SII Planning: Broad Explorations on Spectrum Technologies for Navigation, Environment, Surveillance, and Transportation (BEST NEST)

SII规划：导航、环境、监控和交通频谱技术的广泛探索（BEST NEST）

• 批准号: 2037782
• 负责人: Seyed Zekavat
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2037782&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SII; Planning; Broad; Explorations; Spectrum

This award is a planning grant for the Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Center for Wireless Spectrum Research (SII-Center). The focus of a spectrum research SII-Center goes beyond 5G, IoT, and other existing or forthcoming systems and technologies to chart out a trajectory to ensure United States leadership in future wireless technologies, systems, and applications in science and engineering through the efficient use and sharing of the radio spectrum. The PIs bring together an interdisciplinary team to explore research on spectrum technologies for navigation, environment, surveillance, and transportation (BEST NEST). The team consists of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS) and Data Sciences Research Group (DSRG), in close collaboration with WPI’s Laboratory for Education and Application Prototypes (LEAP), and THz labs; Georgia Institute of Technology’s (GaTech) Electromagnetic Measurements in Communication and Computing (EMC^2) lab and GaTech Propagation Group (GTPG); University of Maine’s Wireless Sensing lab (WiSe-Net); and, Wayne State University’s Connected and Autonomous Driving (CAR) Lab. The project includes plans to initiate the creation of new cross-disciplinary curriculum to impact the training of the next-generation workforce in the emerging area of spectrum management. The proposed center will likely impact industries critical to US competitiveness in navigation, environment, healthcare, surveillance, urban transportation, and smart infrastructures. The proposed workshops called the Center Integration and Development (CID) workshops will help establish, maintain, and strengthen partnership among academia, industry, government and non-government organizations through organized panels, focused group discussions and brainstorming phases. The PIs plan to bring STEM students across multiple universities together, while exploring to engage precollege students and broaden the participation of underrepresented K-12 students. This award will fund activities towards the development of a full center proposal. The PIs propose to organize a series of CID workshops which will enable brainstorming, research coordination and community engagement, partnerships, and education and workforce development. The workshops will assess the multi-disciplinary areas of foundations, hardware, networking, security, test, and measurement, and economic and social mechanisms of spectrum technologies. The proposed BEST NEST will examine the application of spectrum management for passive systems such as space observatories, soil moisture sensing, earth exploration, and air traffic control radars. BEST NEST will also focus on sensor communication-computation techniques and protocols key to high speed, low power and efficient data acquisition, routing, analysis, and processing.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是频谱创新倡议：国家无线频谱研究中心（SII-Center）的规划拨款。频谱研究sii中心的重点超越5G、物联网和其他现有或即将推出的系统和技术，通过有效使用和共享无线电频谱，制定轨迹，确保美国在未来无线技术、系统和科学与工程应用方面的领导地位。pi汇集了一个跨学科团队，探索导航、环境、监视和交通（BEST NEST）的频谱技术研究。该团队由伍斯特理工学院（WPI）无线信息网络研究中心（CWINS）和数据科学研究小组（DSRG）组成，与WPI的教育和应用原型实验室（LEAP）和太赫兹实验室密切合作；佐治亚理工学院（GaTech）通信与计算电磁测量（EMC^2）实验室和GaTech传播组（GTPG）；缅因大学无线传感实验室（WiSe-Net）；以及韦恩州立大学的联网和自动驾驶（CAR）实验室。该项目包括启动创建新的跨学科课程的计划，以影响频谱管理新兴领域下一代劳动力的培训。拟议中的中心可能会影响对美国在导航、环境、医疗、监控、城市交通和智能基础设施方面的竞争力至关重要的行业。拟议的讲习班被称为“中心整合与发展”（CID）讲习班，将通过有组织的小组讨论、重点小组讨论和头脑风暴阶段，帮助建立、维持和加强学术界、工业界、政府和非政府组织之间的伙伴关系。pi计划将多所大学的STEM学生聚集在一起，同时探索吸引大学预科学生，扩大代表性不足的K-12学生的参与。该奖项将资助发展一个完整的中心提案的活动。这些项目建议举办一系列CID研讨会，以促进集思广益、研究协调和社区参与、伙伴关系以及教育和劳动力发展。研讨会将评估频谱技术的基础、硬件、网络、安全、测试和测量以及经济和社会机制等多学科领域。拟议的BEST NEST将研究频谱管理在被动系统中的应用，如空间观测站、土壤湿度传感、地球探测和空中交通管制雷达。BEST NEST还将专注于传感器通信计算技术和协议，这些技术是高速、低功耗和高效数据采集、路由、分析和处理的关键。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。