I/UCRC: Collaborative Research: Broadband Wireless Access & Applications Center (BWAC)

该中心寻求建立一个新的产学研合作研究中心（I/UCRC），解决宽带无线接入和应用问题。该中心将重点关注四个领域：1)利用技术进步和频谱交易、拍卖和毫米波通信等平台，实现多达千兆赫的频谱共享；2)异构设备（如雷达和通信系统）共存；3)为未来医院的无线设备等新应用提供连接，以新颖的方式将无线带入医院；(d)改进解决国家安全问题的电子战技术。新中心解决了一个关键的经济领域，并具有支持宽带无线发展的潜力，作为白宫PCAST报告中提到的创新平台。拟议中的中心有可能将宽带产业部门的各种成员公司与大学在该领域的发现联系起来。此外，该中心的参与者都有创业的历史，新企业利用该中心创建的生态系统的机会是重要的。该中心计划通过中心研究，课程开发和REU网站开发的行为来影响学生。

The proposed center seeks to establish a new Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) addressing broadband wireless access and applications. The center will focus on four areas: 1) enabling sharing up to many GHz of spectrum using technological advances and enabling platforms such as spectrum trading and auctions, and millimeter wave communications; 2) co-existence of heterogeneous devices (e.g. radar and communication systems); 3) providing connectivity for new applications such as wireless devices in the hospitals of the future, bringing wireless into the hospital in novel ways; and (d) improving electronic warfare technologies that address national-security issues. The new center addresses an area of critical economic and has the potential to support development of broadband wireless as a platform for innovation as addressed in the White House PCAST Report. The proposed center has the potential to link a diverse set of member companies across the broadband industry sector with university discovery in this area. Moreover, the center participants have a history of start-up initiation, and the opportunity from new starts to leverage the ecosystem created by the center is significant. The center plans to impact students via their conduct of center research, curriculum development and REU site development.