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. 2020 Dec 23;21(1):28. doi: 10.3390/s21010028
5G Fifth Generation Cellular Network
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
ASICS Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
AI Artificial Intelligence
BaaS Blockchain-as-a-Service
CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate
CAPEX Capital Expenses
CPS Cyber Physical System
CRPS Challenge-Response Pairs
CS Cybersecurity
DAppss Dated, Achievable, Personal, Positive and Specific
DLT Distributed Ledger Technology
DNOs Distribution Network Operators
DPoS Delegated Proof-of-Stake
DTs Digital Twins
DUT Device Under Test
E2E End-to-End
EEA Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility
FIB Focused Ion Beam
FPGAs Field Programmable Gate Arrays
ICs Integrated Circuits
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IoE Internet-of-Energy
IIoT Industrial Internet-of-Things
IoT Internet-of-Things
IP Intellectual Property
ISO International Organization for Standardization
IT Informational Technology
ITU-T International Telecommunication Union
LTE Long Term Evaluation
LPWAN Low-Power Wide-Area Network
MAC Message Authentication Code
MITM Man-in-the-Middle
NVM Non-Volatile Memories
OPEX Operational Expenses
OT Operational Technology
PBFT Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PoP Proof-of-Physical Unclonable Function
PoS Proof-of-Stake
PoW Proof-of-Work
PUF Physical Unclonable Function
PUFChain Physical Unclonable Function assisted Blockchain
REST Representational State Transfer
ROM Read-Only-Memory
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
SDOs Standards Developing Organization
SRAM Static Random-Access Memory
TRNGs True Random Number Generators
WLP Web Ledger Protocol