Mobile & wireless networking

News and Updates

DRAFT of New USGv6 Specifications Available for Public Comment

October 9, 2019

DRAFT3 of USGv6 Revision 1 Specifications Available for Public Comment The first version of the of the USGv6 standards profile was published in

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

NIST engineer Rick Candell is seen monitoring the strength and clarity of a wireless signal run through a virtual factory environment (a graphic of which is seen on a monitor above Candell's head).

Want to Make Your Factory Wireless? NIST Can Guide You!

May 29, 2018

It’s been called the “smart factory” and even given the lofty moniker of “the fourth industrial revolution.” The manufacturing operation of the just-around-the

Projects and Programs

Fundamental Metrology for Communications

NIST CTL’s Radio Frequency Technology Division conducts research into electromagnetic measurement, modeling, and theory in support of advanced wireless

Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

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

Trustworthy Networks Program

NIST works with industry partners to advance the research, standardization and adoption of technologies necessary to increase the security, privacy, robustness

Trusted Spectrum Testing

The availability of wireless spectrum bandwidth has a profound impact on US industry’s ability to engineer a new generation of wireless devices. This program

Publications

UE-to-Network Relay Model B Discovery in ProSe-Enabled LTE Networks

April 6, 2021

Author(s)

Alexandre C. Moreaux, Samantha Gamboa Quintiliani, David Griffith, Richard Rouil

In this paper, we expand previous analytical models to offer a more complete representation of Model B ProSe direct discovery. Using these models, we can obtain

Measuring the Impact of Beamwidth on the Correlation Distance of 60 GHz Indoor and Outdoor Channels

March 22, 2021

Author(s)

Aidan Hughes, Sung Yun Jun, Camillo Gentile, Derek Caudill, Jack Chuang, Jelena Senic

Due to high antenna directionality and channel sparseness, millimeter-wave receivers will detect much less multipath then their microwave counterparts

Intelligent Task Caching in Edge Cloud via Bandit Learning

March 19, 2021

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

Task caching, based on edge cloud, aims to meet the latency requirements of computation- intensive and data-intensive tasks (such as augmented reality). However

Geometrical-Empirical Channel Propagation Model for Human Presence at 60 GHz

March 2, 2021

Author(s)

Camillo Gentile, Anmol Bhardwaj, Derek Caudill, Peter B. Papazian, Jack Chuang, David Michelson

Previous efforts to develop simulation and/or measurement-based channel propagation models for the effect of human blockage on millimeter-wave communication

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