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Supplemental Guidance on Ongoing Authorization: Transitioning to Near Real-Time Risk Management

June 3, 2014

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Kelley L. Dempsey, Ronald S. Ross, Kevin M. Stine

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-14-03, Enhancing the Security of Federal Information and Information Systems, reminds Federal agencies that, "Our nation's security and economic prosperity depend on ensuring the confidentiality, integrity

Implementation of an Opportunistic Spectrum Access Scheme with Disruption QoS

June 2, 2014

Author(s)

Anirudha Sahoo

Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) is one of the models proposed for Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA). In OSA systems, it is important to restrict the interference of Secondary Users (SUs) to the Primary Users (PUs), so that the performance degradation of PU

NIST Cybersecurity Framework Addresses Risks to Critical Infrastructure

June 2, 2014

Author(s)

Victoria Y. Pillitteri

On February 12, 2014 President Obama issued a statement that, "[c]yber threats pose one the gravest national security dangers that the United States faces. To better defend our nation against this systemic challenge, one year ago I signed an Executive

NIST's Role in Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: Public/Private Teamwork

June 2, 2014

Author(s)

William C. Barker

National security depends on the reliable functioning of critical infrastructures. Security mechanisms and controls for critical infrastructure protection arent useful unless adopted, so NIST seeks, while fostering creation of effective cybersecurity

Overview of the TREC-2012 Microblog Track

June 2, 2014

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Ian M. Soboroff, Iadh Ounis, Jimmy Lin, Craig Macdonald

The Microblog track examines search tasks and evaluation meth- odologies for information seeking behaviours in microblogging en- vironments such as Twitter. It was first introduced in 2011, address- ing a real-time adhoc search task, whereby the user

Analysis of Protection Options for Virtualized Infrastructures in Infrastructure as a Service Cloud

May 29, 2014

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is one of the three main cloud service types where the cloud consumer consumes a great variety of resources such as computing (Virtual Machines or VMs), virtual network, storage and utility programs (DBMS). Any large

Polar codes in a QKD Environment

May 22, 2014

Author(s)

Anastase Nakassis, Alan Mink

Polar coding is the most recent encoding scheme in the quest for error correction codes that approaches the Shannon limit, has a simple structure, and admits fast decoders. As such, it is an interesting candidate for the quantum key distribution (QKD)

The Case for Delivering the Infrastructure for Digital Building Regulations

May 19, 2014

Author(s)

Mark E. Palmer, James H. Garrett

The building industry uses numerous engineering standards, building codes, specifications and regulations and a diverse set of industry vocabularies to describe, assess, and deliver constructed facilities. As part of the expanding use of building

LTE Physical Layer Performance Analysis

May 15, 2014

Author(s)

Wen-Bin Yang, Michael R. Souryal

In this report, we present results of a physical layer performance study for all MCSs (from MCS0 to MCS28) in terms of block error rate (BLER) and spectral efficiency. The results are obtained by using the Steepest Ascent LTE toolbox for MATLAB which

TRECVID 2013 -- An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms, and Metrics

May 5, 2014

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Paul D. Over, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Gregory A. Sanders, David M. Joy, Martial Michel, George M. Awad, Alan Smeaton, Wessel Kraaij, Georges Quenot

TRECVID 2013 was a TREC-style video analysis and retrieval evaluation, the goal of which remains to promote progress in content-based exploitation of digital video via open, metrics-based evaluation. Over the last ten years this effort has yielded a better

Characterization of Latent Print "Lights-Out" Modes for Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS)

April 30, 2014

Author(s)

Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, Stephen B. Meagher, Michael Garris

The term "lights-out" for AFIS ten-print fingerprint operations has been around for many years and is generally understood to mean "no human intervention is involved." But is this appropriate for AFIS latent print operations? Is it truly possible to

Release of NIST Special Publication 800-52 Revision 1, Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations

April 29, 2014

Author(s)

Kerry A. McKay, Kim Quill, Gregory A. Witte

NIST SP 800-52, Revision 1 provides guidance to U.S. Government information system managers for the selection and configuration of TLS protocol implementations. U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-130, Management of Federal Information

The ghost in the machine: Don't let it haunt your software performance measurements

April 28, 2014

Author(s)

Vreda Pieterse, David Flater

This paper describes pitfalls, issues, and methodology for measuring software performance. Ideally, measurement should be performed and reported in such a way that others will be able to reproduce the results in order to confirm their validity. We aim to