SII Planning: Developing a National Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SII) Center for Adaptive and Reconfigurable Wireless Technology

该奖项是频谱创新倡议：国家无线频谱研究中心（SII-Center）的规划拨款。频谱研究sii中心的重点超越5G、物联网和其他现有或即将推出的系统和技术，通过有效使用和共享无线电频谱，制定轨迹，确保美国在未来无线技术、系统和科学与工程应用方面的领导地位。在过去的30年里，大多数美国人从没有个人无线设备发展到今天每户拥有5到10个无线设备。由此产生的频谱拥塞要求在频谱使用的研究、管理、共享、保护和维护方式上进行范式转变。未来的无线系统必须在所有层面上都是自适应和可重构的，允许实时修改策略、频谱使用、地理区域使用、阵列和设备，以促进不同无线系统的共存。该项目将招募一个完整的领导团队，形成SII中心提案的领导结构；设计完整的研究路线图；并建立一个完整的、敬业的合作者名册，将研究与政府、监管和工业流程联系起来，以确保中心的创新向前发展。这项工作还将包括开发一门本科频谱工程课程和一门研究生课程，这门课程将在五所合作大学实施。该项目重点关注自适应和可重构频谱使用的主题。九个重点研究领域包括：(1)不同无线系统之间的实时频谱共享方法和算法，(2)5G、6G、7G无线频谱需求，(3)自适应和可重构雷达系统，(4)关键无源系统，(5)干扰缓解的传播评估和验证，(6)可重构电路和电子设备，(7)自适应系统、电路和阵列的算法，(8)频谱共享无线系统的安全性，以及(9)社会、政治、政府，以及频谱分配和共享的监管方面。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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. In the last 30 years, most Americans have gone from having no personal wireless devices to, today, possessing five to ten in a given household. The resulting spectrum congestion requires a paradigm shift in the way in which spectrum use is researched, managed, shared, secured, and maintained. Wireless systems of the future must be adaptive and reconfigurable at all levels, allowing real-time modifications to policy, spectrum usage, geographic region usage, arrays, and devices to facilitate coexistence of disparate wireless systems. This project will enlist a complete leadership team and form a leadership structure for an SII Center proposal; design a complete research roadmap; and build a complete, engaged roster of committed collaborators connecting the research with governmental, regulatory, and industrial processes that will ensure the Center’s innovations move forward. The work will also include development of an undergraduate spectrum engineering course and a graduate course that will be implemented at five partner universities. The project focuses on the theme of adaptive and reconfigurable spectrum use. Nine key research areas will include: (1) real-time spectrum sharing approaches and algorithms between disparate wireless systems, (2) 5G, 6G, 7G wireless spectrum needs, (3) adaptive and reconfigurable radar systems, (4) critical passive systems, (5) propagation assessment and validation for interference mitigation, (6) reconfigurable circuits and electronics, (7) algorithms for adaptive systems, circuitry, and arrays, (8) security of spectrum-sharing wireless systems, and (9) social, political, governmental, and regulatory aspects of spectrum assignment and sharing.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.