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Conferences

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

June 23, 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...

Implementation and Evaluation of a WLAN IEEE 802.11ay Model in Network Simulator ns-3

June 23, 2021

Author(s)

Hany Assasa, Nina Grosheva, Tanguy Ropitault, Steve Blandino, Nada T. Golmie, Joerg Widmer

The IEEE Task Group ay (TGay) has recently defined new physical and medium access control specifications to design the next generation wireless standard in the...

A Pseudo Exhaustive Software Testing Framework for Embedded Digital Devices in Nuclear Power

June 14, 2021

Author(s)

Athira Jayakumar, D. Richard Kuhn, Brandon Simons, Aidan Collins, Smitha Gautham, Richard Hite, Raghu N. Kacker, Abhi Rajagopala, Carl Elks

The major challenge faced by the nuclear industry related to software testing of digital embedded devices is the identification of practical software (SW)...

Fearless Steps Challenge Phase-3 (FSC P3): Advancing SLT for Unseen Channel and Mission Data across NASA Apollo Audio

June 14, 2021

Author(s)

Aditya Joglekar, Omid Sadjadi, Meena Chandra-Shekar, Christopher Cieri, John Hansen

The Fearless Steps Challenge (FSC) initiative was designed to host a series of progressively complex tasks to promote advanced speech research across...

Entanglement Blocking in DLCZ-based Networks

June 10, 2021

Author(s)

Abdella Battou

Resource and performance dependent blocking mechanisms for entanglement routing in quantum networks are identified and characterized in simulations of a DLCZ...

Interfacing Photonics to Free-Space via Large-area Inverse-designed Diffraction Elements and Metasurfaces

June 6, 2021

Author(s)

Alexander Yulaev, Wenqi Zhu, Chad Ropp, Daron Westly, Gregory Simelgor, Cheng Zhang, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Vladimir Aksyuk

Large-area inverse-designed photonic gratings and optical metasurfaces directly couple waveguides to wide free-space modes with custom wavefronts and...

Advanced Sensing Development to Support Robot Accuracy Assessment and Improvement

June 5, 2021

Author(s)

Guixiu Qiao

Robots can perform various typed of automated movements in workspace. In recent years, robot applications have been expanded to a much wider scope, including...

Metamorphic Testing on the Continuum of Verification and Validation of Simulation Models

June 2, 2021

Author(s)

M S Raunak, Megan Olsen

Metamorphic testing has been shown to be useful in testing "non-testable" programs in many domains. Modeling & simulation is one such domain, where both...

Combinatorially XSSing Web Application Firewalls

May 28, 2021

Author(s)

Bernhard Garn, Daniel S. Lang, Manuel Leithner, D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Dimitris Simos

Cross-Site scripting (XSS) is a common class of vulnerabilities in the domain of web applications. As it remains prevalent despite continued efforts by...

Modelling the NIST IBAL

May 28, 2021

Author(s)

Adam J. Kopach, G. F. Nellis, David Bradley, Douglas T. Reindl, Amanda Pertzborn

The Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be used to experimentally study control...

The Combustion of Noble-Fir Trees in the Presence of an Applied Wind Field

May 27, 2021

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Wildland fires that spread into urban areas, termed wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires, are becoming more and more common across multiple locations of the...

Investigating Firebrand Deposition Processes in Large Outdoor Fires

May 27, 2021

Author(s)

Sayaka Suzuki, Samuel Manzello

Devastating large outdoor fires have been responsible for destruction of vast amounts of infrastructure and loss of human life. Wildland fires that spread into...

Chebyshev Expansions Empower Faster and More Precise Pure Fluid Thermodynamic Property Calculations

May 24, 2021

Author(s)

Ian Bell

Temporal Exemplar Channels in High-Multipath Environments

May 24, 2021

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Peter Vouras, Rob Jones, Rick Candell, Kate Remley

Industrial wireless plays a crucial role in cyber-physical system (CPS) advances for the future vision of smart manufacturing. However, industrial wireless...

Mitigating Ignition of Japanese Style Tile Roofing Assemblies

May 19, 2021

Author(s)

Sayaka Suzuki, Samuel Manzello

This is a two page extended abstract for a virtual conference.

Determining Temporal Evolution of Mass Loss Profiles from Mock-Ups of Structural Components

May 19, 2021

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

This is a two page extended abstract for a virtual conference.

New Connections for Enhancing Robustness of Precast Concrete Frame Structures

May 18, 2021

Author(s)

Travis Thonstad, Jonathan Weigand, Joseph Main, Hai Lew

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is continuing its research on the mitigation of disproportionate collapse in structural systems typical of U...

Transactive Energy and Solarization: Assessing the Potential for Demand Curve Management and Cost Savings

May 18, 2021

Author(s)

Himanshu Neema, Scott Phillips, Dasom Lee, David Hess, Zachariah Threet, Thomas Roth, Cuong Nguyen

Utilities and local power providers throughout the world have recognized the advantages of the "smart grid" to encourage consumers to engage in greater energy...

SoK: How (not) to Design and Implement Post-Quantum Cryptography

May 17, 2021

Author(s)

James Howe, Thomas Prest, Daniel Apon

Post-quantum cryptography has known a Cambrian Explosion in the last decade. What started as a very theoretical and mathematical area has now evolved into a...

Dynamics studies of polarization switching in ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide

May 12, 2021

Author(s)

X. Lyu, M. Si, Pragya Shrestha, Kin (Charles) Cheung, P. D. Ye

In this paper, we review the ultrafast direct measurement on the transient ferroelectric polarization switching in hafnium zirconium oxide with crossbar metal...

A Visual Analytics Approach for the Diagnosis of Heterogeneous and Multidimensional Machine Maintenance Data

May 10, 2021

Author(s)

Xiaoyu Zhang, Takanori Fujiwara, Senthil K. Chandrasegaran, Michael Brundage, Thurston Sexton, Alden A. Dima, Kwan-Liu Ma

Analysis of large, high-dimensional, and heterogeneous datasets is challenging as no one technique is suitable for visualizing and clustering such data in order...

System Explanations: A Cautionary Tale

May 8, 2021

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

There are increasing calls for systems that are able to explain themselves to their end users to increase transparency and help engender trust. But, what should...

Baseline Pruning-Based Approach to Trojan Detection in Neural Networks

May 7, 2021

Author(s)

Peter Bajcsy, Michael Majurski

This paper addresses the problem of detecting trojans in neural networks (NNs) by analyzing how NN accuracy responds to systematic pruning. This study leverages...

Mechanisms of Anelastic Loss in Langasite at Temperatures from 113 K to 1324 K

May 4, 2021

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson, Yuriy Suhak, Holger Fritze

Synthetic piezoelectric crystals with the structure of langasite (LGS) are being pursued for resonant acoustic sensors that can operate at temperatures...

Seismic and Durability Assessment of Externally Bonded FRP Retrofits in Reinforced Concrete Structures After 2018 Anchorage, AK Earthquake

May 3, 2021

Author(s)

Sandra Milev, David Goodwin, Siamak Sattar, Shafique Ahmed, Jovan Tatar

Externally bonded fiber-reinforced polymer (EBFRP) composites are a cost-effective material used for repairing and seismic retrofitting of existing concrete...

Scaling of Mass and Force Using Electrical Metrology

May 3, 2021

Author(s)

Gordon Shaw

The impending redefinition of the International System of Units (SI) allows realization of the kilogram using electrical metrology. It can be shown that...

Emerging Datasets and Analytics Opportunities in Metals Additive Manufacturing

April 30, 2021

Author(s)

Paul Witherell

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies continue to mature, evolving into stalwarts of high- end production lines, particularly with metals AM. Technology...

NIST on a Chip: Photonic and Quantum-Based Sensors for Measurements of Pressure, Vacuum, Temperature and Beyond!

April 29, 2021

Author(s)

Jay H. Hendricks, Zeeshan Ahmed, Daniel Barker, Stephen Eckel, James A. Fedchak, Nikolai Klimov, Julia Scherschligt

At the core of the NIST on a Chip (NoAC) program is the idea that measurement technology can be developed to enable metrology to be done "outside the National...

Measurement Challenges for Spectrum Sensing in Communication Networks

April 27, 2021

Author(s)

Dan Kuester, Yao Ma, Dazhen Gu, Adam Wunderlich, Jason Coder, Joseph R. Mruk

We summarize a few key spectrum sensing measurement challenges and recent advances. Laboratory tests of sensing are complicated by their inseparable and often...

CALIBRATION OF SPECTRORADIOMETERS USING TUNABLE LASERS

April 22, 2021

Author(s)

Yuqin Zong, Ping-Shine Shaw, Joseph Rice, C Cameron Miller

To shorten the long calibration chain when using the conventional source-based approach and therefore to reduce spectroradiometer's calibration uncertainty, we...

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