NSF's PAWR Offers Details on Proposed Innovation Zones
The FCC posted a letter from the National Science Foundation’s Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program Monday, providing details on NSF's request to expand the number of wireless innovation zones, set for a commissioner vote Aug. 5 (see 2107150066).…
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The FCC would expand the zone in New York and add zones in Raleigh and Boston. The Raleigh zone focuses on unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and allowing operations beyond the visual line-of-sight (VLOS) between a pilot and the drone, PAWR said. “Cellular networks and advanced wireless technologies will enable beyond-VLOS and autonomous UAS operations, unleashing three-dimensional mobility for UAS,” said a posting in docket 19-257: In this project, researchers will create “a vital national testbed focused on this area.” The Boston zone focuses on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Colosseum wireless network emulator, the filing said: “For the first time, researchers will be able to experience in a single instrument the scale and abstractions of packet-level simulators, the flexibility of software radios, and the fidelity of professional channel emulation.”