REU Site: Cognitive Communications

该奖项提供资金，以更新弗吉尼亚理工大学现有的成功的CEISE本科生研究经验网站。REU网站将为本科生提供认知通信的身临其境、高质量的学习和跨学科研究体验，认知通信是一种新兴的无线通信技术。学生们将在弗吉尼亚理工大学认知无线电网络试验床(VT-Cornet)上实施他们的项目。这些学生将参加专业发展活动，使他们更多地了解研究生和计算机职业生涯的专业方面。这些学生将加入Wireless@VT中心正在进行的各种资助研究项目，并与拥有杰出经验和专业知识的教员团队合作，指导每个项目的智力部分。认知通信是一个新兴的令人兴奋的领域，有望改变无线通信行业。重点将集中在无线网络的频谱管理、公共安全可互操作无线电、农村宽带接入、认知引擎的可用性和人为因素原则以及重要和及时的界面设计等主题上。因此，该项目有可能有助于推动一个重要和及时的计算领域的研究和发现。该项目的更广泛影响包括为本科生提供高质量的研究体验，特别是来自代表性不足群体和研究环境有限的机构的学生。因此，这个项目有可能产生新的计算机科学研究生和教职员工，并在促进学习的同时促进发现和理解。

This award provides funding to renew the existing successful CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site at Virginia Tech University. The REU Site will provide undergraduate students with immersive, high-quality learning and interdisciplinary research experience in cognitive communications, an emerging wireless communications technology. The students will implement their projects on the Virginia Tech Cognitive Radio Network testbed (VT-CORNET). The students will participate in professional development activities that make them more aware of graduate school and professional aspects of a computing career. The students will join a variety of funded research projects ongoing at the Wireless@VT center and work with a faculty team with outstanding experience and expertise to direct the intellectual component of each project. Cognitive communications is an emerging and exciting field that promises to transform the wireless communications industry. The focus will be on topics such as spectrum management for wireless networks, public safety interoperable radios, rural broadband access, usability and human factors principles for cognitive engines and interface design that are important and timely. Thus the project has the potential to contribute to the advancement of research and discovery in an important and timely area of computing.The broader impacts of the project include providing a quality research experience to undergraduate students, particularly students from underrepresented groups and from institutions with limited research environments. Thus this project has the potential to produce new computer science graduate students and faculty members and to advance discovery and understanding while promoting learning.