ITS: The Nation’s Spectrum and Communications Lab
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News
March 21, 2023
ITS electronics engineer Dr. Robert T. Johnk, named a Life Senior Member of the IEEE based on his sustained and lasting contributions to the IEEE EMC Society, was selected as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE...
February 28, 2023
The ITS Video Quality Research group yesterday hosted virtual meetings of the No-Reference (NR) Metrics (NORM) working group, one of the current...
October 11, 2022
The introduction of Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) systems in the US between 3700 and 3980 MHz has raised concerns about electromagnetic compatibility with airborne radar altimeter (radalt) receivers operating between...
Recent Publications
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Journal Article : The Precision and Repeatability of Media Quality Comparisons: Measurements and New Statistical Methods February 2023, Margaret H. Pinson. This paper calculates confidence intervals for 89 datasets that use the 5-level Absolute Category Rating (ACR) method to evaluate the quality of speech, video, images, and video with audio. This data a...
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NTIA Technical Memo TM-23-565: Relationships between Gilbert-Elliot Burst Error Model Parameters and Error Statistics January 2023, Jaden Pieper; Stephen D. Voran. The Gilbert-Elliot model is a popular and effective tool for treating bursty (nonindependent) errors in communication links. This memorandum provides linkages between model parameters and error statis...
This Month in ITS History
March 1976: ITS Connects to the ARPANET
In 1975, the Federal Telecommunications Standard Committee (FTSC) assigned Lead Agency responsibility to ITS for the development of Federal Standard 1033, “Criteria for Assessing the Performance of Telecommunication Systems Used to Support Federal Information Processing.” ITS interfaced its newly acquired host system to the ARPANET in March 1976 and immediately began performance parameter measurements on ARPANET transmissions. Pointing to “the rapid growth of digital communications to permit transfer of data between computers, the encryption of voice communications for security reasons, and the growth of specialized networks for business, health care, electronic mes ...