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.