| 3GPP | 3rd Generation Partnership Project |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| AMQP | Advanced Message Queuing Protocol |
| ALOHA | Advocates of Linux Open-source Hawaii Association-based |
| AR | Augmented Reality |
| CSS | Chirp Spread Spectrum |
| CoAP | Constrained Application Protocol |
| EC-GSM-IoT | Extended coverage GSM IoT |
| eMBB | Enhanced Mobile Broadband |
| EPC | Evolved Packet Core |
| EU | Europe |
| FDMA | Frequency Division Multiple Access |
| FR1 | Frequency Range 1 |
| FR2 | Frequency Range 2 |
| HAN | Home Area Network |
| HSS | Home Subscriber Server |
| ISM | Industrial, Scientific and Medical |
| ITS | Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| LTE-M | Long Term Evolution for Machines |
| LPWAN | Low Power Wide Area Network |
| M2M | Machine-to-Machine |
| MIMO | Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output |
| MME | Mobility Management Entity |
| mMTC | Massive Machine-Type Communications |
| MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit |
| MQTT | MQ Telemetry Transport |
| NA | North America |
| NB-IoT | Narrow Band Internet of Things |
| NR | New Radio |
| OFDM | Orthogonal Frequency-division Multiplexing |
| PGW | Packet Gateway |
| PAN | Private Area Network |
| QPSK | Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
| RedCap | Reduced Capability |
| RSUs | Road Side Units |
| SGW | Serving Gateway |
| UNB | Ultra Narrow Band |
| URLLC | Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications |
| VR | Virtual Reality |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Networks |