REU Site: Research in Consumer Networking Technologies

这笔资金更新了密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校的本科生研究体验(REU)网站。本科生将研究各种有趣而具有挑战性的问题，这些问题涉及消费者网络应用程序和服务，这些应用程序和服务对社会计算、医疗保健和公共安全等领域的经济和生活质量具有重要意义。学生将参与教师导师正在进行的资助研究，调查具有技术挑战性的问题，并开发可行的解决方案和见解。他们将参与专业开发活动，为未来的研究生学习和广泛的新兴计算职业做好准备。该网站将专注于从非博士授予机构招收学生，特别强调密苏里州及其周围的机构。该项目的智力价值取决于领导层，这是一个经验丰富的研究小组，在研究领域拥有出色的专业知识和经验。研究将集中在广泛的主题上，例如：软件定义的网络/虚拟化、可视云计算、虚拟现实的沉浸式学习、移动传感和环境识别、保护联网的消费者应用程序，以及应用感知网络性能优化。研究活动将有助于更好地理解消费者网络技术和相关应用中的众多效率、性能、可靠性、可扩展性和安全问题以及权衡。在以前的REU现场计划中开发的高级网络环境和软件，以及新型试验台，如密苏里大学科学非军事区(非军事区)环境、NSF支持的云实验室/结构和Mizzou洞穴、智能设备和基于传感器的监控，将被参与学生在其研究项目中的动手实验中利用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This funding renews a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at theUniversity of Missouri – Columbia. Undergraduate students will investigate a variety of interesting andchallenging problems that involve consumer networking applications and services that are of significanceto the economy and quality of life in areas such as social computing, health care, and public safety. Thestudents will participate in the faculty mentors’ on-going funded research, investigate technicallychallenging issues and develop viable solutions and insights. They will participate in professionaldevelopment activities to prepare them for future graduate studies and a broad range of emergingcomputing careers. The site will focus on recruiting students from non-PhD granting institutions withparticular emphasis on institutions in and around the state of Missouri.The intellectual merit of the project rests with the leadership, an experienced research group withexcellent expertise and experience in the research area. The research will focus on broad topics such as:software-defined networking/virtualization, visual cloud computing, immersive learning with virtualreality, mobile sensing and environment recognition, securing networked consumer applications, andapplication-aware network performance optimization. The research activities will lead to a betterunderstanding of the multitude of efficiency, performance, reliability, scalability, and security issues andtradeoffs in consumer networking technologies and related applications. Advanced networkingenvironments and software developed in the previous REU site programs as well as novel testbeds such asthe Missouri University Science DMZ (demilitarized zone) environment, NSF-supportedCloudLab/FABRIC and Mizzou CAVE, smart device equipment, and sensor-based monitoring will beleveraged by the participating students in hands-on experiments within their research projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.