| Terminology | Description |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IIoT | Industrial Internet of Things |
| QoS | Quality of service |
| DDoS | Distributed denial of service |
| CPDoS | Cache-poisoned denial of service |
| IDS | Intrusion detection system |
| BAF | Bandwidth amplification factor |
| CoAP | Constrained Application Protocol |
| ARMS | Apple remote management services |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| DNS | Domain name system |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| WS-Discovery | Web Services Dynamic Discovery |
| SSDP | Simple Service Discovery Protocol |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| QOTD | Quote of the Day |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| RAM | Random-access memory |
| DRAM | Dynamic random-access memory |
| CV2X | Cellular vehicle-to-everything |
| CVE | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures |
| LRU | Least recently used |
| FIFO | First in, first out |
| TLRU | Time-aware least recently used |
| ACK | Acknowledgement |
| SYN | Synchronize |
| Gbps | Gigabits per second |