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An Industrial Private 5G Testbed for Networked Automation Systems

August 22, 2024
Author(s)
Jing Geng, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell
Interest in integrating wireless communication capabilities into industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) has surged recently. Driven by advantages like ease of deployment, reduced maintenance costs, and asset mobility, CPSs now employ wireless

A Simulation Study of mmWave 5G-enabled Medical Extended Reality (MXR)

August 12, 2024
Author(s)
Tanguy Ropitault, Yongkang Liu, Richard Rouil, Mohamad Omar Al Kalaa
Medical extended reality (MXR) offers innovative healthcare delivery in a variety of clinical contexts. 5G-enabled MXR refers to the use of 5G connectivity to enable MXR functions by connecting multiple MXR device components, servers, and collaborators

Evolving Open RAN Interoperability: A Large-Scale Definition

August 12, 2024
Author(s)
Azizollah Kord, Jason Coder, Vu Le
Open RAN technology has tremendous potential to spur innovation, increase competition and flexibility, and reduce the cost of cellular systems. Today, the interoperability of the Open The RAN ecosystem is one of the most significant challenges facing this

Super-resolution Localization and Tracking in WiFi Sensing

July 29, 2024
Author(s)
Jian Wang, Jack Chuang, Nada Golmie
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems have been investigated by the research and standardization communities in the recent past. Accurate localizing the target and tracking the target's movement are critical for numerous smart Internet of

Energy Efficiency Scaling for 2 Decades (EES2) Roadmap for Computing

July 14, 2024
Author(s)
Jim Booth
Abstract—In response to the looming crisis in global energy consumption required for advanced computing applications, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technology Office (AMMTO) is leading a national effort

Advancing Methodologies for Hurricane Disaster Research Using Social Media Data

May 29, 2024
Author(s)
Emina Herovic, Caerwyn Hartten, Emily Walpole, Katherine Johnson, Cameron Busser
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) investigations of disasters and failures that affect the United States including devastating hurricanes like Hurricane Maria (NIST, 2023), require the assessment of risk communication, especially

Wireless Deployment Challenges in Construction: A 5G Strategy

May 20, 2024
Author(s)
Richard Candell, Mohamed Hany, Jing Geng, Karl Montgomery
In the construction context, integrating 5G networks presents numerous challenges. Tiis article explores deploying wireless communication networks within construction projects, introducing a comparison approach to assess deployment difficulty at each

A 0.1 GHz to 1.1 THz Inverted Grounded-CPW mTRL Calibration Kit Characterization in an InP HBT Process

May 13, 2024
Author(s)
Jerome Cheron, Rob Jones, Dylan Williams, Miguel Urteaga, Bryan Bosworth, Nick Jungwirth, Jeffrey Jargon, Ben Jamroz, Chris Long, Nate Orloff, Ari Feldman, Peter Aaen
We report a novel design approach of on-wafer multiline thru-reflect-line (mTRL) calibration kit fabricated on a commercial semiconductor-based transistor process that we validate from 0.1 GHz to 1.1 THz. The on-wafer calibration standards are designed

Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapor as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers

May 8, 2024
Author(s)
Noah Schlossberger, Nik Prajapati, Samuel Berweger, Andrew Rotunno, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, Abrar Sheikh, Eric Norrgard, Christopher L. Holloway, Stephen Eckel
Rydberg states of alkali atoms are highly sensitive to electric fields because their electron wavefunction has a large spatial extent, leading to large polarizabilities for static fields and large transition dipole moments for time-varying fields

Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapor as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers

May 8, 2024
Author(s)
Noah Schlossberger, Nik Prajapati, Samuel Berweger, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, Matt Simons, Abrar Sheikh, Andrew Rotunno, Eric Norrgard, Stephen Eckel, Christopher L. Holloway
Rydberg states of alkali atoms are highly sensitive to electric fields because their electron wavefunction has a large spatial extent, leading to large polarizabilities for static fields and large transition dipole moments for time-varying fields

Collection Methods for High-SNR I/Q Recordings of FDD LTE User Equipment Emissions

May 3, 2024
Author(s)
Keith Forsyth, Aric Sanders, Dan Kuester, Adam Wunderlich
This report documents collection methods for high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) radio frequency (RF) recordings of long-term evolution (LTE) uplink emissions from a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) handset in a fully conducted

Empirical Characterization of Doppler in Industrial Wireless Channels

April 16, 2024
Author(s)
Dreyelian Morejon, Jon Montalban, Eneko Iradier, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Pablo Angueira
This paper analyzes the temporal variation of the radio propagation channel in industrial environments. The results have been obtained by processing empirical data from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in a field measurement

A Data Collection Platform for Network Management

April 2, 2024
Author(s)
Amar Abane, Abdella Battou, Abderrahim Amlou, Tao Zhang
Network management relies on extensive monitoring of network state to analyze network behavior, design optimizations, plan upgrades, and conduct troubleshooting. Network monitoring collects various data from network devices through different protocols and

Automated Network Programmability Using OpenConfig YANG Models and NETCONF Protocol

April 2, 2024
Author(s)
Abderrahim Amlou, Amar Abane, Mheni Merzouki, Lydia Ait Oucheggou, Zineb Maasaoui, Abdella Battou
This paper introduces a microservice-based architecture designed to enable automation of network programmability and management. Amid the complexity of today's networks and the diversity of equipment, achieving efficient and reliable network

Cyclostationary Channel Power Measurements for CBRS Coexistence Assessment

March 31, 2024
Author(s)
Dan Kuester, Anthony Romaniello, PETER MATHYS
We present a compressive approach for channel power measurements in coexistence scenarios involving heterogeneous cyclostationary channel usage and an example application in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. The method leverages known cycle

NIST Multi-Domain Knowledge Planes for Service Federation for 5G & Beyond Public Working Group: Applications to Federated Autonomic/Autonomous Networking

March 13, 2024
Author(s)
Robert B. Bohn, Tao Zhang, Abdella Battou, Ranganai Chaparadza, Taesang Choi, Baek-Young Choi, Hisham Kholidy, SeungKyu Go, Moonkook Park, Sejun Song
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce. Transformational Networks and Services group of NIST's Communication Technology Laboratory's Smart Connected Systems Division, has formed

Towards Opportunistic Radar Sensing Using Millimeter-wave WiFi

January 1, 2024
Author(s)
Jian Wang, Jack Chuang, Samuel Berweger, Camillo Gentile, Nada T. Golmie
Sensing with communication waveforms has drawn growing interest thanks to the ubiquitous availability of wireless networks. However, the required sensing resources may not always be available in a communication system. In addition, the communication system

System-Level Evaluation of 5G NR UE-Based Relays

December 25, 2023
Author(s)
Samantha Gamboa Quintiliani, Aziza Ben Mosbah, Wesley Garey, Chunmei Liu, Richard A. Rouil
The notion of UE-based relays started with the introduction of Proximity Services (ProSe) and Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, and evolved with the adaptation of the Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) interface. While the main goal of relays is to

Facilitating Stakeholder Communication around AI-Enabled Systems and Business Processes

November 21, 2023
Author(s)
Edward Griffor, Matthew Bundas, Chasity Nadeau, Jeannine Shantz, Thanh Nguyen, Marcello Balduccini, Tran Son
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often critical to the success of modern business processes. Leveraging it, however, is non-trivial. A major hurdle is communication: discussing system requirements among stakeholders with different backgrounds and goals

Robust Measurements for RF Fingerprinting with Constellation Patterns of Radiated Waveforms

November 20, 2023
Author(s)
Ameya Ramadurgakar, Jake Rezac, Lennart Heijnen, Kate Remley, Dylan Williams, MELINDA PIKET-MAY, Rob Horansky
We introduce a type of RF fingerprint for nondestructive, cellular device identification. The new fingerprinting algorithm, termed Eigenphones, is a data-driven technique based on a singular value decomposition of a user equipment's symbol-constellation
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