| ALM | Airtime Link Metric |
| CENT | Centrality |
| CFN | Cluster-Free Node |
| CHaChA | Clustering Heuristic and Channel Assignment |
| CH | Cluster Head |
| CM | Cluster Member |
| HWMP | Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| MCH | Master Cluster Head |
| MCS | Modulation and Coding Scheme |
| NH2CH | Next-Hop-to-Cluster-Head |
| NC | Neighbor Count |
| NPR | NC-to-PCHNC-Ratio |
| PCH | Proposed Cluster Head |
| PCHNC | Proposed Cluster Head Neighbor Count |
| PREP | Path Reply |
| PREQ | Path Request |
| RANN | Root Announcement |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
| WMN | Wireless Mesh Network |
| WNPR | Weighted NC-to-PCHNC-Ratio |