| ASLPR | Application-Specific Low Power Routing |
| BCS | Blockchain Structures |
| BS | Base Station |
| CC | ChainCode |
| CH | Cluster Head |
| CLI | Command Line Interface |
| CoAP | Constrained Application Protocol |
| D2D | Device-to-Device |
| EC | Evolutionary Computation |
| ECC | Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
| ERA | Energy-aware Routing Algorithm |
| FSFLA | Fuzzy Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm |
| GA | Genetic Algorithm |
| GAPSO | Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization |
| gPRC | google Remote Procedures Calls |
| HLF | Hyperledger Fabric |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| LSB | Lightweight Scalable Blockchain |
| LHB | Lightweight Hyperledger Blockchain |
| LTS | Long Term Support |
| MCNs | Multihop Cellular Networks |
| MSP | Membership Service Providers |
| OS | Ordering Service |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PoBT | Proof of Block and Trade |
| PoC | Proof of Concept |
| PoW | Proof of Work |
| RoA | Rating of Allocation |
| SA | Simulated Annealing |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SDN | Software Defined Networking |
| SFLA | Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm |
| SI | Swarm Intelligence |
| SUT | System Under the Test |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TSP | Transactions Per Second |