Abbreviations or rather say a short form of the words are now used everywhere. An abbreviation is a group of words or sentences combined to make a shorter meaningful word.
Abbreviations are used in every subject and also in day-to-day life and it is necessary to know the full forms of the abbreviations that we use commonly and also in subjects like Computers, Databases and Networks. Abbreviations not only save time and energy however also a smarter way to communicate.
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So let’s go ahead and find some commonly Used and Technical Abbreviations related to Computer Networks.
| 1 | 1-D | One-dimensional |
| 2 | 2-D | Two-dimensional |
| 3 | 3-D | Three-dimensional |
| 4 | AM | Active Messages |
| 5 | API | Application programming interface |
| 6 | ATM | Asynchronous transfer mode |
| 7 | BFS | Breadth-first spanning tree |
| 8 | BMIN | Bidirectional multistage interconnection network |
| 9 | BNF | Burton normal form |
| 10 | BRCP | Base routing conformed path |
| 11 | BWS | Buffered wormhole switching |
| 12 | CAD | Computer-aided design |
| 13 | CIBU | Control input buffer |
| 14 | CMOS | Complementary metal oxide semiconductor |
| 15 | CMU | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 16 | CNF | Chaos normal form |
| 17 | COBU | Control output buffer |
| 18 | CPU | Central processing unit |
| 19 | CRC | Cyclic redundancy check |
| 20 | CSMA/CD | Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection |
| 21 | CWG | Channel wait-for graph |
| 22 | DASH | Directory architecture for shared memory |
| 23 | DCM | Direct connect module |
| 24 | DCSH | Distributed Crossbar Switch Hypermesh |
| 25 | DEC | Digital Equipment Corporation |
| 26 | DIBU | Data input buffer |
| 27 | DMA | Direct memory access |
| 28 | DMIN | Dilated multistage interconnection network |
| 29 | DOBU | Data output buffer |
| 30 | DP | Duato’s protocol (Duato’s routing algorithm) |
| 31 | DR | Dimension reversal |
| 32 | DSM | Distributed shared-memory multiprocessor |
| 33 | DTB | Data translation buffer |
| 34 | ECL | Emitter-coupled logic |
| 35 | EMB | Exhaustive misrouting backtracking |
| 36 | EOH | End-of-header |
| 37 | EPB | Exhaustive profitable backtracking |
| 38 | FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| 39 | FIFO | First in, First out |
| 40 | FM | Fast Messages |
| 41 | GID | Group ID |
| 42 | HL | Hierarchical leader-based |
| 43 | HP | Hewlett-Packard |
| 44 | HPF | High Performance Fortran |
| 45 | IBM | International Business Machines |
| 46 | I/O | Input/output |
| 47 | IP | Internet Protocol |
| 48 | ISI | Information Sciences Institute |
| 49 | KSR | Kendall Square Research |
| 50 | LAN | Local area network |
| 51 | LC | Link controller |
| 52 | LCU | Link control unit |
| 53 | LD | Label-based dual-path |
| 54 | LEN | Lan, Esfahanian, and Ni |
| 55 | MAGIC | Memory and general interconnect controller |
| 56 | MB-m | Misrouting backtracking protocol with m misroutes |
| 57 | MCM | Multichip module |
| 58 | MCP | Myrinet control program |
| 59 | MIMD | Multiple-instruction multiple-data |
| 60 | MIN | Multistage interconnection network |
| 61 | MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 62 | MPI | Message Passing Interface |
| 63 | MST | Minimal Steiner tree |
| 64 | MTBF | Mean time between failures |
| 65 | MTTR | Mean time to repair |
| 66 | NEC | Nippon Electric Company |
| 67 | NI | Network interface |
| 68 | NOW | Network of workstations |
| 69 | NP | Nonpolynomial |
| 70 | NPB | NAS Parallel Benchmarks |
| 71 | NUMA | Nonuniform memory access |
| 72 | OMC | Optimal multicast cycle |
| 73 | OMP | Optimal multicast path |
| 74 | OMT | Optimal multicast tree |
| 75 | PAR | Planar-adaptive routing |
| 76 | PC | Personal computer |
| 77 | PCI | Peripheral component interconnect |
| 78 | PCS | Pipelined circuit switching |
| 79 | PE | Processing element |
| 80 | PVM | Parallel virtual machine |
| 81 | RAID | Redundant arrays of inexpensive disks |
| 82 | RCU | Router control unit |
| 83 | RHS | Right-hand side |
| 84 | RMA | Remote memory access |
| 85 | RST | Rectilinear Steiner tree |
| 86 | SAF | Store-and-forward |
| 87 | SAN | System area network |
| 88 | SCHL | Source-centered hierarchical leader |
| 89 | SCI | Scalable coherent interface |
| 90 | SGI | Silicon Graphics Inc. |
| 91 | SHRIMP | Scalable high-performance really inexpensive multiprocessor |
| 92 | SIMD | Single-instruction multiple-data |
| 93 | SPASM | Simulator for parallel architectural scalability measurements |
| 94 | SPIDER | Scalable pipelined interconnect for distributed endpoint routing |
| 95 | SPMD | Single-program multiple-data |
| 96 | SPUmesh | Source partitioned U-mesh |
| 97 | SQHL | Source quadrant-based hierarchical leader |
| 98 | SWM | Shallow water modeling |
| 99 | TMC | Thinking Machines Corporation |
| 100 | TMIN | Traditional multistage interconnection network |
| 101 | TP | Two-phase routing algorithm |
| 102 | TPB-u | Two-phase backtracking |
| 103 | UMA | Uniform memory access |
| 104 | USC | University of Southern California |
| 105 | VC | Virtual channel or virtual channel controller |
| 106 | VCC | Virtual circuit caching |
| 107 | VCT | Virtual cut-through |
| 108 | VLSI | Very large-scale integration |
| 109 | VRAM | Video random-access memory |