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

拟建的中心旨在建立一个新的产业/大学合作研究中心(I/UCRC)，解决宽带无线接入和应用问题。该中心将专注于四个领域：1)利用技术进步和使能平台，如频谱交易和拍卖，以及毫米波通信，实现高达许多GHz的频谱共享；2)不同设备(如雷达和通信系统)的共存；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引入医院；以及(D)改进电子战技术，以解决国家安全问题。新中心涉及一个关键的经济领域，并有潜力支持宽带无线作为创新平台的发展，如白宫PCAST报告所述。拟议中的中心有可能将宽带行业的不同成员公司与该领域的大学发现联系起来。此外，中心参与者有创业历史，从新的起点利用中心创造的生态系统的机会是巨大的。该中心计划通过开展中心研究、课程开发和REU网站开发来影响学生。

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.