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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
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
Due to availability of large amount of bandwidth in the 60 GHz band and support of contention-free channel access called Service Period (SP), the IEEE 802.11ad/ay Wi-Fi standard is well suited for low latency and high data rate applications. IEEE 802.11ad
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
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
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
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
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
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
Xiaowen Qi, Jing Geng, Mohamed Hany, Shuvra Bhattacharyya, Rick Candell
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have impacted many fields by opening up much deeper and more extensive integration of communications connectivity, sensing, and embedded processing. The industrial sector is among the areas that have been impacted
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
This report of the Advanced Communications Technologies Working Group of the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy (ICSP) provides an overview of Federal agency advanced communications technologies (ACT) standards activities and recommends standards
Industrial wireless communications networks have a major role in the future industrial cyber-physical systems (CPSs) to have higher flexibility and massive machine connectivity. However, the impact of the industrial wireless on the reliability and latency
Anmol Bhardwaj, Jack Chuang, Camillo Gentile, Chiehping Lai
A wireless channel is wide-sense stationary (WSS) when the mean and autocorrelation of its small-scale fading are displacement invariant. This occurs when the channel is rich in propagation paths – their complex summation averages out any displacement
Jerome Cheron, Rob Jones, Dylan Williams, Peter Aaen
We present a new millimeter-wave electrical comb generator with frequency-adjustable tone spacing and a tunable RF center frequency. We use an ultrawideband mixer based on a Gilbert cell topology to upconvert the spectrum of a series of repetitive pulses
Neeraj Varshney, Samuel Berweger, Jack Chuang, Steve Blandino, Jian Wang, Neha Pazare, Camillo Gentile, Nada T. Golmie
Efficient design of integrated sensing and communication systems can minimize signaling overhead by reducing the size and/or rate of feedback in reporting channel state information (CSI). To minimize the signaling overhead when performing sensing
Luckshitha Suriyasena Liyanage, Connor Smith, Jacob Pawlik, Sarah Evans, Angela Stelson, Chris Long, Nate Orloff, David Arnold, Jim Booth
Flexible and stretchable materials have attracted significant interest for applications in wearable electronics and bioengineering fields. Recent developments also incorporate embedded microwave circuits, components, and systems with engineered flexible
Ashley Russell, Kerrianne Buchanan, David Griffith, Heather Evans, Dimitrios Meritis, Lisa Ng, Anna Sberegaeva, Michelle Stephens
The 2023 National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan provides an analysis of key external factors that could impact NIST and the fulfillment of its mission in coming years. The analyses were conducted through three separate lenses
Tao Zhang, Jialin Wan, Sen Lin, Zhaofeng Zhang, Junshan Zhang
5G and Beyond (B5G) technology promises to offer ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) services, which opens the door for a wide variety of new real-time applications. Real-time traffic has stringent requirements in terms of latency, and low
Peng Liu, Chen Shen, Chunmei Liu, Fernando Cintron, LYUTIANYANG ZHANG, Liu Cao, Richard A. Rouil, Sumit Roy
Sidelink in cellular networks enables direct exchange of data packets between devices without the need for network infrastructure, resulting in various benefits, including communication in out-of-coverage areas and potential significantly reduced latency
In this report, we introduce a framework to analyze, monitor, and identify the state of industrial wireless networks and their impact on industrial use cases. This framework is based on a deep learning approach for modeling the interactions between the
The massive digital information generated in conjunction with the ever-increasing phasor measurement data in the power grid has led to a tremendous constraint on the analysis and timely processing of real-time data. Under these conditions, leveraging
Akira Kyle, Curtis Rau, William Warfield, Alexander Kwiatkowski, John Teufel, Konrad Lehnert, Tasshi Dennis
Doubly parametric quantum transducers (DPTs), such as electro-optomechanical devices, show promise as quantum interconnects between the optical and microwave domains, thereby enabling long-distance quantum networks between superconducting qubit systems
Smart and highly automated factories rely on time sensitive networks (TSNs) to coordinate the actions of robots working together to complete a task. The dense layout of metallic objects on the factory floor creates a complex electromagnetic environment