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Information Technology /Networking

Network test & measurement

News and Updates

O-RAN Alliance Group Picture - Face to Face Meeting Paris 2025

CTL Staff Advance O-RAN Standards

CTL staff made several technical contributions to the O-RAN Alliance face-to-face meeting on February 24-28 in the areas of security, testing, and RAN

Events

Projects and Programs

Advanced Security Architectures for Next Generation Wireless

Ongoing
National Priorities: The National Strategy to Secure 5G and Implementation Plan goals to: facilitate the rollout of 5G domestically; assess the cybersecurity risks to and identify core security principles of 5G capabilities and infrastructure; address risks to United States economic and national

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
Information Centric Networking Program Image

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

Publications

Capture and Analysis of Traffic Traces on a Wide-Area NDN Testbed

Author(s)
Sankalpa Timilsina, Davide Pesavento, Junxiao Shi, Susmit Shannigrahi, Lotfi Benmohamed
High-quality network traffic measurements from realistic network deployments are crucial to analyze and better understand emerging network technologies for the

Software

Screen shot from the NIST RPKI Monitor

NIST RPKI Deployment Monitor

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The NIST RPKI Monitor is a test and measurement tool designed to monitor the dynamics of the global Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) and the impact of