| ABAC | Attribute-Based Access Control |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| CoAP | Constrained Application Protocol |
| DID | Decentralized Identifier |
| DTLS | Datagram Transport Layer Security |
| EVM | Ethereum Virtual Machine |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IPCTCM | Instantaneous Packet Communication Trust Calculation Model |
| MAC | Message Authentication Code |
| MitM | Man-in-the-Middle |
| MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PUF | Physically Unclonable Function |
| TEE | Trusted Execution Environment |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TMTO | Time–Memory Trade-Off |
| VC | Verifiable Credential |
| YB | Yang–Baxter |
| YBE | Yang–Baxter Equation |
| YB-IoT-CG | Yang–Baxter IoT Consistency Gateway |
| ZKP | Zero-Knowledge Proof |