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. 2020 Jul 21;20(14):4047. doi: 10.3390/s20144047
BAN Body Area Network
BS Base Station
CMTC Critical Machine Type Communication
CoT Cloud of Things
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CQI Channel Quality Indicator
D2D Device-to-Device
EMB Enhanced Mobile Broadband
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
GSM Global System for Mobile
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
HetNets Heterogeneous Networks
IoT Internet of Things
ITU International Telecommunication Union
IECR IoT European Research Cluster
LTE Long-Term Evaluation
LTE-M Long-Term Evaluation Advance
LoraWAN Long Range Wide Area Network
Lora Long Range
M2M Machine-to-Machine
mMTC Massive Machine-Type Communication
MTCs Machine-Type Communications
MBS Macro Base Station
MIMO Multiple-input multiple output
NFV Network Function Virtualization
NB-IoT Narrowband Internet of Thing
NFC Near Field Communication
OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OMA Open Mobile Alliance
QoS Quality of Service
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SBS Small Base Station
SDN Software Defined Network
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
UHD Ultra High Definition
UEs User Equipment’s
URLLC Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communication
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WRAN Wireless Regional Area Networks
WBAN Wireless Body Area Network
WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity
3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
4G Fourth Generation
5G Fifth Generation Mobile Network