Catalyzing Spectrum Sharing via Active/Passive Coexistence

The wireless spectrum is a vital natural resource that impacts our lives in numerous ways. While we often associate it with mobile broadband, its significance extends to various domains such as weather forecasting, climate science, astronomy, space exploration, and civil/military navigation. The escalating demand for spectrum has led to a corresponding increase in congestion as these vastly different services  converge to utilizing many of the same bands.  Consequently, conflict over spectrum has arisen between services utilizing adjacent or overlapping bands, resulting in the potential for harmful interference. 

To unlock the full potential of 6G and future wireless systems, while ensuring our continued Earth and space exploration, it is crucial to ensure effective and efficient active/passive spectrum coexistence.   The vision is to enable seamless spectrum sharing among disparate users based on time, frequency, space, and geometry, without creating detrimental interference. Research in this field is at an early and developing stage, thus this workshop aims to promote new and exciting research findings, to bring together contributors from academia, government, and industry to explore practical implementations and applications, and to identify key technical and policy challenges for future exploration.  Panel discussions and open forums will facilitate interactive exploration and ideation, catalyzing ongoing efforts in spectrum coexistence.