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Abbreviations and Acronyms

In the course we will use abbreviations and acronyms from time to time, these will be introduced in the videos. However, if you forget the meaning of some of them during the course and need to look them up, we provide you with the following list.

TIP: If you have difficulties understanding other concepts than the ones in the list below or find other abbreviations in the course material, please let us know in the discussion thread "Acronyms and Abbreviations" in the Discussion Forum. As the course is self-paced, we can not guarantee that the teachers will answer your question within a short time interval, but you will be able to get help from other course participants.

4G Fourth generation cellular network (also referred to as LTE)
5G Fifth generation cellular network (currently under standardization)
AD Analog-to-digital (conversion)
CAN Controller area network (name of an industrial  communication system)
CPN Cyber-physical network
CPS Cyber-physical system    
EchoRing Name of a particular wireless system for industrial applications
Edge computing Name of an upcoming computational paradigm (in contrast to cloud computing)
GPP General purpose processor (in contrast to a graphics processor, for example)
IP Internet protocol
ISM Industrial, the scientific and medical frequency band (a publicly available part of the radio spectrum, most WiFi and Bluetooth systems work on these frequency bands)
ISO-OSI Reference architecture of communication systems
LAN Local area network
LO RA Wide Area / LoRaWAN Name of a wireless system for massive machine-to-machine applications
LoRaWAN  (same as above)
LTE Long-term evolution (name of the fourth generation cellular network)
LTE-M Massive machine-to-machine communication subsystem of LTE
M2M Machine-to-machine communication
MAC Medium access control layer
NarrowBand-IoT Acronym of a wireless system for massive machine-to-machine applications
OccupyCow Name of a research project in Berkeley on critical machine-to-machine communications
OSI Open system interconnection model
PID Proportional Integral Derivate, the name of a standard industrial control algorithm
Profibus Name of a wired communication system for industrial applications
RF Radiofrequency
SNR Signal-to-noise ratio, a standard metric in communication systems that allow judging system performance
TCP Transport control protocol
UDP User datagram protocol
URLLC Ultra-reliable Low Latency Communications
WISA Name of a wireless communication system for critical machine-to-machine wireless communication