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Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Abhimanyu Gosain Technical Program Director July 11 2017 1

Problem Statement: Bridging the “Valley of Death” • NSF historically funds over $50M annually in fundamental, pre-competitive wireless research • This research could be greatly strengthened if:  Researchers had access to mid-scale, end-to-end research platforms  Industry collaborated earlier in helping to define and focus research areas “Valley of Death” Universities Corporations and National Laboratories Basic Product Applied Production Discovery Research Development Research 2

$100M Public Private Partnership 1 1 2 Industry Consortium NSF <$+ In-Kind> <$> $50M $50M 3

Charter Members PPO is Looking for more Industry Partners…. 4

What is PAWR Project Office? NSF and Industry Research Consortium Community Cash, equipment & services, engineering, Grants, experimental marketing, & R&D spectrum licenses, support research agenda PAWR Project Office 5

Why Now ? Program Experimental Licenses; opening up of new frequency bands Technology Policy both licensed/unlicensed Critical gap between demand pattern and supply; move away from Industry Opportunity legacy infrastructure; rapid development Research Integration Explosive growth in traffic (IoT, Multimedia, M2M) needs radical new Need solutions; Multiple research areas need to work together Dynamic spectrum sharing; tunable filters; programmable wireless Enabling Innovations substrate 6

Anticipated Timeline 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 PAWR RFP PAWR 1 and 2 ? OR PAWR RFP PAWR 2 and 3 ? PAWR RFP PAWR 3 PAWR 4 7

PAWR Guiding Principles Reproducibility Usability • Platforms setup, maintained, • Low learning curve, even if “open” documented • Operable by BS technical level • High scientific standards • Reprogrammed by Advanced Users • Accuracy and repeatability Interoperability Programmability • Prevent silos within research Drivers for • Programmable at multiple levels ecosystem (e.g., radio, resource allocation, • Well-defined interfaces success backbone) • Interconnection with other PAWR • Clearly defined interfaces and APIs. platforms Diversity Open Access • Broad range of topics • Accessible by the research • spectrum, mmWave, internet of community things, wide-area wireless backhaul, • Fairness in access measurements etc. 8

SAMPLE TOPIC AREAS TO BE ENABLED BY RESEARCH PLATFORMS mmWave to enable R&D and systems testing at the Wide-area Whitespace to utilize novel whitespace- millimeter-wave bands that are about 26GHz, with a based wireless networks to design, build and target of 100 Gbps in data rates for small-cell networks demonstrate 16Gbps connectivity to remove that cover a few city blocks. locations via long-range wireless mess connections. Dynamic Spectrum to focus on the spectral bands that are sub-6GHz, and aim to identify spectral opportunities Network Metrology to advance capabilities to in existing networks and establish usage models for measure and monitor wireless network novel spectrum driven applications, while also studying performance and support research on methods to co-existence and protection issues. improve the security, reliability and performance of wireless networks. Architecture to test data network architectures for next- generation networks that operate with a wireless edge. Applications/Services in later years – Platforms will serve as examples of Smart and Connected Mobility-at-Scale to address larger issues with network- Community networks that demonstrate potential mobility from the transport to MAC layers, including applications/services including Cyber-Physical evaluation of large-scale, dense, heterogeneous wireless Systems, Cyber-Security, Internet of Things, networks, including issues such as connection Robotics, Smart and Connected Health, and Big management, load balancing, and mobility management. Data. 9

Platform Challenges : Some practical considerations • Work beyond boundaries of your Usability (or lack thereof) expertise • Common interfaces, API and experience E.g. InCommon and eduGAIN: Global Interfederation • Channel Measurements and characterization • > 6GHz. Interference is Limiting factor • Source: Jacques Carelman Understanding the physical environment 10

PAWR Services Framework Physical & Virtual Resources 11

ADVANCED WIRELESS.ORG Abhimanyu (“Manu”) Gosain, Senthil Veeraragavan, Northeastern University US Ignite agosain@coe.neu.edu senthil.veeraragavan@us- ignite.org Kaushik Chowdhury, Northeastern University Tommaso Melodia, krc@ece.neu.edu Northeastern University melodia@ece.neu.edu Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University basagni@ece.neu.edu 12