AAL, ATM Adaption Layer
ABR, Available Bit Rate
ABT, ATM Block Transfer
AFR, Assured Forwarding
ATM, Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM ARP, ATM Address Resolution Protocol
BBRR : Bit by bit round robin
BCS, Behavior Class Selectors
BGP, Border Gateway Protocol
BMWG, BenchMaring Working Group
CAC, Connection Admission Control
CBR, Constraint Based Routing
CBQ : Class based queuing
CDV, Cell Delay Variation
CTD, Connection Traffic Descriptor
CL, Controlled Load
CLS, Controlled Load Service
CLP, Cell Loss Priority
CoS, Class of Service
CR-LDP, Constrained Routing - Label Distribution Protocol
CR-LSP, Constrained Route – Label Switched Path
CTD, Cell Transfer Delay
DBR, Deterministic Bit Rate
DSCP, Differential Services Code Point
DLCI, Data Link Connection Identifier (Frame relay)
DWDM, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
EF, Expedited Forwarding
FEC, Forwarding Equivalent Class
FQ : Fair queuing
GFR, Guaranted Frame Rate
GS, Guaranteed Service
HEC, Header Error Control
ICMP, Internet Control Protocol Message
IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force
ILM, Incoming Label Map
IP, Internet Protocol
ISP, Internet Service Provider
ISSL, Integrated over Specific Link Layer
LAN, Local Area NetWork
LDP, Label Distribution Protocol
LER, Label Edge Router (Ingress ou Igress LSR)
LIB, Label Information Base
LIS, Logical IP Subnet
LSP, Label Switched Path
LSR, Label Switched Routers
MBS, Maximum Burst Size
MCR, Minimum Cell Rate
MIB, management integrated base
MPLS, Multi Protocol Label Switching
NHLFE, Next Hop Label Forwarding Entry
NHRP, Next Hop Resolution Protocol
OA, Ordering Aggregate
OSPF, Open Shortest Path First
PCR, Peak Cell Rate
PFR : Packet fair queuing
PPDM : Path Precedence Discovery Mecanism
PHB, Per Hop Behavior
PHBA, Per Hop Behavior Aggregate
PHP, Penultimate Hop Mapping
PNNI, Private Network to Network Interface
PPRR : Packet by packet round robin
PPP, Point-to-Point Protocol
PQ : Priority queuing
PSC, Per Hop Scheduling Class
PT, Payload Type
QoS, Quality of Service
RAP, RSVP Admission Policy
RED : Random early detection
RSVP, Resource reSerVation Protocol
RTT, Round Trip Time
SA, Scheduling Aggregate
SBR, Statistic Bit Rate
SLA, Service Level Agreement
SCR, Sustainable Cell Rate
SNMP : signalisation network management protocol
SPT, Shortest Path Tree
SVC, Switched Virtual Circuit
TCP, Transport Control Protocol
TE, Traffic Engineering
TTL, Time To Live
UBR, Unspecified Bit Rate
UDP, User Datagram Protocol
VBR, Variable Bit Rate
UNI, User Network Interface
UPC, Usage Parameter Control
VC, Virtual Channel
VCC, Virtual Channel Connection
VCI, Virtual Channel Identifier
VoIP, Voice over IP
VPI, Virtual Path Identifier
VPN, Virtual Private Network
RED : Random early detection
WRR : Weighted round robin