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Communications Technology Laboratory / Smart Connected Systems Division

Transformational Networks and Services Group

Projects/Programs

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Asynchronous Cooperative Linear Dispersion Coding

Completed
The space–time block coding (STBC) techniques provide full spatial diversity in the context of collocated multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems, requiring reliable wireless communications at high rates. However, it may not always be practical to accommodate multiple antennas at the mobile
Operating Envelope Specification supports automated driving safety measurement, key to testing and public acceptance of automated vehicles

Automated Vehicles and AV Communications

Ongoing
Automated vehicles (AVs), or Automated Driving Systems-equipped (ADS-equipped) vehicles, have great potential to improve our lives by freeing us from the stress of driving and reducing accidents caused by distractions or poor judgement. Connected, reliable, and safe AVs will spark significant

Collaborative Microgrid for Smart Buildings

Completed
Currently, the idea of designing collaborative smart buildings is becoming a real challenge. Indeed, the emergence of smart grids and the growing use of smart household appliances is the main driving force behind the use of demand side management. This would require developing an efficient control

Composition in IoT/CPS

Completed
One approach develops a ‘CPS algebra’ based on a formal language that offers the expressive power needed to capture the observable behavior of Cyber-Physical System (CPS) components, and at the same time offers a way to express the notion of composition of CPSs. A second effort extends the in

Cooperative Diversity Routing and Transmission for Wireless Sensor Networks

Completed
In order to address the challenges of cooperation, PHY layer cooperation schemes were proposed and, to a limited extent, medium access control (MAC) layer schemes. On the network layer, the network coding techniques can be viewed as a form of cooperation as well. To the best of our knowledge, there

Cooperative vs Non-Cooperative Diversity in Space, Time and Frequency

Completed
Broadband communication plays an increasingly important role in meeting the growing demand for high-speed multimedia transmissions in our daily lives. However, when the bandwidth of a signal exceeds the coherent bandwidth of the wireless channel, the small-scale fading imposed on the signal becomes

Cooperative Single-Carrier FDMA Communications

Completed
The worldwide growth in both the number of mobile subscribers and their demand for increased rate mobile broadband services provided further impetus for the mobile telecommunication operators to improve both the capacity and the reliability of cellular networks. When communicating over broadband

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
5G Core Network Testbed Project

5G Core Networks Testbed

Ongoing
This project, as part of our 6G Core and Edge Networks and Services Project, is building a 5G/6G Core Network Testbed— which we refer to as OpenCoreNet—to support research on sixth generation (6G) networks and to explore how 6G can best improve industry applications. OpenCoreNet focuses on core

Directional Routing Protocols for Ad-hoc Networks

Completed
In wireless ad-hoc networks smart antenna techniques, capable of providing spatial reuse, longer ranges, interference suppression and other beneficial features, have been investigated to improve achievable performance and system capacity. Most works in current open literature focus on the design and

Edge AI

Ongoing
This project: Develops edge learning and edge-enabled collaborative learning algorithms. Develops measurement methods for testing the performance and robustness of edge-learned, and more generally collaboratively learned, AI/ML models. Collaborates with other projects (e.g., 5G/6G Core Network
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Information Centric Networking Program

Ongoing
Today the Internet relies on content distribution network overlays and caching to deliver most of its traffic. It is not clear that this architecture can continue to scale to meet data projections of the next decade and beyond. Current research in information-centric networking proposes a new

Internet Infrastructure Protection

Ongoing
In the FY 2016 ITL staff made significant contributions in the design, standardization, test and measurement of technologies to improve the security and robustness of the Internet’s global routing protocol BGP. NIST staff are key contributors to Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards to

Low-Complexity Optimized MIMO Receiver

Completed
Transmit diversity is a very significant characteristic which a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system possesses. Nevertheless, due to the size of a mobile phone, the 10λ distance between two antennas allowing each channel to be independent is difficult to fulfill. Against this

Mobile Cloud Computing

Ongoing
Design robustness using formal language This effort develops a formal specification using the π-calculus to define a virtual device representation. It also describes a way to compose multiple virtual devices representing physical devices available on the network to build a composite virtual

Neighborhood Area Communication Network

Completed
The smart grid is comprised of many networks (domains) with various boundaries that have to be interconnected to provide end-to-end services. The challenge is to design network architectures that can meet the interoperability requirements for inter-domain and intra-domain communications, as
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NIST Automated Vehicles Program

Ongoing
Measurement science and standards are needed to support the safe and predictable operation of future automated vehicles (AVs), which have great potential to significantly impact our daily lives and improve the competitiveness of our economy. A FY22 NIST Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives
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NIST Cloud Computing Program - NCCP

Ongoing
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction

Power Quality Measurements and Fault Detection and Identification

Completed
Traditionally, disturbance detection relies on customer calls to the utility and through the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system. A major disadvantage of SCADA is that the measurements are not synchronized, which means that the fault detection process is not precise or timely
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Proximity Detection for Electronic Contact Tracing

Completed
We are developing performance metrics for not just ranging, but also for detecting close contacts, which in the context of COVID-19 is the situation where two people are less than six feet apart with no obstacles between them. Obviously, the duration of a close contact is important, as it affects

Quantum Optical Networks

Ongoing
The program's technical research areas are: Architecture research for Quantum Optical Networks and integration with classical networks Management (label, identify, track) and Control Plane (signal and route optical paths) Software Stacks Performance monitoring for end-to-end Quality of Entanglement

Smart Grid Communications

Completed
Currently, the Smart Grid faces challenges in terms of reliability and security in both wired and wireless communication environments. The most important challenge is a lack of communication network infrastructure, which is a key factor in supporting the grid monitoring system. In the absence of any