NSF SII Planning: National Center for Spectrum Innovation

该奖项是对频谱创新计划：国家无线频谱研究中心(SII-Center)的规划拨款。频谱研究SII-Center的重点超越了5G、物联网和其他现有或即将到来的系统和技术，以绘制出一条轨迹，通过有效使用和共享无线电频谱，确保美国在未来无线技术、系统和科学和工程应用方面的领先地位。该项目包括设想和阐述国家频谱创新中心(“中心”)所需的规划活动，该中心是一个由德克萨斯农工大学领导的多学科、多机构的研发合作机构。该中心的愿景是成为全国研究、教育、政策和公共宣传的中心，以确保所有用户都能按需获得可靠、负担得起的高质量频谱接入。研究和技术开发对于实现中心愿景是必要的，但这是不够的。对频谱接入和利用进行彻底重塑还需要新的经济模式，并在政策和监管方面进行深思熟虑的改变。它将要求改变高等教育课程和教学方法，以支持未来的劳动力，能够满足行业的需求，并维护和创新智能频谱基础设施。它将需要建立公众的兴趣和意识，以及考虑到这样一个雄心勃勃的事业的伦理层面。这个奖项概述了一个中心的规划活动，该中心是一个由德克萨斯A&A；M大学领导的多学科、多机构的研发合作机构。拟议的中心由四个主要工作组组成：技术、教育、推广和政策。该中心的技术方法将利用材料和数学方面的进步；高频和数字通信技术平台；人工智能和深度机器学习；以及模拟和神经形态计算，以开发能够在多个同时使用的用户之间动态实时分配频谱的技术。智能频谱管理有可能极大地提高无线电频谱的容量和使用效率。受益者不仅是主要的机构利益相关者，还包括普通公民，包括目前服务不足的人群中的许多人，他们可以通过负担得起的高速无线服务获得医疗保健、教育和经济机会。根据规划拨款完成的工作将把拟议的中心定位为与频谱相关的研究、教育、政策和公共外展方面的主要国家合作中心。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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. This project includes the planning activities needed to envision and articulate a National Spectrum Innovation Center (the “Center”), a multidisciplinary, multi-institution research and development collaboration led by Texas A&M University. The Center’s vision is to serve as a national hub for research, education, policy, and public outreach needed to assure the on-demand availability of dependable, affordable, high-quality spectrum access to all users. Research and technology development will be necessary to achieving the Center vision, but it will not be sufficient. Implementing a radical reshaping of spectrum access and utilization will also require new economic models and thoughtful changes in policy and regulation. It will demand changes in higher education curriculum and pedagogy to support a future workforce capable of meeting the needs of industry and of maintaining and innovating an intelligent-spectrum infrastructure. And it will need to build public interest and awareness, as well as account for the ethical dimensions of such an ambitious undertaking.This award outlines planning activities for a Center which is a multidisciplinary, multi-institution R&D collaboration led by Texas A&M University. The proposed center is composed of four key working groups: Technology, Education, Outreach and Policy. The Center’s technical approach will leverage advances in materials and mathematics; high-frequency and digital communication technology platforms; artificial intelligence and deep machine learning; and analog and neuromorphic computing to develop technologies that can dynamically allocate spectrum in real time across multiple, simultaneous users. Intelligent spectrum management has the potential to dramatically increase the capacity and efficiency of use of the radio spectrum. Beneficiaries will be not only the major institutional stakeholders, but also ordinary citizens, including many in currently underserved populations, for whom affordable, high-speed wireless services could provide access to health care, education, and economic opportunity. Work done under the planning grant will position the proposed Center to be a major locus of national collaboration in spectrum-related research, education, policy, and public outreach.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.