REU Site: Research in Home and Consumer Networking Technologies

该网站为本科生提供了参与家庭和消费者网络这一新兴领域有趣且具有挑战性的技术问题研究的机会，促进了参与研究的本科生的专业发展，并鼓励他们考虑攻读科学和工程方面的高级学位和职业。在不久的将来，家庭和消费者网络预计将成为一个重要的市场。然而，这一新兴领域面临着许多挑战。这些包括多媒体服务的质量、网络和设备的异构性、移动性、设备智能、内容和权限管理、安全和隐私、用户体验/知识以及老年护理等新服务。智力优势：学生参加pi ？正在进行的资助研究，调查上述具有挑战性的问题，并提供可行的解决方案和见解。这项研究活动预计将导致对家庭和消费者网络的技术和性能问题以及权衡的更好理解，从而促进对我们国家具有重要意义的先进家庭和消费者网络服务和应用的快速部署。美国经济和我们的生活质量。十名学生在密苏里大学每年参加为期十周的暑期学校，为期三年。哥伦比亚(μ)。鼓励他们在暑期项目结束后继续参与项目。暑期学校包括一个为期两周的短期课程，然后是大约8周的小组研究，这些项目是精心设计的，并与pi保持一致。正在进行的研究。学生们还参加每周一次的研讨会，每周与教师举行非正式的午餐会议，每周一次的学生与教师个人会议，以及研究生院准备会议，中期进度报告和期末报告。学生们有很多机会在校园、州、国家和国际层面的各种场所展示他们的研究成果。更广泛的影响：这是一个独特的机会，招收的本科生大多来自密苏里州的机构，体验家庭和消费者网络跨学科领域的培训和研究。通过密苏里州各机构已经建立的招聘网络，该网站特别欢迎女性工程师、未被充分代表的少数民族和研究机会有限的大学学生的申请。这个项目与我们的日常生活密切相关，因此引起了本科生的极大兴趣。它使他们接触到令人兴奋的最先进的家庭和消费者网络技术，使他们能够通过与研究生和教师导师密切合作，深入了解研究生院的文化。最终，这建立了追求科学和工程高级学位所需的愿望、信心和技能。这些研究项目非常复杂，这个暑期的经验将使学生能够并鼓励他们在特定研究领域的技术会议上发表和展示成果。该项目由外部评估专家进行专业评估。本评估的结果预期将有助于教育研究有效的结构，使本科生参与研究。这个项目的成果将成为我们教育议程的一个组成部分，为网络和安全课程的内容做出贡献。

This site provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to engage in research involving interesting and challenging technical issues in the emerging field of home and consumer networking, promotes the professional development of participating undergraduates, and encourages them to consider pursuing advanced degrees and careers in science and engineering. Home and consumer networking is expected to be a significant market in the near future. There are, however, many challenges in this emerging field. These include quality of multimedia services, network and device heterogeneity, mobility, device intelligence, content and rights management, security and privacy, user experience/knowledge, and new services such as eldercare.Intellectual Merit: The students participate in the PIs? on-going funded research, investigate the above mentioned challenging issues, and provide viable solutions and insight. This research activity is expected to lead to a better understanding of the technical and performance issues and tradeoffs in home and consumer networking, and thus facilitate the rapid deployment of advanced home and consumer networking services and applications that are of significance to our nation?s economy and our quality of life. Ten students engage in a 10-week summer school every year for three years at the University of Missouri ? Columbia (MU). They are encouraged to continue participate in the projects after the summer program. The summer school includes a 2-week short course, followed by approximately 8-weeks of group research on selected projects that are carefully designed and well aligned with the PIs? on-going research. The students also engage in weekly seminars and weekly informal lunch meetings with faculty, weekly individual student-faculty meetings and a meeting on graduate school preparation, interim progress reports and final presentations. The students have many opportunities to present their research results at various venues at the campus, state, national, and international levels.Broader Impacts: This is a unique opportunity for the undergraduate students recruited mostly from institutions in the State of Missouri to experience training and research in the interdisciplinary areas of home and consumer networking. By bootstrapping through an already established network of recruiting forces in institutions across the State of Missouri, the site especially welcomes applications from women engineers, underrepresented minorities and students from colleges that have limited research opportunities. The project is of great interest to undergraduate students due to its close interaction with our daily life. It exposes them to exciting state-of-the-art home and consumer networking technologies allows them to gain insight on the culture of graduate school by closely working with graduate students and faculty mentors. Ultimately this builds the desire, confidence and skills necessary to pursue advanced degrees in science and engineering. The research projects are sufficiently sophisticated that this summer experience will enable and encourage the students to publish and present the results in technical conferences in the specific research areas. The project is professionally evaluated by an external assessment specialist. The outcomes of this assessment are expected to contribute to educational research on effective structures for involving undergraduates in research. The outcomes of this project will form an integral part of our educational agenda by contributing to the content of courses in networking and security.