Topic 3 Acronyms

Networking & Communication Protocols

• ARP - Address Resolution Protocol

• AS - Autonomous System

• BGP - Border Gateway Protocol

• CIDR - Classless Inter-Domain Routing

• COAP - Constrained Application Protocol

• DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

• DNS - Domain Name Server

• EGP - Exterior Gateway Protocol

• HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol

• ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol

• IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol

• IGP - Inter Gateway Protocol

• INTSERV - Integrated Service

• IP - Internet Protocol

• ISP - Internet Service Provider

• MQTT - Message Queue Telemetry Transport

• NAT - Network Address Translation

• OSPF - Open Shortest Path First

• QOS - Quality of Service

• RARP - Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

• RIP - Routing Information Protocol

• RSVP - Resource Reservation Protocol

• SCTP - Stream Control Transmission Protocol

• SIP - Session Initiation Protocol

• TCP - Transmission Control Protocol

• UDP - User Datagram Protocol

• VOIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol

Network & System Infrastructure

• 3GPP - Third Generation Partnership Project

• HA - High Availability

• IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force

• IOT - Internet of Things

• ITU-T - International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector

• NFV - Network Function Virtualization

• SDDC - Software-Defined Data Center

• SDN - Software Defined Network

• VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network

Storage & Data Management

• BDA - Blu-ray Disc

• CD - Compact Disc

• DAS - Directly Attached Storage

• DVD - Digital Versatile Disc

• HDFS - Hadoop Distributed File System

• HDD - Hard Disk Drive

• HDP - Hortonworks Data Platform

• RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks

• SAN - Storage Area Network

• SDS - Software-Defined Storage

• SSD - Solid State Disk

Operating Systems & Computing

• CI - Converged Infrastructure

• DBAS - Database Administrators

• DID - Digital Information Displays

• HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure

• IOS - International Organization for Standardization

• LXC - Linux Containers

• MMU - Memory Management Unit

• OS - Operating Systems

• OSHW - Open Source Hardware

• OSI - Open Systems Interconnection

• RTOS - Real-Time Operating System

Error Handling & Data Transmission

• ARQ - Automatic Repeat Request

• BEC - Backward Error Correction

• CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check

• FCS - Frame Check Sequence

• FEC - Forward Error Correction

• LRC - Longitudinal Redundancy Check

• MAC - Medium or Media Access Control

• RLE - Run Length Encoding

• SACK - Selective Acknowledgement Number

• SFD - Start of Frame Delimiter

• VRC - Vertical Redundancy Check

Computing Processes & Scheduling

• FIFO - First In First Out

• HRN - Highest Response-Ratio Next

• MLFQ - Multi-Level Feedback Queue

• MLQ - Multi-Level Queue

• RR - Round Robin

• SJF - Shortest Job First

• SRT - Shortest Remaining Time

Security & System Protection

• DOS - Denial of Service

Financial & Business Terms

• CAPEX - Capital Expenditures

• OPEX - Operating Expenditures

Miscellaneous Acronyms

• BLE - Bluetooth Low Energy

• CI - Converged Infrastructure

• DID - Digital Information Displays

• IF - Instruction Fetching

• ID - Instruction Decoding

• OF - Operand Fetching

• EX - Execution

• LLC - Logical Link Control

• OUI - Organizationally Unique Identifier

• POC - Proof of Concept