Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Broadband Wireless Access and Applications Center Site at the Catholic University of America

美国天主教大学（CUA）正计划加入宽带无线接入和应用中心（BWAC），这是一个现有的多大学产业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC），由亚利桑那大学（牵头机构）、奥本大学、弗吉尼亚理工大学和弗吉尼亚大学组成。规划补助金将用于组织一个研讨会，该研讨会将为CUA网站制定一个联合行业和大学研究议程。规划补助金还将用于参加与行业成员的会议和招募新成员的旅行。CUA的研究活动将通过关注新兴的无线网络技术与BWAC的其他站点进行互补和协同。CUA网站旨在以综合方法解决宽带无线接入和应用的研究挑战，并专注于软件定义无线网络等领域（异构无线电接入和核心网络）、以信息为中心的联网和移动的内容分发、认知和协作通信、高级天线设计、和传感器数据分析和隐私。CUA网站的努力将增加BWAC在技术，教育和推广活动中的影响，并帮助更充分地满足科技进步的需求，以提高美国无线行业的竞争力。CUA网站与现有的中心相结合，将解决经济的一个关键领域，并有潜力帮助实现国家宽带目标，提高社会接入宽带无线服务的能力。该网站将进一步提供机会，通过与行业合作伙伴合作选择的创新研究项目，将宽带无线发展为创新平台。该网站将致力于提高教师和学生的多样性，并代表性不足的本科生和研究生将积极招募到该计划。CUA网站与公司和政府机构的合作伙伴关系将为学生提供职业发展的早期接触和机会，并提高工程和科学劳动力的智力能力和质量。

The Catholic University of America (CUA) is planning to join the Broadband Wireless Access and Applications Center (BWAC), an existing multi-university Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) comprising of the University of Arizona (lead institution), Auburn University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Virginia. The planning grant will be used to organize a workshop that will result in a joint industry and university research agenda for the CUA site. The planning grant will also be used to attend the meetings with industry members and travel for recruiting new members. The research activities at CUA will be complementary and synergistic with the other BWAC sites through a focus on emerging wireless networking technologies. The CUA site intends to address the research challenges of broadband wireless access and applications with an integrative approach, and focus on areas including software defined wireless networks (heterogeneous radio access and core networks), information-centric networking and mobile content distribution, cognitive and cooperative communications, advanced antenna design, and sensor data analysis and privacy.The efforts at CUA site will increase the impact of BWAC in technical, educational and outreach activities, and help more fully address the needs for scientific and technological advances to improve the competitiveness of the US wireless sector. The CUA site, in combination with the existing center, will address a critical area of the economy and has potential to help reach the nations broadband goals and enhance the societal ability to access the broadband wireless services. The site will further provide opportunity to develop broadband wireless as a platform for innovation through innovative research projects that are cooperatively selected with the industry partners. The site will be committed towards enhancing the diversity of faculty and students, and underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students will be actively recruited to the program. The partnership of the CUA site with companies and government agencies will provide students early exposure and opportunities in their career development, and enhance the intellectual capacity and quality of the engineering and science workforce.