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Paul Watrobski, Murugiah Souppaya, Joshua Klosterman, William C. Barker, Jeffrey Marron, Blaine Mulugeta
This report describes an approach to capturing and documenting the network communication behavior of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. From this information, manufacturers, network administrators, and others can create and use files based on the
Jack Chuang, Raied Caromi, Jelena Senic, Samuel Berweger, Neeraj Varshney, Jian Wang, Anuraag Bodi, Camillo Gentile, Nada Golmie
We describe a quasi-determinstic channel propagation model for human gesture recognition reduced from real-time measurements with our context aware channel sounder, considering four human subjects and 20 distinct body motions, for a total of 120,000
Anuraag Bodi, Jihoon Bang, Neeraj Varshney, Samuel Berweger, Chiehping Lai, Jelena Senic, Jack Chuang, Camillo Gentile
Clustering radio-frequency (RF) multipath components (MPCs) fosters compact channel models by capturing the geometry of the scattering environment, yet "blind" methods based solely on RF data struggle to associate MPCs with individual scatterers. We
Lilia Hannachi, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Douglas Montgomery
This study focuses on the analysis of propagation of Regular, Extended, and Large Communities in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Once added, these communities are often intended to be transitive by default, meaning that they should be propagated from
Camillo Gentile, Jack Chuang, Steve Blandino, Jelena Senic, Jihoon Bang, Samuel Berweger
This paper presents a methodology for measuring the radar cross-section (RCS) of a target that scatters power from multiple points on its surface, in the context of joint communication and sensing (JCAS). By leveraging the fine resolution of millimeter
Amar Abane, Michael Cubeddu, Van Sy Mai, Abdella Battou
Entanglement routing in near-term quantum networks consists of choosing the optimal sequence of local entanglements to combine through swapping operations to establish end-to-end entanglement between two distant nodes on a quantum network. Similar to
Jihoon Bang, Samuel Berweger, Jack Chuang, Camillo Gentile, Nada Golmie, Sebastian Semper
We have developed a real-time 141 GHz joint communications and sensing (JCAS) channel sounder, with focus on this article on 3-D near-field imaging (less than 50 cm range) for applications such as finger recognition. To achieve this, we integrated phased
Precisely modeling radio propagation in complex environments has been a significant challenge, especially with the advent of 5G and beyond networks, where managing massive antenna arrays demands more detailed information. Traditional methods, such as
This paper introduces a set of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) datasets collected at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Internet of Thing (IoT) Devices Interoperability Testbed. These datasets can be used to display, analyze
Tanguy Ropitault, Anirudha Sahoo, Steve Blandino, Nada Golmie
Accurately assessing the number of people in a room is essential for enhancing operational efficiency, safety, and sustainability, enabling applications such as smart building management, energy conservation, and emergency evacuation planning. Wi-Fi
Wayne McKenzie, Anne Marie Richards, Shirali Patel, Thomas Gerrits, T. G., Steven Peil, Adam Black, David Tulchinsky, Alexander Hastings, YaShian Li-Baboud, Anouar Rahmouni, Paulina Kuo, Alan Mink, Ivan Burenkov, Yicheng Shi, Matthew Diaz, Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Mheni Merzouki, Pranish Shrestha, Alejandro Rodriguez Perez, Eleanya Onuma, Daniel Jones, Atiyya Davis, Thomas A. Searles, J.D. Whalen, Kate Collins, Qudsia Quraishi, La Vida Cooper, Harry Shaw, Bruce Crabill, Oliver Slattery, Abdella Battou
Quantum networking protocols relying on interference and precise time-of-flight measurements require high-precision clock synchronization. This study describes the design, implementation, and characterization of two optical time transfer methods in a
Michael Fagan, Katerina Megas, Paul Watrobski, Jeffrey Marron, Barbara Bell Cuthill, David Lemire, Brad Hoehn, Christopher Evans
Ensuring the security of routers is crucial for safeguarding not only individuals' data but also the integrity and availability of entire networks. With the increasing prevalence of smart home IoT devices and remote work setups, the significance of
Anuraag Bodi, Raied Caromi, Jian Wang, Jelena Senic, Camillo Gentile, Hang Mi, Bo Ai, Ruisi He
Millimeter-wave (MmWave) channel characteristics are quite different from sub-6 GHz frequency bands. The major differences include higher path loss and sparser multipath components (MPCs), resulting in more significant time-varying characteristics in
Anouar Rahmouni, Paulina Kuo, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Ivan Burenkov, Yicheng Shi, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Dileep Reddy, Mheni Merzouki, Lijun Ma, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver T. Slattery, Thomas Gerrits
The development of prototype metropolitan-scale quantum networks is underway and entails transmitting quantum information via single photons through deployed optical fibers spanning several tens of kilometers. Among the major challenges in metropolitan
This paper presents a network management AI assistant built with Large Language Models. It adapts at runtime to the network state and specific platform, leveraging techniques like prompt engineering, document retrieval, and Knowledge Graph integration. The
As modern networks grow in complexity, ensuring their reliability and security becomes increasingly vital. Data plane analysis is a key process for verifying network behavior, but traditional data plane analysis tools face challenges in extensibility
Jihoon Bang, Jack Chuang, Jelena Senic, Samuel Berweger, Steve Blandino, Camillo Gentile
Monitoring vital signs such as breathing or heart rates as well as other physical movements in complex environments is the basis for many emerging applications spanning from healthcare to autonomous vehicles. Designing Radar systems capable of remotely
Anuraag Bodi, Samuel Berweger, Raied Caromi, Jihoon Bang, Jelena Senic, Camillo Gentile
We describe how the data acquired from the camera and Lidar systems of our context-aware radio-frequency (RF) channel sounder is used to reconstruct a 3D mesh of the surrounding environment, segmented and classified into discrete objects. First, the images
Camillo Gentile, Jelena Senic, Anuraag Bodi, Samuel Berweger, Raied Caromi, Nada Golmie
We describe a context-aware channel sounder that consists of three separate systems: a radio-frequency system to extract multipaths scattered from the surrounding environment in the 3D geometrical domain, a Lidar system to generate a point cloud of the
This paper presents a network management AI assistant built with Large Language Models. It adapts at runtime to the network state and specific platform, leveraging techniques like prompt engineering, document retrieval, and Knowledge Graph integration. The
Amar Abane, Abdella Battou, Mheni Merzouki, Tao Zhang
To address the increasing complexity of network management and the limitations of data repositories in handling the various network operational data, this paper proposes a novel repository design that uniformly represents network operational data while
Chiehping Lai, Jelena Senic, Camillo Gentile, Nada T. Golmie
Accurate channel propagation modeling of foliage is critical to the design and deployment of wireless networks, given its pervasive nature in rural, suburban, and urban environments. Its blockage effects can be particularly devastating at millimeter-wave
In this paper we use two Recursive Least Squares (RLS) estimation methods to solve the cooperative localization problem based on Wi-Fi received signal strength measurements between pairs of nodes in a network that can establish communication links. A link
Lydia Ait Oucheggou, Abdella Battou, Jalil Boukhobza, Stephane Rubini
Memory caching is a common practice to reduce application latencies by buffering relevant data in high speed memory. When the volume of data to cache is too large or a DRAM-based solution too expensive, several technologies such as NVM or high speed SSDs
High-quality network traffic measurements from realistic network deployments are crucial to analyze and better understand emerging network technologies for the purpose of maturing them. However, achieving this measurement goal for the Named Data Networking