SII Planning: NASCE: A National Spectrum Center to Conquer, Program, and Protect the Wireless Spectrum

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。该项目的目标是为建立新的频谱创新计划（SII）中心NASCE奠定基础：国家频谱中心，用于发展新频谱科学和技术的变革方法的聚合研究。今天的无线频谱非常拥挤。预计到2025年，超过750亿台设备将被吸收到互联网中，产生一个前所未有的全球“物”网络，所有这些都需要无限的无线接入。除了明确的商业战略需求外，5G和物联网（IoT）等技术对国家安全也至关重要，它们塑造了一场具有深远社会、经济和地缘战略影响的技术革命。无线系统将继续改变我们的生活、工作、制造商品和保护公民的方式。此外，在当前的COVID-19大流行期间，无线连接作为提供工作和教育机会的独特工具所发挥的作用-特别是在农村地区-不能被夸大。该中心的首要目标是促进创建能够使用从几赫兹（Hz）到太赫兹的整个无线频谱的下一代无线系统。该团队将与该领域的领先行业合作，在技术领域进行高级研究，以支持商业部门，无线市场的所有细分市场，国防和情报机构。 所有中心活动的目的是通过体验式学习，研究，新的研讨会和可共享的教育模块，为学生和持续学习者在频谱相关领域的职业生涯做好准备。 该项目推动的研究分为三个相互依存的研究方向：㈠征服频谱，重点是采用跨学科方法扩大现有可用频谱选择; ㈡频谱规划，为应用现代数据驱动技术和软件定义网络建立基础，以采用蓝天方法进行频谱共享和利用;（iii）保护频谱，以便在民用和有争议的环境中可靠地利用可用频谱的新算法和系统，并保护现有用户。与这些基本目标正交和普遍的是，中心的计划和运作将受到以下技术主题的影响：（a）监管频谱，其双重目标是提供执行监管政策的技术，并为关键机构提供技术和政策建议，以塑造我们国家的无线未来;（B）用于推断和控制大量光谱数据的新数据驱动技术的人工智能方法，和（c）执行和实现大规模的实验和仿真，这要归功于我们对NSF PAWR平台的特权访问，Colosseum是世界上最大的RF网络信道仿真器，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. The objective of this project is to lay the foundations to establish the new Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SII) center NASCE: A National Spectrum CEnter for convergent research on transformative approaches to develop new spectrum science and technology. Today’s wireless spectrum is exceptionally crowded. It is expected that by 2025, over 75 billion devices will be absorbed into the Internet, generating a global network of “things'' of dimensions never seen before, all in need of unbounded wireless access. Beyond the clear commercial strategic needs, technologies such as 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) are also critical for national security, shaping a technological revolution with far-reaching social, economic, and geostrategic consequences. Wireless systems will continue to change the way we live, work, manufacture goods, and protect our citizens. Furthermore, the role that wireless connectivity is playing as a unique vehicle to provide work and educational opportunities during the current COVID-19 pandemic—especially in rural areas—cannot be overstated. The overarching objective of this center is to foster the creation of next generation wireless systems capable of using the whole wireless spectrum, from a few Hertz (Hz) to Terahertz. The team will conduct advanced research in technology areas in support of the commercial sector, all segments of the wireless market, defense and intelligence agencies, in cooperation with leading industries in the field. All center activities are designed to prepare students and continuous learners for careers in spectrum-related fields via experiential learning, research, new workshops and shareable educational modules. The research promoted by this project is organized into three interdependent research thrusts: (i) Conquering the spectrum, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches for broadening existing available spectrum options; (ii) programming the spectrum, for developing the foundations of applying modern data-driven techniques and software-defined networking for blue-sky approaches to spectrum sharing and exploitation; (iii) protecting the spectrum, for new algorithms and systems for reliable exploitation of the available spectrum in civil and contested environments, and protecting incumbent users. Orthogonal and pervasive to these fundamental thrusts, center plans and operations will be informed by the following technological themes: (a) policing the spectrum, with the twofold aim of providing technology for enforcing regulatory policies, and providing key agencies with technological and policy advice to shape the wireless future of our nation; (b) an Artificial Intelligence approach to new data-driven techniques for inference and control of large amount of spectrum data, and (c) perform and enable large scale experimentation and emulation thanks to our privileged access to NSF PAWR platforms, Colosseum, the largest RF networked channel emulator in the world, and to a Terahertz wireless networking testbed.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.