SII Planning: Creating a Visionary, Interdisciplinary, and Transformational National Center for Spectrum and Wireless Systems Research

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。在过去的40年里，无线系统在全球范围内的增长带来了巨大的社会效益，使数字连接、远程医疗、社交媒体、改进的天气预报等成为可能。它还对无线电频谱的许多部分提出了重大和相互竞争的要求。为了应对这些挑战，该项目支持无线创新和频谱演进(WISE)；该项目召集了FCC和NTIA的前高级管理人员以及来自科罗拉多博尔德大学、加州大学圣地亚哥分校、匹兹堡大学和波多黎各大学马亚圭兹大学的大学教职员工。WISE小组将通过研讨会和讨论制定研究议程和伙伴关系。将支持学生参加这些研讨会，并为K-12学生开发光谱科学模块。通过中心的发展过程，来自学术界、联邦政府和工业界的利益相关者将参与确定中心需要应对的关键技术、政策和劳动力挑战。六个核心研究重点领域将包括：频谱效率和共存；下一代无线电设备；频谱科学；建模和测量；无线系统；以及政策、经济和隐私。汇集研究人员、政策制定者和关键利益相关者的过程将导致制定一个整合和成功的无线创新和频谱演进中心的愿景和路线图。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. Over the past four decades, worldwide growth of wireless systems has provided tremendous societal benefit, enabling increased digital connectivity, telemedicine, social media, improved weather forecasting and more. It has also put significant and competing demands on many parts of the radio spectrum. To meet these challenges, this project supports the Wireless Innovation and Spectrum Evolution (WISE); which convenes former members of the Senior Executive Service in the FCC and NTIA and university faculty from the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of California San Diego, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez. The WISE group will develop a research agenda and partnerships through workshops and discussions. Students will be supported to participate in these workshops and to develop spectrum science modules for K-12 students.Through the center development process, stakeholders from academia, the federal government, and industry will be engaged to identify key technology, policies and workforce challenges to be addressed by the center. Six core research focus areas will include: Spectrum Efficiency and Coexistence; Next Generation Radio Devices; Spectrum Science; Modeling and Measurement; Wireless Systems; and Policy, Economics and Privacy. The process of bringing researchers, policy makers, and key stakeholders will result in the development of a vision and road map for an integrated and successful Wireless Innovation and Spectrum Evolution Center.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.