| Acronym | Definition |
| HiMAC | Hierarchical Message Authentication Code |
| MANET | Mobile Ad hoc Network |
| AP | Access Point |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| SMT | Secure Message Transmission |
| SEAD | Secure Efficient Ad hoc Distance vector |
| PLRSA | Promiscuous Listening Routing Security Algorithm |
| SecMR | Secure Multipath Routing |
| SAODV | Secure Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector |
| TAODV | Trusted Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector |
| DSR | Dynamic Source Routing |
| GKA | Group Key Agreement |
| TTL | Time-to-Live |
| RSA | Rivest-Shamir-Adleman public-key cryptosystem |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| 3DES | Triple Data Encryption Standard |
| MIPS | Million instructions per second |
| RREQ | Route Request |
| RREP | Route Reply |
| RWP | Random Waypoint movement model |