WiFiUS: Collaborative Research: Joint Network and Market Design for Content and Spectrum Sharing in Future 5G Networks (JoiNtMaCS)

以5G概念和相关的一套未来标准为代表的未来无线网络预计将满足一系列新要求，利用技术和监管进步，并克服频谱短缺的挑战。然而，新技术的成功不仅取决于其技术优势，还取决于消费者/用户、竞争服务和内容提供商以及管理/规范公共机构的经济考虑之间错综复杂的相互作用。该项目从技术和商业两个角度探索未来5G网络的新无线频谱和内容共享概念。该项目的总体目标是研究和开发5G网络新频谱/内容共享的基本技术和业务方面，这可能会导致显著的技术性能改进，并彻底改变未来的无线市场和运营商业务。这项研究的学术价值可以围绕其四个研究主题来描述：(I)未来5G市场的新的、潜在的变革性商业模式，特别是移动运营商的新商业模式，(Ii)各种可能的未来架构下的网络内动态频谱和内容共享和定价机制，考虑到新的商业模式，并弥合技术和经济考虑之间的差距，(Iii)协作内容分发，可为无线利益相关者带来双赢关系，以及(Iv)智能内容缓存，以提高不同网络和商业场景的性能。研究计划的一个独特方面是，它强调各种架构选择的业务和经济影响，并使用正式模型捕获技术性能以及业务/经济考虑因素。这项研究利用调查人员的互补专业知识，在三个机构的五个私人投资机构之间建立了一个有凝聚力的多学科国际团队。该项目的更广泛影响包括：(1)开发课程项目，使学生了解网络的市场/经济方面，以及关于内容和频谱共享的未来架构选择；(2)开发将在暑期学校和会议上提供的关于这一主题的教程；(3)K-12外展；(4)加强学生多样性，增加工程学中女性和代表性不足群体的数量；(5)通过与行业合作进行技术转让；(6)发展双学位博士课程。

Future wireless networks, as represented by the 5G concept and associated set of future standards, are expected to meet a diverse range of new requirements, leverage technological and regulatory advancements, and overcome the spectrum scarcity challenges. However, the success of a new technology is not only determined by its technical strengths but also by an intricate interplay between the economic considerations of the consumers/users, competing service and content providers, and governing/regulating public agencies. This project explores new wireless spectrum and content sharing concepts from both technological and business perspectives for future 5G networks. The overall objective of this project is to investigate and develop fundamental technological and business aspects of new spectrum/content sharing for 5G networks, that potentially could lead to significant technical performance improvements as well as revolutionize future wireless markets and operators business. The intellectual merits of the research can be described around its four research thrusts: (i) new, potentially transformative, business models for future 5G markets, and in particular new business models for mobile operators, (ii) in-network dynamic spectrum and content sharing and pricing mechanisms under various possible future architectures that take into account the new business models and bridge the gap between technological and economic considerations, (iii) collaborative content distribution that could lead to win-win relationships for wireless stakeholders, and (iv) intelligent content caching for improved performance for different network and business scenarios. A unique aspect of the research plan is that it stresses business and economic implications of various architectural choices, with formal models that capture technology performance as well as business/economic considerations. The research leverages the complementary expertise of the investigators to build a cohesive multi-disciplinary international team between the five PIs in the three institutions. It also leverages significant contacts with industry and start-ups to guide the research directions of the project as well as influence future technologies and markets.The broader impacts of this project include (1) the development of course projects that prepare students to understand the market/economic aspects of networking and the future architectural choices regarding content and spectrum sharing, (2) the development of a tutorial on this subject to be offered at summer schools and conferences, (3) K-12 outreach, (4) enhancement of student diversity and increase of number of women and under-represented groups in engineering, (5) technology transfer through collaboration with industry, and (6) development of dual-degree PhD programs.