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Information Technology /Networking

Network security & robustness

News and Updates

O-RAN Alliance Group Picture - Face to Face Meeting Paris 2025

CTL Staff Advance O-RAN Standards

CTL staff made several technical contributions to the O-RAN Alliance face-to-face meeting on February 24-28 in the areas of security, testing, and RAN

Projects and Programs

Advanced Security Architectures for Next Generation Wireless

Ongoing
National Priorities: The National Strategy to Secure 5G and Implementation Plan goals to: facilitate the rollout of 5G domestically; assess the cybersecurity risks to and identify core security principles of 5G capabilities and infrastructure; address risks to United States economic and national

5G/6G Core Networks and Services

Ongoing
The main tasks of this program are: Task 1: 6G Core Network Architecture: I nvestigating AI-native architectures that not just execute AI/ML-based network functions but also support the creation, management, cooperation, measurement, and evolution of these functions. Task 2: Key Technologies Task 2
Trustworthy Network of Things

Trustworthy Networks of Things

Ongoing
Our work focuses on network-centric approaches to improve the security and robustness of large scale deployments of IoT devices. The research and development of software-defined networking technologies in support of IoT security. The design and IETF standardization of Manufacturer Usage Description

Publications

Analysis of Neural Network Detectors for Network Attacks

Author(s)
Qingtian Zou, Lan Zhang, Anoop Singhal, Xiaoyan Sun, Peng Liu
While network attacks play a critical role in many advanced persistent threat (APT) campaigns, an arms race exists between the network defenders and the

Software

Screen shot from the NIST RPKI Monitor

NIST RPKI Deployment Monitor

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The NIST RPKI Monitor is a test and measurement tool designed to monitor the dynamics of the global Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) and the impact of