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News and Updates

Security Guidance for First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices: NIST IR 8235

July 20, 2022

NIST Internal Report (IR) 8235, Security Guidance for First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices, is now available. Public safety officials utilizing public

NCCoE Releases Preliminary Draft on 5G Cybersecurity

April 25, 2022

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a new preliminary draft publication, Special Publication (SP) 1800-33 Volume B, 5G

Cell towers broadcast signals through two trees, one of which has green leaves while the other is bare. A cellphone behind the greenery indicates a poorer signal than the phone behind the bare tree.

NIST Helps Next-Generation Cell Technology See Past the Greenery

January 4, 2022

As 5G technology gets fully implemented over the next several years, cellphones and other wireless tech will grow more powerful with increased data flow and

Projects and Programs

5G/6G Core Networks and Services

Ongoing

This program aims to advance networking and measurement sciences and promote consensus standards and best practices for the evolution from 5G to 6G, focusing on

Picture of prototype ultrasonic wearable device for proximity detection

Proximity Detection for Electronic Contact Tracing

Ongoing

The goal of this project is to help better prepare the nation for the next pandemic, whose occurrence is beyond debate and just a matter of time. Specifically

Indoor Localization and Tracking

Ongoing

This web page is simply a pointer to another page that covers the extensive research program in indoor localization and tracking at NIST.

Wireless Access Networks

Ongoing

These projects/programs investigate the future generations of wireless technology relying on physical, MAC layer and network layers to design the advanced ad

Publications

Security Guidance for First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices

July 20, 2022

Author(s)

Gema Howell, Kevin Gerard Brady, Don Harriss, Scott Ledgerwood

Public safety officials utilizing the forthcoming public safety broadband networks will have access to devices, such as mobile devices, tablets and wearables

Response to "Evaluation of Indoor Localisation Systems: Comments on the ISO/IEC 18305 Standard"

November 29, 2021

Author(s)

Nader Moayeri

Potorti et. al. wrote a paper [1] that was dubbed as the first critical reading of the international standard ISO/IEC 18305 [2], Test and evaluation of

On the Use of Lookahead to Improve Wi-Fi Fingerprinting Indoor Localization Accuracy

November 29, 2021

Author(s)

Lu Shi, Nader Moayeri, Chang Li

Causality is a basic concept in system theory. In this paper we introduce the notions of causal and non-causal indoor localization. A non-causal localization

Mobile Application Single Sign-On: Improving Authentication for Public Safety FirstResponders

August 25, 2021

Author(s)

Bill Fisher, Paul A. Grassi

On-demand access to public safety data is critical to ensuring that public safety and first responders (PSFRs) can protect life and property during an emergency