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. 2020 Jun 27;20(13):3619. doi: 10.3390/s20133619
API Application Programming Interface
BAN Body Area Network
CoAP Constrained Application Protocol
COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CP-ABE Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance
DBPSK Differential Binary Phase-Shift Keying
DL Downlink
DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
EC-GSM-IoT Extended Coverage – GSM – Internet of Things
ECG Electrocardiogram
EEG Electroencephalogram
EGPRS Enhanced General Packet Radio Service
EHR Electronic Health Records
EMG Electromyogram
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
GFSK Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying
HBC Human Body Communications
IoT Internet of Things
IoMT Internet of Medical Things
IMD Implantable Medical Devices
ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical
LECIM Low-Energy Critical Infrastructure Monitoring
LLN Low-power and Lossy Networks
LDPC Low Density Parity Check
LoRaWAN Long Range Wider Area Network
LP-WAN Low Power Wide Area Network
LR-WPAN Low Rate - Wireless Personal Area Network
LTE CAT-N Long Term Evolution Category N
LTE-M Long Term Evolution - Machine Type Communications
MAC Medium Access Control
MITM Man-In-The-Middle
MCS Mobile Crowdsensing
MTC Machine Type Communications
NB-IoT Narrow Band Internet of Things
NFC Near Field Communication
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OTA Over-the-Air
PER Packet Error Rate
PSK Phase Shift Keying
RAW Restricted Access Window
QC Quantum Computing
QKD Quantum Key Distribution
QoI Quality of Information
QoS Quality of Service
QPSK Quadrature Phase shift Keying
QRNG Quantum Random Number Generator
REST REpresentational State Transfer
RFD Radio Frequency
RFD Radio Frequency Identification
PASH Privacy-Aware Smart Health
RHM Remote Health Monitoring
RPMA Random Phase Multiple Access
RPL Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
SDN Software-Defined Networking
SHR Smart Health Record
SpO2 Oxygen Saturation
SRD Short Range Device
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TSCH Time-Slotted Channel Hopping
UL Uplink
UWB Ultra-WideBand
WBAN Wireless Body Area Network
WMDs Wearable Medical Devices
WSN Wireless Sensor Network
6LoWPAN IPv6 over Low - Power Wireless Personal Area Networks
6TiSCH IPv6 over the TSCH