AES – Advanced Encryption Standard
AID – Association Identifier
AP – Access Point
BS – Base Station
BSS – Basic Service Set
BSSID – Basic Service Set Identifier
CCA – Clear Channel Assessment
CCMP – Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol
CTS – Clear to Send
DS Distribution System
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
FAST Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling
ESS Extended Service Set
FMS Fluhrer, Mantin, Shamir
ICV Integrity Check Value
ISM Industrial, Scientific, Medical
IV Initialization Vector
LEAP Lightweight EAP
MAC Message Authenticity Check
MAC Media Access Control
MIC Message Integrity Check
NAV Network Allocation Vector
OUI Organizationally Unique Identifier
PEAP Protected EAP
PMK Pairwise Master Key
PRGA Pseudo-Random Generation Algorithm
PSK Pre-Shared Key
PSPF Publicly Switched Packet Forwarding
PTK Pairwise Temporal Key
PTK Pairwise Temporal Key
RF Radio Frequency
RFMON – Radio Frequency Monitoring
RSSI – Received Signal Strength Indicator
RTS – Request to Send
SNR Signal to Noise Ratio
SS Subscriber Station
SSID Service Set Identifier
STA Station
TIM – Traffic Indication Map
TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
TLS – Transport Layer Security
TTLS – Tunneled TLS
WDS – Wireless Distribution System
WEP – Wired Equivalence Privacy
WIDS – Wireless Intrusion Detection System
WPA – WiFi Protected Access
WZC – Wireless Zero Config