This project funds travel support for students to attend the Eleventh Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2014) that will be held in Seattle, WA, on April 2-4, 2014. The conference focuses on the design principles of large-scale networks and distributed systems and, in particular, challenges that are shared across systems as diverse as internet routing, peer-to-peer file sharing, sensor nets, scalable web services, and distributed network measurement. The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers from across the networking and systems community -- including computer networking, distributed systems, and operating systems -- to foster cross-disciplinary approaches and to address shared research challenges. This cross-disciplinary emphasis makes it well-suited as a target for student participation. The awards permit a more qualified and diverse group of student attendees than would otherwise have been possible. Students attending the conference benefit from both the technical content of the conference and the professional interaction with senior researchers from other universities and with industry.
Participation in NSDI 2014 is a valuable and important part of the graduate school experience. It provides students with the opportunity to interact with more senior researchers in the field, and exposes students to leading edge work in the field. This project will enable the participation of students who would otherwise be unable to attend NSDI. NSDI 2014 will offer many opportunities for students to meet, interact, and exchange ideas in an informal atmosphere including members of the program committee, speakers and organizers who are on site; a poster session; small evening birds-of-a-feather sessions.
Description The 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’14) focuses on the design and implementation of large-scale networks and distributed systems. The goal is to bring together researchers from across the systems and networking communities to foster cross-disciplinary approaches and to address shared research challenges. This year's program included 38 technical papers carefully selected out of 213 submissions. The high-quality papers represent a diverse range of research areas including software defined networking, network integrity, reliability, performance, security and privacy, datacenter, wireless networks, and more. The symposium was held in Seattle, WA, on April 2-4, 2014. Activities and Findings USENIX received 80 stipend applications from students, and 47 were awarded grants. Some of the funds were covered by the $15,000 from the NSF, and all NSF grant recipients were enrolled at US universities. USENIX appreciates the financial support of the NSF, which allowed us to grant awards to many more qualified applicants than we would have been able to otherwise. There were 265 total attendees at NSDI ‘14. Of these, 213 were from the US. Non-US attendees came from Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Pakistan, Romania, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Journals USENIX (2014). 11th USENIX NSDI. Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '14). 39 (4), PUBLISHED. Website USENIX NSDI 2014. www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14. The official conference website which contains proceedings, videos, slides, and presentation information. Impacts Participation in NSDI 2014 and similar conferences is a valuable and important part of the graduate school experience. It provides students with the opportunity to interact with more senior researchers in the field, and exposes students to leading edge work in the field. The support requested in this grant enabled the participation of students who would otherwise be unable to attend NSDI 2014.
