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Projects/Programs

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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

Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things Testbed

Ongoing
Objective - To develop general design principles useful to all cyber-physical systems testbed developers and the co-simulation community; to develop specific design concepts to guide the development, operation, and evolution of NIST’s IoT/CPS testbed; and to establish a cross-sector IoT/CPS testbed

Fundamental Metrology for Communications

Ongoing
Engineers designing the next generation of wireless applications and devices must work around the fundamental issue of radio interference. NIST CTL’s RF Technology High Speed Electronics group focuses on fundamental measurement and modeling of nonlinear microwave systems, devices and materials that

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

Reliable, High Performance Industrial Wireless Systems: Wi-Fi and TSN

Ongoing
Through collaboration with industry and academia, we will continue to develop model architectures for high-priority industrial use cases that include mobile robotic and collaborative platforms. We will continue to select use cases based on industry input and our independent research. In this project

Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

Completed
With the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart Manufacturing Systems provide a vision of future manufacturing that incorporate highly dynamic physical systems, robust and responsive communications systems, and computing paradigms to maximize efficiency, enable mobility

Trusted Spectrum Testing

Ongoing
COEXISTENCE METRICS The Trusted Spectrum Testing program focuses on coexistence metrics and testing methods for wireless systems in shared-spectrum environments. With the goal of understanding a system's response and impact on a local radio frequency environment, our RF Technology Division measures

Trustworthy Networks Program

Ongoing
The need for Trustworthy Networking Internet Society Report on the Future of the Internet “Perhaps the most pressing danger to the future of the Internet is the rising scope and breadth of Cyber Threats.” “Addressing cyber threats should be the priority” “The scale of cyberattacks is steadily

Wireless Coexistence

Ongoing
What is Wireless Coexistence? Wireless coexistence is the capability of multiple wireless devices and services in the same geographical area to access the same RF spectrum band simultaneously without causing harmful interference to each other. In other words, can they all operate successfully and