Student & Minority Faculty Travel Grant Program to Attend ICNP 2007

第15届IEEE国际网络协议会议（ICNP）及相关活动，包括网络协议安全研讨会，将于2007年10月16日至19日在中国北京举行。ICNP传统上是一个为期3天的单轨会议，大约有30篇论文。会议通常吸引约120-125名国际与会者出席。会议的规模通常被与会者视为一种牺牲--大到足以值得，但小到足以促进与会者之间比SIGCOMM和INFOCOM等大型会议更高质量的互动。与此同时，ICNP在引用影响力方面排名很高。根据CiteSeer的数据，ICNP在网络会议中排名第二，仅次于SIGCOMM，在影响力方面排名所有计算机科学出版物的前11%。高影响力是会议上提出的一贯高质量研究的结果。这项旅行补助金支持在美国就读的研究生以及属于或服务于代表性不足的计算机科学研究人员群体的初级教师。旅行补助金计划有两个组成部分：（1）推广到更广泛的研究生群体;（2）推广到少数民族教师或为少数民族学生服务的教师（例如，EPSCOR机构）。该提案的目的是扩大ICNP的受众，从而提高与会者之间的互动水平，以及新的合作、新的调查和更高质量的研究的潜力。此外，今年的会议将首次在中国举行。通过鼓励美国与会者参加ICNP 2007，我们希望提高美国的认识，为中国重要竞技场的研究人员提供活动的基础，并促进国际参与者之间的理解和合作。我们相信，NSF的支持资金将是非常宝贵的，使许多美国-并帮助抵消这些与会者的国外旅行费用。更广泛的影响。参加会议是研究人员生活中至关重要的一部分。通过为学生和教师创造新的机会，特别是那些来自代表性不足的群体，参加高质量的会议，这个项目将有利于研究界在几个方面。学生和教师本身受益于在有利的环境中与许多其他研究人员会面和互动的机会，并从看到可能与他们正在研究的内容相关的研究中受益，或者可能激励他们尝试新的方向。研究社区受益于管道中的学生的改进，以及新的研究人员观点的引入。每个人都从参加会议的参与者的多样性中受益。2007年在北京举行的会议也将为国际与会者提供一个独特的机会，让他们更多地了解中国的网络研究。

The 15th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) and associated events, including a workshop on network protocol security, will be held October 16-19, 2007, in Beijing, China. ICNP has traditionally been a single-track 3-day meeting of around 30 paper presentations. The conference has typically attracted an attendance of about 120-125 international participants. The size of the meeting is often noted by the participants as an advantage-big enough to be worthwhile, but small enough to promote higher-quality interactions among the participants than may be possible at larger conferences like SIGCOMM and INFOCOM. At the same time, ICNP ranks high in citation impact. According to CiteSeer, ICNP ranks second only to SIGCOMM among networking conferences, and ranks in the top 11% of all computer science publication venues in terms of impact. The high impact is a consequence of the consistently high-quality research presented at the conference. This travel grant supports graduate students attending institutions in the United States as well as junior faculty belonging to or serving under-represented groups of computer science researchers. The travel grant program has two components: (1) Outreach to a wider graduate student population; and (2) Outreach to minority faculty or faculty serving minority students (e.g., EPSCOR institutions). About twenty awards to graduate students and ten awards to faculty members will be supported.The objective of the proposal is to widen the audience attending ICNP and, as a result, raise the level of interactions between attendees, and the potential for new collaboration, new investigations, and higher quality research. In addition, this year's conference will be held in China for the first time. By encouraging U.S. participants to attend ICNP 2007, we hope to raise the awareness of U.S.-based researchers of activities taking place in the important China arena, and to foster the understanding and collaboration among the international participants. We believe that support funds by the NSF will be invaluable to enable the attendance of many U.S.-side attendees and to help offset the expenses of foreign travel for these attendees.Broader Impacts. Conference attendance is a crucial part of the life of a researcher. By creating new opportunities for students and faculty-especially those from under-represented groups-to attend a high-quality conference, this project will benefit the research community in several ways. The students and faculty 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. And everybody benefits from increased diversity of participants attending the conference. The 2007 meeting in Beijing will also bring a unique opportunity for the international participants to learn more about networking research in China.