| AWGN | Additive White Gaussian Noise |
| BER | Bit Error Rate |
| CIR | Channel Impulse Response |
| CFO | Carrier Frequency Offsets |
| CFR | Channel Frequency Response |
| CP | Cyclic Prefix |
| CSS | Chirp Spread Spectrum |
| DFnT | Discrete Fresnel Transform |
| EDR | Effective Data Rate |
| FDE | Frequency Domain Equalization |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| FEC | Forward Error Correcting |
| EFR | Errorless Frame Ratio |
| IDFnT | Inverse Discrete Fresnel Transform |
| IFFT | Inverse Fast Fourier Transform |
| ICI | Inter-Carrier Interference |
| ISI | Inter-Symbol Interference |
| LLR | Logarithm Likelihood Ratio |
| LS | Least Square |
| MMSE | Minimum Mean Square Error |
| MSE | Mean Square Error |
| OCDM | Orthogonal Chirp Division Multiplexing |
| OFDM | Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| PER | Packet Error Ratio |
| PN | Pseudo-Noise |
| PSK | Phase-shift Keying |
| QAM | Quadrature Amplitude Modulation |
| QPSK | Quaternary Phase Shift Keying |
| RMS | Root Mean Square |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| UWAC | Underwater Acoustic Communication |
| TDE | Time Domain Equalization |
| TVIR | Time-Varying Impulse Response |
| SISO | Single-Input Single-Output |
| SIMO | Single-Input Multiple-Output |
| SC | Single-Carrier |