TWC SBE: Medium: Collaborative: Dollars for Hertz: Making Trustworthy Spectrum Sharing Technically and Economically Viable

2010年国家宽带计划（NBP）强调了频谱作为经济增长催化剂的关键作用。 NBP面临的一个挑战是，在存在来自任何来源的恶意传输造成的干扰的情况下实现最佳频谱共享，但特别是共享频谱的次要用户。 这个复杂的问题跨越了无线技术、产业经济、国际标准和监管政策。 这个跨学科的多大学合作项目研究了从算法到执法的多个方面的问题。 研究人员研究（1）事前频谱规则执行机制（即，预防性的），例如经由策略推理器的频谱接入控制，（2）事后频谱规则实施方案（即，惩罚性的）与采用加密承诺的政策一致性监测，（3）事后执行计划，可以唯一地识别流氓发射机，以及（4）与不同的执行计划频谱共享的经济可行性。该项目提供了广泛的教育和行业推广活动，以迅速插入研究进展到课程和大学-行业合作伙伴关系。 具体来说，研究人员将在每年一度的弗吉尼亚理工大学无线研讨会和暑期学校上提供短期课程和教程，并通过弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学的NSF工业大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC）广泛传播研究结果。

The critical role of spectrum as a catalyst for economic growth was highlighted in the 2010 National Broadband Plan (NBP). A challenge for the NBP is realizing optimal spectrum sharing in the presence of interference caused by rogue transmissions from any source, but particularly secondary users who share the spectrum. This complex problem straddles wireless technology, industrial economics, international standards, and regulatory policy. This interdisciplinary, multi-university collaborative project studies the many dimensions of the problem from algorithms to law enforcement. The investigators study (1) ex-ante spectrum rule enforcement mechanisms (i.e., preventive) such as spectrum access control via policy reasoners, (2) ex-post spectrum rule enforcement schemes (i.e., punitive) with policy conformance monitoring that employ cryptographic commitments, (3) ex-post enforcement schemes that can uniquely identify rogue transmitters, and (4) the economic viability of spectrum sharing with different enforcement schemes.The project provides a broad range of education and industry outreach activities in order to rapidly insert research advances into curriculum and university-industry partnerships. Specifically, the investigators will present short courses and tutorials at the annual Virginia Tech Wireless Symposium and Summer School, and widely disseminate findings through NSF Industry & University Collaborative Research Centers (I/UCRC) at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.