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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Access. 2018;6:10.1109/access.2018.2884906. doi: 10.1109/access.2018.2884906

TABLE I:

Acronym and Description

Acronym Description
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AP Access Point
BS Base Station
CAR Conflict Aware Routing
CCM Concentric Computing Model
CPS Cyber-Physical System
CN Core Network
CNN Convolutional Neural Network
DCS Distributed Control System
D2D Device-to-Device
DoS Denial-of-Service
FA Factory Automation
FG Functional Group
HIL Hardware-In-the-Loop
HMI Human Machine Interface
I-CPS Industrial Cyber-Physical System
I-IoT Industrial Internet of Things
IIRA Industrial Internet Reference Architecture
IoT Internet of Things
LoRaWAN Low-Power Wide Area Network
LTE Long-Term Evolution
LTE-A Long-Term Evolution Advanced
Massive MIMO Massive Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output
M2M Machine-to-Machine
NB-IoT Narrow Band Internet of Things
NFV Network Function Virtualization
NV Network Virtualization
PA Process Automation
PER Packet Error Rate
PID Proportional-Integral-Derivative
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
PSA Power System Automation
PSA Path Selection Algorithm
QoS Quality of Service
RAN Radio Access Network
RFID Radio-Frequency Identification
RL Reinforcement Learning
RNN Recurrent Neural Network
RTU Remote Terminal Unit
SCADA Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
SDI Software-Defined Infrastructure
SL Supervised Learning
SDN Software Defined Networking
TSCH Time Scheduled Channel Hopping
UDN Ultra-Dense Network
UL Uplink
USL Unsupervised Learning
WSAN Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network