CIF: Small: Student Travel Grants for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2017

IEEE无线通信和网络会议（WCNC）是IEEE通信协会的一个重要会议。自1999年以来一直持续举办。它涵盖了无线通信和网络的广泛主题，包括先进的蜂窝系统，设备到设备通信，多天线通信方案，信道建模，干扰管理和无线能量传输。会议汇集了工业界、学术界、政府和监管机构。WCNC 2017的技术计划将包括大量的技术会议，包括物理层基础知识，媒体访问控制，跨层设计，无线网络，新兴技术，架构和服务，以及教程，研讨会和技术/业务小组。WCNC 2017将于3月19日至22日在旧金山弗朗西斯科和硅谷举办。从历史上看，会议有大约10%的学生参与。组委会今年的目标是将学生参与率提高到15%。为此，组委会设立了两个学生外联主席职位，并计划了四个具体的学生外联活动。该补助金为大约50名值得的美国学生提供旅行援助，以提高学生在WCNC 2017的参与度和参与度。学生外联主席将支持各种学生的申请，并将努力吸引女生和代表性不足的少数民族学生提出申请。2017年WCNC活动完成后，学生外联主席将通过电子邮件向学生与会者发送简短的在线调查，以评估外联活动的有效性以及旅行补助金申请和奖励过程。

The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) is a major conference of the IEEE Communications Society. It has been held continuously since 1999. It covers a broad range of topics in wireless communications and networking including advanced cellular systems, device-to-device communication, multi-antenna communication schemes, channel modeling, interference management, and wireless energy transfer. The conference brings together industry, academia, and government and regulatory bodies. The technical program for WCNC 2017 will feature numerous technical sessions including physical layer fundamentals, medium access control, cross-layer design, wireless networks, emerging technologies, architectures, and services, as well as tutorials, workshops, and technology/business panels.WCNC 2017 will be hosted by the city of San Francisco and Silicon Valley from March 19th to 22nd. Historically, the conference has had approximately 10% student participation. A goal of the organizing committee this year is to increase student participation to 15%. To do this, the organizing committee created two Student Outreach Chairs positions and has planned four specific student outreach activities. This grant provides travel assistance to approximately 50 deserving US-based students to allow for increased student participation and engagement at WCNC 2017. The Student Outreach chairs will support applications from a diverse mix of students and will make efforts to draw applications from female students and students from underrepresented minorities. After the 2017 WCNC event is complete, the Student Outreach Chairs will email student attendees a short online survey to assess the effectiveness of the outreach events as well as the travel grant application and award process.