Student Travel Support for the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) 2014

IEEE SECON是一个主要的无线网络研究会议，是展示传感器网络和物联网最新研究成果的场所。它是该领域的四大会议之一，其他会议是ACM Mobicom、ACM Sensys和IEEE Infocom。目前的会议范围是集中在传感器、传感器网络及其应用上，因为它的应用领域广泛而多样。2014年第二届世博会将于2014年7月在新加坡举行。通过支持15名研究生参加SECON 2014，这项提议将增加向更多和更多样化的受众传播会议研究成果，否则这些受众将无法参加。这样做，这项建议将有助于增强研究界的力量和包容性，并将导致SECON的长期健康和活力。通过优先向女性和代表不足的学生发放助学金，组织者希望增加这些群体的参与。通过向广泛的学院和大学做广告，来自更多不同机构的参与者应该能够参加会议并从中受益。广泛和多样化的人口对研究界的健康至关重要。

IEEE SECON is a premier research conference on wireless networking that has been the venue for presenting the latest research on sensor networks and the Internet of Things. It is one of the top four conferences in this space, the others being ACM Mobicom, ACM Sensys, and IEEE Infocom. The current conference scope is to focus on sensors, sensor networks and their applications, with its large and varied application domains. SECON 2014 will be held in Singapore in July 2014. By supporting 15 graduate students to attend SECON 2014, this proposal will increase the dissemination of the conference research results to a larger and a more diverse audience, which otherwise would not have been able to attend. In so doing, this proposal will contribute to the strength and inclusiveness of the research community, and will lead to the long-term health and vitality of SECON. By giving preference in grant awards to women and under-represented students, the organizers hope to increase the participation among these groups. By advertising to a wide range of colleges and universities, participants from a more diverse set of institutions should be able to attend and benefit from the conference. A broad and diverse population is vital to the health of the research community.