| WSAN | Wireless sensor and actuator network |
| DaaG | Drone-as-a-gateway |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| M2M | Machine-to-machine |
| DoF | Degree of freedom |
| UAV | Unmanned aerial vehicle |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| PSL | Problematic sensor list |
| ACL | Actuator correlation value list |
| TSPN | Traveling salesman problem with neighborhoods |
| CETSP | Close enough traveling salesman problem |
| NCPST | Normalized cumulative priority service throughput |
| OLSR | Optimized link state routing |
| CDF | Cumulative distribution function |
| GCS | Ground control station |