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Acronyms List
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*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