SBIR Phase I: Cognitive Radio Small Cell for Pervasive Coverage and Sustained

该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力包括三个细分市场以及在技术开发和工程培训方面的国内/国际合作。第一个细分市场将是为急救人员提供一种方法，通过部署现场智能可自我配置的通信系统来提高事件管理通信的可靠性。预计这将改善应急人员在发生灾害和危机时对通信设备的依赖。第二部分是将拟议的小型蜂窝定位于国内运营商，供企业客户和消费者使用，以增加当地的容量和覆盖范围。最后，第三个细分市场是通过合作为在新兴市场部署4G/5G系统提供关键的频谱管理能力。该计划还将为研究生提供培训计划，并与国内和国际合作伙伴建立复杂的研发伙伴关系。这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目旨在开发一种认知载波中立的移动通信小蜂窝。随着时间的推移，由于监管问题和频谱稀缺，有效利用无线频谱的能力正变得更加普遍，甚至更有必要。然而，目前的通信系统频谱效率不够高，这就是为什么存在频谱抢占的原因。为了解决频谱稀缺问题，通信技术需要的一个关键改进是智能频谱重用。该建议旨在开发一种认知小蜂窝，能够为附近的用户提供智能可靠的覆盖和持续的数据速率。该通信系统的主要优点将是：1)作为即插即用接入点运行；2)提供运营商中立的第4代/第5代(4G/5G)无线覆盖；3)当多个小区部署在连续区域中时，向移动用户提供无缝覆盖和持续的数据速率；4)通过带宽聚合在多个频带中同时运行；以及5)通过互联网协议版本6(IPv6)回程从运营商网络卸载业务。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project includes three market segments and domestic/international collaboration in technology development and engineering training. The first market segment will be to provide first responders with a way to improve reliability in the communication for incident management through the deployment of on-the-scene smart self-configurable communication systems. This is expected to improve first responder reliance on communications equipment at times of disasters and crisis. The second segment is to target the proposed small cells to domestic carriers for use by enterprise customers and consumers to increase capacity and coverage locally. Finally, the third segment is to provide key spectrum management capability to the deployment of a 4G/5G system in emerging markets through partnerships. The program will also enable training programs for graduate students and complex research & development partnerships with domestic and international partners. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to develop a cognitive carrier-neutral small cell for mobile communications. The ability to effectively use wireless spectrum is becoming more prevalent, and even more of a requirement, as time goes on due to regulatory issues and spectrum scarcity. However, current communication systems are not sufficiently spectrum-efficient, which is why there is a land-grab for spectrum. A critical improvement needed in communication technology to address spectrum scarcity is smart spectrum reuse. This proposal seeks to develop a cognitive small cell capable of providing smart reliable coverage, and sustained data rates to users in the vicinity. The main advantages of this communication system will be to: 1) Operate as a plug-and-play access point; 2) Provide carrier neutral 4th generation/5th generation (4G/5G) wireless coverage; 3) Provide seamless coverage and sustained data rates to mobile users when multiple cells are deployed in contiguous areas; 4) Operate in multiple bands simultaneously through bandwidth aggregation; and 5) Offload traffic from the carrier network through an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) backhaul.