AA	Adaptive Application
AD	Automated Driving
ADAS	Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
ADF	Automated Driving Function
AMQP	Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
AP	AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform
ARA	AUTOSAR Runtime for Adaptive Applications
AUTOSAR	Automotive Open System Architecture
C/S	Client–Server
CAS	Compare-and-Swap
CM	Communication Management
CP	AUTOSAR Classic Platform
DDS	Data Distribution Service
ECU	Electronic Control Unit
EM	Execution Management
FLC	Field Level Communications
GDS	Global Discovery Server
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IIoT	Industrial Internet of Things
IP	Internet Protocol
IPC	Interprocess Communication
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation
LDS	Local Discovery Server
M2M	Machine-to-Machine
MDPI	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
MQTT	Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
OPC UA	Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture
OS	Operating System
OSI	Open Systems Interconnection
PHC	PTP Hardware Clock
POSIX	Portable Operating System Interface
PTP	Precision Time Protocol
PubSub	Publish–Subscribe
QoS	Quality-of-Service
ROS	Robot Operating System
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
SOA	Service-Oriented Architecture
SOME/IP	Scalable Service-Oriented Middleware over Internet Protocol
STL	Standard Template Library
TAS	Time-Aware Shaper
TCMS	Train Control and Management Systems
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TLS	Transport Layer Security
TSN	Time-Sensitive Networking
TTL	Time to Live
UADP	Unified Architecture Datagram Protocol
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
WCET	Worst-Case Execution Time
XML	Extensible Markup Language