WLAN Acronyms
Tags : WLAN acronyms
| AC | Access Category: the category, VO, VI, BE, and BK, for 802.11 priorities. 0-7 for wired side |
| WMM | Wi-Fi Multimedia |
| WMMPS | Wi-Fi Multimedia Poser Save |
| AP | Access Point |
| STA | Station |
| PS | Powersave |
| TIM | Traffic Indication Map |
| TXOP | Transmission Opportunity |
| U-APSD | Unscheduled automatic power-save delivery |
| A-APSD | Scheduled automatic power-save delivery |
| EOSP | End Of Service Period |
| TX | Transmission |
| PM | Power Management |
| DTIM | Delivery Traffic Indication Map |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| GTK | Group Temporal Key |
| ACK | Acknowledgement |
| CSMA/CA | Carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection |
| IFS | Inter Frame Space |
| CCA | Clear Channel Assessment |
| NAV | Network Allocation Vector |
| AID | Association Identification |
| CTS | Clear to Send |
| RTS | Request to Send |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| CFP | Contention Free Period |
| CP | Contention Period |
| EDCA | Enhanced Distributed Channel Access |
| RIFS | Reduced Interframe Space |
| SIFS | Short Interframe Space |
| PIFS | Point Coordination Function (PCF) Interframe Space |
| AIFS | Arbitration Interframe Space |
| EIFS | Extended Interframe Space |
| DIFS | Distributed Coordination Function Interframe Space |
| PHY | Physical Layer |
| PCF | Point Coordination Function |
| HT | High Throughput |
| PPDU | Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit |
| BAR | Block ACK Request |
| BA | Block ACK |
| AIFSN | Arbitration Interframe Space Number |
| MPDU | MAC Protocol Data Unit |
| A-MPDU | Aggregate MAC Protocol Data Unit |
| A-MSDU | Aggregate MAC Service Data Unit |
| MSDU | MAC Service Data Unit |
| HR/DSSS | High-Rate / Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum |
| ERP | Extended-Rate PHY |
| OFDM | Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| VHT | Very High Throughput |
| BE | Best Effort |
| BK | Background |
| VI | Video |
| VO | Voice |
| IBSS | Independent Basic Service Set |
| ESS | Extended Basic Service Set |
| BSS | Basic Service Set |
| BI | Beacon Interval |
| TU | Time Units |
| TISF | Timing Synchronization Function |
| SSID | Service Set Identifier |
| HE | High Efficiency |
| IE | Information Element |