Travel Support for the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols

由IEEE计算机协会主办的第14届IEEE国际网络协议会议（及相关活动，包括网络协议安全研讨会）将于2006年11月12日至15日在美国加利福尼亚州的圣巴巴拉举行。美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）的支持是代表在美国各机构就读的研究生，以及来自代表性不足群体和少数族裔机构（EPSCOR）的初级教员提供的。该奖项将支持大约20个研究生奖和10个教师智力优等奖：自1993年以来，ICNP一直是交流网络协议知识的重要论坛。自成立以来，ICNP对该领域的重要性急剧增加。根据CiteSeer的数据，ICNP现在是仅次于sigcomm的网络会议，在所有计算机科学出版场所的影响力中排名前11% （http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/impact.html）。这种影响是会议上一贯提出的高质量研究的结果。更广泛的影响：这笔资金的目标是扩大参加首次网络协议会议的听众，并因此提高互动水平和新合作、新调查和更高质量研究的潜力。

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (and associated events, including a workshop on network protocol security) will be held from November 12 to November 15, 2006, in Santa Barbara, California, USA. Support from the National Science Foundation is provided on behalf of graduate students attending institutions in the United States as well as junior faculty members from under-represented groups and those serving minority (EPSCOR) institutions. The award will support approximately twenty awards to graduate students and ten awards for facultyIntellectual Merit: ICNP has served as an important forum for exchange of knowledge about network protocols since 1993. ICNP's importance to the field has increased dramatically since its inception. According to CiteSeer, ICNP is now second only to SIGCOMMamong networking conferences, and ranks in the top 11% of all computer science publication venues in terms of impact (http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/impact.html). This impact is a consequence of the consistently high-quality research presented at the conference.Broader Impacts: The goal of this funding is to widen the audience attending the premiere network protocol conference, and as a result, raise the level of interaction and the potential for new collaboration, new investigations, and higher quality research.