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A Simulation Framework for Industrial Wireless Networks and Process Control Systems

May 6, 2016
Author(s)
Yongkang Liu, Richard Candell, Nader Moayeri, Kang B. Lee
Factory and process automation systems are increasingly employing information and communications technologies to facilitate data sharing and analysis in integrated control operations. Wireless connections provide flexible access to a variety of field

Vibrational Modes of Multilayered Ceramic Capacitors

April 28, 2016
Author(s)
Kirsten L. Peterson, Ward L. Johnson, Sudook A. Kim, Paul R. Heyliger
Micron-scale spacing of interleaved electrodes and high-dielectric ceramics in multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) provide exceptionally high capacitances in small volumes. This has led to MLCCs being the preferred type of capacitor in a wide range of

Public Safety Analytics R&D Roadmap

April 19, 2016
Author(s)
Tracy A. McElvaney, Ryan Felts, Marc Leh
The public safety community is in a period of great transition. Over the next 20 years, technology advancements will increase accessibility of data/video applications to public safety, and allow for the eventual migration of voice communications from

Multi-purpose Configurable Range for Antenna Testing Up To 220 GHz*

April 9, 2016
Author(s)
David R. Novotny, Michael H. Francis, Ronald C. Wittmann, Josh Gordon, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri, Alexandra Curtin
NIST has developed a multi-purpose test range for performing several types of antenna testing including spherical, cylindrical and planar near-field scanning as well as extrapolation measurements. This range uses a commercial, offthe- shelf, six-axis robot

Absorption Cross Section Measurements of a Human Body in a Reverberation Chamber

February 8, 2016
Author(s)
Damir Senic, Antonio Sarolic, Zbigniew M. Joskiewicz, Christopher L. Holloway
We provide the results of human body absorption cross section (ACS) measurements. The setup was based on the reverberation chamber as a well-known measurement environment capable of performing ACS measurements. The approach was supported by reference

A Regret Matching Strategy Framework for Inter-BAN Interference Mitigation

February 4, 2016
Author(s)
Vladimir Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti
A Body Area Network (BAN) is a radio standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensors located inside or in close proximity to the human body. Medical and some other applications impose stringent constraints on battery powered BAN

Large-Signal-Network-Analyzer Round Robin

February 1, 2016
Author(s)
Dylan F. Williams, Paul D. Hale, Catherine A. Remley, Gustavo Avolio, Dominique Schreurs, Diogo C. Ribeiro, Pawel Barmuta, Gian Piero Gibiino, Mohammad Rajabi, Arkadiusz Lewandowski, Jaros?aw Szatkowski, Kuangda Wang
This paper describes tests of the calibration-comparison method as an approach to assessing the measurement accuracy of large-signal network analyzer calibrations. We show that having one trusted reference calibration allows the calibration accuracy of the

A Simulation Study of the LTE Interference on WiFi Signal Detection

January 6, 2016
Author(s)
Yao Ma, Daniel G. Kuester, Jason B. Coder, William F. Young
To address the spectrum scarcity problem and enhance spectrum utilization efficiency, spectrum sharing and coexistence of different wireless communication systems are important ongoing research topics. Unlicensed use of the ISM band by the long-term

Spectrum Sensing with WLAN Access Points

January 5, 2016
Author(s)
Jason Coder, Ryan T. Jacobs, Vivian Musser
With wireless communication becoming more and more common in simple everyday devices, the available spectrum is quickly filling up and the risk of interference is increasing. This interference could be a slight nuisance to or it could be a more significant

Testing Spectrum Sensing Networks by UAV

January 5, 2016
Author(s)
Dan Kuester, Ryan T. Jacobs, Yao Ma, Jason Coder
We consider here the use of hovering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to test spectrum sensing capabilities of Citizen's Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) systems at 3.5 GHz. Aircraft transmit synthesized LTE or pulsed radar modulation to excite spectrum

On the Internet Connectivity in Africa

November 18, 2015
Author(s)
Assane Gueye, Peter Mell, Desire Banse, Faical Y. Congo
This study measures and documents growth of Internet connectivity in Africa from 2010 to 2014 with a focus on inter-country relationships. We evaluate both intra-continent connectivity as well as connectivity to other continents. An initial analysis

Software-defined Radio Based Measurement Platform for Wireless Networks

October 15, 2015
Author(s)
I-Chun Chao, Kang B. Lee, Rick Candell, Frederick M. Proctor, Chien-Chung Shen
There has been a dramatic push to adopting wireless networking technologies and protocols (such as 802.11, ZigBee, WirelessHART, Bluetooth, ISA100.11a, etc.) into time-critical networks. End-to-end latency is critical to many distributed applications and

Interference and Coexistence of Wireless Systems in Critical Infrastructure

July 7, 2015
Author(s)
Galen H. Koepke, William F. Young, John M. Ladbury, Jason B. Coder
We examine interference and coexistence testing issues, test methods, and the need to update and develop new test methodologies related to the use of wireless devices in critical infrastructure systems. A case study on interference is presented along with

Designing a Cyber-Physical Cloud Computing Architecture

June 2, 2015
Author(s)
Eric D. Simmon, Sulayman Sowe, Koji Zettsu
In this era of inter-connectivity where almost everybody, everything, and anything are networked, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) also known as the Internet of Things (IoT) have emerged as vital systems that use information systems to observe and modify the

Evaluation of Uncertainty in Temporal Waveforms of Microwave Transistors

June 1, 2015
Author(s)
Gustavo Avolio, Antonio Raffo, Jeffrey Jargon, Dominique Schreurs, Dylan Williams
This work focuses on the accuracy of nonlinear de-embedding applied to microwave transistor time-domain waveforms. The waveforms are acquired with a mixer-based Large-Signal Network Analyzer (LSNA) and are corrected at the transistor's reference planes by
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