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AST Division Of Astronomical Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 5, 2020 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | June 30, 2021 |
| Award Number: | 2037870 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Ashley Vanderley
bevander@nsf.gov (703)292-2428 AST Division Of Astronomical Sciences MPS Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Start Date: | August 15, 2020 |
| End Date: | July 31, 2021 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $300,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $300,000.00 |
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| NSF Program(s): | SII-Spectrum Innovation Initia |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.049 |
ABSTRACT
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 a research case study on the coexistence between cellular systems and weather satellites via three interconnected research themes related to fundamentals and emerging technologies, experimentation, and policy. The prime collaborators include Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech.), Rutgers University, University of Southern California, and University of Colorado, Denver. The outcomes of the proposed work will help improving understanding of spectrum co-existence among passive and active systems. The proposed engagement and partnership workshops will bring together spectrum stakeholders from various sectors, disciplines, and domains, thus taking a step forward towards breaking the barriers between silos. Involvement of non-traditional stakeholders such as observatories, non-profits, and startups are proposed which will help broaden the participation. The planning activities proposed will lead to a better understanding of the challenges and gaps in spectrum research and education encountered by academia, industry, national labs, and other stakeholders.
This award will fund activities towards the development of a full center proposal. The PIs propose a reductionist parametric model that will quantify adjacent channel interference (ACI) to weather satellites due to 5G transmissions. They also propose to conduct an in-depth, integrative experimental study of ACI which has the potentials to provide new insights into the spatio-spectral spreading of energy from 5G. A rigorous exploration and definition of spectrum attributes within the context of the considered case study is proposed along with a new game-theoretic framework for assessing the technical, economic, and social impacts of policy making in the spectrum world.
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.
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This planning project provided a suite of research and coordination activities that were in support of planning for a full proposal submission to the NSF SII Center program. In particular, the intellectual merits included the exploration of frontier research topics in spectrum-relevant topics, through a collaboration between several institutes. Those topics included new approaches to manage and exploit high-frequency spectrum bands, novel techniques to understand the co-existence between terrestrial and satellite communication systems, policy-driven spectrum management techniques, and methodologies to integrate reconfigurable surfaces in future wireless systems, as a means to change and adapt the wireless channels. The output of the research included several research tasks and areas that formed the core of the submitted NSF SII-Center proposal by the project team. In addition, the planning grant included several coordination activities with broad-ranging impact. These activities included a major Engagement Workshop, that brought together over 30 stakeholders from various spectrum communities across industry, government, and academia, in order to engage in round table discussions on the challenges of future spectrum systems. Those discussions led to several fruitful new research directions that the project team was able to explore in the proposal, and they also helped forge new collaborations with several stakeholders, who eventually supported the submitted NSF SII-Center proposal. The broader impacts also included a course on spectrum policy that helped educate the research team on various challenging problem in spectrum policy, and on how those problems impact future research in the field. This course also helped foster collaborations with non-engineering faculty that ended up partnering with the team. The planning grant also provided an opportunity to train several graduate and undergraduate students on spectrum research, including two female graduate students who helped with both the research and the organization tasks. The ultimate output of this planning grant was the creation of a multi-disciplinary team that was able to submit a competitive NSF SII-Center proposal
Last Modified: 11/24/2021
Modified by: Walid Saad
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