Cloud computing & virtualization

News and Updates

NIST Updates Guide on Communications Standards to Federal Agencies

November 1, 2023

NIST released an updated version of its Interagency Report on Advanced Communication Technologies Standards which is a guide for Federal agencies on standards

NIST/IEEE Workshop Speakers Emphasize Global Collaboration on 6G

September 1, 2023

In September, NIST and IEEE conducted a hybrid workshop on 6G Core Networks, drawing speakers and participants from the U.S. and multiple countries. The

NIST Hosts Annual Meeting on Future Internet Architecture

March 1, 2023

NIST conducted the Named Data Networking (NDN) Community Meeting 2023 in Gaithersburg, MD at its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and online, on 2-3

Projects and Programs

Multi-Domain Knowledge Planes for Service Federation for 5G & Beyond Public Working Group (MDKP-PWG)

Ongoing

The NIST Transformational Networks and Services group, of NIST’s Communication Technology Laboratory’s Smart Connected Systems Division, has formed the Multi

Edge AI

Ongoing

With significant technology advancement and growing commercialization of edge/fog computing, edge AI (artificial intelligence) has now become a new frontier

Software Defined Virtual Networks

Ongoing

NIST is working to develop test and measurement techniques to advance the state of the art in network virtualization, network service function chaining

Comparative Mammalian Proteome Aggregator Resource (CoMPARe) Program

Ongoing

NIST is developing a portal to enable researchers to mine high-quality proteomic data from phylogenetically diverse species to identify advantageous biological

Publications

Discovery of digital forensic dataset characteristics with CASE-Corpora

February 13, 2023

Author(s)

Alexander Nelson, Eoghan Casey

The digital forensics community has generated training and reference data over the course of decades. However, significant challenges persist today in the usage

Discovery of digital forensic dataset characteristics with CASE-Corpora

July 11, 2022

Author(s)

Alexander Nelson

The digital forensics community has generated training and reference data over the course of decades. However, significant challenges persist today in the usage

Towards Software Defined Measurement with Open vSwitches: Designs, Implementation, and Evaluation

June 18, 2022

Author(s)

Zili Zha, An Wang, Yang Guo, Songqing Chen

Network measurement is critical for various network operations and management but has been often constrained by the available resources in the traditional

EZPath: Expediting Container Network Traffic via Programmable Switches in Data Centers

June 13, 2022

Author(s)

Zili Zha, An Wang, Yang Guo, Songqing Chen

Containerization, while getting popular in data centers, faces practical challenges due to the sharing nature of cloud networks among tens of thousands

Awards

John Messina Wins INCITS Service Award

INCITS recognizes Mr. Messina for his numerous contributions to the INCITS/Cloud38 – Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms standards

Annie Sokol Wins INCITS Merit Award

Ms. Sokol is recognized for her tenacious participation and significant exemplary leadership in the development of international standards