrated Timing Supply_Working
BMCA: Best Master Clock Algorithm
BPaaS: Business Process as a Service
BPF: Band Pass Filter
BRAS: Broadband Remote Access Server 
BS: Base Station
BSC: Base Station Controller
BTS: Base Transceiver Station 
BWA: Broadband Wireless Access

C
CBR: Constant Bit Rate
CBS: Committed Burst Size
CCAMP: Common Control and Measurement Plane
CDR: Call Detailed Record
CE: Customer Edge 
CEP: Circuit Emulation over Packet
CESoPSN: Circuit Emulation Services over Packet Switch Network
CFM: Connectivity Fault Management
CII: Common Interworking Indicator
CIR: Committed Information Rate
CO-CS: Connetion-Oriented Circuit-Switched
CRM: Customer Relationship Management 
CS: Central Station
CSN: Connectivity Service Network

D
DEA: Data Envelopment Analysis
DF: Default Forwarding
DFS: Depth-First Search
DL: Downlink  
DSCP: Differentiated Services Code Point
DSRC: Dedicated Short-Range Communications
DUT: Device Under Test 

E
E2E: Edge-to-Edge
EBS: Excess Burst Size
ECMP: Equal-Cost Multi-Path Routing
EDGE: Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
EF: Expedited Forwarding
EIR: Excess Information Rate
EPON: Ethernet Passive Optical Network
ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning 
ESMC: Ethernet Synchronous Message Channel
ESP: Ethernet Switched Path

F
FEC: Forwarding Equivalence Class
FR: Frame Relay
FSM: Finite State Machine
FTP: File Transfer Protocol

G
GE: Gigabit Ethernet  
GFP: Generic Framing Procedure
GFP-F: Generic Frame Procedure Framed  
GFS: Google File System
GIS: Geographic Information System
GMPLS: Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching
GPRS: General Packet Radio Service
GPS: Global Positioning System
GUI: Graphical User Interface

H

HDLC: High Level Link Control
HSDPA: High Speed Downlink Packet Access
HSPA: High Speed Packet Access

I
IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
IMA: Inverse Multiplexing over ATM
IPTV: Internet Protocol Television
IS-IS-TE: Intermediate System to Intermediate System Extensions for Traffic Engineering
ITS: Intelligent Transportation Systems

L
LACP: Link Aggregation Control Protocol 
LAG: Link Aggregation
LAN: Local Area Network
LBS: Location-Based Service
LMP: Link Management Protocol
LSP: Label Switched Path
LTE: Long Term Evolution

M
MAC: Media Access Control
MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
MBMS: Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service
MC-HSPA: Multi-Carrier HSPA
MDDV: Mobility-Centric Data Dissemination Algorithm for Vehicular Networks
MIMO: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
MLPPP: Multi-Level Pre-Emptive Priority
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service
MP2MP: Multipoint-to-Multipoint
MPLS: Multiprotocol Label Switching
MPLS-TE: Multiprotocol Label Switching Traffic Engineering
MPLS-TP: Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile
MS-PW: Multi-Segment Pseudo Wires
MSTP: Multiservice Transport Platform
MTIE: Maximum Time Interval Error

N
NE: Network Element
NLOS: Non-Line of Sight
NTP: Network Time Protocol

O

OAM: Operation, Administration and Maintenance  
OC: Ordinary Clock
ODU: Optical Cannel Data Unit
OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OLT: Optical Line Terminal
ONU: Optical Network Unit
OS: Operating System
OSI: Open System Interconnection
OSPF-TE: Open Shortest Path First with Traffic Engineering Extensions
OTM: Optical Transport Module
OTN: Optical Transport Network

P
P2MP: Point-to-Multipoint
P2P: Peer-to-Peer
PBB: Provider Backbone Bridge
PBBN: Provider Backbone Bridge Network
PBB-TE: Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering
PBT: Provider Backbone Transport
PDH: Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
PDV: Packet Delay Variation
PE: Provider Edge 
PHB: Per-Hop Behavior
PHP: Penultimate Hop Popping
PIR: Peak Information Rate
PLL: Phase-Locked Loop
PLSB: Provider Link State Bridging
PON: Passive Optical Network
PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol  
PPS: Pulse Per Second
PRC: Primary Reference Clock
PSN: Packet Switched Network 
PTN: Packet Transport Network
PTP: Precision Time Protocol
PW: Pseudo Wire
PWE3: Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge
PWES: Pseudo Wire Emulation Service

R
RAN: Radio Access Network
RARP: Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
REST: Representational State Transfer
RFID: Radio Frequency Identification
RNC: Radio Network Controller
ROF: Radio over Fiber
RPR: Resilient Packet Ring

S
SaaS: Software as a Service
SAToP: Structure-Agnostic TDM over Packet
SCM: Subcarrier Multiplexing
SD: Signal Degrade
SDH: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SF: Signal Failure
SINR: Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio
SLA: Service Level Agreement
SMS: Short Message Service
SNCP: Subnetwork Connection Protection
SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
SONET: Synchronous Optical Network
SOTIS: Self-Organizing Traffic Information System
SR: Service Router
SSM: Synchronization Status Message
SS-PW: Single-Segment Pseudo Wire
STM: Synchronous Transport Module

T
TC: Transparent Clock
TDEV: Time Deviation
TDM: Time Division Multiplexing
TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access
TD-SCDMA: Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access
TE: Traffic Engineering
T-LSP: Transport Label Switched Path
TLV: Type-Lengh-Values
T-MPLS: Transport Multiprotocol Label Switching  
ToP: Time over Packet
TPS: Tributary Protection Switching
TTL: Time-to-Live

U     
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
UL: Uplink

V
VADD: Vehicle-Assisted Data Delivery
VANET: Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network
VBR: Variable Bit Rate
VC: Virtual Channel
VCC: Virtual Channel Connection
VIA: Virtual Interface Architecture
VLAN: Virtual Local Area Network
VM: Virtual Machine
VO: Virtual Organization
VoD: Video on Demand
VoIP: Voice over Internet Protocol
VP: Virtual Path
VPC: Virtual Path Connection
VPN: Virtual Private Network
VS: Virtual Section

W
WAVE: Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments
WCDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WDM: Wavelength Division Multiplexing
Wi-Fi: Wireless Fidelity
WiMAX: Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network
WPAN: Wireless Personal Area Network
WTR: Wait to Restore