IoT	Internet of Things
IP	Internet Protocol
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
P2P	Peer-to-Peer
SPI	Serial Peripheral Interface
IGMP	Internet Group Management Protocol
ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
REST	Representational State Transfer
DDP	Distributed Data Protocol
OSPF	Open Shortest Path First
IGP	Interior Gateway Protocol
AS	Autonomous System
WSN	Wireless Sensor Network
RFID	Radio Frequency Identification
PoW	Proof of Work
PoS	Proof of Stake
DPoS	Delegated Proof of Stake
TaPoS	Transactions as Proof of Stake
BFT	Byzantine Fault Tolerance
PBFT	Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
DBFT	Delegated BFT
PoA	Proof of Authority
PoSV	Proof-of-Stake-Velocity
PoP	Proof-of-Personhood
PoB	Proof of Bandwidth
PoET	Proof of Elapsed Time
SCP	Stellar Consensus Protocol
PKC	Public Key Cryptography
PKC	Public Key Cryptography
THS	Threshold signature
TPS	Transactions Per Second
PoV	Proof of Vote
PoT	Proof-of-Trust
LSB	Lightweight Scalable Blockchain
ELIB	Efficient Lightweight integrated Blockchain
SGD	Stochastic Gradient Descent
LSB	Least Significant Bit
IPFS	InterPlanetary File System
DTC	Distributed Time-based
ECC	Elliptic Curve Cryptography
PDA	Personal Digital Assistance
IHM	IoT Health Manager
DAG	Directed Acyclic Graph
CV	Cardinal Value
DV	Data Validity
CD	Contact Degree
ACC	Access Control Contract
JC	Judge Contract
DTM	Distributed Throughput Management
CH	Cluster Head
OBMs	Overlay Block Managers
DAC	Discretionary Access Control Models
MAC	Mandatory Access Control Model
MSP	Membership Service Provider
JCC	JointCloud Computing
JCCE	JointCloud Collaboration Environment
DO	Data Owner
KGC	Key Generate Center
ACL	Access Control List
ECIES	Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme
MLNCML	Mixed Linear and Nonlinear Spatiotemporal Chaotic Systems
PEP	Policy Enforcement Point
CCBCM	Consortium Blockchain Manager
AEBCM	Aggregated Edge Blockchain Manager
EBCMs	Edge Blockchain Managers
PoEoI	Proof-of-Epidemiology-of-Interest
IHT	Information Hiding Techniques
SSI	Self-Sovereign Identity
VC	Verifiable Credential
DID	Decentralized ID
ABAC	Attribute-based Access Control
RBAC	Role-based Access Control
DSMAC	Decentralized Self-Management of data Access Control
ICN	Information-Centric Networking
IBE	Identity-Based Encryption
PRE	Proxy Re-encryption
ZK-SNARKs	Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge