Fred W. Ellersick Prize

Given annually to the best article published in a Communications Society magazine in the previous 3 calendar years

Prize
Plaque and honorarium up to $500 for each author (total awards not to exceed $1000).

Eligibility
Publication of an original paper in any Communications Society magazine in the previous 3 calendar years; author need not be an IEEE member.

Nominee Solicitation
Nominations solicited by the Chair of Magazines Paper Awards Selection Committee in consultation with Magazines Editors-in-Chief.

Selection Process
Nominations screened and short list prepared by the Magazines Paper Awards Selection Committee with the approval of the Magazines Editors-in-Chief. The short list is submitted to the Communications Society Awards Committee for final selection.

Presentation
Annually (as soon as possible after recommendation). Award may not be given if a paper of high quality is not uncovered.

(formerly the Communications Society Magazine Prize Paper Award; renamed in 1992)

AWARDEES

2012	Moe Z. Win Andrea Conti Santiago Mazuelas Yuan Shen Wesley M. Gifford Davide Dardari Marco Chiani	"Network Localization and Navigation Via cooperation," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 49, No.5, May 2011, pp. 56-62.

2011	Dusit Niyato Ekram Hossain Zhu Han	"Dynamic Spectrum Access in IEEE 802.22-Based Cognitive Wireless Networks: A Game Theoretic Model for Competitive Spectrum Bidding and Pricing," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Vol. 16, No 2, pp 16-23, April 2009

2010	Irwin Dorros	"Retrospective — 25 Years Later", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol 47, No 6, pp 14-20, June 2009

2009	Omer Ileri Narayan B. Mandayam	"Dynamic Spectrum Access Models: Toward an Engineering Perspective in the Spectrum Debate", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 153-160, January 2008

2008	Reaz Ahmed Noura Limam Jin Xiao Youssef Iraqi Raouf Boutaba	"Resource and Service Discovery in Large-Scale Multi-Domain Networks", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1 – 30, October 2007

2007	Arvind Giridhar P. R. Kumar	"Toward a Theory of In-Network Computation in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 98-107, April 2006

2006	Mohammed Atiquzzaman Shaojian Fu William Ivancic	"Evaluation of SCTP for Space Networks", IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 54 - 62, October 2005

2005	Simon Haykin Mathini Sellathurai Yvo de Jong Tricia Willink	"Turbo-MIMO for Wireless Communications", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp.48-53, October 2004

2004	Debanjan Saha Bala Rajagopalan Greg Bernstein	"The Optical Network Control Plane: State of the Standards and Deployment", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 41, No. 8, IEEE Optical Communications Design, Technologies, and Applications, Vol. 1 No 3, pp. S29-S34, August 2003

2003	W. David Sincoskie	"Broadband Packet Switching: A Personal Perspective", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 7, pp. 54-66, July 2002

2002	Per Johansson Manthos Kazantzidis Rohit Kapoor Mario Gerla	"Bluetooth: an Enabler for Personal Area Networking", IEEE Network Magazine, Sept/Oct 2001, pp. 28-37

2001	Cyriel Minkenberg Ton Engbersen	“A Combined Input and Output Queued Packet-Switched System Based on PRIZMA Switch- on- a- Chip Technology”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 12, pp. 70 –77, December 2000

2000	Mark E. Perkins Charles A. Dvorak Barry H. Lerich Joseph A. Zebarth	"Speech Transmission Performance Planning in Hybrid IP/SCN Networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 37, No. 7, July 1999, pp. 126-131

1999	Vijay P. Kumar T.V. Lakshman Dimitrios Stiliadis	"Beyond Best Effort: Router Architectures for the Differentiated Services of Tomorrow's Internet", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol 36, No 5, May 1998, pp. 152-164

1998	Kevin Thompson Gregory Miller Rick Wilder	"Wide-Area Internet Traffic Patterns and Characteristics", IEEE Network, Nov/Dec 1997

1997	T. M. Chen S. S. Liu V. K. Samalam	"The Available Bit Rate Service for Data in ATM Networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1996, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 56-71

1996	J.C. Bellamy	"Digital Network Synchronization", IEEE Communications Magazine, April 1995

1995	Anthony S. Acampora	"The Scalable Lightwave Network", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 32, No 12, December 1994

1994	Jack H. Winters Richard D. Gitlin Sanjay Kasturia	"Reducing Effects of Transmission Impairments in Digital Fiber Optic Systems", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol 31, No 6, June 1993