Travel Support for the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols

由IEEE计算机协会主办的第14届IEEE网络协议国际会议（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日在美国加州的圣巴巴拉举行。国家科学基金会的支助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群体机构的初级教员提供的。该奖项将支持大约20个研究生奖项和10个教师奖项智力奖：ICNP自1993年以来一直是网络协议知识交流的重要论坛。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现在在网络会议中仅次于SIGCOM，在所有计算机科学出版物的影响力方面排名前11%（http：//citeseer.nj.nec.com/impact.html）。更广泛的影响：这笔资金的目标是扩大参加首映网络协议会议的观众，从而提高互动水平和新的合作，新的调查和更高质量的研究的潜力。

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.