LoRaWAN Specification
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ADR Adaptive Data Rate 3
AES Advanced Encryption Standard 4
AFA Adaptive Frequency Agility 5
AR Acknowledgement Request 6
CBC Cipher Block Chaining 7
CMAC Cipher-based Message Authentication Code 8
CR Coding Rate 9
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check 10
DR Data Rate 11
ECB Electronic Code Book 12
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute 13
EIRP Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power 14
FSK Frequency Shift Keying modulation technique 15
GPRS General Packet Radio Service 16
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer 17
IP Internet Protocol 18
LBT Listen Before Talk 19
LoRa™ Long Range modulation technique 20
LoRaWAN™ Long Range Network protocol 21
MAC Medium Access Control 22
MIC Message Integrity Code 23
RF Radio Frequency 24
RFU Reserved for Future Usage 25
Rx Receiver 26
RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator 27
SF Spreading Factor 28
SNR Signal Noise Ratio 29
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface 30
SSL Secure Socket Layer 31
Tx Transmitter 32
USB Universal Serial Bus 33
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