Acronyms

Vicente González Ruiz

September 12, 2016
Acronym Meaning


AAC Advanced Audio Coding
ACK ACKnowledgement
ADPCM Adaptive DPCM
ADSL Asymmetric DSL
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone System
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request
AT Advanced Technology
ATA AT Attachment
ATM Automatic Transfer Mode
ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee
AVC Advanced Video Coding
CD Compact Disk
DLP Digital Light Processing
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CELP Code-Excited Linear Prediction
CIRC Cross Interleaved Reed-solomon Coding
cm Centimeter
codec co-dec/dec-codec
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance
DCT Discrete Cosine Transform
DPCM Differential PCM
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DTS Digital Theater Systems
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
DVD Digital Video Disk
DVI Digital Visual Interface
DWT Discrete Wavelet Transform
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FHSS Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum
FLAC Free Lossless Audio Codec
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
GHz Giga (109) Hertz
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GOP Group Of Pictures
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GSM Global System for Mobile
HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HEVC High Efficiency Video Coding
HSPA High-Speed Packet Access
HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
INCITS International Committee for Information Technology Standards
IP Internet Protocol
IPTV Internet Protocol TeleVision
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ITU International Telecommunication Union
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
LAN Local Area Network
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LFE Low Frequency Effect
LTE Long Term Evolution
LZ Lempel Ziv
LZ77 LZ 1977
MBps Mega (106) bytes per second
Mbps Mega (106) bits per second
MDCT Modified DCT
MHz Mega (106) Hertz
MIMO Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
MP3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
MTU Maximum Transfer Unit
mw Mili (103) watts
NRZI (Non Return to Zero, Inverted)
OC Optical Carrier
OFDM Orthogonal Frecuency-Division Multiplexing
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
PCM Pulse-Code Modulation
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PNM Portable aNyMap
PSK Phase Shift Keying
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QoS Quality of Service
QUIC Quick UDP Internet Connections
RCA Radio Corporation of America
RGB Red, Green and Blue
RFC Request For Comments
RLE Run-length Encoding
RTP Real-time Transport Protocol
SAS Serial Attached SCSI
SATA Serial ATA
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol
S/PDIF Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format
SSD Solid State Disk
SVC Scalable Video Coding
TACS Total Access Communications System
TCM Trellis Coded Modulation
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TV TeleVision
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
USB Universal Serial Bus
VCEG Video Coding Experts Group
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VGA Video Graphics Array
VoD Video on Demand
VoIP Voice over IP
VQ Vector Quantization
WAN Wide Area Network
WAV WAVeform audio file format
WHT Walsh–Hadamard Transform
WiFi Wireless Fidelity
WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WPAN Wireless Personal Area Network