Appendix A. List of Acronyms

 
Abbreviation Meaning Abbreviation Meaning
ABR Available Bit Rate BS Base Station
AC Access Category CA Collision Avoidance
ACK Acknowledgement CAC Call Admission Control
AF Assured Forwarding CAPEX Capital Expenditure
AIFS Arbitration Inter-Frame Spacing CBR Constant Bit Rate
AMC Adaptive Modulation and Coding CD Collision Detection
ARQ Automatic Repeat reQuest CDN Content Delivery Network
AS Autonomous Systems CFP Contention Free Period
AS_PATH Autonomous System Path CIR Committed Information Rate
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode CLI Command Line Interface
BB Bandwidth Broker CLP Cell Loss Priority
BE Best Effort CoS Classes of Service
BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification CP Contention Period
BER Bit Error ...

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