Mobile & wireless networking

News and Updates

Man in high-vis vest stands on metal platform next to a pole in a parking lot, with a van holding more equipment parked several spots away.

Wi-Fi May Be Coming Soon to a Lamppost Near You

May 3, 2022

As Wi-Fi is deployed more widely in cities, and perhaps at higher frequencies, it may depend on an abundant urban asset: streetlight poles.

NIST Researchers Develop Algorithm for Assuring Quality-of-Service in 5G/6G Networks

February 19, 2022

5G and 6G networks will differ greatly in composition and services, compared to one-size-fits-all 4G networks. 5G and 6G networks must provide varying services

A Mailbox Theory for 6G - an intelligent network

NIST and University Researchers Offer Future 6G Network Concept

December 29, 2021

In 6G Cognitive Information Theory: A Mailbox Perspective, published in MDPI, October 16, 2021, NIST and international researchers propose a "cognitive" 6G

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

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

Modeling Public Safety Communication Scenarios: School Shooting Incident

October 15, 2021

Author(s)

Richard A. Rouil, Antonio Izquierdo Manzanares, Chunmei Liu, Wesley Garey

Public safety practitioners performing day-to-day activities and responding to incidents communicate in ways that are very different from the general public. In

NetSimulyzer: A 3D Network Simulation Analyzer for ns-3

July 16, 2021

Author(s)

Evan Black, Samantha Gamboa Quintiliani, Richard A. Rouil

The increased complexity of network protocols and scenarios simulated using ns-3 is making the verification of simulation correctness and the analysis of

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