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1 Picasso Panel Thinking Beyond 5 G David Corman Program Director Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering National Science Foundation June 19, 2018

2 Some Motivation: Toward Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC):

NSF is addressing current and future needs of communities humantechnology frontier transition to practice socio-technical systems adult retraining/ continuing education health &

3 NSF is addressing current and future needs of communities humantechnology frontier transition to practice socio-technical systems adult retraining/ continuing education health & wellness critical infrastructure, resiliency security & privacy education & workforce sensing, control & automation advanced networking big data analytics multi-agent autonomous systems

4 through investments in a range of programs Future of Work at the Human- Technology Frontier Partnerships for Innovation Socio-Technical Systems Cybertraining for Work at the Human- Technology Frontier Smart & Connected Health Critical, Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes & Systems Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Computer Science for All Cyber-Physical Systems US Ignite, Platforms for Advanced Wireless BIGDATA, Big Data Hubs & Spokes National Robotics Initiative, Smart & Autonomous Systems

5 Wireless Networking at the 5 National Science Foundation Five distinct research programs at the NSF addressing aspects of wireless communications research Theory, Circuits, Spectrum, Systems and Infrastructure Total research investment of over $75M/year in 2017 Investments fundamental to much of the work published today Multiple startups and tech transfers to industry

6 Theory to practice 6 Massive MIMO Spectrum Sharing

7 Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) 7

publish negative results Hypothesize based on observations Observe to

8 Fidelity and methodology issues 8 Toy Datasets Measurement & subject bias No Null Hypothesis testing No blinded experiments Lack of support to publish negative results Hypothesize based on observations Observe to conform with your hypothesis Selective discarding of data that does not conform Bad Science

Public Private Partnership 9 PAWR 1 1 2 Industry

9 Public Private Partnership 9 PAWR Industry Consortium <$ In-Kind=$50M> National Science Foundation <$50M>

10 Charter Members 10 More Industry Partners are welcome.

11 PAWR Guiding Principles 11 Reproducibility Platforms setup, maintained, documented High scientific standards Accuracy and repeatability Interoperability Prevent silos within research ecosystem Well-defined interfaces Interconnection with other PAWR platforms Open Access Accessible by the research community Fairness in access Drivers for success Usability Low learning curve Reprogrammable by Advanced Users Operable by BS technical level Programmability Programmable at multiple levels (e.g., radio, resource allocation, backbone) Clearly defined interfaces and APIs. Diversity Broad range of topics spectrum, mmwave, internet of things, wide-area wireless backhaul, measurements etc.

12 Key Figures 12 $20M- $25M Cash In-Kind City Scale Platforms 4 5 Years of Funding

13 PAWR Project Office (PPO) 13 Industry Consortium Cash, equipment & services, engineering, marketing, & R&D support NSF and Research Community Grants, experimental spectrum licenses, research agenda PAWR Project Office

14 From Press Release The PAWR platforms will enable early-stage research that will push forward robust, new wireless devices, techniques, protocols and services. In addition, these research platforms will allow promising technologies to move quickly to market, provide hands-on practical training to a new generation of students, increase job opportunities, and support overall U.S. economic vitality. The overarching goal is to revolutionize the wireless ecosystem and maintain U.S. leadership in the sector for decades to come. 06/19/2018

POWDER: Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven

Ecosystem for Next-gen End-to-end Wireless 15

Spectrum Sharing Distinct environments: a

elements) End-to-End Programmable Diverse

8GHz Deployment Area: UofU Campus Downtown SLC

15 POWDER: Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research RENEW: A Reconfigurable Ecosystem for Next-gen End-to-end Wireless 15 Next Generation Wireless Architecture Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Distinct environments: a dense urban downtown and a hilly campus environment. Massive MIMO base station (200 antenna elements) End-to-End Programmable Diverse Spectrum Access 50 MHz- 3.8GHz Deployment Area: UofU Campus Downtown SLC Connected Corridor IRIS softwaredefined radio modules Architectural view of RENEW base station

COSMOS:Cloud Enhanced Open Software Defined Mobile

population complex urban RF environment Integrated

radio signal processing (with bandwidths of ~500 MHz

latency connections A multi-layered computing system

28GHz phased-array ICs and phased-array antenna

16 COSMOS:Cloud Enhanced Open Software Defined Mobile Wireless Testbed for City-Scale Deployment 16 Dense population complex urban RF environment Integrated dynamic optical switching mm-wave comms Wideband radio signal processing (with bandwidths of ~500 MHz or more) Radio-over-fiber interfaces for ultra-low latency connections A multi-layered computing system with an RF thin client; flexible signal processing 28GHz phased-array ICs and phased-array antenna modules (PAAM) Deployment Area: West Manhattan/Harlem

17 Application Driven 17 Experimentation HEALTH PUBLIC SAFETY MANUFACTURING TRANSPORTATION ENERGY EXPERIMENTERS

18 Backup 18

19 Platform(s) Go-Live Timeline 19 Early Early Availability Full Operations 2023 and beyond Early Full Operations 2023 and beyond Late 2019 Fully Operational 2024 and beyond Late 2019 Fully Operational 2024 and beyond

20 POWDER Feature Set 20 Tech Area 1 Sub-6GHz multi-frequency, multi-radio, multi-antenna, fixed and mobile SDRs Custom programmable massive MIMO Multi-cell interference, dynamic spectrum access, multi-rat FDD and network- Massive MIMO Tech Area 2 Low-latency, high capacity fronthaul/backhaul network Distributed (edge, near-edge, metro) and heterogeneous (CPU, GPU, FPGA) compute Next-generation RAN and core mobile network Multi-access (mobile) edge cloud Management and operation of virtualized mobile networks Tech Area 3 Diverse mobility and BYOD capabilities User mobility and densification impact Custom and commercial equipment evaluation

21 COSMOS Feature Set 21 Tech Area 1 Optical Networking with passive WDM switch fabrics Multiple sliceable and configurable topologies, splits between fronthauling/midhauling/backhauling and arbitrary higher layer protocols Tech Area 2 mmwave and Sub 6 GHz High-bandwidth, low latency, SDR-based, beamforming (at mmwave) and distributed MIMO Full-Duplex Tech Area 3 Edge and Core Cloud Low latency cloud RAN with heterogeneous and distributed FPGA/CPU/GPU processing

22 Who are the users? 22 All of us! Academics Industry Government Tackle the major issues in wireless communications research Research community also has to step up its game Develop standards for experiment specifications Incentivize higher standards for research Shared development of common tools, repositories Determine what standards of reproducibility meets needs

23 What s in it for You? 23 Research atscale Industry Opportunity International Scope Using Highly instrumented end-to-end Platforms to explore wireless, edge and cloud research topics independently or together; benchmarks; quick validation Critical gap between demand pattern and supply; move away from legacy infrastructure; rapid development, interoperability Federation between international platforms, shared learning, data and operational best practices

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

Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) 1 Abhimanyu Gosain Technical Program Director July 11 2017 Problem Statement: Bridging the Valley of Death NSF historically funds over $50M annually in fundamental,