This award funds the conference registration and travel-related costs of 10 graduate students from the U.S. to attend The 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2011). ICCCN will be held in Maui, Hawaii in August, 2011 (http://icccn.org/icccn11/).
Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, ICCCN (International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks) is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of Computer Communications and Networks. ICCCN 2011 was held in Maui, Hawaii in July 31 - August 4, 2011. It received over 445 submissions to the main conference with 130 being accepted for presentation at the conference (i.e., 29% acceptance rate), resulting in a high-quality program. The conference program includes 12 technical tracks, 33 technical sessions, 6 tutorials open and free to all ICCCN 2011 attendees, 12 workshops on cutting-edge topics, 4 keynotes, and 12 distinguished speakers delivering plenary talks at 3 panels. The details of ICCCN 2011, including the organizing committee, call for papers, the program, and links to past years’ ICCCN, are available at http://icccn.org/icccn11/. To encourage graduate student participation in ICCCN 2011, a $10,000 student travel grant has been requested to and approved by NSF. To ensure an equal opportunity for all interested individuals, the travel grant program was advertised on the ICCCN 2011 web page, the ICCCN 2011 program, and various e-mail lists. NSF was acknowledged for the sponsorship of student travel grants in multiple ways. Women and minority candidates were particularly encouraged to apply. Based on the availability of the funding, 10 awards were made, with each student receiving up to a maximum of $1,000. Preference was given to applicants who have authored a paper in ICCCN 2011 main conference. In addition, a higher priority was given to female students and those from underrepresented minority groups and EPSCOR institutions that are not traditionally represented by the ICCCN conference. In particular, among the 10 students who were selected for an award, 3 students were female and 2 other students were from an EPSCOR institution. Through this NSF student travel grant, 10 graduate students were able to attend the conference. Participation in conferences such as IEEE ICCCN is an extremely important part of the graduate students’ research and career development, providing the opportunity for them to present their own work, attend panel and keynote speech sessions, interact with peers and other more senior top-quality researchers, and expose themselves to leading edge work in the field of computer communication and networks. Those who pursue academic careers will not only be more mature in their research area, but will also nurture their future students to interact with the academic and research community. Those who pursue careers in industry and government will come back in the future to conferences to offer the expertise they have gained.
