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Methodology for Characterizing Network Behavior of Internet of Things Devices

August 28, 2025
Author(s)
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

Quasi-Deterministic Channel Propagation Model for Human Sensing: Gesture Recognition Use Case

July 9, 2025
Author(s)
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

Digital-Twin-Assisted Clustering of Radio-Frequency Multipath Components

June 26, 2025
Author(s)
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

Analysis of Propagation of Regular, Extended, and Large BGP Communities

June 20, 2025
Author(s)
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

Measuring the RCS of Multipoint-Scattering Targets in JCAS Channel Sounding

May 25, 2025
Author(s)
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

Entanglement Routing in Quantum Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

February 11, 2025
Author(s)
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

C-V2X Interoperability Testing Datasets: Description and Use

November 22, 2024
Author(s)
Eugene Song, Davide Pesavento, YaShian Li-Baboud
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

Overhead-Free People Counting in mmWave Network Using IEEE 802.11bf Passive Sensing

October 17, 2024
Author(s)
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

Clock synchronization characterization of the Washington DC metropolitan quantum network (DC-QNet)

October 16, 2024
Author(s)
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

Recommended Cybersecurity Requirements for Consumer-Grade Router Products

September 10, 2024
Author(s)
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

Measurement-Based Prediction of mmWave Channel Parameters Using Deep Learning and Point Cloud

August 2, 2024
Author(s)
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

100-km entanglement distribution with coexisting quantum and classical signals in a single fiber

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
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

An Adaptable AI Assistant for Network Management

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Amar Abane, Abdella Battou, Mheni Merzouki
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

Enhancing Network Data Plane Analysis with Native Graph Database

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Amar Abane, Abdella Battou, Mheni Merzouki
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

AI-Based Environment Segmentation Using a Context-Aware Channel Sounder

April 26, 2024
Author(s)
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

Context-Aware Channel Sounder for AI-Assisted Radio-Frequency Channel Modeling

April 26, 2024
Author(s)
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

An Adaptable AI Assistant for Network Management

April 12, 2024
Author(s)

Amar Abane, Abdella Battou, Mheni Merzouki

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

A Smart Network Repository Based on Graph Database

January 25, 2024
Author(s)
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

Investigating Multi-Tier and QoS-Aware Caching Based on ARC

October 16, 2023
Author(s)
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

Capture and Analysis of Traffic Traces on a Wide-Area NDN Testbed

October 8, 2023
Author(s)
Sankalpa Timilsina, Davide Pesavento, Junxiao Shi, Susmit Shannigrahi, Lotfi Benmohamed
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
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