Abbreviation Index

A

ACK: Acknowledgement
ACS: Access Control Service
AIFS: Arbitration Inter-Frame Space
API: Application Program Interfaces
ASIC: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

B
B/S: Browser/Server
BBU: Baseband Unit
BCH: Broadcast Channel
B-Cloud: Backup Cloud
BLER: Block Error Rate
BSC: Base Station Controller
BSS: Business Support System

C
C/S: Client/Server
CAPEX: Capital Expenditure
CCCTIA: China Cloud Computing Technology and Industry Alliance
CCF: China Computer Federation
CCH: Control Channel
CCIF: Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
CDN: Content Delivery Network
CDR: Call Detailed Record
CIE: Chinese Institute of Electronics
CLI: Command-Line Interface
CORS: Continuous Operating Reference Station
CPRI: Common Public RF Interface
CRM: Customer Relationship Management
CSA: Cloud Security Alliance
CSP: Cloud Simulation Platform
CTS: Certification Transfer Signaling

D
DCE: Data Center Ethernet
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHT: Distributed Hash Table
DIFS: Distributed Inter-Frame Space
DIMDB: Distributed In-Memory Database
DN: Data Node
DOE: Department of Energy
DRDB: Disk-Resident Database
DSP: Digital Signal Processing

E
EBS: Elastic Block Storage
EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud
ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
ETC: Electronic Toll Collection

F
FACH: Forward Access Channel
FCoE: Fiber Channel over Ethernet
FDMA: Frequency Division Multiple Access
FE: Fast Ethernet
FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array
FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace
FZJ: Forschungs Zentrum Juelich

G
GE: Gigabit Ethernet
GFS: Google File System
GIS: Geographic Information System
GNSS: Global Navigation Satellite System
GPS: Global Positioning System
GSM: Global Systems for Mobile Communications
GUI: Graphical User Interface
gWLM: Global Workload Manager

H
HA: Home Agent
HDFS: Hadoop Distributed File System
HDLC: High-Level Data Link Control
HIP: Hierarchical IP
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I
IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
IDC: International Data Corporation
IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
IMA: Inverse Multiplexing over ATM
IMDB: In-Memory Database
IO: Input/Output
IOPS: Input/Output Operations Per Second
IP: Internet Protocol
IPSec: Internet Protocol Security
ISCP: Interferencing Signal Code Power
iSCSI: Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
ISO: International Organization for Standardization
ISP: Internet Service Provider
ITS: Intelligent Traffic System
IVM: Integrated Virtualization Manager
iVMM: Integrated Virtual Machine Manager  

J
JDBC: Java Database Connectivity

K
KVM: Kernel-Based Virtual Machine

L
LAN: Local Area Network
LTE: Long Term Evolution

M
MAC: Media Access Control
MD5: Message-Digest Algorithm 5
MFI: Metamodel Framework for Interoperability
MicroTCA: Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture
MIHF: Media Independent Handover  Function
MIPv6: Mobile IPv6
MLPPP: Multi-Link Point to Point Protocol
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service
MPLS: Multiple Protocol Label Switching
MRS: Mobile Relay Station
MSTP: Multi-Service Transport Platform

N
NAS: Network Attached Storage 
NFS: Network File System

O
OAM: Operation, Administration, and Maintenance
OBRI: Open Baseband Radio Interface
OBSAI: Open Base Station Architecture Initiative
OCCI: Oracle C++ Call Interface
ODBC: Open Database Connectivity
ODSOA: On-Demand Service-Oriented Architecture
OO: Object-Oriented
OPEX: Operational Expenditure
O-RGPS: Ontology-Based Role, Goal, Process and Web Service
ORI: Open Radio Equipment Interface
OS: Operating System
OSS: Operations Support System

P
P2P: Peer to Peer
P2P: Point to Point
PaaS: Platform as a Service
PB: Petabyte
PCH: Paging Channel
PDA: Personal Digital Assistant
PICMG: PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group
PON: Passive Optical Network
POSIX: Portable Operating System Interface for Unix
PVRP: Practical Vehicular Routing Protocol

Q
QoE: Quality of Experience
QoS: Quality of Service

R
R&R: Registry and Repository  
RAN: Radio Access Networks
RF: Radio Frequency
RFID: Radio Frequency Identification
RGPS: Role, Goal, Process, and Service
RNC: Radio Network Controller
RPR: Resilient Packet Ring
RS: Remote Sensing
RS: Remote Sensing Technology
RSU: Rate Sensor Unit
RTS: Request Transfer Signaling
RU: RF Unit

S
S3: Simple Storage Service
SaaS: Software as a Service
SAN: Storage Area Network
SAP: Service Access Point
SCH: Service Channel
SCIS: Sign-Concept-Instance-Selection
SDMA: Space Division Multiple Access
SECaaS: Security as a Service
SIFS: Short Inter-Frame Space
SLA: Service Level Agreement
SMS: Short Message Service
SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
SON: Self Organizing Network
SOSE: Service-Oriented Software Engineering
SQL: Structured Query Language
SQS: Simple Queue Service
SRIO: Serial Rapid IO
SSD: Solid-State Drives
SSP: Storage Service Provider
STM: Synchronous Transmission Module

T
TB: Terabyte
TCO: Total Cost of Ownership
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
TCSC: Technical Committee of Services Computing
TDD: Time Division Duplex
TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access
TD-SCDMA: Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access

U
UCS: Unified Computing System,
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery,and Integration protocol
UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
USB: Universal Serial Bus
UTC: Coordinated Universal Time

V
V2I: Vehicle-to-Infrastructure
V2V: Vehicle-to-Vehicle
VANET: Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network
VM: Virtual Machine
VMM: Virtual Machine Manager
VMs: Virtual Machines
VPC: Virtual Private Cloud
VSE: Virtual Server Environment

W
WAN: Wide Area Networks
WAVE: Wireless Access in the Vehicular Environment
WCDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
Wi-Fi: Wireless Fidelity
WiMAX: Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WSA: WAVE Service Advertisement
WSDL: Web Services Description Language

X
XML: Extensible Markup Language

Z
ZoR: Zone of Relevance