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. 2021 Jun 30;21(13):4510. doi: 10.3390/s21134510
3G 3rd Generation Mobile Network
3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
3WHS Three-Way Handshake
4G 4th Generation Mobile Network
5G 5th Generation Mobile Network
5GC 5G Core Network
6G 6th Generation Mobile Network
AccECN Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification
ACK Acknowledgment
AIAD Adaptive Increase Adaptive Decrease
AIMD
AMF
AP
Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease
Access and Mobility Management Function
Access Point
AQM
AUSF
Active Queue Management
Authentication Server Function
BALIA Balanced Linked Adaptation Algorithm
BBR Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-Trip Propagation Time
BDP Bandwidth-Delay Product
BIC Binary Increase Congestion Control
BS Base Station
BtlBw Bottleneck Bandwidth
CC Congestion Control
CoDel Controlled Delay
CQI Channel Quality Information
cwnd Congestion Window
D-LIA Dynamic Linked Increases Algorithm
DL-TCP Deep-Learning-Based Transmission Control Protocol
DNN Deep Neural Network
DRL Deep Reinforcement Learning
DRW Dynamic Receive Window
D-TCP Dynamic Transmission Control Protocol
ECN Explicit Congestion Notification
eMBB Enhanced Mobile Broadband
eNB Evolved Node B
EPC Evolved Packet Core
gNB Next Generation Node B
HARQ Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IoE Internet of Everything
IoT Internet of Things
IP Internet Protocol
IRS Intelligent Reflecting Surface
ITU-R International Telecommunications Union–Radiocommunications Sector
IW Initial Window
LIA Linked Increases Algorithm
LOS Line-of-Sight
M2M Machine to Machine
MAC Media Access Control
MDP Markov Decision Process
MEC
MIoT
Mobile Edge Computing
Massive Internet of Things
ML Machine Learning
mMIMO Massive Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output
mMTC Massive Machine-Type Communication
mmWave Millimeter-Wave
MP-TCP Multipath TCP
MP-QUIC Multipath QUIC
ms millisecond
MSS Maximum Segment Size
NF Network Function
NFV Network Function Virtualization
NIC Network Interface Card
NLOS Non-Line-of-Sight
OLIA Opportunistic Linked Increases Algorithm
OSI Open System Interconnection
PCC
PCF
Performance-Oriented Congestion Control
Policy Control Function
QoS Quality of Service
QUIC Quick User Datagram Protocol Internet Connection
RL Reinforcement Learning
RLC Radio Link Control
RTO Retransmission Time-Out
RtProp Round Trip Propagation Time
RTT Round-Trip-Time
RTW-TCP Real-Time Wireless Transmission Control Protocol
rwnd Receiver Window
SA Standalone
SACK Selective Acknowledgment
SBA Service-Based Architecture
SINR
SMF
Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio
Session Management Function
ssthresh Slow-Start Threshold
SYN Synchronize
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TFO Transmission Control Protocol Fast Open
TLS Transport Layer Security
TMRG
UDM
Transport Modeling Research Group
Unified Data Management
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UE User Equipment
URLLC
WiFi
Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communication
Wireless Fidelity
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
YEAH Yet Another Highspeed Transmission Control Protocol