| AP | Access Point |
| BLE | Bluetooth Low Energy |
| C&C | Command and Control |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service |
| GHOST | Safe-Guarding Home IoT Environments with Personalised Real-time Risk Control |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection System |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| LEACH | Low Energy Aware Cluster Hierarchy |
| NDFA | Network and Data Flow Analysis |
| PAN | Personal Area Network |
| PPP | Point-to-Point protocol |
| RPi | Raspberry Pi |
| RPL | Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Network |
| 6LoWPAN | IPv6 over Low -Power Wireless Personal Area Networks |