Collaborative Research: SII-NRDZ-SBE: Bridging the techno-economic gap for the design of spectrum Zone Management Systems

奖项2332054和2332055资助一位经济学家和两位电气工程师之间的合作，他们希望利用机制设计的见解来开发在6 GHz频段共享频谱的方法。该项目应用基本经济模型来分析共享频谱的市场。该团队将描述不同市场结构和不同频谱共享模式下的经济结果。这项工作与分析实现市场友好型频谱共享的体制和监管挑战紧密结合。无线频谱接入对美国经济增长越来越重要。为了满足对这种资源不断增长的需求，需要新的频谱共享范例，并且这些范例需要在经济上是合理的。该项目正在解决这一迫切需要。如果成功地实现更大的频谱接入，它将对整个社会产生广泛的影响，包括帮助缩小数字鸿沟，促进新业务的出现，以及提高现有业务的生产力。由另一个NSF奖项资助的工作建立了COSMOS-NRDZ工作，该工作旨在设计一个频谱区管理系统（ZMS），以实现干扰感知频谱共享。该方法部分地基于使用在IEEE 1900.5.2中标准化的频谱消耗模型（SCM）框架。SCM提供了一种表征不同无线系统的频谱需求的方法，ZMS可以使用该方法来确定频谱的分配。这项新的研究项目解决了这种方法背后的基本经济问题，重点是6 GHz频段的频谱共享。该团队将市场绩效的核心经济理论与多层契约模型联系起来，以刺激异构网络之间的共享。他们正分三个平行步骤进行工作。首先，他们设计频谱共享合同，利用NRDZ项目中正在开发的SCM，从而产生频谱接入协议（SAA）。其次，他们指定和评估不同的市场结构分配这些SAA的性能。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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。

Awards 2332054 and 2332055 fund collaboration between an economist and two electrical engineers who want to use insights from mechanism design to develop ways to share spectrum in the 6 GHz band. The project applies fundamental economic models to analyze markets for shared spectrum. The team will characterize the economic outcomes under different market structure and different spectrum sharing paradigms. This work is tightly coupled with analysis of the institutional and regulatory challenges of enabling market friendly spectrum sharing. Access to wireless spectrum is increasingly important for U.S. economic growth. In order to meet the ever growing demands for this resource, new spectrum sharing paradigms are needed and these paradigms need to be economically sound. This project is addressing this pressing need. If successful in enabling greater access to spectrum it will have broad impacts across society, including helping to close the digital divide, enabling new business to emerge, and improving productivity of existing businesses.This research project includes three distinct stages. Work funded by a different NSF award has established the COSMOS-NRDZ effort, which seeks to design a spectrum Zone Management System (ZMS) to enable interference-aware spectrum sharing. This approach is based in part on using the Spectrum Consumption Model (SCM) framework standardized in IEEE 1900.5.2. SCMs provide a way of characterizing the spectrum needs of different wireless systems, which the ZMS can then use to determine allocation of spectrum. This new research project addresses fundamental economic issues underlying such an approach, with a focus on spectrum sharing in the 6 GHz band. The team links the core economic theory of market performance into a multi-tier contracting model to stimulate sharing across heterogeneous networks. They are working in three parallel steps. First, they design spectrum sharing contracts that utilize the SCMs being developed in the NRDZ project, resulting in Spectrum Access Agreements (SAAs). Second, they specify and evaluate the performance of different market structures for allocating these SAAs. Third, they analyze the implications of market designs on industry structure and communications rules.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.