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The JCGM documents have undermined the operational concept of uncertainty in measurement established by the GUM and restored the pre-GUM practice of stating...
Studies of human behavior during emergencies have observed that when presented with situational cues that a hazard may be present, humans can fail to act on...
How can two parties with competing interests carry out a fair coin flip, using only a noiseless quantum channel? This problem (quantum weak coin-flipping) was...
The world has entered a state of unprecedented access to machine intelligence algorithms, where the ease of deployment has created a scenario where nearly every...
Alexandra B. Artusio-Glimpse, Kyle A. Rogers, Paul A. Williams, John H. Lehman
Efforts are underway at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to drastically reduce the uncertainty of laser power measurements using radiation...
State-of-the-art superconductor-based cryogenic detector systems are being installed at numerous research facilities worldwide and are achieving world-record...
Piezoelectric crystals in the langasite family can serve as a basis for resonant acoustic sensors that operate at temperatures exceeding the range of...
Jing Geng, Honglei Li, Mohamed Hany, Yongkang Liu, Rick Candell, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya
Efficient and accurate simulation methods are of increasing importance in the design and evaluation of factory communication systems. Model-based simulation...
Yogesh Barve, Himanshu Neema, Zhuangwei Kang, Hongyang Sun, Aniruddha Gokhale, Thomas Roth
A co-simulation may comprise several heterogeneous federates with diverse spatial and temporal execution characteristics. In an iterative time-stepped...
Somayeh Mosleh, Yao Ma, Jake D. Rezac, Jason B. Coder
Machine learning (ML) approaches have been extensively exploited to model and to improve wireless communication networks in the past few years. Nonetheless, the...
Anne Francoise H. Obaton, Bryan Butsch, Stephen McDonough, Nans Laroche, Yves Gaillard, Jared Tarr, Patrick Bouvet, Rodolfo Cruz, Alkan Donmez
Additive manufacturing enables the production of customized and complex parts. These two aspects are very attractive for aerospace and medical sectors. However...
In this paper, we describe the development, and application, of a suite of high-frequency electromagnetic wave (RF) based techniques to probe material and...
The Fire Research Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is investigating the ability to forecast backdraft or smoke explosions during a...
Peter G. Vouras, Jeanne T. Quimby, Benjamin F. Jamroz, Alec J. Weiss, Rodney W. Leonhardt, Dylan F. Williams, Catherine A. Remley
This paper derives two novel frequency invariant beamformers (FIBs) for use with wideband synthetic aperture channel sounders. Results using measured data show...
Future unlicensed spectrum sharing scenarios involve multi-cell, multi-tier access of incumbent and emerging wireless systems, such as wireless local area...
Vladimir Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Behnam Rouzbehani
A virtualization platform is responsible for allocation and aggregation of radio resources from different access technologies as well as the distribution of the...
Somayeh Mosleh, Yao Ma, Jake D. Rezac, Jason B. Coder
Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) to achieve spectrum sharing in unlicensed bands is a promising approach for meeting the growing demands of forthcoming and...
Kunal Kupwade-Patil, Ali Bumajdad, Terrence J. Udovic, Kenneth Littrell, Oral Buyukozturk
This work investigates the effect of early-age hydration on microstructural evolution of cement paste with local volcanic ash using neutron-based beamline...
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Craig S. Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Douglas A. Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero
In 2019, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted the most recent in an ongoing series of speaker recognition evaluations (SRE)...
Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Craig S. Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Douglas Reynolds, Lisa Mason, Jaime Hernandez-Cordero
In 2019, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a leaderboard style speaker recognition challenge using conversational...
Kayla Ibrahim, Suryadipta Majumdar, Daniel Bastos, Anoop Singhal
Internet of Things (IoT) is being widely adopted in recent years. Security, however, has lagged behind, as evidenced by the increasing number of attacks that...
Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Anthony Hamins
This work documents a series of time-averaged local gas species measurements made throughout the centerline profile of 30 cm methanol, ethanol, and acetone pool...
Kassiopeia A. Smith, Bryan T. Bosworth, Nicholas R. Jungwirth, Jerome G. Cheron, Nathan D. Orloff, Christian J. Long, Dylan F. Williams, Richard A. Chamberlin, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Tara M. Fortier, Ari D. Feldman
A combination of on-wafer metrology and high-frequency network analysis was implemented to measure the response of transmission-line integrated Er-GaAs and...
Rob Horansky, Diogo Ribeiro, Jeffrey Jargon, Kate Remley
In the 5G, millimeter-wave frequency region, over-the-air testing is integral to verifying communications systems. Calibration of these vector systems will...
Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Matthew Bundy, Anthony Hamins
A series of measurements was made to characterize the structure of a 1 m diameter methyl 12 alcohol (methanol; CH3OH) pool fire steadily burning with a constant...
Teodor I. Vernica, Aaron M. Hanke, William Z. Bernstein
Due to its tremendous potential, Augmented Reality (AR) has experienced a recent surge in adoption and integration within the manufacturing enterprise. While...