Mobile & wireless networking

News and Updates

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Low-Cost NIST Demo Links Public Safety Radios to Broadband Wireless Network

April 12, 2021

Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a low-cost computer system that connects older public safety radios with the

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

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

Deep reinforcement learning assisted energy harvesting wireless networks

May 24, 2021

Author(s)

Junliang Ye, Hamid Gharavi

Heterogeneous ultra-dense networking (HUDN) with energy harvesting technology is a promising approach to deal with the ever-growing traffic that can severely

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 A. 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

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