AUC	Area Under the Curve
CIC	Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity
CIoT	Consumer Internet of Things
DDoS	Distributed Denial of Service
DoS	Denial of Service
DPI	Deep Packet Inspection
GA	Genetic Algorithm
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
IDS	Intrusion Detection System
IIoT	Industrial Internet of Things
IKE	Internet Key Exchange
IoT	Internet of Things
IP	Internet Protocol
IPsec	Internet Protocol Security
IPS	Intrusion Prevention System
LSTM	Long Short-Term Memory
MAC	Media Access Control
NIDS	Network-based Intrusion Detection System
PDAE	Parallel Deep Auto-Encoder
PIAT	Package Inter-Arrival Time
PKI	Public Key Infrastructure
QUIC	Quick UDP Internet Connections
RF	Random Forest
SPI	Shallow Packet Inspection
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TLS	Transport Layer Security
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
vNSF	virtual Network Security Function
VPN	Virtual Private Network