Student Travel Support for IEEE CNS 2014

第二届IEEE通信与网络安全大会(CNS)由IEEE ComSoc赞助，将于2014年10月29-31日在美国加利福尼亚州旧金山举行。IEEE CNS会议是从IEEE Infocom衍生出来的，定位为一个核心的ComSoc会议，作为通信和网络研究人员、从业者、政策制定者和用户交流想法、技术和工具、提高认识和分享与安全和隐私相关的经验的主要论坛。它为通信和网络社区以及安全社区提供了一座独特的桥梁。这次会议的技术范围涵盖了通信和网络安全的大量领域，这有助于来自世界各地的学术界、政府和行业的知名科学家聚集在一起，讨论网络安全技术的新兴和多学科前沿。旅行补助金将惠及更广泛的研究生群体，这将有助于扩大对通信和网络安全研究领域的参与。该项目将有助于约10-15名美国研究生的参与。旅行奖的遴选过程将涉及CNS 2014执行委员会的一个小组委员会，该委员会由国际和平协会担任主席。旅行奖将面向研究生，特别是女性和代表性不足的少数族裔学生，因为参加会议是他们教育经历的重要组成部分，而且他们的旅行资金往往有限。

Funds are requested to support students to attend the second IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), which is sponsored by IEEE ComSoc and will be held in San Francisco, CA, USA, October 29 - 31, 2014. IEEE CNS conference is a spin-off of IEEE INFOCOM, and is positioned to be a core ComSoc conference that serves as a premier forum for communications and network researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and users to exchange ideas, techniques and tools, raise awareness, and share experience related to security and privacy. It provides a unique bridge for the communications and networking community and the security community. The technical scope of this conference encompasses a large number of areas in communications and network security, which facilitates gathering of prominent scientists from academia, governments and industries from around the world to discuss the emerging and multidisciplinary frontiers of networking security technology. The travel grant tends to benefit a wider demographic of graduate students, which will help to broaden participation in the research area of communications and network security.This project will contribute to the attendance of approximately 10-15 US-based graduate students. The selection process for the travel award will involve a sub-committee of the CNS 2014 Executive Committee, chaired by the PI. The travel award will target graduate students, in particular, women and under-represented minority students, since attending conferences is an important part of their educational experience, and they often have limited travel funds.