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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6

Author(s)
Sheila E. Frankel, Richard Graveman, John Pearce, Mark Rooks
Due to the exhaustion of IPv4 address space, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandate that U.S. federal agencies begin to use the IPv6 protocol...

Disaster Resilience: A Guide to the Literature

Author(s)
Stanley W. Gilbert
Although there is a great deal of high-quality information available on resilience-related topics hazard assessment, vulnerability assessment, risk assessment...

Practical Combinatorial Testing

Author(s)
David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei
Combinatorial testing can help detect problems like this early in the testing life cycle. The key insight underlying t-way combinatorial testing is that not...

Economics of Egress Alternatives and Life-Safety Costs

Author(s)
Robert E. Chapman, David T. Butry, Allison L. Huang, Douglas S. Thomas
Fire protection measures are needed to maintain the safety and integrity of the Nation s building stock and to limit loss of life and property when building...

Guide to Securing WiMAX Wireless Communications

Author(s)
Karen A. Scarfone, Cyrus Tibbs, Matt Sexton
The purpose of this document is to provide information to organizations regarding the security capabilities of wireless communications using WiMAX networks and...

The Second Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) 2009

Author(s)
Vadim Okun, Paul E. Black, Aurelien M. Delaitre
The NIST SAMATE project conducted the second Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) in 2009 to advance research in static analysis tools that find security...

A Sensor-Driven Fire Model, Version 1.2

Author(s)
William D. Davis
Modern building fire sensors are capable of supplying substantially more information to the fire service than just the simple detection of a possible fire. In...

Certification of Three NIST Renewal Soil Standard Reference Materials® for Element Content: SRM 2709a San Joaquin Soil, SRM 2710a Montana Soil I, and SRM 2711a Montana Soil II

Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Mackey, Christopher S. Johnson, Richard M. Lindstrom, Stephen E. Long, Anthony F. Marlow, Karen E. Murphy, Rick L. Paul, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Savelas A. Rabb, John R. Sieber, Rabia Oflaz, Bryan E. Tomlin, Laura J. Wood, James H. Yen, Lee L. Yu, Rolf L. Zeisler, S. A. Wilson, M. G. Adams, Z. A. Brown, P. L. Lamothe, J. E. Taggart, C. Jones, J. Nebelsick
For the past 20 y, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has provided three soil Standard Reference Materials certified for element content: SRM...

Study of Proposed Internet Congestion-Control Mechanisms

Author(s)
Kevin L. Mills, James J. Filliben, Dong Y. Cho, Edward J. Schwartz, Daniel I. Genin
This study describes a coherent set of modeling and analysis methods to investigate the behavior of large distributed systems. The methods are applied to...
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