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Information Technology /Networking

Network test & measurement

News and Updates

O-RAN Alliance Group Picture - Face to Face Meeting Paris 2025

CTL Staff Advance O-RAN Standards

CTL staff made several technical contributions to the O-RAN Alliance face-to-face meeting on March February 24-28 in the areas of security, testing and RAN

Events

Projects and Programs

Advanced Security Architectures for Next Generation Wireless

Ongoing
The US Government, and the Department of Commerce in particular, has identified the development and commercialization of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) technologies as a strategic priority in the evolution of next-generation wireless networks and a key enabler for the US IT industry to increase

5G/6G Core Networks and Services

Ongoing
The main tasks of this program are: Task 1: 6G Core Network Architecture: I nvestigating AI-native architectures that not just execute AI/ML-based network functions but also support the creation, management, cooperation, measurement, and evolution of these functions. Task 2: Key Technologies Task 2
High Assurance Domains Infor Graphic

High Assurance Domains

Ongoing
The objectives of NIST’s High Assurance Domains (HAD) project are to design, standardize and foster wide scale adoption of technologies to improve the security, robustness and privacy of the Internet’s Domain Name System. A second dimension of the NIST’s effort is to explore ways to leverage a

Advanced DDoS Mitigation Techniques

Ongoing
Background In recent years the threat of DDoS) attacks on the Internet seems to be significantly increasing. The rapidly growing threat can be characterized by the orders of magnitude increases in the bandwidth of such attacks (from 100s of millions bits per second, to 100s of billions bits per

Publications

Capture and Analysis of Traffic Traces on a Wide-Area NDN Testbed

Author(s)
Sankalpa Timilsina, Davide Pesavento, Junxiao Shi, Susmit Shannigrahi, Lotfi Benmohamed
High-quality network traffic measurements from realistic network deployments are crucial to analyze and better understand emerging network technologies for the

Software

Screen shot from the NIST RPKI Monitor

NIST RPKI Deployment Monitor

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The NIST RPKI Monitor is a test and measurement tool designed to monitor the dynamics of the global Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) and the impact of