Glossary of Terms in Wireless Networks in Process Control

Below is a list of terminology, abbreviations, and acronyms used in wireless network technology applied to process control.
  • 6LoWPAN
    • IPv6 Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks
  • ARPA 
    • Advanced Research Projects Agency 
  • ARUBA
    • Refers to Aruba Wireless Networks, now a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
  • BLIP 
    • Berkeley Low-power IP stack
  • CAP 
    • Contention Access Period
  • CFP 
    • Contention Free Period
  • CISCO
    • A company that develops, manufactures and sells networking equipment.
  • CSMA-CA 
    • Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
  • DAO 
    • Destination Advertisement Objects
  • DIO 
    • DAG Information Object
  • DIS 
    • DAG Information Solicitation
  • DODAG 
    • Destination Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph 
  • DSN 
    • Distributed Sensor Network
  • ETX 
    • Expected Transmission count
  • GTS 
    • Guaranteed Time Slot
  • HBN 
    • Hydrobionet
  • ICMP 
    • Internet Control Message Protocol
  • LLN 
    • Low power Lossy Networks
  • MAC 
    • Media Access Control
  • MBR 
    • Membrane Bioreactor
  • MEM 
    • Micro electromechanical
  • MERU
    • Refers to Meru Networks, a supplier of wireless local area networks (WLANs).
  • MOTOROLA
    • A company that designed and sold wireless network equipment.
  • MRHOF 
    • Minimum Rank Objective Function with Hysteresis
  • NCS 
    • Network Controlled System 
  • OF 
    • Objective Functions
  • OS 
    • Operating System
  • PID 
    • Proportional-integral-derivative controller
  • PRR 
    • Packet Reception Ratio
  • REPEATER
    • Device that takes an existing signal from a wireless router or wireless access point for rebroadcasting.
  • RPL 
    • Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks 
  • RSSI 
    • Received Signal Strength Indication
  • WBN 
    • Wireless Biosensor & Actuator Network 
  • WIFI
    • Technology for radio wireless local area networking of devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards.
  • WINS 
    • Wireless Integrated Network Sensors
  • WIRELESS ACCESS POINT
    •  A networking device that allows a Wi-Fi device to connect to a wired network to create a second network.
  • WSN 
    • Wireless Sensor Network
  • ZIGBEE 
    • Popular, low-cost, low-power wireless mesh networking standard.
  • Z-WAVE 
    • Tightly controlled mesh network that caters to the smart home and smart building space.
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