Collaborative Research: Enhancing Access to Radio Spectrum for Real-time Monitoring and Control

合作研究：增强无线电频谱的获取以进行实时监测和控制

• 批准号: 1547328
• 负责人: Randall Berry
• 金额: $ 33.7万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547328&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Enhancing; Access; Radio

This EARS (Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum) program was founded in response to the 2010 Presidential Memorandum on Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution mandated by Congress as part of the National Broadband Plan. It was referenced in 2010 State of the Union and later on the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (More than 1/3 of the bill deals with radio spectrum), the PCAST 2012 Report [President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology] (which calls for vastly increased use of spectrum sharing) and the 2013 Presidential memo (Expanding America's Leadership in Wireless Innovation). The aim of this program is to identify bold new concepts with the potential to contribute to significant improvements in the efficiency of radio spectrum utilization, protection of passive sensing services, and in the ability for traditionally underserved Americans to benefit from current and future wireless-enabled goods and services. The impact is large on the economics of the Nation as seen on the last FCC bidding of 65MHz of the spectrum for over $45 billion early in 2015. It will enable access to science, engineering, industry, civilian and military users of the RF spectrum. This project will analyze the magnitude of spectrum scarcity as it relates to the optimization of spectrum utilization. The cellular industry has been asking for more spectrum for mobile broadband by calling it a "Supply" to support higher "Demand" of mobile data services. Higher amount of spectrum can surely support data-centric services more efficiently. However, other variables of Wireless Broadband Eco-systems can lower the burden on existing cellular infrastructure and they can collectively play a role of "substitute" for more spectrum. The PI's preliminary model (based on System Dynamics techniques) already showed that the need for more spectrum could be lowered by making efficient use of existing network infrastructure (e.g. Wi-Fi Offloading). To make the existing model comprehensive and future-proof, they plan to expand it by adding economic parameters like auction data and recently emerged technical parameters like Spectrum Re-farming, Small Cells, and LTE deployment in unlicensed bands. This research will also incorporate economic studies and drivers to better understand the efficiency at which the new spectrum is being utilized by cellular operators and how it affects their plans to deploy data offloading techniques on unlicensed frequencies. The proposed project is not limited to "research" activities but it includes "development" phase as well; the research part will allow them to define the mathematical relationships among the technical and economic variables and the development part will produce a working and interactive model of mobile broadband eco-system to demonstrate the effects of various technical and economic variables on spectrum allocation. The project outcome not only will test the Spectrum Scarcity hypotheses but will also provide future projections for spectrum utilization and will trigger recommendations to government and regulatory bodies for sufficient allocation of spectrum.

该 EARS（增强无线电频谱接入）计划是为了响应 2010 年国会授权的《关于发动无线宽带革命的总统备忘录》而设立的，该备忘录是国家宽带计划的一部分。它在 2010 年国情咨文和后来的 2012 年中产阶级税收减免和创造就业法案（该法案超过 1/3 涉及无线电频谱）、PCAST​​ 2012 报告 [总统科学和顾问委员会技术]（要求大幅增加频谱共享的使用）和 2013 年总统备忘录（扩大美国在无线创新领域的领导地位）。该计划的目的是确定大胆的新概念，这些概念有可能显着提高无线电频谱利用效率、保护无源传感服务，并使传统上服务不足的美国人能够从当前和未来的无线技术中受益。商品和服务。从 2015 年初 FCC 以超过 450 亿美元的价格竞标 65MHz 频谱来看，这对国家经济产生了巨大影响。它将让科学、工程、工业、民用和军事用户能够使用 RF 频谱。该项目将分析频谱稀缺的严重程度，因为它与频谱利用的优化有关。蜂窝行业一直要求为移动宽带提供更多频谱，称其为“供应”，以支持更高的移动数据服务“需求”。更高的频谱量肯定可以更有效地支持以数据为中心的服务。然而，无线宽带生态系统的其他变量可以减轻现有蜂窝基础设施的负担，并且它们可以共同发挥“替代”更多频谱的作用。 PI 的初步模型（基于系统动力学技术）已经表明，通过有效利用现有网络基础设施（例如 Wi-Fi 卸载）可以降低对更多频谱的需求。为了使现有模型全面且面向未来，他们计划通过添加拍卖数据等经济参数和最近出现的频谱重整、小型基站和免授权频段 LTE 部署等技术参数来扩展该模型。这项研究还将结合经济研究和驱动因素，以更好地了解蜂窝运营商使用新频谱的效率，以及它如何影响他们在未经许可的频率上部署数据卸载技术的计划。拟议项目不仅限于“研究”活动，还包括“开发”阶段；研究部分将允许他们定义技术和经济变量之间的数学关系，开发部分将产生移动宽带生态系统的工作和交互模型，以展示各种技术和经济变量对频谱分配的影响。该项目的成果不仅将测试频谱稀缺假设，还将提供未来频谱利用的预测，并将向政府和监管机构提出充分分配频谱的建议。

项目成果

Monetizing Mobile Data via Data Rewards

• DOI: 10.1109/jsac.2020.2971867
• 发表时间: 2019-11
• 期刊: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
• 影响因子: 16.4
• 作者: Haoran Yu;Ermin Wei;R. Berry

Price Competition with LTE-U and WiFi

与 LTE-U 和 WiFi 的价格竞争

• DOI: 10.1109/infocom.2019.8737549
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: IEEE INFOCOM
• 作者: Wang, Xu;Berry, Randall A.
• 通讯作者: Berry, Randall A.

The Economics of Bundling Content with Unlicensed Wireless Service

将内容与未经许可的无线服务捆绑在一起的经济效益

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16989-3_7
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
• 作者: Zhu, Y;Berry, R.
• 通讯作者: Berry, R.

The Cooperation and Competition Between an Added Value MVNO and an MNO Allowing Secondary Access

• DOI: 10.23919/wiopt47501.2019.9144115
• 发表时间: 2019-06
• 期刊: 2019 International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOPT)
• 作者: Yining Zhu;Haoran Yu;R. Berry

A Business Model Analysis of Mobile Data Rewards

移动数据奖励商业模式分析

• DOI: 10.1109/infocom.2019.8737504
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: IEEE INFOCOM
• 作者: Yu, Haoran;Wei, Ermin;Berry, Randall A.
• 通讯作者: Berry, Randall A.