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The IEEE draft standard, P3388 , titled “Standard for the Performance Assessment of Industrial Wireless Systems,” has been submitted for IEEE Standards
NIST is hosting the Named Data Networking (NDN) Community Meeting 2024 as a hybrid meeting on March 6-7, 2024. NDNComm provides a community forum to discuss the
As the transition from fifth-generation wireless systems (5G) to next-generation communications systems (NextG) advances, research and development (R&D)
On November 16, 2023, NIST’s Robert Bohn and colleagues in NIST’s Transformational Networks and Services (TNS) group hosted an international team of government
On October 20, 2023, NIST’s David Wollman, Deputy Chief of the Smart Connected Systems Division, presented on smart connected systems and standards to federal
NIST released an updated version of its Interagency Report on Advanced Communication Technologies Standards which is a guide for Federal agencies on standards
Researchers at NIST and their colleagues have built a superconducting camera containing 400,000 pixels — 400 times more than any other device of its type.
The creation and detection of single photons (the smallest units of light) has grown in a few decades from an experimental laboratory pursuit to an important
In August 2023, representatives from NIST, U.S. organizations, and Korean organizations, including the Korea Automotive Technology Institute (KATECH) and the
In September, NIST and IEEE conducted a hybrid workshop on 6G Core Networks, drawing speakers and participants from the U.S. and multiple countries. The
NIST held its Standards and Performance Metrics for On-Road Automated Vehicles Workshop, September 5-8, 2023, with stakeholders participating virtually from
NIST’s Abdella Battou and Thomas Gerrits presented recommendations to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) for improving the Washington
Today, driving intelligence resides on automated vehicles (AV). However, NIST’s Transformational Networks and Services Group Leader, Tao Zhang, offered a vision
NIST researchers recently presented on their highspeed networking software router, called Named Data Networking-Data Plane Development Kit (NDN-DPDK), at the
Wireless communications can enable Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) systems that give industry greater flexibility in setting up and
On September 12, 2023, NIST will conduct its 6G Core Networks Workshop, online and onsite at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in Rockville
Large systems, such as telecommunication networks and electric power grids, are becoming more complex. They often consist of subsystems that use different
Today, automated systems can operate without human intervention and are increasingly being developed and deployed. In a presentation at the University of
In late April 2023, Big Data and Cognitive Computing Journal awarded the 2021 Best Paper to 6G Cognitive Information Theory: A Mailbox Perspective, which was
In late April 2023, NIST’s Smart Connected Systems Division Chief, Abdella Battou, described the connectivity needed for the quantum network testbed to the
NIST and Intel researchers were awarded best paper at the 19 th IEEE International Conference on Factory Communications Systems (WFCS 2023), in April 2023. The
Today, optical networks use lasers to transmit messages. By comparison, future quantum optical networks will use much shorter bursts, with entangled photons