Cloud computing & virtualization

News and Updates

NIST Updates Guide on Communications Standards to Federal Agencies

November 1, 2023

NIST released an updated version of its Interagency Report on Advanced Communication Technologies Standards which is a guide for Federal agencies on standards

NIST/IEEE Workshop Speakers Emphasize Global Collaboration on 6G

September 1, 2023

In September, NIST and IEEE conducted a hybrid workshop on 6G Core Networks , drawing speakers and participants from the U.S. and multiple countries. The

NIST Hosts Annual Meeting on Future Internet Architecture

March 1, 2023

NIST conducted the Named Data Networking (NDN) Community Meeting 2023 in Gaithersburg, MD at its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and online, on 2-3

Projects and Programs

Multi-Domain Knowledge Planes for Service Federation for 5G & Beyond Public Working Group (MDKP-PWG)

Ongoing

The NIST Transformational Networks and Services group, of NIST’s Communication Technology Laboratory’s Smart Connected Systems Division, has formed the Multi

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

NOTE: The information provided on this page is maintained for archival information. Please visit the “ NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science ” project page for

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Smart and Connected Systems

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