| 3G |
third-generation cellular network |
| 4G |
fourth-generation cellular network |
| ACK |
ACKnowledgment |
| ADR |
Adaptive Data Rate |
| BW |
BandWidth |
| CF |
Carrier Frequency |
| CR |
Coding Rate |
| CRC |
Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CSMA/CA |
Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance |
| CSS |
Chirp Spread Spectrum |
| EC |
Energy Consumption |
| ED |
End Device |
| EXP3 |
EXPonential weights for EXPloration and EXPloitation |
| FLoRa |
Framework for LoRa simulations |
| GW |
GateWay |
| IoT |
Internet of Things |
| km |
kilometers |
| LoRa |
Long Range |
| LoRaWAN |
Long-Range Wide-Area Network |
| LP-MAB |
Low-Power Multi-Armed Bandit |
| LPWAN |
Low-Power Wide-Area Network |
| m |
meters |
| MAB |
Multi-Armed Bandit |
| MAC |
Media Access Control |
| ML |
Machine Learning |
| NB-IoT |
NarrowBand IoT |
| NS |
Network Server |
| OWA |
Ordered Weighted Averaging |
| PDF |
Probability Density Function |
| PDR |
Packet Delivery Ratio |
| RL |
Reinforcement Learning |
| SE |
Successive Elimination |
| SINR |
Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio |
| SF |
Spreading Factor |
| ToA |
Time-on-Air |
| TP |
Transmission Power |