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5 Next-Generation Wireless
Pages 34-39

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... ASSESSMENT OF TECHNICAL PROGRAMS The following discussion focuses on three major projects that the Next-Generation Wireless research group is currently involved in, and two collaborative support projects to highlight their key accomplishments, new opportunities, and this panel's recommendations. We discuss the projects in the bottom-up order of open systems interconnect layers starting with the physical layer work, then protocols (medium access and networking)
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From page 35...
... But there are new frontiers beyond the NextG Channel Model Alliance work, including, but not limited to, power management and dynamic spectrum sharing at the edge that will need a concerted effort from the larger community, including CTL from the measurement perspective with respect to next-generation wireless deployment. Key Recommendation 6: CTL should create a roadmap of what the next 5 years of NextG Channel Model Alliance's work will look like.
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From page 36...
... The National Science Foundation has started a set of Spectrum Innovation Initiative projects that creates dynamic radio access zones for spectrum sharing between federal and commercial users at the edge instead of using centralized databases. Recommendation 5-3: CTL should create a roadmap for the application-related work as applied to multi-band spectrum sharing deployment at the user device.
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From page 37...
... The Next-Generation Wireless researchers at CTL have a vital role to play in using high-fidelity experiments to quantify the technical impacts of sub-6 GHz deployment in the near future. Recommendation 5-4: CTL should extend its next-generation wireless systems propagation measurement program to include the sub-6 GHz bands because they are technically and economically appealing and are being adopted in the United States.
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From page 38...
... For example, power management, and intelligent surface reflectors that jointly adjust and reconfigure wireless signals for longer-range transmission are some of the areas that need measurement study, modeling, and characterization. There is an opportunity for CTL to consider what beyond the NextG Channel Alliance work could benefit from their attention to make an equally significant impact on 5G/6G network deployment as the Alliance work had on 4G/5G deployment via their millimeter-wave study that has been ongoing for over 6 years.
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From page 39...
... EFFECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF OUTPUTS CTL has been highly effective in disseminating its research findings via publications, foreign and domestic academic collaborations, the release of design documents, data sharing, and reference implementation code releases via GitHub. Over the last 3 to 5 years, they have published in over 35 combined journals and high-impact conference papers, over three patents, and a follow-on entrepreneurial pursuit to commercialize some of the Internet protocol, machine learning models, and data shared via Matlab toolbox and reference implementation code published out in CTL's GitHub account.
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