Cloud computing & virtualization

News and Updates

IEEE Approves Cloud Computing Standard, Aided by NIST

December 21, 2021

On December 8, 2021, the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board approved the IEEE 2302-2021 Standard for Intercloud Interoperability and Federation produced

NIST Final ‘Big Data’ Framework Will Help Make Sense of Our Data-Drenched Age

October 29, 2019

To improve approaches for analyzing very large quantities of data, computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have

NIST Releases Cloud Computing Service Metrics Description (NIST Special Publication 500-307)

April 24, 2018

NIST released Cloud Computing Service Metrics Description (NIST Special Publication 500-307), a document that proposes a framework to identify and characterize

Projects and Programs

Edge AI

Ongoing

With significant technology advancement and growing commercialization of edge/fog computing, edge AI (artificial intelligence) has now become a new frontier

NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science

Ongoing

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks

Image depicting how the Smart and Interconnect Systems work. From Information flow to actionable information to sensing data.

Smart and Connected Systems

Ongoing

NIST Cloud Computing Program - NCCP

Ongoing

Publications

Towards Software Defined Measurement with Open vSwitches: Designs, Implementation, and Evaluation

June 18, 2022

Author(s)

Zili Zha, An Wang, Yang Guo, Songqing Chen

Network measurement is critical for various network operations and management but has been often constrained by the available resources in the traditional

EZPath: Expediting Container Network Traffic via Programmable Switches in Data Centers

June 13, 2022

Author(s)

Zili Zha, An Wang, Yang Guo, Songqing Chen

Containerization, while getting popular in data centers, faces practical challenges due to the sharing nature of cloud networks among tens of thousands

Hardware-Enabled Security: Container Platform Security Prototype

June 17, 2021

Author(s)

Murugiah Souppaya, Michael Bartock, Karen Scarfone, Jerry Wheeler, Tim Knoll, Uttam Shetty, Ryan Savino, Joseprabu Inbaraj, Stefano Righi

In today's cloud data centers and edge computing, attack surfaces have significantly increased, hacking has become industrialized, and most security control

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Edge Service Placement in Softwarized Industrial Cyber-Physical System

May 6, 2021

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

Future industrial cyber-physical system (CPS) devices are expected to request a large amount of delay-sensitive services that need to be processed at the edge

Awards

John Messina Wins INCITS Service Award

INCITS recognizes Mr. Messina for his numerous contributions to the INCITS/Cloud38 – Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms standards

Annie Sokol Wins INCITS Merit Award

Ms. Sokol is recognized for her tenacious participation and significant exemplary leadership in the development of international standards