| CR | Cognitive radio |
| PSD | Power spectral density |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| ED | Energy detection |
| LAD | Double-thresholding |
| FCME | Forward consecutive mean excision |
| SNR | Signal to noise ratio |
| NN | Neural network |
| NLP | Natural language processing |
| CNN | Convolutional neural network |
| GRU | Gate recurrent unit |
| SSD | Single shot multibox detector |
| Faster-RCNN | Faster region-based convolutional neural network |
| RFI | RF interference |
| FCN | Full convolutional network |
| PSPNet | Pyramid scene parsing network |
| PSD | Power spectral density |
| PPM | Pyramid pooling module |
| ASK | Amplitude shift keying |
| PSK | Phase shift keying |
| FSK | Frequency shift keying |
| GMSK | Gaussian minimum shift keying |
| RF | Radio frequency |
| AWGN | Additive White Gaussian Noise |
| FFT | Fast Fourier transform |
| BN | Batch normalized |
| ReLU | Rectified linear unit |
| CE | Cross-entropy |
| IoU | Intersection-over-unit |
| TP | True positive |
| FP | False positive |
| RMSProp | Root mean square prop |
| FLOPs | Floating-point operations |