REU Site: Research in Consumer Networking Technologies

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This funding renews a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at theUniversity of Missouri – Columbia. Undergraduate students will investigate a variety of interesting andchallenging problems that involve consumer networking applications and services that are of significanceto the economy and quality of life in areas such as social computing, health care, and public safety. Thestudents will participate in the faculty mentors’ on-going funded research, investigate technicallychallenging issues and develop viable solutions and insights. They will participate in professionaldevelopment activities to prepare them for future graduate studies and a broad range of emergingcomputing careers. The site will focus on recruiting students from non-PhD granting institutions withparticular emphasis on institutions in and around the state of Missouri.The intellectual merit of the project rests with the leadership, an experienced research group withexcellent expertise and experience in the research area. The research will focus on broad topics such as:software-defined networking/virtualization, visual cloud computing, immersive learning with virtualreality, mobile sensing and environment recognition, securing networked consumer applications, andapplication-aware network performance optimization. The research activities will lead to a betterunderstanding of the multitude of efficiency, performance, reliability, scalability, and security issues andtradeoffs in consumer networking technologies and related applications. Advanced networkingenvironments and software developed in the previous REU site programs as well as novel testbeds such asthe Missouri University Science DMZ (demilitarized zone) environment, NSF-supportedCloudLab/FABRIC and Mizzou CAVE, smart device equipment, and sensor-based monitoring will beleveraged by the participating students in hands-on experiments within their research projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.