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Information Technology Laboratory

Advanced Network Technologies Division

Establishing the Technical Basis for Trustworthy Networking

Expediting the adoption of Cloud Computing

Digram of common attack scenarios involving the Internet's Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

Protecting the Internet's Global Routing Infrastructure

Performance Evaluation of Indoor Localization Technologies

Improving Trust in Indoor Localization Technology

The Advanced Network Technologies Division is one of seven technical divisions in the Information Technology Laboratory.

The Advanced Network Technologies Division (ANTD) provides expertise in Network Science and Engineering. It develops knowledge about networks to understand their complexity and inform their future design. It seeks to discover and understand common principles and fundamental structures underlying networks and their behaviors. It studies the processes underlying networks evolution and the paradigms for network engineering to enhance their efficiency, reliability, security, and robustness. ANTD remains very active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) where it participates in the development of network protocols and algorithms, studies system issues in interoperability of communication networks, and actively transitions the lessons learned to industrial partners for commercialization.

It responds to national priorities with programs in Internet Infrastructure Protection, Cloud Computing, Next Generation Internet (NGI), and several joint-projects such as Smart Grid, Smart Manufacturing, and Localization.

ANTD has recently extended its NGI program to include Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization projects, and initiated new programs in Information Centric Networking, High Performance Networking, and Internet of Things (IoT).

Towards Trustworthy Networking

The ANTD Trustworthy Networks Program works with industry to resolve systemic vulnerabilities in existing and emerging critical network infrastructures and advance the development of potentially disruptive technologies to improve the trustworthiness of future networks.

Robust Inter-domain Routing: works with Internet industry to develop technologies to improve the security and resilience of Internet routing. Current focus: global route leak mitigation.
High Assurance Domains: researches and develops new technologies to address key trust and security issues in enterprise networks. Current focus: Zero Trust Networks.
Trustworthy Intelligent Networks: works with industry and academia to improve the trustworthiness and applicability of artificial intelligence and machine learning to networks and distributed systems. Current focus: AM/ML techniques for botnet and DDoS mitigation.
Software Defined and Virtual Networks: works to develop test and measurement techniques to advance the state of the art in software defined networks and to address robustness and security of virtualized networks. Current focus: high-speed programmable measurement.
Trustworthy Network of Things: research and develop network centric approaches to protect Internet scale deployments of IoT. Current focus: MUD and secure device on-boarding.

News and Updates

NIST Releases DRAFT Revisions to USGv6 Program for Public Comment

July 12, 2018

DRAFT USGv6 Revision 1 Specifications Available for Public Comment The first version of the of the USGv6 standards profile was published in 2008 and the

New Network Security Standards Will Protect Internet’s Routing

October 3, 2017

Electronic messages traveling across the internet are under constant threat from data thieves, but new security standards created with the technical

‘Indoor GPS’ Apps Closer to Reality With New NIST Challenge

April 7, 2017

GPS usually works great outdoors, but what if you’re disoriented in a large building such as a museum or a mall? There are no smartphone apps for indoor

NIST Releases Trustworthy Email Guidance

September 21, 2016

NIST SP 800-177 Trustworthy Email provides recommendations for deployment and configuration of state of the art email security technologies to detect and

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Projects and Programs

Measurement Science for Complex Information Systems

This project aims to develop and evaluate a coherent set of methods to understand behavior in complex information systems, such as the Internet, computational

Robust Inter-Domain Routing

We live in a network-centric society that increasingly relies on the Internet’s routing infrastructure to facilitate human communication, connect users to

High Assurance Domains

NIST is working with the Internet industry to design, standardize and foster deployment of technologies to improve the security and robustness of enterprise

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