ADES	Adaptive distributed embedded system
CCM	Configuration Change Manager
CEC	Communication Error Counter
CN	Computational Node
COTS	Commercial Off-The-Shelf
DEC	Discrepancy Error Counter
DES	Distributed embedded system
DFT	Dynamic Fault Tolerance
DFT4FTT	Dynamic Fault Tolerance for the Flexible Time-Triggered Ethernet
EC	Elementary Cycle
FTT	Flexible Time-Triggered communication paradigm
FTTRS	Flexible Time-Triggered Replicated Star
KE	Knowledge Entity
MM	Monitoring Manager
NIC	Network Interface Controller
NM	Node Manager
NMR	N-Modular Redundancy
PG	Port Guardian
SAs	Sensors and actuators
SDN	Software-Defined Networking
TM	Trigger Message