SII Planning: Broad Explorations on Spectrum Technologies for Navigation, Environment, Surveillance, and Transportation (BEST NEST)

该奖项是对频谱创新计划：国家无线频谱研究中心(SII-Center)的规划拨款。频谱研究SII-Center的重点超越了5G、物联网和其他现有或即将到来的系统和技术，以绘制出一条轨迹，通过有效使用和共享无线电频谱，确保美国在未来无线技术、系统和科学和工程应用方面的领先地位。PI集合了一个跨学科团队，以探索导航、环境、监视和交通(BEST Nest)频谱技术的研究。该团队由伍斯特理工学院(WPI)无线信息网络研究中心(CWINS)和数据科学研究小组(DSRG)组成，与WPI的教育和应用原型实验室(LEAP)和THz实验室密切合作；佐治亚理工学院(GaTech)通信和计算电磁测量(EMC^2)实验室和GaTech传播小组(GTPG)；缅因州大学无线传感实验室(WISE-NET)；以及韦恩州立大学的联网和自动驾驶(CAR)实验室。该项目包括启动创建新的跨学科课程的计划，以影响对新兴频谱管理领域下一代劳动力的培训。拟议中的中心可能会影响对美国在导航、环境、医疗保健、监控、城市交通和智能基础设施方面的竞争力至关重要的行业。拟议中的研讨会名为中心整合与发展(CID)研讨会，将通过有组织的小组讨论、重点小组讨论和集思广益阶段，帮助建立、维持和加强学术界、工业界、政府和非政府组织之间的伙伴关系。PIS计划将多所大学的STEM学生聚集在一起，同时探索吸引大学预科学生，并扩大代表不足的K-12学生的参与。这一奖项将资助制定一个完整的中心提案的活动。私人投资促进机构建议举办一系列CID研讨会，以便集思广益、研究协调和社区参与、伙伴关系以及教育和劳动力发展。研讨会将评估多学科领域的基础、硬件、网络、安全、测试和测量，以及频谱技术的经济和社会机制。拟议的BEST NEST将研究被动系统的频谱管理应用，如空间观测站、土壤湿度传感、地球探测和空中交通管制雷达。最佳巢还将专注于传感器通信-计算技术和协议，对高速、低功耗和高效的数据采集、路由、分析和处理至关重要。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is a planning grant for the Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Center for Wireless Spectrum Research (SII-Center). The focus of a spectrum research SII-Center goes beyond 5G, IoT, and other existing or forthcoming systems and technologies to chart out 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. The PIs bring together an interdisciplinary team to explore research on spectrum technologies for navigation, environment, surveillance, and transportation (BEST NEST). The team consists of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS) and Data Sciences Research Group (DSRG), in close collaboration with WPI’s Laboratory for Education and Application Prototypes (LEAP), and THz labs; Georgia Institute of Technology’s (GaTech) Electromagnetic Measurements in Communication and Computing (EMC^2) lab and GaTech Propagation Group (GTPG); University of Maine’s Wireless Sensing lab (WiSe-Net); and, Wayne State University’s Connected and Autonomous Driving (CAR) Lab. The project includes plans to initiate the creation of new cross-disciplinary curriculum to impact the training of the next-generation workforce in the emerging area of spectrum management. The proposed center will likely impact industries critical to US competitiveness in navigation, environment, healthcare, surveillance, urban transportation, and smart infrastructures. The proposed workshops called the Center Integration and Development (CID) workshops will help establish, maintain, and strengthen partnership among academia, industry, government and non-government organizations through organized panels, focused group discussions and brainstorming phases. The PIs plan to bring STEM students across multiple universities together, while exploring to engage precollege students and broaden the participation of underrepresented K-12 students. This award will fund activities towards the development of a full center proposal. The PIs propose to organize a series of CID workshops which will enable brainstorming, research coordination and community engagement, partnerships, and education and workforce development. The workshops will assess the multi-disciplinary areas of foundations, hardware, networking, security, test, and measurement, and economic and social mechanisms of spectrum technologies. The proposed BEST NEST will examine the application of spectrum management for passive systems such as space observatories, soil moisture sensing, earth exploration, and air traffic control radars. BEST NEST will also focus on sensor communication-computation techniques and protocols key to high speed, low power and efficient data acquisition, routing, analysis, and processing.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.