NSF International Travel Grant for 2015 Future Directions in Spectrum Management Research Workshop

高速移动互联网接入的增长已经彻底改变了我们的生活，并有望继续有增无减。随着机器对机器（M2M）、自动驾驶汽车和无处不在的视频等新应用的出现，无线移动通信量的快速增长和游牧访问将使所有其他无线应用相形见绌。因此，设计能够维持这种流量增长的未来无线网络是一项重要的研究挑战。这种设计的一个关键部分是利用无线电频谱的最大效率和最大公共利益的频谱管理策略。本次研讨会将探讨未来十年研究人员在频谱管理方面面临的关键技术和政策挑战。拟议的国际旅行补助金将使美国的研究人员能够参与这些重要的全球对话。美国的研究人员都将能够代表美国我们对频谱管理的独特看法，并了解欧洲和其他地方正在采用的不同方法。此外，美国的研究人员回国后将对关键研究问题有更清晰的认识，以指导他们自己未来的研究，有助于使美国保持在无线通信研究的前沿。该奖项将为最多15名美国研究人员提供旅行资助，以参加2015年频谱管理研究未来方向研讨会。该研讨会将于2015年9月29日在瑞典斯德哥尔摩举行，与IEEE DySPAN 2015同期举行。将提供旅行补助金，使未参加IEEE DySPAN会议的美国研究人员能够为研讨会带来多样化的观点。还将提供一些较小的旅费补助金，使DySPAN的演讲者能够在斯德哥尔摩多呆一天，参加讲习班。PI将寻求确定并为来自代表性不足的群体的研究人员颁发一些旅行奖。

The growth of high-speed mobile internet access has already revolutionized our lives and is expected to continue unabated. As new applications such as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), self-driving cars, and ubiquitous video appear on the horizon, rapid growth of traffic in wireless mobile and nomadic access will dwarf all other wireless applications. Therefore, design of future wireless networks that can sustain such traffic growth is an important research challenge. A critical piece of such design is spectrum management strategies that leverage maximum efficiency and maximum public benefit from the radio spectrum. This workshop will explore the key technical and policy challenges in spectrum management facing researchers in the coming decade. The proposed international travel grants will enable U.S.-based researchers to participate in these important global conversations. U.S.-based researchers will both be able to represent the U.S.'s unique perspective on spectrum management and be informed by the different approaches being adopted in Europe and elsewhere. Moreover, U.S.-based researchers will return home with a clearer sense of key research problems to guide their own future research, helping to enable the U.S. to remain at the forefront of wireless communications research.This award will enable travel grants to be made to up to 15 U.S.-based researchers to attend the 2015 Future Directions in Spectrum Management Research Workshop. The workshop is being held in Stockholm, Sweden on September 29, 2015, co-located with IEEE DySPAN 2015. Travel grants will be made to enable U.S.-based researchers that are not presenting at IEEE DySPAN to bring a diversity of views to the workshop. A few smaller travel grants will also be made to enable DySPAN presenters to be in Stockholm for an additional day to participate in the workshop. The PI will seek to identify and make some travel awards to researchers from underrepresented groups.