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PSCR 2020_Expanding the SIM Card Use Prize Challenge Overview

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Michael J. Bartock, Conor Patrick, Matt Lourie, Shane Weeden
PSCR and a few partnering entities finished a recent PSCR sponsored prize challenge, the Expanding the SIM Card Use for Public Safety. The challenge requested solvers’ assistance to explore the possibilities and prove the Universal Integrated Circuit Card

PSCR 2020_First Responder IoT Environments: Examining Data Foundations

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Alison M. Kahn
As Internet of Things (IoT) technologies become more prevalent in society, there is still a large technology gap existing in the public safety field. This presentation discusses a joint effort between the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR)

PSCR 2020_Immersive Firearm Ballistics Simulation in Virtual Reality

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Christopher E. Johnson
Virtual Reality Developer Chris Johnson conducts a deep dive analysis into the considerations and challenges of creating an immersive virtual reality AR-15 patrol rifle for NIST PSCR’s Haptic Challenge SWAT Scenario, and accurately simulating its ballistic

PSCR 2020_INNOVATING ON DRONE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT FIRST RESPONDER MISSIONS

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Hien V. Nguyen, Maxwell Maurice, Terese Manley, Kamel Saidi, Philip Hall, Christopher Stockhowe, Michael O'Shea, Raymond Sheh
Imagine the possibilities of using an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to carry a wireless broadband communications network to support a public safety mission. Learn about PSCRs Deployables research and how UASs are being evaluated as tools to assist first

PSCR 2020_Making an Impact: Experiences of PSCR's Awardees

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Jeremy E. Glenn, Fidel Liberal, Solmaz Kia, Heather Sittig, Rajarathnam Chandramouli
This session seeks to explore the impacts of the PSIAP program on award recipients. Our diverse panel of awardees will discuss their experience including how the program impacted their organization, expanded their network and introduced them to public

PSCR 2020_Mission Critical Voice Portfolio Strategy

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Donald A. Bradshaw
An overview of the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division 2020 Mission Critical Voice (MCV) portfolio. This includes a cohesive view of the internal and external research activities, their origins, intents, successes, and activity through

PSCR 2020_Mission Critical Voice QoE Measurement Methods

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Silas T. Thompson
This presentation covers the latest update on PSCR’s measurement methods for Mission Critical Voice (MCV) Quality of Experience (QoE) Key Performance Indicators (KPI). The importance of Intelligibility and how it is used in the measurement strategy is

PSCR 2020_Mobile Fingerprint Capture for First Responders

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Jeremy E. Glenn, John T. Beltz, Brad Truitt
This panel will discuss the technology gaps and problem statements currently being researched for mobile, high quality fingerprint capture for first responders. This discussion incorporates work performed by NIST’s Information Access Division (IAD). IAD

PSCR 2020_Multicast and Unicast in Serving Public Safety Traffic

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Chunmei Liu
Given a significant amount of group traffic in public safety incidents, multicast has the potential to outperform unicast in terms of precious spectrum savings and first responders’ experience. In this study and for both unicast and multicast, we explore

PSCR 2020_Non-ISSI LMR to LTE MCPTT

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Christopher J. Walton, Chic J. O'Dell
This presentation explores a low-cost method to bridge analog public safety Land mobile radio (LMR) systems into a standards based Long Term Evolution (LTE) Mission Critical Push to Talk (MCPTT) system. Design goals include robustness, cost, and the

PSCR 2020_Pecha Kucha Portfolio Overview

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
John Beltz, Roger Blalock, Donald Bradshaw, John S. Garofolo, Joe Grasso, Scott Ledgerwood, Brianna Vendetti
The PSCR Research Portfolio Leaders provide overview presentations of the projects housed within their portfolios, using just 20 slides that showcase each for only 20 seconds. Their traditional Pecha Kucha style presentations are combined into this

PSCR 2020_PSCR Program Overview

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Dereck R. Orr
PSCR’s Division Chief, Dereck Orr, shares an introduction to PSCR 2020: The Digital Experience and a brief overview of PSCR’s history. Attendees hear important program updates and impacts from the past year and learn more about the future focus of PSCR.

PSCR 2020_Resilient Communication Network Platform

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Samuel L. Ray, Hien V. Nguyen
PSCR has been researching deployable communications systems for first responders since 2015. In this session, PSCR presents the latest addition to our research portfolio. Sponsored by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T)

PSCR 2020_Social Media Incident Streams

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff
The ubiquity of mobile internet-enabled devices combined with wide-spread social media use during emergencies is posing new challenges for response personnel. In particular, service operators are now expected to monitor these online channels to extract

PSCR 2020_Speech Analytics for Public Safety

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Frederick R. Byers
Evolving applications for public safety communications sometimes rely on speech analytic technologies. These include hands-free voice interface and situational awareness systems, for example. Underlying these types of applications are speech analytic

PSCR 2020_The Evolution of Direct Mode in 3GPP

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Richard A. Rouil
Direct Mode communication remains one of the major hurdles for transitioning from Land Mobile Radio (LMR) to broadband technology. This session will start by providing some background information on 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) direct mode, called

PSCR 2020_UAS Standard Test Methods

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Kamel S. Saidi
The session gives a brief recap of the work that NIST has been doing to help first responders use ground, air, and aquatic robots since 2001. This includes a summary of the work that has been accomplished to-date and the standards that have been published

PSCR 2020: What We Learned by Participating in a PSCR Challenge

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
Sarah L. Hughes, Todd Heinl, Felix Desourdy, Sean Hackett, Ryan Fields-Spack
This NIST publication consists of two past judges and two innovators sharing from their perspective what they learned about innovating for public safety through their participation in the Haptic Interfaces for Public Safety Challenge.

Recommendation for Stateful Hash-Based Signature Schemes

October 29, 2020
Author(s)
David Cooper, Daniel Apon, Quynh H. Dang, Michael S. Davidson, Morris Dworkin, Carl Miller
This recommendation specifies two algorithms that can be used to generate a digital signature, both of which are stateful hash-based signature schemes: the Leighton-Micali Signature (LMS) system and the eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme (XMSS), along with

Conformational gating, dynamics and allostery in human monoacylglycerol lipase

October 28, 2020
Author(s)
Sergiy Tyukhtenko, Girija Rajarshi, Ioannis Karageorgos, Nikolai Zvonok, Kiran Vemuri, Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Xiaoyu Ma, Mahmoud L. Nasr, Alexandros Makriyannis, Kyle Anderson, Jason J. Guo, Gerhard Wagner
Inhibition of human Monoacylglycerol Lipase (hMGL) offers a novel approach for treating neurological diseases. The design of inhibitors, targeting active-inactive conformational transitions of the enzyme, can be aided by understanding the interplay between

Plasmonic Electronic Raman Scattering as Internal Standard for Spatial and Temporal Calibration in Quantitative Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

October 28, 2020
Author(s)
Wonil Nam, Yuming Zhao, Junyeob Song, Seied Ali Safiabadi Tali, Seju Kang, Wenqi Zhu, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Peter J. Vikesland, Wei Zhou
Ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) still faces difficulties in quantitative analysis because of its susceptibility to local optical field variations at plasmonic hotspots in metallo-dielectric nanostructures. Current SERS calibration
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