3GPP	3rd Generation Partnership Project
6LoWPAN	IPv6 for low power wireless personal area networks
ADEMCO	alarm device manufacturing company
AES	Advance Encryption Standard
ARDIS	advanced radio data information service
AS	application server
ATA	adaptive threshold estimation algorithm
BPSK	binary phase shift keying
CCC	common control channel
CR	cognitive radio
CREN	cognitive radio at end node
CRGW	cognitive radio at gateway
CRENGW	cognitive radio at both end node and gateway
CRN	cognitive radio network
CRS	cognitive radio system
CRSN	cognitive radio sensor network
CSMA/CA	carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance
CSS	chirp spread spectrum
CD	cyclostationary detector
D-BPSK	differential binary phase shift keying
DC	direct current
DECT	Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication
DSSS	direct sequence spread spectrum
E2E	End 2 End
EC-GSM-IoT	extended coverage GSM IoT
ED	energy detector
eDRx	enhanced discontinuous reception
eMTC	enhanced machine-type communication
ETSI	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
FAN	field area network
FCC	Federal Communications Commission
FCME	forward consecutive mean excision
FDMA	frequency division multiple access
FEC	forward error correction
FFT	fast Fourier transformation
FDMA	frequency division multiple access
FOST	first order statistical technique
FSK	frequency shift keying
GMSK	Gaussian minimum shift keying
GSM	Global System for Mobile communication
GW	gateway
HAN	home area network
HDTV	high definition television
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IF	intermediate frequency
IFA	inverted F antenna
IIC	Industrial Internet Consortium
ISM	industrial, scientific, and medical
IoT	Internet of Things
IP	Internet Protocol
IPSO	Internet Protocol for Smart Objects
ITU	International Telecommunication Union
LECIM	low energy critical infrastructure monitoring
LNA	low noise amplifier
LoRa	Long Range
LPWAN	low power wide area network
LRLP	long-range low power
LTE-M	Long-Term Evolution, category M1
LTN	low throughput network
MAC	medium access control
NAN	neighbourhood area network
NB-IoT	Narrowband IoT
NS	network server
OFDMA	orthogonal frequency division multiple access
OOK	on-off keying
OSSS	orthogonal sequence spread spectrum
PCA	priority channel access
PHY	physical
PPU	power provisioning unit
PSM	power saving mode
PU	primary user
PUE	primary user emulation
QAM	quadrature amplitude modulation
QoS	quality of service
QPSK	quadrature phase shift keying
RF	radio frequency
ROHT	recursive onesided hypothesis testing
RPMA	random phase multiple access
RSS	received signal strength
SC-FDMA	single carrier frequency division multiple access
SDN	software-defined network
SDO	standard development organizations
SDR	software-defined radio
SDWSN	software-defined wireless sensor network
SG	smart grid
SGN	smart grid network
SGCN	smart grid communication network
SIGs	Special Interest Groups
SNOW	sensor network over white spaces
SNR	signal to noise ratio
SoC	system on a chip
SRD	short range device
SS	spectrum sensing
SSL	secured sockets layer
SUN	smart utility network
TG	task group
TVWS	television white space
UHF	ultra high frequency
ULPC	ultra-low power communication
ULPP	ultra-low power processing
UNB	ultra narrow band
USRP	Universal Software Radio Peripheral
VHF	very high frequency
WG	working group
Wi-SUN	wireless smart utility network
WBAN	wireless body area network
WLAN	wireless local area network
WSN	wireless sensor network