Published: 26 Apr 2022
Paper Awards
The IEEE Communications Society Paper Awards honors the contributions of members and individuals who advance communications technology through published papers in ComSoc sponsored or co-sponsored publications.
IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication
Ying-Chang Liang, Yonghong Zeng, Edward C.Y. Peh, and Anh Tuan Hoang
“Sensing-Throughput Tradeoff for Cognitive Radio Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1326-1337, April 2008.
IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award
Faheem Zafari, Athanasios Gkelias, and Kin K. Leung
“A Survey of Indoor Localization Systems and Technologies,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 2568-2599, Third Quarter 2019.
IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award
Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Marcello Caleffi, Rodney Van Meter, and Lajos Hanzo
“When Entanglement Meets Classical Communications: Quantum Teleportation for the Quantum Internet,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 3808-3833, June 2020.
IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize
Zhijin Qin, Hao Ye, Geoffrey Ye Li, and Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang
“Deep Learning in Physical Layer Communications,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 93-99, April 2019.
Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis, and Mingzhe Chen
“A Vision of 6G Wireless Systems: Applications, Trends, Technologies, and Open Research Problems,” IEEE Network, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 134-142, May 2020.
IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letter
Beixiong Zheng and Rui Zhang
“Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Enhanced OFDM: Channel Estimation and Reflection Optimization,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 518-522, April 2020.
Zhen-Qing He and Xiaojun Yuan
“Cascaded Channel Estimation for Large Intelligent Metasurface Assisted Massive MIMO,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 210-214, February 2020.
IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize
Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, Kezhi Wang, Maged Elkashlan, Arumugam Nallanathan, Jiangzhou Wang, and Lajos Hanzo
“Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MIMO Broadcasting for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 1719-1734, August 2020.
IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award
Marco Di Renzo, Konstantinos Ntontin, Jian Song, Fadil Habibi Danufane, Xuewen Qian, Fotis I. Lazarakis, Julien de Rosny, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Osvaldo Simeone, Rui Zhang, Mérouane Debbah, Geoffroy Lerosey, Mathias Fink, Sergei A. Tretyakov, and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
“Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces vs. Relaying: Differences, Similarities, and Performance Comparison,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 1, pp. 798-807, June 2020.
IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize
Yan Sun, Dongfang Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Linglong Dai, and Robert Schober
“Optimal 3D-Trajectory Design and Resource Allocation for Solar-Powered UAV Communication Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 4281-4298, June 2019.
IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award
Shuowen Zhang, Yong Zeng, and Rui Zhang
“Cellular-Enabled UAV Communication: A Connectivity-Constrained Trajectory Optimization Perspective,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 2580-2604, March 2019.
Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri and Deniz Gündüz
“Federated Learning Over Wireless Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 3546-3557, May 2020.
IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications
Emil Björnson and Luca Sanguinetti
“Making Cell-Free Massive MIMO Competitive with MMSE Processing and Centralized Implementation”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 1, pp.77-90, January 2020.