Networking

News and Updates

NIST: Blockchain Provides Security, Traceability for Smart Manufacturing

February 11, 2019

Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) needed a way to secure smart manufacturing...

Uncrunching the Frequency Spectrum

September 26, 2018

The squeeze is here, and the crunch is coming. Soon. Explosive demand for high-speed wireless communication is placing...

NIST Releases DRAFT Revisions to USGv6 Program for Public Comment

July 12, 2018

DRAFT USGv6 Revision 1 Specifications Available for Public Comment The first version of the of the USGv6 standards...

NIST engineer Rick Candell is seen monitoring the strength and clarity of a wireless signal run through a virtual factory environment (a graphic of which is seen on a monitor above Candell's head).

Want to Make Your Factory Wireless? NIST Can Guide You!

May 29, 2018

It’s been called the “smart factory” and even given the lofty moniker of “the fourth industrial revolution.” The...

Publications

A Collaborative Work Cell Testbed for Industrial Wireless Communications - The Baseline Design

June 14, 2019

Author(s):

Yongkang Liu, Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany, Karl R. Montgomery

The work cell is an essential industrial environment for testing wireless communication techniques in factory automation processes. A new testbed was recently...

A SysML Representation of the Wireless Factory Work-cell

June 06, 2019

Author(s):

Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany, Yongkang Liu, Sebti Foufou

Smart Manufacturing, also known as Industry 4.0, provides a vision of future manufacturing systems that incorporate highly dynamic physical systems, robust and...

Wireless Network Design for Emerging IIoT Applications: Reference Framework and Use Cases

April 16, 2019

Author(s):

Yongkang Liu, Mohamed T. Hany, Kang B. Lee, Lotfi Benmohamed, Richard Candell

In this paper we propose a framework that allows a designer to assess various physical and cyber factors involved in determining the performance of a wireless...

System Distortion Model for the Cross-Validation of Millimeter-Wave Channel Sounders

April 01, 2019

Author(s):

Camillo A. Gentile, Andreas Molisch, Jack Chuang, Anuraag Bodi, Anmol Bhardwaj, Ozgur Ozdemir, Ismail Guvenc, Zihang Cheng, Thomas Choi, Robert Mueller

Because millimeter-wave directional channel measurements are time-consuming and expensive to collect, there is considerable interest in combining measurement...

Projects & Programs

Fundamental Metrology for Communications

NIST CTL’s Radio Frequency Technology Division conducts research into electromagnetic measurement, modeling, and theory in support of advanced wireless...

Trusted Spectrum Testing

The availability of wireless spectrum bandwidth has a profound impact on US industry’s ability to engineer a new generation of wireless devices. This program...

Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

Develop robust requirements, system models, recommended architectures, and guidelines for the integration of trustworthy wireless systems within factory work-...

Internet Infrastructure Protection

ITL’s Internet Infrastructure Protection (IIP) program, led by the Advanced Network Technologies Division (ANTD), works with industry to develop the...

Networking

Networking Topics

News and Updates

NIST: Blockchain Provides Security, Traceability for Smart Manufacturing

Uncrunching the Frequency Spectrum

NIST Releases DRAFT Revisions to USGv6 Program for Public Comment

Want to Make Your Factory Wireless? NIST Can Guide You!

Publications

A Collaborative Work Cell Testbed for Industrial Wireless Communications - The Baseline Design

A SysML Representation of the Wireless Factory Work-cell

Wireless Network Design for Emerging IIoT Applications: Reference Framework and Use Cases

System Distortion Model for the Cross-Validation of Millimeter-Wave Channel Sounders

Projects & Programs

Fundamental Metrology for Communications

Trusted Spectrum Testing

Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

Internet Infrastructure Protection

Software

Modeling tools to evaluate Device-to-Device Communication (D2D) in Long Term Evolution (LTE)

BGP Secure Routing Extension (BGP‑SRx) Prototype

NIST RPKI Deployment Monitor and Test System

BRITE - BGPSEC / RPKI Interoperability Test & Evaluation System