Student Travel Grants for SIGCOMM 2012 Conference

ACM SIGCOMM大会将于2012年8月13日至8月17日在芬兰赫尔辛基举行。ACM SIGCOMM是数据通信特别兴趣小组的旗舰年度会议，该小组是计算机械协会的一个特殊兴趣小组。这项提案要求提供资金，以帮助来自美国机构的大约10名研究生和3名博士后参加这次会议。参加SIGCOMM这样的会议是研究生院经历中极其重要的一部分，为学生提供了与更资深的研究人员互动的机会，并使他们接触到该领域的前沿研究。这项提案所要求的支助将使上述类别的人员能够出席SIGCOMM 2012主要会议，否则他们将无法出席。旅行补助金主席致力于鼓励妇女和代表性不足的少数群体参加。智力优势：该项目建议为在美国的研究生和博士后参加SIGCOMM 2012主要会议提供旅行支持。SIGCOMM是网络社区的旗舰会议，也是一个竞争激烈的场所(接受率约为10%)。其丰富的项目让参与者接触到新的想法和尖端研究，并允许来自世界各地的研究人员之间的互动。广泛的影响：该项目通过接触计算机网络和通信领域的主要技术会议，将学生的研究和教育整合在一起。学生将有机会观看高质量的演讲，并与该领域的资深研究人员互动。预计拟议的学生参与将对学生的研究兴趣和质量产生积极影响。第二，该项目将通过鼓励和使妇女和其他代表性不足的少数群体参与来促进多样性。此外，SIGCOMM作为年度会议的真正国际色彩是众所周知的，并反映在技术计划委员会的组成以及提交和接受的论文的作者中。因此，它培养了国际研究互动，并为学生提供了一个极大的机会来增加他们的想法、研究方法和技术视角的广度。

The ACM SIGCOMM Conference will be held from August 13 to August 17, 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. ACM SIGCOMM is the flagship annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communications, a special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery. This proposal requests funding to assist approximately 10 graduate students and 3 postdoctoral students from US institutions to attend this conference. Participation in conferences such as SIGCOMM is an extremely important part of the graduate school experience, provides students with an opportunity to interact with more senior researchers and exposes them to leading edge research in the field. The support requested in this proposal will enable people in the above categories to attend the main SIGCOMM 2012 conference, who would be otherwise unable to do so. The travel grant chairs are committed to encouraging the participation of women and under-represented minorities.Intellectual Merit: This project proposes to provide travel support for US-based graduate and postdoctoral students to attend the main SIGCOMM 2012 conference. SIGCOMM is the flagship conference in the networking community and a highly competitive venue (with acceptance rate around 10%). Its rich program exposes participants to new ideas and cutting-edge research and allows for interaction between researchers from all over the world.Broader Impact: This project integrates research and education of students through exposure to a premier technical meeting in computer networks and communications. Students will have the opportunity to observe high-quality presentations and interact with senior researchers in the field. The proposed student participation is expected to have a positive impact on the students' research interests and quality. Second, the project will promote diversity by encouraging and enabling women and other under-represented minorities to participate. Furthermore, the truly international flavor of SIGCOMM as an annual conference is well-known and reflected in the composition of the Technical Program Committee as well as in the authors of the submitted and accepted papers. As such, it cultivates international research interactions and presents a tremendous opportunity to students to increase their breadth of ideas, research approaches, and technical perspectives.