NSF SII Planning: National Center for Spectrum Innovation

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。该项目包括设想和阐明国家频谱创新中心（“中心”）所需的规划活动，这是一个由德克萨斯农工大学领导的多学科、多机构研究和开发合作。该中心的愿景是成为研究、教育、政策和公众宣传的国家中心，以确保所有用户都能按需获得可靠、负担得起、高质量的频谱接入。研究和技术开发将是实现中心愿景的必要条件，但这还不够。要彻底重塑频谱接入和利用方式，还需要新的经济模式和深思熟虑的政策法规变革。它将要求高等教育课程和教学方法的变革，以支持未来的劳动力能够满足工业需求，维护和创新智能频谱基础设施。它还需要建立公众的兴趣和意识，并考虑到这样一项雄心勃勃的事业的道德层面。该奖项概述了该中心的规划活动，该中心是由德克萨斯农工大学领导的多学科、多机构研发合作。拟议中的中心由四个关键工作组组成：技术、教育、外联和政策。该中心的技术方法将利用材料和数学的进步；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，开发能够在多个同时用户之间实时动态分配频谱的技术。智能频谱管理具有显著提高无线电频谱使用容量和效率的潜力。受益者不仅是主要的机构利益相关者，而且还包括普通公民，包括目前服务不足的人口中的许多人，他们负担得起的高速无线服务可以为他们提供医疗保健、教育和经济机会。在计划拨款下完成的工作将使拟议的中心成为频谱相关研究、教育、政策和公共宣传方面的国家合作的主要场所。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。

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.