Wireless Networking Acronym guide.
taken from
http://www.moonblinkwifi.com/wifi_acronyms.cfm
This list is by no means complete. It is provided as a resource to help understand the acronyms in the wireless networking world.
802.xx Wireless LAN Standards developed by IEEE (802.11b,g,etc.)
AP Access Point
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
ARK Automatic Retransmission Queing
CPE Customer Premise Equipment
dB Decibel
dBm dB milliWatt
dBd dB Dipole
dB dB Isotropic
DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
EMI Electro Magnetic Interference
ERP Effective Radiated Power
EIRP Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
FDM Frequency Division Muliplexing
FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
FSL Free Space Loss
ISP Internet Service Provider
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IF Intermediate Frequency
LAN Local Area Network
LEAP Lightweight EAP
LOS Line of Sight
MP Multipath Propagation
NLOS Near LOS
NON-LOS Non-LOS
ODU Outdoor Unit
OFDM Orthogonal FDM (used in 802.11g)
OLOS Obstructed LOS
PEAP Protected EAP
POE Power Over Ethernet
POP Point of Presence
PSK Pre Shared Key
PtP Point to Point
PtMP Point to Multi Point
RADIUS Remote Access Dial-In User Service
SOM System Operating Margin
SSID Service Set Identifier (unique 32-bit identifier)
TDD Time Division Duplex
TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
TLS Transport Layer Security
TTLS Tunneled TLS
UNII Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure
VLAN Virtual LAN
VPN Virtual Private Network
WEP Wireless Equivalency Privacy
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
WISP Wireless ISP
WIPOP Wireless POP
WLAN Wireless LAN
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WS Wireless Station
802.11a 5 GHz, OFDM, 54 Mbps (most radios do 4.9GHz through 6.1GHz)
802.11e Polling, QoS, Hidden node support
802.11g 2.4 GHz OFDM, 54 Mbps (radios do 2.3GHz thru 2.6GHz)
802.11h 5 GHz Extension for Europe auto frequency and power control
802.11j 4.9 GHz Extension for Japan (may apply to USA public safety)
802.11k Radio Resource Measurement Extensions
802.11m Maintenance and Management Extensions
802.11n MIMO Extensions (of 12, 24, 48, 96 and 216 Mbps in 40MHz bandwidth)
802.11p WAVE – Moving vehicle Extensions
802.11r Advanced Roaming and Context Transfer
802.11s Mesh Extensions
802.11t Wireless Performance Predictions
802.11x Authentication and Encryption
WPA2 Wi-Fi Hot Spot Extensions
WME Wi-Fi Multimedia Extensions