[ee122] updated acronym & concept lists
vern at cs.berkeley.edu
vern at cs.berkeley.edu
Fri Dec 7 11:11:48 PST 2007
I've added a few more acronyms and concepts to the lists. Here are
the differences - next two messages are the updated versions of the
complete lists.
Vern
Index: Acronyms.txt
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--- Acronyms.txt (revision 287)
+++ Acronyms.txt (revision 291)
@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
If no pronunciation is given, then it is each letter individually, e.g.,
TCP = "tee-sea-pea".
-Acronyms we'll cover up to the MidTerm
+Acronyms we'll cover up to the MidTerm (and some covered later)
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ACK pronounced as spelled
+AES
ARP pronounced as spelled
ARQ
+CA
CDN
CIDR pronounced "cider"
CNAME pronounced "See-name"
CRC
CSMA
CSMA/CD
+CTS sometimes pronounced as its full name, "Clear To Send"
+DES pronounced either "dee-ee-ess" or "dez"
DF This is the only IPv4 header bit that people commonly talked about.
DNS
FDM not in fact widely used
@@ -27,7 +31,9 @@
IPv6
ISP
LAN pronounced as spelled; local area network
+MACA pronounced "macaw"
MAC pronounced as spelled; often combined to "MAC address"
+MD5
MIME pronounced as spelled
MTU
MX
@@ -41,14 +47,19 @@
RFC
RIR
RR
+RSA
+RTS sometimes pronounced as its full name, "Request To Send"
RTT
SACK pronounced as spelled
+SHA-1 pronounced "shah-one"
SMTP
SONET pronounced "sonnet"
+SSL
TCP
TDM
TDMA
TLD
+TLS
TOS pronounced "toss"
TTL
UDP
Index: Concepts.txt
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--- Concepts.txt (revision 287)
+++ Concepts.txt (revision 291)
@@ -6,8 +6,13 @@
Additive-Increase Multiplicative-Decrease
Admission Control
Application Gateway
+Authentication
+Authorization
Autonomous System
+Availability
Best Effort Delivery
+Bot
+Botnet
Bridge
Broadcast
Buffer overflow
@@ -15,7 +20,7 @@
Cache Poisoning
Caching
Carrier Sense
-Certificate
+Certificate (sometimes abbreviated as "cert")
Checksum
Circuit Switching
Classful Addressing
@@ -24,11 +29,13 @@
Clock Recovery
Collision Avoidance
Collision Detection
+Confidentiality
Congestion Avoidance
Congestion Control
Connection-oriented
Connectionless
Content Distribution Network
+Cookie
Count-to-Infinity
Cryptographically Strong Hash Function
Cut-through
@@ -65,6 +72,7 @@
Initial Sequence Number
Input-queued router
IntServ
+Integrity
Interdomain
Intradomain
Iterative query
@@ -88,8 +96,10 @@
Network Neutrality
Network Prefix
Non-repudiation
+Nonce
Output-queued router
Overlay
+Overprovision
PMTU Discovery
Packet-Switching
Parity
@@ -116,6 +126,7 @@
Self-Clocking
Sentinel
Sequence Number
+Session Key
Sliding Window
Slotted Aloha
Slow Start
@@ -137,3 +148,4 @@
Tunneling
Wide Area Network
Window Scaling
+Worm
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