Network Related Abbreviations You Need To Know

Computer Network Abbreviations Full Forms Techhyme

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