Mobile & wireless networking

News and Updates

test set up "Supervisor" wirelessly synchronizes timing of two robots' movements

NIST and Industry Researchers Make Advances in Wireless Time-Sensitive Networking

July 1, 2022

Advances in the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence are part of a new industrial revolution to make manufacturing faster, better, and cheaper. These

International Researchers Pursue 5G Testbed

July 1, 2022

After a year of virtual collaboration, international and NIST researchers involved in a federated 5G Testbed development effort, called “Project Agility,” held

NIST Researcher Addresses IEEE Workshop on Wireless Systems' Future in Industry

July 1, 2022

On May 31, 2022, NIST's Rick Candell gave the keynote address to IEEE's workshop on Performance Assessment of Industrial Wireless Systems. The workshop was

Projects and Programs

Reliable, High Performance Industrial Wireless Systems: Wi-Fi and TSN

Ongoing

Smart Manufacturing Systems provide a vision of future manufacturing systems that incorporate highly dynamic physical systems, robust and responsive

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

Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

Completed

Develop robust requirements, system models, recommended architectures, and guidelines for the integration of trustworthy wireless systems within factory work

Publications

On the Feasibility of COVID-19 Proximity Detection Using Bluetooth Low Energy Signals

November 29, 2022

Author(s)

Nader Moayeri, Chang Li, Lu Shi

The COrona VIrus Disease – 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a profound effect on the entire world. With the onset of the pandemic in 2020, also started various

Online Service Caching and Routing at the Edge with Unknown Arrivals

May 20, 2022

Author(s)

Siqi Fan, I-Hong Hou, Van Sy Mai, Lotfi Benmohamed

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

Admission Control and Scheduling of Isochronous Traffic With Guard Time in IEEE 802.11ad MAC

November 22, 2021

Author(s)

Anirudha Sahoo, Weichao Gao, Tanguy Ropitault, Nada T. Golmie

An upsurge of low latency and bandwidth hungry applications such as virtual reality, augmented reality and availability of unlicensed spectrum in the mmWave

Software

Modeling tools to evaluate Device-to-Device Communication (D2D) in Long Term Evolution (LTE)

June 27, 2017

NIST has released a simulation model to evaluate D2D Communication in LTE. The implementation is based on the open source ns-3 simulator and currently supports

New Radio Sidelink Simulator

5G New Radio Sidelink Link-Level Simulator is developed to accelerate the study of 5G New Radio (NR) sidelink (SL). It closely follows the Third Generation