Networking

News and Updates

NIST Joins Alliance to Promote Open Wireless Technologies and Supply Chains

January 24, 2023

The O-RAN Alliance develops hardware and software specifications that allow manufacturers and network operators to mix and match products from different vendors

NIST releases NIST IR 8409: Measuring the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Base Score Equation

November 15, 2022

NIST has published NIST Internal Report (IR) 8409, Measuring the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Base Score Equation. Calculating the severity of

NIST, Industry Researchers Use IEEE Standard to Point a Way Ahead for Cloud Computing

September 1, 2022

In IEEE Cloud & Continuum, NIST's Robert Bohn and industry researchers, Craig Lee and Martial Michel published The IEEE 2302-2021 Standard on Intercloud

Events

NDNComm 2023

Thu, Mar 2 - Fri, Mar 3 2023

The Named Data Networking Community Meeting 2023 will be hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Projects and Programs

Quantum Optical Networks

Ongoing

This program develops new measurement techniques, tests and performance procedures, standards, and best practices to enable industry and government to gain

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

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

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

Publications

Hyperspectral photon-counting optical time domain reflectometry

October 4, 2022

Author(s)

Anouar Rahmouni, Samprity Saha, Oliver T. Slattery, Thomas Gerrits

Optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) is one of the most used techniques for nondestructive characterization of optical fiber links. Although conventional

Machine Learning-Based Algorithmically Generated Domain Detection

May 1, 2022

Author(s)

Zheng Wang, Yang Guo, Douglas Montgomery

Malware like botnets typically uses domain generation algorithms (DGAs) to dynamically produce a large number of random algorithmically generated domains (AGDs)

Use of Supervised Machine Learning to Detect Abuse of COVID-19 Related Domain Names

May 1, 2022

Author(s)

Zheng Wang, Douglas Montgomery

A comprehensive evaluation of supervised machine learning models for the COVID-19 related domain name detection is presented. One representative conventional