REU Site: Cognitive Communications

该奖项为弗吉尼亚理工大学现有的CISE本科生研究经验项目提供资金支持。REU网站将为本科生提供沉浸式，高质量的学习和跨学科的研究经验，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网络测试平台（VT-CORNET）上实施他们的项目。学生将参加专业发展活动，使他们更加了解研究生院和计算机职业的专业方面。学生们将加入Wireless@VT中心正在进行的各种资助研究项目，并与具有丰富经验和专业知识的教师团队一起指导每个项目的知识组成部分。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。重点将放在诸如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界面设计等重要和及时的主题上。因此，该项目有潜力在重要和及时的计算领域为研究和发现的进步做出贡献。该项目的更广泛影响包括为本科生提供高质量的研究经验，特别是来自代表性不足的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师，并在促进学习的同时推进发现和理解。

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.