Advanced Encryption Standard Cipher Message Authentication Code
AMA
Alexa Mobile Accessory
APID/API
Advertised Product ID
ASL
Application Support Layer
BB
Baseband
BLE
Bluetooth Low Energy
BoardID
Type of device build
BT
Bandwidth-time product
CA
Certificate Authority
Chunk MTU Size
Data Payload Transported over a Link
CMAC
Cipher-based Message Authentication Code
CR
Coding Rate
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
CS-UL
Cloud Server Uplink
CS-DL
Cloud Server Downlink
CTRREF
Counter-based reference symmetric key
D2D
Device to Device
DAK
Device Attestation Key
DHAv2
Device Hardware Authentication - Version 2
DL
Downlink
DMS
Device Management Service
DSN
Device Serial Number
DUT
Device Under Test
EC
Elliptic Curve
ECDH
Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
FCS
Frame Check Sequence
FEC
Forward Error Correction
FFN
Frustration-Free Network
FIFO
First In, First Out
Fragments
Smaller Blocks of a File
FSK
Frequency Shift Keying
FW
Firmware
GATT
Generic Attribute Profile
GFSK
Gaussian Frequency-Shift Keying
GPS
Global Positioning System
HDR
High Data Rate
HDX
Half-Duplex
HSM
Hardware Security Module
ID
Identifier
IoT
Internet of Things
ISM
Radio bands reserved for Industrial, Scientific and Medical purposes
KEX
Key Exchange Flow
LAN
Local Area Network
LDR
Low Data Rate
LFSR
Linear Feedback Shift Register
LoRa
LoRa (derived from Long Range) is a proprietary chirp spread spectrum radio modulation technique owned by Semtech
MAC
Media Access Control
MCU-SDK
Micro Controller Unit Software Development Kit
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
OpenSSL
Open Secure Sockets Layer, an open source software library
PAN
Personal Area Network
PHDR
Physical layer Header
PHY
Physical layer
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
Rb
Bit rate
RF
Radio Frequency
RNG
Random Number Generator
RSVD
Reserved
RX
Receive operation
SBDT
Sidewalk Bulk Data Transfer
SDK
Software Development Kit
SF
Spreading Factor
SFD
Start of Frame Delimiter
SMSN
Sidewalk Manufacturing Serial Number
SR
Symbol Rate
SubG-CSS
Amazon Sidewalk asynchronous transport using Semtech’s LoRa chirp spread spectrum (CSS) modulation in the sub-GHz ISM band. Also referred to as Low Data Rate (LDR), CSS, LoRa, and asynchronous.
SubG-FSK
Amazon Sidewalk synchronous transport using GFSK modulation in the sub-GHz ISM band. Also referred to as High Data Rate(HDR), 900MHz, FSK, GFSK and synchronous.