Acronym	Description	Acronym	Description
AA	Attribute Authority	KGC	Key Generation Center
AABE	Attribute-Based Encryption	KP-ABE	Key-Policy ABE
ABKS	Attribute-Based Encryption with Keyword Search	LSTM	Long Short-Term Memory
ABS	Attribute-Based Signature	MAC	Message Authentication Code
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard	MAP	Malware Analytic Provider
ASPE	Asymmetric PE	MANETs	Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
CA	Certificate Authority	MBS	Macro Base Station
CAA	Central Attribute Authority	CCA	Chosen Ciphertext Attack
MFCC	Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients	MHSN	Mobile Healthcare Social Network
CCA2	Adaptive CCA	MiTM	Man in The Middle
CNN	Convolutional Neural Network	ML	Machine Learning
CP-ABE	Ciphertext-Policy ABE	MQTT	Message Queue Telemetry Transport
CPA	Chosen Plaintext Attack	MRPE	Multireceiver PE
CSP	Cloud Service Provider	OPE	Order-Preserving Encryption
CSS	Cloud Storage Service	OSNs	Online Social Networks
D2D	Device to Device	PE	Predicate Encryption
DABE	Decentralized ABE	PIPE	Public Index PE
DBDH	Decisional Bilinear Diffie–Hellman	PEKS	Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search
DBE	Distance-Based Encryption	PKG	Public Key Generator
DO	Data Owner	NTT	Number Theoretic Transform
DU	Data User	RLWE	Ring Learning with Errors
DPE	Delegate PE	PKI	Public Key Infrastructure
DRM	Digital Rights Management	PoV	Proof of Vote
ECC	Elliptic Curve Cryptography	PRES	Proxy Re-Encryption with Keyword Search
EHRs	Electronic Health Records	QoP	Quality of Protection
FPGA	Field Programmable Gate Array	KGAs	Keyword Guessing Attacks
GID	Global Identity	QoS	Quality of Service
FE	Functional Encryption	SDE	Searchable Data Encryption
FHE	Fully Homomorphic Encryption	SDN	Software Defined Networking
FVM	Functional Virtual Machine	SE	Searchable Encryption
HABE	Hierarchical ABE	SSE	Symmetric SE
HE	Homomorphic Encryption	SPE	Symmetric PE
IBBE	Identity-Based Broadcast Encryption	SMC	Secure Multi-Party Computation
IBC	Identity-Based Cryptography	TMN	Tactical Mobile Network
IBE	Identity-Based Encryption	TPE	Threshold PE
IBSC	Identity-Based Signcryption	TTP	Trusted Third Party
ICN	Information-Centric Networking	UAV	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
IoT	Internet of Things	IPFE	Inner Product FE
UMCM	User Management and Container Management	WSAN	Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network
SOK	Sakai, Ohgishi and Kasahara	ROM	Read-Only Memory
MQTT	Message Queue Telemetry Transport	MBDHE	Modified Bilinear Diffie- Hellman Exponent