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2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Presentations by NIST Authors

October 25, 2021
Author(s)
Richard A. Rouil, Tom Henderson, Marco Mezzavilla, Michele Polese, Jaden Pieper, Chunmei Liu, Silas Thompson, David W. Griffith, Christopher Walton, Christopher D. Dennis, Fabio C. da Silva, John S. Garofolo, James M. Horan, Samuel Hood, Julie Stroup, Christine Task, Terese Manley, Sam Ray, Alison Kahn, Maxwell Maurice, Hien V. Nguyen, Frederick R. Byers, Kristen K. Greene, Mary Theofanos, Yee-Yin Choong, Sandra Spickard Prettyman, Pamela J. Konkol, Jeffrey Cichonski, Bill Fisher, Gema Howell, Mike Dolan, Adam Lewis, Michael Ogata, John Beltz, Michael Bartock, Sarah Hughes, Santosh Rajvaidya, Craig Connelly, Scott Ledgerwood, Megan Waldock, Dereck R. Orr, Donald Bradshaw, Jeb Benson
2019 Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Presentations by NIST Authors

PSCR 2021: Introducing a Start of Word Correction for Access Delay Measurements

September 28, 2021
Author(s)
Jaden Pieper, William Magrogan
The Mission Critical Voice measurement methods team previously developed an access time measurement system. We later discovered that there was potential for systemic error to be introduced in the measurements of access delay. This error can be caused by

Mission Critical Voice Quality of Experience Access Time Measurement Method Addendum

December 2, 2020
Author(s)
Chelsea Greene, Jesse Frey, Zainab O. Soetan, Jaden Pieper, Silas Thompson
Access time generally describes the time associated with the establishment of a talk path upon user request to speak and has been identified as a key component of quality of experience (QoE) in voice communications. The National Institute of Standards and

PSCR 2020_Access Driven Modified Rhyme Test Intelligibility

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Jaden K. Pieper, Stephen D. Voran
Previous work by NIST/PSCR focused on developing a quality of experience-based access time measurement system. This system relies on modified rhyme test (MRT) word intelligibility and focuses on intelligibility when incrementally cutting off portions of

Mission Critical Voice Quality of Experience Access Time Measurement Methods

October 15, 2019
Author(s)
Jaden K. Pieper, Jesse M. Frey, Chelsea J. Greene, Zainab O. Soetan, Silas T. Thompson, Donald A. Bradshaw, Steven Voran
Access time generally describes the time associated with the establishment of a talk path upon user request to speak and has been identified as a key component of Quality of Experience (QoE) in communications. NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research

Mission Critical Voice QoE Mouth-to-Ear Latency Measurement Methods

March 1, 2018
Author(s)
Jesse Frey, Jaden Pieper, Silas Thompson
Mouth-to-ear (M2E) latency describes the time it takes speech input in a voice communication transmit device to be output from a receiving device, and has been identified as a key component of quality of experience (QoE) in communications. NIST's PSCR

The Next-Generation Firefighter: The Evolution of Technology

October 14, 2016
Author(s)
Kayla A. Berger, Jacob R. Crouse, Jaden Pieper
In 2013, United States fire departments responded to around 1 240 000 Fires, accounting for 106 firefighter deaths [9][7]. These fires also resulted in 3,240 civilian deaths and an estimated $11.5 billion in property damage. When responding to fires