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Conferences

Key Recovery Attack for All Parameters of HFE-

June 4, 2017

Author(s)

Jeremy Vates, Daniel Smith-Tone

Recently, by an interesting confluence, multivariate schemes with the minus modifier have received attention as candidates for multivariate encryption. Among...

An Updated Security Analysis of PFLASH

June 4, 2017

Author(s)

Ryann Cartor, Daniel Smith-Tone

One application in post-quantum cryptography that appears especially difficult is security for low-power or no-power devices. One of the early champions in this...

Key Recovery Attack for ZHFE

June 4, 2017

Author(s)

Daniel Cabarcas, Daniel Smith-Tone, Javier A. Verbel

At PQCRYPTO 2014, Porras, Baena and Ding introduced ZHFE, an interesting new technique for multivariate post-quantum encryption. The scheme is a generalization...

Five Principles for Crowd-source Experiments in Face Recognition

June 3, 2017

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, Alice J. O'Toole

Quick Positional Health Assessment for Industrial Robot Prognostics and Health Management (PHM)

June 2, 2017

Author(s)

Guixiu Qiao, Craig I. Schlenoff, Brian A. Weiss

Robot calibration and performance will degrade if proper maintenance isn't performed. There have been challenges for manufacturers to optimize the maintenance...

A System and Architecture for Reusable Abstractions of Manufacturing Processes

June 2, 2017

Author(s)

Alexander Brodsky, Mohan Krishnamoorthy, William Z. Bernstein, M. Omar Nachawati

In this paper we report on the development of a system for managing a repository and conducting analysis and optimization on manufacturing performance models...

Comprehensive circuit model of auto-limiting superconductor devices and systems

May 31, 2017

Author(s)

Jordi Mateu, C Collado, A Hueltes, D Garcia-Pastor, R Perera, Nikhil M. Joshi, Xifeng Lu, Nate Orloff, Jim Booth

This paper presents a phenomenological equivalent circuit to model the phenomenon occurring when a section of superconducting transmission line transits from...

THE NIST MAGNETIC SUSPENSION MASS COMPARATOR: A LOOK AT TYPE B UNCERTAINTY

May 31, 2017

Author(s)

Corey A. Stambaugh

The magnetic suspension mass comparator is a unique system for calibrating kilogram artifacts between vacuum and air. While the MSMC allows for direct vacuum-to...

Channel Modeling and Performance of Zigbee Radios in an Industrial Environment

May 31, 2017

Author(s)

Mehrdad Damsaz, Derek Guo, Jeff Peil, Wayne Stark, Nader Moayeri, Rick Candell

In this paper we describe measurements of wireless propagation characteristics to develop path loss models in industrial environments. The models for path loss...

ANALYSYS AND PROTOCOL FOR CHARACTERIZING INTRINSIC PROPERTIES OF THREE-AXIS MEMS ACCELEROMETERS USING A GIMBAL ROTATED IN THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD

May 30, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Gaitan, Muhammad Y. Afridi, Jon C. Geist

Three-axis MEMS accelerometers are typically characterized in terms of their cross-sensitivity matrix. We present an analysis and protocol to characterize them...

Understanding the Pre-Failure Thermo-Mechanical Issues In Electromigration of TSV Enabled 3D ICs

May 30, 2017

Author(s)

Christopher E. Sunday, Dmitry Veksler, Kin P. Cheung, Yaw S. Obeng

Traditional metrology has been unable to adequately address the needs of emerging integrated circuits at the nano scale; thus, new metrology and techniques are...

A bottom-up approach for traceable nano dimensional metrology

May 29, 2017

Author(s)

Gaoliang Dai, Jens Fluegge, Harald Bosse, Ronald G. Dixson

This paper presents a bottom-up approach which uses the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and the reference value of the crystal silicon lattice constant...

Imposing Fine-grain Next Generation Access Control over Database Queries

May 25, 2017

Author(s)

David F. Ferraiolo, Serban I. Gavrila, Gopi Katwala, Joshua D. Roberts

In this paper we describe a system that leverages ANSI/INCITS Next Generation Access Control (NGAC) standard called Next-generation Database Access Control...

Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH) in Mode 2: Performance Analysis

May 25, 2017

Author(s)

David W. Griffith, Fernando J. Cintron, Richard A. Rouil

User Equipments (UEs) that send data must advertise the upcoming transmission by broadcasting signaling messages over the Physical Sidelink Control Channel...

Inferring previously uninstalled applications from digital traces

May 25, 2017

Author(s)

Jim Jones, Tahir Kahn, Kathryn B. Laskey, Alexander J. Nelson, Mary T. Laamanen, Douglas R. White

In this paper, we present an approach and experimental results to suggest the past presence of an application after the application has been uninstalled and the...

Coexistence Analysis of LTE and WLAN Systems With Heterogenous Backoff Slot Durations

May 21, 2017

Author(s)

Yao Ma, Daniel G. Kuester, Jason B. Coder, William F. Young

To enable constructive coexistence with wireless local area network (WLAN), unlicensed long-term evolution (LTE) systems use listen before talk (LBT) as a major...

Exploiting LTE White Space using Dynamic Spectrum Access Algorithms based on Survival Analysis

May 20, 2017

Author(s)

Timothy Hall, Anirudha Sahoo, Robert Hagwood, Sarah B. Streett

In this study, we design and implement two algorithms for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) that are based on survival analysis. They use a non-parametric estimate...

ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECT OF WIND ON FIREBRAND ACCUMULATION IN FRONT OF OBSTACLES

May 19, 2017

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

See paper. Conference requires two page extended abstract.

BUILDING COMPONENT PERFORMANCE EXPOSED TO FIREBRAND SHOWERS CHARACTERISTIC OF BURNING STRUCTURES

May 19, 2017

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Please see paper. Conference requires 2 page extended abstract only.

A telecom-band cavity-enhanced single-photon source with high klyshko efficiencies

May 18, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Lu Xiyuan, Steven Rogers, W C. Wiang, Sae Woo Nam, Qiang Lin

We develop an on-chip telecom-band single-photon source with Klyshko efficiencies up to 48%, the highest value for cavity-enhanced photon sources. For the first...

Optomechanical Quantum Correlations

May 18, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas P. Purdy, Karen E. Grutter, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Nikolai N. Klimov, Zeeshan Ahmed, Jacob M. Taylor

We present methods to measure optical quantum correlations arising from an optomechanical interaction even when large classical noise sources are present. We...

An Efficient Lagrangian Algorithm for an Anisotropic Geodesic Active Contour Model

May 18, 2017

Author(s)

Gunay Dogan

We propose an efficient algorithm to minimize an anisotropic surface energy generalizing the Geodesic Active Contour model for image segmentation. In this...

Advances in Next-Generation Polyolefin Standard Reference Materials

May 17, 2017

Author(s)

Sara V. Orski, Wesley S. Farrell, Andre M. Striegel, Kathryn L. Beers

NISTs approach to modernizing its synthetic polymer reference materials is to target precise and robust synthetic methods, making homogeneous standards than...

Development and Evaluation of Two New Droplet Evaporation Schemes for Fire Dynamics Simulations

May 15, 2017

Author(s)

Randall J. McDermott, Jason Floyd

The evaporation of sprinkler droplets is an important phenomena in fire simulations both for heat removal from the gas and for heat removal from surfaces. In...

Quantitative Analysis of Oxidation State in Cerium Oxide Nanomaterials

May 14, 2017

Author(s)

Christopher Sims, Russell Maier, Aaron Johnston-Peck, Justin Gorham, Vincent A. Hackley, Bryant C. Nelson

Cerium oxide nanoparticles (nanoceria) are receiving increased attention from the research community due to the large number and wide range of their current and...

Performance and Aging of Graphene Oxide/Polyurethane Nanocomposites

May 14, 2017

Author(s)

David G. Goodwin

Polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) containing graphene oxide (GO) can be used to enhance the mechanical strength, thermal properties, and barrier properties of a...

Positively Charged Ag-dendron Conjugates: Stability Enhanced AgNPs for Biomedical Applications

May 13, 2017

Author(s)

Tae Joon Cho, Jingyu Liu, Vincent A. Hackley

We developed positively charged silver nanoparticles ([Ag-Ds]+), nominally 20 nm in diameter, using dendron chemistry combined with reduction of silver nitrate...

Bandwidth-enhanced superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for telecom wavelengths

May 13, 2017

Author(s)

Stephan Krapick, Marina Hesselberg, Varun Verma, Igor Vayshenker, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin

We present a single-photon detector providing system detection efficiencies of at least (86.7 ± 0.9) % from 1450 nm to 1640 nm. It comprises bilayer...

Multiheterodyne Spectroscopy Using Multi-frequency Combs

May 13, 2017

Author(s)

David F. Plusquellic, Gerd A. Wagner, Adam Fleisher, David Long, Joseph T. Hodges

Near-IR dual frequency combs generated from waveform driven electro-optic phase modulators (EOMs) are used for high resolution studies in low pressure cells and...

A Comparison of Control-channel Schemes in Opportunistic Spectrum Access Networks using a Configurable Testbed

May 10, 2017

Author(s)

Camillo Gentile

In this paper, the control channel for secondary users in opportunistic spectrum access networks is considered. Given a licensed bandwidth for primary users, we...

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