SII-Center: SpectrumX – An NSF Spectrum Innovation Center

无线通信、导航和遥测技术在全球范围内的发展带来了巨大的社会效益，包括移动的宽带数据、物联网、移动的医疗保健和智能交通系统。该奖项旨在建立频谱创新计划：国家无线频谱研究中心（SII中心），以确保美国通过有效使用和共享无线电频谱在未来无线技术，系统和科学与工程应用方面的领导地位。SII中心将促进电磁频谱的变革性使用和管理，通过有效使用和共享无线电频谱，绘制轨迹，以确保美国在科学和工程领域的未来无线技术，系统和应用方面的领导地位。 SII中心还将教育和开发支持未来严重依赖无线技术的行业所需的敏捷劳动力。 该奖项资助建立了第一个国家无线频谱研究中心SpectrumX。 SpectrumX的愿景是成为一个包容性的多学科和越来越多的跨学科中心，应用融合研究和团队科学来促进无线电频谱中不同用例之间的共存，特别是包括科学和国防的“公共利益”用例。 特别是，SpectrumX将在具有干扰测量和缓解能力的科学接收器硬件方面实施其初步研究战略;在先进的传感网络方面对无线电频谱进行仪器化;收集和共享准确的监管，使用和经济数据;将激励措施与有效成果相结合的灵活使用权;以及分布式、数据丰富和云就绪的系统设计，以实现更高效的频谱管理和利用。 该项目团队由圣母大学领导，汇集了来自27所大学的41名创始研究人员和工作人员的广泛和协同研究能力，其中包括14个少数民族服务或多数非白人机构，以及跨行业，政府和学术界的合作伙伴关系。 该中心将成为连接利益攸关方的信息和创新中心。 SpectrumX有一个扩大参与计划，旨在提高所有中心参与者对文化能力的认识，以确保多样性，公平性和包容性融入中心的价值观和文化的核心。 SpectrumX将通过硕士生为六年级开发频谱相关课程，并制定教育和劳动力发展计划，为来自不同背景，学科，该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

The worldwide growth of wireless communication, navigation, and telemetry has provided immense societal benefits including mobile broadband data, Internet of Things, mobile healthcare, and intelligent transportation systems. This award is a grant to establish a Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Center for Wireless Spectrum Research (SII-Center) 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. An SII-Center will promote transformative use and management of the electromagnetic spectrum, charting 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. An SII-Center will also educate and develop an agile workforce needed to support industries of the future which rely heavily on wireless technologies. This award funds the establishment of the first national center for wireless spectrum research, SpectrumX. The vision for SpectrumX is to be an inclusive multidisciplinary and increasingly interdisciplinary center that applies convergence research and team science to promote coexistence among disparate use cases in the radio spectrum, particularly including “public good” use cases for science and defense. In particular, SpectrumX will pursue its initial research strategy in scientific receiver hardware with interference measurement and mitigation capabilities; instrumentation of the radio spectrum in terms of advanced sensing networks; collecting and sharing accurate regulatory, usage, and economic data; flexible use rights that align incentives with efficient outcomes; and distributed, data-rich, and cloud-ready system designs for more efficient spectrum management and utilization. The project team is led by the University of Notre Dame, bringing together broad and synergistic research capabilities from a team of 41 founding researchers and staff from 27 universities, including 14 minority-serving or majority non-white institutions, and partnerships across industry, government, and academia. The Center will be an information and innovation hub connecting stakeholders. SpectrumX has a Broadening Participation plan aimed to increase awareness of cultural competence for all center participants to ensure that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are woven into the core of the Center’s values and culture. SpectrumX will develop spectrum-related curriculum for Grade 6 through master’s students and has an Education and Workforce Development Plan to offer flexible pathways for researchers and students from diverse backgrounds, disciplines, and levels of maturity to engage in spectrum innovation.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.