Acronyms List

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