Student Travel Support for the 21st IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)

这笔旅行赠款的目的是扩大参加主要网络协议会议--IEEE国际网络协议会议(ICNP)的受众，并因此提高互动水平和新合作、新研究和更高质量研究的潜力。国家科学基金会代表就读于美国机构的研究生请求提供支持。学术价值：通过支持研究生参加ICNP 2013，这笔赠款将增加向更多和更多样化的受众传播会议研究成果，否则他们将无法参加。这样做，这项建议将有助于增强研究界的力量和包容性，并将导致ICNP的长期健康和活力。此外，优先向女性和任职人数不足的学生发放助学金，有望增加这些群体的参与度。通过向广泛的学院和大学做广告，来自更多不同机构的参与者应该能够参加会议并从中受益。广泛和多样化的人口是研究界和该学科健康发展的关键。更广泛的影响：出席会议是研究人员生活中至关重要的一部分。通过为学生创造新的机会，特别是那些来自代表人数不足的群体的学生参加高质量的会议，该项目将在几个方面使研究界受益。学生本身受益于在有利的环境下与许多其他研究人员见面和互动的机会，以及看到可能与他们所从事的工作相关的研究报告，或者可能激励他们尝试新方向的研究。研究界受益于正在筹备中的学生的提高，以及新的研究视角的引入。此外，每个人都受益于出席会议的参与者的多样性增加。

The goal of this travel grant is to broaden the audience attending the premier network protocol conference, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), and as a result, raise the level of interaction and the potential for new collaborations, new investigations, and higher quality research. Support from the National Science Foundation is requested on behalf of graduate students attending institutions in the United States. Intellectual Merit: By supporting graduate students to attend ICNP 2013, this grant will increase the dissemination of the conference research results to a larger and a more diverse audience, which otherwise would not have been able to attend. In so doing, this proposal will contribute to the strength and inclusiveness of the research community, and will lead to the long-term health and vitalization of ICNP. In addition, preference in grant awards to women and under-represented students will hopefully increase the participation among these groups. By advertising to a wide range of colleges and universities, participants from a more diverse set of institutions should be able to attend and benefit from the conference. A broad, as well as diverse population is key to the health of the research community and the discipline. Broader Impacts: Conference attendance is a crucial part of the life of a researcher. By creating new opportunities for students, especially those from under-represented groups to attend a high-quality conference, this project will benefit the research community in several ways. The students themselves 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. Additionally, everybody benefits from increased diversity of participants attending the conference.