List of Abbreviations

AA Application Specific IP Address

ABE Available Bandwidth Estimate

ABR Adaptive Bit Rate (in the context of video streaming)
Available Bit Rate (in the context of ATM networks)

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop

AI Additive Increase
Artificial Intelligence

AIAD Additive Increase Additive Decrease

AIMD Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease

AP Averaging Principle

AQM Active Queue Management

APPN Advanced Peer to Peer Networking

AR Auto Regressive
Aggregation Router

ARED Adaptive Random Early Detection

ARIMA Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average

ARMA Auto Regressive Moving Average

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ARQ Automatic Repeat reQuest

AS Aggregation Switch

ASN Ack’d Sequence Number

ATB AIMD based HAS Algorithm

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

BBRS Buffer Based Rate Selection

BIC Binary Increase Congestion Control

CA Congestion Avoidance

CBR Constant Bit Rate

CC Congestion Control

CDN Content Delivery Network

CoDel Controlled Delay

CP Control Point

CR Core Router

CTB Control Theory Based ABR Algorithm

CTCP Compound TCP

DASH Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

DCB Data Center Bridging

DCN Data Center Network

DCT Discrete Cosine Transform

DCTCP Data Center TCP

D²TCP Deadline Aware Data Center TCP

DHFT Dual Homed Fat Tree

EC Efficiency Controller

ECMP Equal Cost Multi Path

ECN Explicit Congestion Notification

EDF Earliest Deadline First

EERC End-to-End Rate based flow Control

FARIMA Fractional Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average

FC Fairness Controller
Fiber Channel

FCFS First Come First Served

FCOE Fiber Channel Over Ethernet

FCT Flow Completion Time

FEC Forward Error Correction

FIFO First In First Out

FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array

FPS Frames Per Second

FR Fast Recovery

GAIMD Generalized Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease

GBN Go Back N

GCC Google Congestion Control

GGSN Gateway GPRS Support Node

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

HARQ Hybrid ARQ

HAI Hyper Active Increase

HAS HTTP Adaptive Streaming

HDS HTTP Dynamic Streaming (Adobe)

HDTV High Definition Television

HFC Hybrid Fiber Coax

HLS HTTP Live Streaming (Apple)

HSS HTTP Smooth Streaming (Microsoft)

HSTCP High Speed TCP

HTTP Hyper Text Transport Protocol

HULL High Bandwidth Ultra Low Latency

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

IETF Internet Engineering Taskforce

IntServ Integrated Services

IP Internet Protocol

IS Intermediate Switches

I-TCP Indirect TCP

ITU International Telecommunications Union

LA Link specific IP Address

LAN Local Area Network

LB Load Balancing

LBE Less than Best Effort

LEDBAT Low Extra Delay Background Transport

LDA Loss Discrimination Algorithm

LHS Left Hand Side

LL PDU Link Layer Packet Data Unit

LTE Long Term Evolution

MAC Medium Access Control

MIAD Multiplicative Increase Additive Decrease

MIMD Multiplicative Increase Multiplicative Decrease

ML Machine Learning

MPC Model Predictive Control

MPTCP Multi Path TCP

MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group

MSS Maximum Segment Size

M-TCP Mobile TCP

MVA Mean Value Analysis

NAT Network Address Translation

NIC Network Interface Card

NSN Next Sequence Number

NOS Network Operating System

NTB Network Throughput Based HAS Algorithm

OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access

PD Progressive Download

PDQ Preemptive Distributed Quick Flow Control

PD-BR Progressive Download with Byte Ranges

PDSN Packet Data Serving Node

PDU Packet Data Unit

PGW Packet Gateway

PI Proportional+Integral AQM Controller

PM Phase Margin

PQ Phantom Queue

PS Processor Sharing

QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QCN Quantum Congestion Notification

QoE Quality of Experience

QoS Quality of Service

QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Queueing

RAP Rate Adaptive Protocol

RED Random Early Detection

RCP Rate Control Protocol

RHS Right Hand Side

RP Reaction Point

RS Reed Solomon

RR RTCP Receiver Report

RSVP ReSerVation Protocol

RTO Re-transmission Time Out

RTCP Real Time Control Protocol

RTP Real Time Transport Protocol

RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol

RTT Round Trip Time

RW Receive Window

SAN Storage Area Network

SDN Software Defined Network

SJF Shortest Job First

SN Sequence Number

SR Selective Repeat

SRAM Static Random Access Memory

SS Slow Start

STB Smoothed Throughput Based HAS Algorithm

TBB Threshold Based Buffer HAS Algorithm

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TFRC TCP Friendly Rate Control

TM Traffic Management

ToR Top of Rack

TRILL Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links

TSN Transmit Sequence Number

TSW Time Sliding Window

UDP User Datagram Protocol

VBR Variable Bit Rate

VLAN Virtual Local Area Network

VLB Valiant Load Balancing

VM Virtual Machine

VoD Video on Demand

VoQ Virtual output Queue

VxLAN Virtual extensible Local Area Network

WAN Wide Area Network

WebRTC Web Real Time Communications Protocol

WFQ Weighted Fair Queueing

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network

XCP Express Control Protocol

ZRW Zero Receive Window

ZWP Zero Window Probe