Support for First GENI Engineering Conference

全球网络创新环境（GENI）是一个实验设施，旨在支持通信、网络、分布式系统、网络安全、网络服务和网络应用等广泛领域的研究。GENI的目标是使研究人员能够以一种比当今任何替代方案都更现实的方式来实验激进的网络设计。GENI工程会议将是GEMI的定期公开工作会议，以支持GENI设施的设计、规划、建设和运营。在这里，研究人员、开发人员、工业和国际合作伙伴以及GENI项目办公室将定期举行会议，以推进GENI设施规划和原型设计，并进行跨学科对话和相互教育。GENI将是未来几年通信研究的重要资源。GENI实验的结果有望推动新型研究，揭示通信领域的新思想和新见解，影响产品设计，并为行业创造新的机遇。GENI工程会议在确保产生更广泛的影响方面发挥着核心作用。会议作为一个地方，行业，新的研究人员和学生，来自不同背景的研究人员，以及建立通信研究界可以走到一起，讨论研究的未来愿景，我们将如何实现这一未来，以及我们将如何将这些愿景和成就带入更广阔的世界。由该项目支持的成立大会将通过提供广泛的旅行赠款来表达这一愿景，使社区更加多样化。

The Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) is an experimental facility intended to support research in a wide variety of areas including communications, networking, distributed systems, cyber-security, networked services and networked applications. The goal of GENI is to enable researchers to experiment with radical network designs in a way that is far more realistic than any alternative available today. The GENI Engineering Conference will be the GPO's regular open working meeting to support design, planning, construction and operation of the GENI facility. It is the place where researchers, developers, industrial and international partners and the GENI Project Office will regularly meet to advance GENI facility planning and prototyping, as well as to engage in interdisciplinary conversation and mutual education. GENI will be a vital resource for communications research in coming years. Results from experiments on GENI are expected to enable new types of research, reveal new ideas and insights in communications, influence the design of products, and create new opportunities for industry. The GENI Engineering Conference has a central role to play in ensuring that this broader impact occurs. The conference serves as a place where industry, new researchers and students, researchers from diverse backgrounds, as well as the established communications research community can come together to discuss visions of the future of research, how we will achieve that future, and how we will carry those visions and achievements into the wider world. The inaugural meeting supported by this project will express this vision by offering extensive travel grants to make the community richer in its diversity.