Student Travel Support for the 18th IEEE International Conference on Nework Protocols (ICNP), Kyoto, Japan - October 5-8, 2010

这项旅费补助金支持来自美国机构的大约15名研究生参加将于2010年10月5日至10月8日在日本京都举行的首屈一指的网络协议会议，即2010年IEEE国际网络协议会议（ICNP）。该奖项的目的是扩大ICNP的受众，从而提高与会者之间的互动水平，并增加新合作、新调查和更高质量研究的潜力。更广泛的影响。参加会议是研究人员生活中至关重要的一部分。通过为研究生创造新的机会参加这个高质量的会议，这个项目将有利于研究界在几个方面。学生们受益于在有利的环境中与许多其他研究人员会面和互动的机会，以及看到可能与他们正在研究的内容有关的研究，或者可能激励他们尝试新的方向。研究社区受益于管道中的学生的改进，以及新的研究人员观点的引入。通过讨论和其他互动，所有与会者都受益于参加会议的参与者的多样性。

Intellectual Merit This travel grant supports approximately fifteen graduate students from United States institutions to attend the premier network protocol conference, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2010 which will be held in Kyoto Japan from October 5 through October 8, 2010. The objective of the award is to widen the audience attending ICNP and, as a result, raise the level of interactions among attendees, and increase the potential for new collaboration, new investigations, and higher quality research.Broader Impacts. Conference attendance is a crucial part of the life of a researcher. By creating new opportunities for graduate students to attend this high-quality conference, this project will benefit the research community in several ways. The students benefit from the opportunity to meet and interact with many other researchers in a favorable setting, and from seeing research presented that may be related to what they are working on, or may inspire them to try a new direction. The research community benefits from the improvement of the students in the pipeline, and the introduction of new researcher perspectives. All attendees benefit from increased diversity of participants attending the conference, through discussions and other interactions.