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LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS

3G - 3 Generation
3D - 3 Dimensional
ABE - Attribute-Based Encryption
ABM - Agent-Based Modeling
ABSE - Agent Business Systems Engineering
ACCP - Agent-based Congestion Control Protocol
ACK - ACKnowledgement
ACL - Agent Communication Language
AIMD - Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease
AMC - Adaptive Modulation Coding
AODV - Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector
ARC - Adaptive Rate Control
ARC - Adaptive Rate Control
ATK - Adaptive Topological Knowledge
BDP - Bandwidth Delay Protocol
CARTR - Coding-Aware Real-Time Routing
CBR - Cluster-Based Routing
CCF - Congestion Control and Fairness
CDN - Content Delivery Network
CLASS - Cross-LAyer Signaling Shortcuts
CN - Congestion Notification
CNP - Contract Net Protocol
CODA - COngestion Detection and Avoidance
COMUT - COngestion control for MUlti-class Traffic
CQI - Channel Quality Indications
CSM - Communication Session Management
CSMA - Carrier Sense Multiple Access
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CSMA/CA - Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision

Avoidance
Cx - Congestion Index
DAIPaS - Dynamic Alternative Path Selection Scheme
dB - decibels
DIS - Dissemination
DMAS - Distributed Multi Agent Systems
DNS - Domain Name System
DSDV - Direct Sequence Distance Vector
DSR - Dynamic Source Routing
DTNs - Data Transmission Networks
DV-HOP - Distance Vector-HOP
EBCLDG - Energy-Balancing, Cross Layer Data Gathering
EB-MAC - Event Based-Medium Access Control
EBRP - Energy-Balanced Routing Protocol
ESRT - Event-to-Sink Reliable Transport
f - Flow
FPIA - Foundation for Physical Intelligent Agents
FRL - Find Reliable Link
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
GEO - Gene Expression Omnibus
GRC - Greedily Routable Components
GRR - Greedily Routable Region
GSM - Global System for Mobile communication
H-ARQ - Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request
HSDPA - High Speed Downlink Packet Access
HTAP - Hierarchical Tree Alternative Path
HTN - Hierarchical Task Network
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
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IMS - IP Multimedia Subsystem

IP - Internet Protocol
IPv6 - Internet Protocol version 6
IT - Information Technology
KF - Kalman Filter
LAS - Location of Agent Services
LEACH - Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy
LIPM - Loss Inference based on Passive Measurement
LMASs - Learning in Multi-Agent Systems
MAC - Medium Access Control
MAS - Multi-Agent System
MATLAB - MATrix LABoratory
MBC - Mobility-Based Clustering
MCS - Modulation and Coding Scheme
MLBS - Maximum Lifetime Backbone Scheduling
MLE - Maximum Likelihood Estimator
ML-IP - Multilayer Internet Protocol
MO - Multi-objective Optimization
ModSAF - Modular Semi-Automated Forces
NS 2 - Network Simulator 2
OBC - Ordering By Confirmation
OBDC - Ordering By Double Confirmation
PBESRT - Prediction-Based Event-to-Sink Reliable Transport
PCC - Path-Connected-Cluster
PCCP - Priority-based Congestion Control Protocol
PDU - Protocol Data Units
PEP - Performance Enhancing Proxy
PSFQ - Pump-Slowly, Fetch-Quickly
Q - Control Interval
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QCCP - Queue based Congestion Control Protocol

QFCP - Quick Flow Control Protocol
QoS - Quality of Service
r - Rate of Flow
R - Fair Share of the Bottleneck Rate
RETSINA - Reusable Task Based System of Intelligent
Network Agent
RF - Radio Frequency
rf - Packet Forwarding Rate
rin - Average Input Rate
RL - Reinforcement Learning
rm - Total Input Traffic Rate
RMST - Reliable Multi-Segment Transport
RNC - Radio Network Controller
RNF - Radio Network Feedback
rout - Average Output Rate
RTT - Round-Trip Time
SAS - Single Agent System
SAW - Stop-And-Wait
SBYaoGG - Smart Boundary Yao Gabriel Graph
SenTCP - Sensor Transmission Control Protocol
SIP - Session Initiation Protocol
STCP - Sensor Transmission Control Protocol
ta - Packet Arrival Time
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
TD - Temporal-Difference
TDMA - Time Division Multiple Address
TFRC - TCP-Friendly Rate Control
TLS - Total Least Square
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TRAMA - TRaffic Adaptive Medium Access Protocol

ts - Packet Service Time
UDP - User Datagram Protocol
UHCC - Upstream Hop-by-hop Congestion Control
UTSAF - Unreal Tournament Semi-Automated Force
VBS - Virtual Backbone Scheduling
VoIP - Voice over IP
VT - Voronoi Tessellation
W - Congestion Widow
W(t) - Timing Varying Fair Rate for Session
WBANs - Wireless Body Area Networks
WCDMA - Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WING - Wireless Interactive Network Gaming proxy
WMSNs - Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
WSANs - Wireless Sensor Actor Networks
WSN - Wireless Sensor Network
WSRNs - Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks
WWAN - Wireless Wide Area Networks
XML - eXtensible Markup Language
β - Target Buffer Backlog for Session
Δ - Round Trip Propagation Delay for Session
Δ(t) - Transmitter Estimation of Δ at Time t
Δr - Total Change in Aggregate Traffic