IEEE Communications Society Awards Committee is currently receiving nominations for ComSoc Paper Awards. The society welcomes nominations for Prize Papers published in previous years. Such action will give a deserving colleague a chance for one of these prestigious awards.

Awards ceremony is normally presented at ComSoc's major conferences IEEE ICC and IEEE GLOBECOM each year.

Visit Awards Review Process and Nomination Submission Form for details.

Here are the Paper Awards Categories:

1. The Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award
Given to an outstanding tutorial paper published in any Communications Society magazine or journal in the previous 5 calendar years.

2. The Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems
Restricted to a paper published in any journal financially sponsored or co-sponsored by the Communications Society in the previous 3 calendar years.

3. The Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory
Restricted to a paper published in any journal financially sponsored or co-sponsored by the Communications Society in the previous 3 calendar years.

4. The Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking (Award recently redefined for networking)
Restricted to a paper from any journal financially sponsored or co-sponsored by the Communications Society in the previous 3 calendar years.

5.The Fred W. Ellersick Prize
For a paper in any Communications Society magazine in the previous 3 calendar years.

6. The ComSoc & Information Theory Joint Paper Award (Deadline March 15)
For a paper, relevant to both Societies, that appeared in any publication of the Communications Society or the Information Theory Society in the previous 3 calendar years.

7. The IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (ComSoc and Signal Processing Society) 
Restricted to a paper from IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in the previous 3 calendar years.

8. The Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication
For a paper in any Communications Society journal or magazine in the previous 15 calendar years.

9. The Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letter
For letters published in any letter journal financially sponsored or co-sponsored by the Communications Society which essentially enlarge the field of communications engineering in the previous 3 calendar years.

ComSoc Awards site:
http://www.comsoc.org/about/memberprograms/comsoc-awards

Paper Awards Review Process:
http://awards.comsoc.org/

To nominate:
http://awards.comsoc.org/award-nomination

Questions or comments may be sent to:
Andreas Molisch - Andreas [dot] Molisch [at] ieee [dot] org
Chair, IEEE ComSoc Awards Committee

NEW YORK, NY (January 16, 2013) – The IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), the leading worldwide professional organization dedicated to the advancement of communications technologies, will hold the next IEEE Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (IEEE WCET®) Certification Exam from 7 April to 4 May 2013 at Prometric testing centers located worldwide. Eligible candidates are invited to visit www.ieee-wcet.org to learn about IEEE Wireless Communications Professional® (IEEE WCP) credential benefits and program news, gain access to the latest resource material, and complete registration applications, which are due by 22 March 2013.

The IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), which recently observed its 60th year dedicated to the advance of communications worldwide, developed the IEEE WCET Program to address the international wireless industry’s need for qualified individuals with real-world problem-solving skills. Launched under the guidance of Professional Examination Service (PES), a renowned professional credential developer, as well as international industry experts and experienced wireless practitioners, IEEE WCET has since become recognized worldwide as a vendor-neutral and transnational credential for demonstrating the wireless expertise of communications professionals.

Through a globally based group of dedicated volunteers, the exam and its supported products and services are continuously improved and updated for currency and relevance. This includes the latest advances and developments in the areas of RF engineering, propagation, and antennas; access technologies; network and service architectures; network management and security; facilities infrastructure; agreements, standards, policies, and regulations; and fundamental knowledge.

To qualify for the IEEE WCET designation, candidates with a bachelor’s or comparable degree from an accredited institution and at least three years of professional wireless engineering experience must pass the program’s detailed comprehensive examination. Administered on computer at selected locations, the exam is composed of 150 multiple choice questions with each applicant given up to four hours to complete the exam. The US$500 fee ($450 for IEEE and IEEE ComSoc members) covers the application fee, processing, the “seat fee” for taking the test, scoring and score reporting, and a certificate sent to those who pass the exam. In addition, a 75 question online practice exam is also available for $50 to provide prospective exam takers the opportunity to gauge their preparedness for the official IEEE WCET exam.

Other IEEE WCET resources include the second edition of A Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (published by John Wiley & Sons), the ultimate reference on wireless technology; in addition to free subscriptions to the bi-monthly IEEE Wireless Communications Professional electronic newsletter and the new 2013 IEEE WCET Candidate Handbook.

Furthermore, IEEE ComSoc now offers an ongoing series of online and in-person courses designed to not only help candidates prepare for upcoming exams, but also increase their overall knowledge of the wireless field. Additional information is available at www.comsoc.org/training. This includes the latest courses covering topics such as:

Introduction to Professional Wireless Communications
Wireless Communications Engineering – Current Practices
LTE Fundamentals and Applications Voice Over LTE: Convergence of IMS-based Voice and LTE
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) for Engineers & Managers
Self Organizing Networks

For more information on the IEEE WCET program please visit www.ieee-wcet.org or contact Marilyn Catis at m [dot] catis [at] comsoc [dot] org. Members of the IEEE WCET group on LinkedIn are afforded the ability to reach out to global colleagues and peers as well as learn about the latest IEEE WCET Program initiatives. Information is also available on Facebook and Twitter.

Founded in 1952, IEEE ComSoc, which has over 50,000 members and stands as the second largest of IEEE’s 38 technical societies, is dedicated to utilizing the best talent, education and training to secure open career paths for individuals worldwide. Anyone interested in taking the IEEE WCET exam or participating in a ComSoc Training course should know that they are working with a world-accredited organization, which has been recognized as the premier intellectual resource of the communications industry for the past six decades.

The IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC) has initiated the registration process for its next annual meeting to be held April 7 – 10, 2013 in Shanghai, China.

With accommodations currently available at the Oriental Riverside Hotel directly connected to the Shanghai International Convention Center, this year’s event ties together the numerous amenities of mainland China’s "showpiece" cultural, technological and financial center with the next stage of visionary research, services and applications that are actively furthering worldwide business, entertainment and social practices.

Scheduled to include more than 600 technical and executive presentations, IEEE WCNC 2013 will open Sunday, April 7 with a full day of tutorials and workshops devoted to topics such as “Cooperative Wireless Communications,” “Mobility Management in Future Wireless Networks,” “Game-Theoretic Techniques for the Energy Efficiency of Wireless Communications,” “Visible Light Communication,” “Mobile Cloud Computing & Networking” and “Future Green End-to-End Wireless Networks (FREENET).”

Monday, April 8 will then mark the start of the conference’s executive and technical program detailing the entire range of next-stage digital cellular, PCS, multimedia, channel modeling, radio resource management, green networking and emerging mobile applications. Also highlighting this agenda will be the keynote addresses of numerous world-renowned researchers and corporate communications leaders like:

- Professor Fumiyuki Adachi of Tohoku University in Japan, who will address the newest developments in gigabit wireless technology research in his presentation titled “Spectrum & Energy-Efficient Distributed Antenna Network for Future Wireless Communications.” This will include methods for achieving higher-than-1Gbps broadband data transmissions and implementing distributed antenna network (DAN) architectures that significantly reduce the transmit power of wireless networks

- Dr. Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist of China Mobile Inc., who will speak on “Towards Green & Soft” and the efforts of China Mobile to deliver a technical roadmap for accommodating his country’s network capacities, which are dramatically expected to increase with 1000x traffic loads by 2020. Other talking points will cover the creation of green, energy-efficient networks composed of soft elements used to further support extremely high-density, yet low-cost and low-power deployments of the latest network communications

- Professor Victor O.K. Li of the University of Hong Kong in China, who will ask “Can Wireless Technologies Save the Environment?” and then speak about the challenges and opportunities presented by the advancement and proliferation of the latest wireless technologies. This includes applications such as cloud computing, web applications, global information systems and the Internet, which have fueled a major increase in electric power consumption, as well as devices like MP3 players, personal computers and smart phones that have created huge disposal problems worldwide

- Dr. Wen Tong, Wireless CTO of Huawei, who will discuss “Progress Toward the Future of Mobile Broadband Communications” and the need to fundamentally improve spectrum efficiency and re-architect radio networking protocols and infrastructures

- Professor P. R. Kumar of Texas A&M University, who will address “A Clean Slate Approach to Wireless Networks Security,” while proposing a theoretical framework for reversing the paradigm of placing design and performance above security. In his talk, Prof. Kumar will also highlight the protocols necessary for enabling good nodes and provably secure and nearly optimal functioning networks in hostile environments

Still under development and soon to be announced is the IEEE WCNC 2013 business panel and technical program, which will consist of the presentation of hundreds of original papers. All of the papers, which were selected after a rigorous review process that included over 1,000 submissions from scores of countries, will cover the entire range of wireless communications and networking topics. Among the many previously discussed subjects are “A WSN Solution for Light Aircraft Pilot Health Monitoring,” “Clustering Methods for Base Station Cooperation,” “Green Resource Allocation for MIMO-OFDM Relay Networks,” “Machine-to-Machine Communications in OFDMA Cellular Networks,” “Mobile Sensor Scheduling for Timely Sweep Coverage,” “Radio Imaging by Cooperative Wireless Networks,” and “Controlling Self-healing Cellular Networks Using Fuzzy Logic.”

Visit IEEE WCNC 2013 for more information, including registration and patronage details as well as ongoing conference updates or contact Heather Ann Sweeney of IEEE ComSoc at h [dot] sweeney [at] comsoc [dot] org. All visitors to the IEEE WCNC 2013 website are also invited to reach out to friends and colleagues through the conference’s Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn pages.