AoI	Age of Information
AUV	Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
BSN	Basic Sensor Node
CI	Confidence Interval
DDN	Data Dissemination Node (collection gateway)
D-P	Direct reporting with priority
FIFO	First-In, First-Out
H-A	Hybrid reporting with the adaptive catalogue
H-S	Hybrid reporting with the static mission
HIGH	Alarm traffic with the strictest deadline
LOW	Routine bulk records eligible for delayed collection
MAC	Medium Access Control
MEDIUM	Status traffic with an intermediate deadline
PDR	Packet Delivery Ratio, as reported by prior studies
RDR	Record Delivery Ratio