SII Planning: Escaping Gravity: The End of Gs

该奖项是频谱创新计划的规划拨款：国家无线频谱研究中心（SII中心）。 频谱研究SII中心的重点超越了5G，物联网和其他现有或即将推出的系统和技术，以制定一条轨迹，通过有效使用和共享无线电频谱，确保美国在科学和工程领域的未来无线技术，系统和应用方面的领导地位。该项目旨在促进多学科学术团队和利益相关者的活动，以实现长期合作研究，教育，劳动力发展，并建立频谱工程，政策和科学的权威中心。SII中心被设想为跨学科努力的基石，融合了学术界，工业界，政府，政策，标准机构以及科学和公民社区的努力。该中心将随时随地改变无线通信，在网络、设备和社区中无处不在地无缝使用和利用频谱，满足缩小数字鸿沟的迫切需要，为所有人提供可靠和安全的信息访问。 这一努力的更广泛影响将直接有助于美国在万物互联时代重新夺回其作为无线通信和信息处理全球领导者的应有地位。该中心的综合研究愿景是通过综合系统设计建立下一代和最后一代无线连接，该设计将建立在整个频谱的无线资源的最佳利用，从硬件到系统设计、软件和政策，确保作为频谱主要用户的社区的共存要求。该项目将力求：（一）通过让工业、政府、研究实验室和社区参与遥感和射电天文学等应用需求，完善研究愿景;（二）为实现愿景建立研究伙伴关系;（iii）编写一份全面的白色文件，这份文件不仅将有助于中心的建议，而且重要的是，它将成为各国政府、学术团体、社区、工业界和学术界对上一代无线技术，即，一个整体的系统设计，使最佳和无缝的频谱利用率从一开始就成为一个固有的组成部分。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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。

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. This project aims to catalyze the activities of a multi-disciplinary academic team and stakeholders towards collaborative long-term research, education, workforce development and establishing the definitive center of spectrum engineering, policy and science. The SII-Center is envisioned as the corner stone of trans-disciplinary effort, amalgamating efforts of academics, industry, government, policy, standard bodies and scientific and civic communities. The center will transform wireless communications anytime, anywhere, providing use and utilization of spectrum ubiquitously and seamlessly across networks, devices and communities, addressing the critical need of closing the digital divide, providing reliable and secure access to information for all. The broader impact of this effort will directly contribute to the United States reclaiming its rightful place as the global leader in wireless communications and information processing in the internet of everything era.The comprehensive research vision of the center is to establish the next and last generation of wireless connectivity by an integrative system design that will build on optimal use of wireless resources throughout the spectrum, from hardware to system design, software and policy, ensuring coexistence requirements of communities who are primary users of the spectrum. The project will seek to (i) refine the research vision by engaging industry, government, research labs, and communities with use requirements such as remote sensing and radio astronomy; (ii) formulate research partnerships towards executing the vision; (iii) prepare a comprehensive white paper which will not only contribute to the center proposal, but importantly, will be a stand alone guide for government, learned societies, communities, industry and academia on the last generation of wireless, i.e., a holistic system design making optimum and seamless spectrum utilization an innate component from the outset. The center vision includes inter-disciplinary curricula and workforce development for spectrum science and engineering.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.