TONIC: What does it stand for?

To quote from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The tonic is the first note of a musical scale, and in the tonal method of music composition it is extremely important. The triad formed on the tonic note, the tonic chord, is thus the most important chord. More generally, the tonic is the pitch upon which all other pitches of a piece are hierarchically centered.

The TONIC Research Group uses it as an abbreviation for
National Taiwan University Mobile Networks and Wireless Communications.