Fundamentals of Communications Systems
- Acronyms and abbreviations
AAC | Advanced audio coding |
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ADPCM | Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation |
AES | Advanced encryption standard |
AMR | Adaptive multi-rate |
APC | Adaptive predictive coding |
CA | Certificate Authority |
CELP | Code-excited linear prediction |
CIA | Confidentiality, integrity, availability |
CPU | Central processing unit |
CRL | Certificate Revocation List |
DCT | Discrete cosine transform |
DES | Data encryption standard |
DH | Diffie–Hellman (algorithm) |
DPCM | Differential pulse-code modulation |
ECC | Elliptic-curve cryptography |
ECDH | Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman |
ECDLP | Elliptic-curve discrete logarithm problem |
ECDSA | Elliptic-curve digital signature algorithm |
EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
FIPS | (US) Federal Information Processing Standard |
GIF | Graphics interchange format |
HF | High frequency |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
kbps | kilobits per second |
LFSR | Linear feedback shift register |
LPC | Linear predictive coding |
LWE | Learning with errors |
LZ77 / LZ78 / LZW | Lempel–Ziv 1977 / 1978 / Welch |
MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
MP2 | MPEG-1 audio layer II |
MPE | Multipulse excitation |
MQ | Multivariate-quadratic |
NIST | (US) National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NSA | (US) National Security Agency |
OCSP | Online Certificate Status Protocol |
OR | Logical OR |
PCM | Pulse-code modulation |
PGP | Pretty good privacy |
PKI | Public-key infrastructures |
PNG | Portable network graphics |
PQC | Post-quantum cryptography |
PSTN | Public switched telephone network |
RA | Registration Authority |
RPE | Regular pulse excitation |
S/MIME | Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
SIKE | Supersingular isogeny key encapsulation |
SPN | Substitution–permutation network |
SSH | Secure (socket) shell |
SVP | Shortest vector problem |
TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
TLS | Transport Layer Security |
VoIP | Voice over Internet protocol |
VPN | Virtual private networks |
XOR | Exclusive OR |
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