Acronyms List#
Contributor: Tim Bratton K5RA
List of acronyms sometimes encountered in the AREDN® project.
- AAM:
AREDN® Alert Message
- AAMM:
AREDN® Alert Message Manager
- AC:
Alternating Current
- ACK:
Acknowledge, Acknowledgement
- ADMIN:
Administration, Administrative, Administrator
- ADS-B:
Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast
- ADV:
Advanced
- AFS:
AREDN® Firmware Selector
- AGL:
Above Ground Level
- AM:
Amplitude Modulation
- AP:
Access Point
- API:
Application Programming Interface
- AREDN:
Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network
- ARES:
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
- ARP:
Address Resolution Protocol
- ARPS:
Automatic Packet Reporting System
- ARRL:
American Radio Relay League
- ASF:
Apache Software Foundation
- ATA:
Analog Telephone Adapter
- AV:
Audio Visual
- AVL:
Automatic Vehicle Location
- AZ:
Azimuth
- BIN:
Binary File Type
- BSSID:
Basic Service Set Identifier
- CAD:
Computer Aided Dispatch, Computer Aided Design
- CCA:
Clear Channel Assessment
- CGI:
Common Gateway Interface
- CHAN:
Channel
- CIDR:
Classless Inter-Domain Routing
- CM:
Centimeter (10 E-2 meter)
- CMD:
Command
- CONF:
Configuration
- CPU:
Central Processing Unit
- CSMA/CA:
Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance
- CSS:
Cascading Style Sheets (computer graphics)
- CTR:
Center
- CTRL:
Control (a keyboard key)
- CTS:
Clear to Send
- CTCSS:
Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System
- DB:
Decibel
- DBI:
Decibel relative to an isotropic radiator
- DBM:
Decibel relative to one milliwatt (10E-3 watt)
- DC:
Direct Current
- DDNS:
Dynamic Domain Name System
- DFS:
Dynamic Frequency Selection
- DHCP:
Dynamic Host Control Protocol
- DHS:
Department of Homeland Security
- DMZ:
Demilitarized Zone
- DNS:
Domain Name System
- DSP:
Digital Signal Processor
- DTD:
Device to Device
- EL:
Elevation
- EMCOMM:
Emergency Communications
- EPUB:
Electronic Publication
- ETX:
Expected Transmission
- EWMA:
Exponential Weighted Moving Average
- FCC:
Federal Communications Commission
- FLV:
Flash video file container format
- FQDN:
Fully Qualified Domain Name
- FTP:
File Transfer Protocol
- GHZ:
Gigahertz (10E9 Hertz)
- GIS:
Geographic Information System
- GNU:
A project within which the free software concept originated
- GPS:
Global Positioning System
- GUI:
Graphical User Interface
- GZ:
A file format and software application (gzip) for file compression/decompression (g for GNU)
- HLS:
HTTP Live Streaming
- HSL:
Hue, saturation, lightness (for image color representation)
- HTML:
HyperText Markup Language
- HTTP:
HyperText Transfer Protocol
- IANA:
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- ICMP:
Internet Control Message Protocol
- ICS:
Incident Command System
- ICS-213:
General Message form
- ID:
Identifier, Identity
- IEEE:
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- IIC:
A synchronous master/slave single-ended, serial communications bus
- IMAP:
Internet Mail Access Protocol
- IMG:
Image file format
- IPK:
A compressed archive format used by the OpenWRT Package Management System (opkg) on AREDN® nodes
- IP:
Internet Protocol, Internet Protocol address
- IRC:
Internet Relay Chat
- IRCD:
Internet Relay Chat Daemon
- ISES:
Open Information Systems for Emergency Services
- ISP:
Internet Service Provider
- I2C:
A synchronous master/slave single-ended, serial communications bus
- JSON:
Javascript Object Notation
- KML:
Keyhole Markup Language
- KW:
Kilowatt (10E3 watt)
- LAMP:
Linux, Apache, mySQL/MariaDB, and Perl/PHP/Python
- LAN:
Local Area Network
- LAT:
Latitude
- LED:
Light Emitting Diode
- LGI:
Long Guard Interval
- LGPL:
Lesser General Public License (GNU)
- LON:
Longitude
- LOS:
Line of Sight
- LQ:
Link Quality
- LQM:
Link Quality Manager, Link Quality Management
- MA:
Milliamp (10E-3 amp)
- MAC:
Media Access Control
- MACOS:
Apple Computer Operating System
- MAMPP:
MacOS, Apache, mySQL/MariaDB, and Perl/PHP/Python
- MB:
Megabtye (10E6 bytes)
- MBPS:
Megabits (10E6 bits) per second
- MCC:
Mobile Command and Control
- MCS:
Modulation Coding Scheme
- MG:
Magnetic North
- MHZ:
Megahertz (10E6 Hertz)
- µV:
Microvolt (10E-6 volt)
- MIMO:
Multiple Input Multiple Output
- MM:
Millimeter (10E-3 meter)
- MP4:
A digital multimedia container format
- MRC:
Maximal Ratio Combining
- MTR:
My traceroute, Matt’s traceroute – combines functions of traceroute and ping into one network diagnostic tool
- MS:
Microsoft
- MSC:
Mobile Switching Center
- MSG:
Message
- NAT:
Network Address Translation
- NAV:
Navigation
- NC:
Non-commercial
- NLOS:
Near Line of Sight
- NLQ:
Neighbor Link Quality
- NTP:
Network Time Protocol
- NVRAM:
Non-volatile Random Access Memory
- OFDM:
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
- OLSR:
Optimized Link State Routing protocol
- OLSRD:
Optimized Link State Routing Daemon
- ONVIF:
Open Network Video Interface Forum
- OPENWRT:
An open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux upon which AREDN® is based
- OS:
Operating System
- PBX:
Private Branch Exchange
- PC:
Personal Computer
- PDF:
Portable Document Format
- PEP:
Peak Envelope Power
- PHP:
Perl Hypertext Pre-Processor
- PPK:
Private Key File Extension
- POE:
Power Over Ethernet
- POP:
Post Office Protocol
- PR:
Pull Request (a GitHub mechanism)
- PSK:
Phase-Shift Keying
- PSK:
Protect Access Pre-Shared Key
- PTZ:
Pan, Tilt, and Zoom (video camera control)
- PUB:
Public Key File Extension
- PUTTY:
Communications tool for running interactive command-line sessions on other computers
- PVE:
Proxmox Virtual Environment
- PVID:
Port VLAN Identification
- PXE:
Preboot Execution Environment
- QEMU:
Quick Emulator (computer virtualization engine)
- QTH:
Radio Q-signal for “Location”
- RACES:
Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service
- RAM:
Random Access Memory
- RF:
Radio Frequency
- ROM:
Read-Only Memory
- RPI:
Raspberry Pi single-board computer
- RSSI:
Received Signal Strength Indicator
- RST:
ReStructured Text file format
- RTS:
Request to Send
- RTSP:
Real Time Streaming Protocol
- RX:
Receive, Receiver
- SCP:
Secure Copy Program
- SDR:
Software Defined Radio
- SF:
San Francisco (California)
- SISO:
Single Input Single Output
- SKYWARN:
Program of the National Weather Service which collects reports of localized severe weather in the United States
- SMS:
Short Message Service
- SMTP:
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SNMP:
Simple Network Management Protocol
- SNR:
Signal to Noise Ratio
- SOP:
Standard Operating Procedure
- SQL:
Structured Query Language for relational databases
- SS:
Spread Spectrum
- SSH:
Secure Shell
- SSID:
Service Set Identifier
- SSL:
Secure Sockets Layer
- TCP:
Transmission Control Protocol
- TCP/IP:
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- TDMA:
Time Division Multiple Access
- TELNET:
Command line terminal program
- TFTP:
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
- TMP:
temporary
- TN:
True North
- TX/RX:
Transmit/Receive
- UCI:
Unified Configuration Interface
- UDP:
User Datagram Protocol
- UI:
User Interface
- URL:
Universal Resource Locator
- USB:
Universal Serial Bus
- V:
Volts
- V2V:
Virtual-to-virtual VM migration program
- VDC:
Volts – Direct Current
- VLAN:
Virtual Local Area Network
- VLC:
VideoLAN Client
- VM:
Virtual Machine
- VMDK:
Virtual Machine Disk format
- VOIP:
Voice over IP
- W:
Watt (unit of power)
- WAN:
Wide Area Network
- WEBRTC:
Web Real-Time Communication - open-source project to facility web communications
- WGT:
Weight
- WIFI:
Family of wireless networking protocols based on IEEE 802.11 standard
- WIMAX:
Family of wireless communication protocols based on IEEE 802.16 standard
- WIN:
Microsoft Windows
- WINLINK:
Worldwide radio messaging system using amateur radio frequencies
- WINSCP:
Secure file copy program for Windows
- WISP:
Wireless Internet Service Provider
- WPA:
WiFi Protected Access encryption method (WPA/WPA2/WPA3)
- WX:
Weather
- XLINK:
Cross-Link configured to pass AREDN® data between non-AREDN® devices
- XMPP:
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
- YAAC:
Yet Another ARPS Client
- ZIP:
File format and software application used for file compression/decompression