| 6TiSCH | IPv6 over the TSCH mode of IEEE 802.15.4e |
| ASN | Absolute Slotframe Number |
| CS | Common Shared |
| CSMA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access |
| DAO | Destination Advertisement Object |
| DIO | DODAG Information Object |
| DIS | DODAG Information Solicitation |
| DODAG | Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph |
| EB | Enhanced Beacon |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| IEEE-SA | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Standards Association |
| IEFT | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IPv6 | Internet Protocol version 6 |
| MAC | Medium Access Control |
| OSCAR | Optimized Scheduling Cell Allocation Algorithm for Convergecast |
| PDR | Packet Delivery Ratio |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| RBS | Receiver-based Shared |
| RPL | IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks |
| SBD | Sender-based Dedicated |
| SBS | Sender-based Shared |
| TDMA | Time Division Multiple Access |
| TSCH | Time-Slotted Channel Hopping |
| UDGM | Unit Disk Graph Medium |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Network |