This project provides travel support for students to attend the 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) to be held during the first week of November 2010. MASS has become a premier international technical venue in a very short period of time (6 years) and has been featuring work of excellent quality attracting attendees from all over the world. The conference has already gained its prominence in providing a superb forum for information exchange. In 2010, the seventh edition of MASS will take place in San Francisco, California, USA during the first week of November. By being located fairly close to the Silicon Valley, MASS 2010 promises to attract record participation from academia and industry. For all its previous venues, MASS has been able to provide student travel grants thanks to NSF's support. Making travel grants available has been very effective in accomplishing the goal of encouraging student participation in technical meetings, especially in the case of under-privileged student populations. Besides the main conference, several workshops and a demo/poster session will take place as part of MASS 2010. Student participation in such events is a critical part of their education and training no matter what career path they plan to take.
This funding supported student participation at the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2010 which took place in San Francisco, California in early November 2010. IEEE MASS is one of the premier technical conferences in the areas of wireless networking, including wireless ad-hoc networks and sensor networks. IEEE MASS consists of technical sessions, a variety of workshops, and poster and demonstration sessions. Every year the conference gathers researchers from all over the word and is considered one of the top conferencesin the areas of wireless networking. Participation in technical conferences, especially venues of the caliber of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), is critical in the training and development of future researchers and academics. The grant helped offset travel costs for students to participate in the conference. We supported student authors presenting papers at the technical sessions and conference workshops as well as presenting demos and posters at the conference's demo and poster sessions. We were able to support 19 graduate students from a variety of US academic institutions. Without this support, it is likely that these students would not have been able to take part in the event and benefit from presenting their work and interacting with other researchers and practitioners in their field of study.
