IUCRC Planning Grant Virginia Tech: Center for Wireless Innovation towards Secure, Pervasive, Efficient and Resilient Next G Networks (WISPER)

IUCRC 规划拨款弗吉尼亚理工大学：实现安全、普遍、高效和有弹性的下一代网络 (WISPER) 的无线创新中心

• 批准号: 2209662
• 负责人: Jacek Kibilda
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2209662&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Planning; Grant; Virginia; Tech

The proposed Center for Wireless Innovation towards Secure, Pervasive, Efficient, and Resilient Next Generation Networks (WISPER) will coordinate academia, industry, and government to pioneer transformative next generation (NextG) wireless technologies for key industry verticals. Our missions include: (1) growing the U.S. innovation capacity in the next-generation wireless networks; (2) catalyzing breakthrough pre-competitive research for enabling NextG wireless communications; (3) contributing to the emerging North American vision for the next generation wireless networks; (4) providing guidance to standardization bodies and cooperation partners; and (5) producing a workforce prepared to tackle complex next-generation wireless challenges.The Virginia Tech WISPER team will drive research and innovation into NextG systems by defining problems and solutions that yield immediate and forward-looking impact. The team will explore a range of potential research directions into NextG systems that span security, network autonomy and intelligence, and new and coming technologies, such as non-terrestrial networking, joint communication and sensing, and quantum networking. The team will seek to showcase its NextG use cases through open and secure NextG and AI platforms and apply the project-based learning model to define workforce development programs at the intersection of NextG systems, autonomy, and security.The proposed WISPER Center will contribute significantly to the country's future communication infrastructure, with broader impacts on diversity and inclusion, workforce development, and technology transfer. A Diversity & Inclusion Committee will be formed to review the current diversity and inclusion profile and develop specific measures and plans for inspiring the participation of underrepresented groups. WISPER will prepare students to become proficient in NextG techniques, leading to transformative changes in the state of wireless workforce preparedness. WISPER will enable seamless integration of the center's new discoveries into NextG wireless systems, accelerating technology transfer, enhancing the competence of the industrial members, and contributing to the Nation’s leadership in NextG technologies. All data, software, and artifacts produced in this project will be archived and preserved, according to standard institutional security and privacy practices and policies, for at least five years.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.

拟议的安全、普遍、高效和弹性的下一代网络无线创新中心 (WISPER) 将协调学术界、行业和政府，为关键行业垂直领域开创变革性的下一代 (NextG) 无线技术。 ) 提高美国在下一代无线网络方面的创新能力；(2) 促进突破性的竞争前研究，以实现 NextG 无线通信；(3) 为新兴的北美下一代愿景做出贡献下一代无线网络；(4) 为标准化机构和合作伙伴提供指导；(5) 培养一支准备好应对复杂的下一代无线挑战的队伍。弗吉尼亚理工大学 WISPER 团队将通过定义问题和推动 NextG 系统的研究和创新。该团队将探索 NextG 系统的一系列潜在研究方向，涵盖安全、网络自主和智能，以及非地面网络、联合通信和传感等新兴技术。该团队将寻求展示量子网络。通过开放和安全的 NextG 和人工智能平台来了解其 NextG 用例，并应用基于项目的学习模型来定义 NextG 系统、自主性和安全性交叉点的劳动力发展计划。拟议的 WISPER 中心将为该国未来的通信基础设施做出重大贡献，对多样性和包容性、劳动力发展和技术转让产生更广泛的影响，将成立一个多元化和包容性委员会，以审查当前的多样性和包容性概况，并制定具体措施和计划，以鼓励代表性不足的群体参与。成为精通 NextG 技术，导致无线劳动力准备状态发生变革，WISPER 将使该中心的新发现无缝集成到 NextG 无线系统中，加速技术转让，提高行业成员的能力，并为国家的领导地位做出贡献。该项目中产生的所有数据、软件和工件将根据标准机构安全和隐私实践和政策进行归档和保存至少五年。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。