List of Abbreviations
| ACK | ACKnowledgement |
| AODV | Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing |
| AoI | Area of Interest |
| AP | Access Point |
| APRP | Accumulated Packet Reception Probability |
| ARQ | Automatic Repeat reQuest |
| BACK | Broadcast Acknowledgement |
| BBT | Broadcast Backoff Timer |
| CBD | Contention-Based Dissemination |
| CBF | Contention-Based Forwarding |
| CBR | Constant Bit Rate |
| CCA | Clear Channel Assessment |
| CCTS | Conservative Concurrent Transmission Set |
| CDS | Connected Dominant Set |
| CLP | Coordinated Local Push |
| CR | Communication Range |
| CSA | Compressed Slotted Acknowledgment |
| CSMA-CA | Carrier Sensing Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance |
| CTF | Clear-To-Forward |
| CTS | Concurrent Transmission Set/Clear-To-Send |
| DDB | Dynamic Delayed Broadcasting |
| DIFS | Distributed Inter-Frame Space |
| DSDV | Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing |
| DSR | Dynamic Source Routing |
| DSRC | Dedicated Short Range Communications |
| DTN | Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network |
| EAR | Expected Advancement Rate |
| ECC | Error Correction Coding |
| ED | Energy Detection |
| EGOR | Energy-efficient Geographic Opportunistic Routing |
| EMDV | Emergency Message Dissemination for Vehicular environments |
| EMT | Expected Medium Time |
| EOT | Expected One-hop Throughput |
| EOTX | Expected Opportunistic Transmission Count |
| EPA | Expected Packet Advancement |
| ETF | Expected number of Transmissions over Forward links |
| ETT | Expected Transmission Time |
| ETX | Expected Transmission count |
| EWMA | Exponentially Weighted Moving Average |
| ExOR | Extremely Opportunistic Routing ... |
