Table 3.
Acronyms used in the survey and definitions
| Acronym | Definition | Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5G | 5th Generation Mobile Networks | IoMT | Internet of Medical Things |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence | IoT | Internet of Things |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network | IoTH | Internet of Health Things |
| API | Application Programming Interface | IoV | Internet of Vehicles |
| AR | Augmented Reality | LAN | Local Area Network |
| CC | Cloud Computing | M2M | Mechanism to Mechanism |
| D2D | Device to Device | MANET | Mobile Ad hoc Networks |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service | MCC | Multi-Cloud Computing |
| DoS | Denial of Service | MEC | Mobile Edge Computing |
| EG | Edge Computing | MILP | Mixed Integer Linear Programming |
| EMR | Electronic Medical Record | MOCSA | Multi-Objective Cuckoo Search Algorithm |
| FC | Fog Computing | MSSP | Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming |
| GIS | Geographic Information Systems | NDN | Named Data Networking |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service | PaaS | Platform as a Service |
| GPS | Global Positioning System | QoS | Quality of Service |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service | SaaS | Software as a Service |
| IIoT | Industrial Internet of Things | SDN | Software-Defined Networking |
| IoHT | Internet of Health Things | UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |