| LDoS | Low-Rate Denial of Service |
| SDWSN | Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Network |
| HHT | Hilbert–Huang Transform |
| IMF | Intrinsic Mode Function |
| EMD | Empirical Mode Decomposition |
| USIP | The total number of unique source IP addresses |
| NUDIP | The normalized number of total unique destination IP addresses |
| DPTR | The differential packet transform rate |
| DCCR | The differential network connection conversion rate |