Given annually to the best original paper published in any journal financially sponsored or co-sponsored by the Communications Society 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 the category Communications Systems, published in any journal financially sponsored or co-sponsored by the Communications Society in the previous 3 calendar years; author need not be an IEEE member.
Basis for Judging
Quality, originality, utility, timeliness, clarity of presentation.
Nominee Solicitation
Nominations solicited by Journal Editor-in-Chief from the Editorial Board, guest Editors, and readership (through published notice).
Selection Process
Nominations screened and reduced to a short list by a committee of the Editorial Board and 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.
(first presented in 1958; category defined in 1975)
AWARDEES
| 2012 | Pulkit Grover Kristen Woyach Anant Sahai |
“Towards a Communication-Theoretic Understanding of System-Level Power Consumption," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 29, No. 8, September 2011, pp.1744-1755. |
| 2011 | Watcharapan Suwansantisuk |
"Frame Synchronization for Variable-Length Packets," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 52-69, January 2008 |
| 2010 | No Award | |
| 2009 | Niranjay Ravindran Nihar Jindal |
"Limited Feedback-Based Block Diagonalization for the MIMO Broadcast Channel", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 26, No. 8, pp. 1473–1482, October 2008 |
| 2008 | M. Kodialam T. V. Lakshman James B. Orlin Sudipta Sengupta |
"Preconfiguring IP-over-Optical Networks to Handle Router Failures and Unpredictable Traffic", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 934 – 948, June 2007 |
| 2007 | George Theodorakopoulos John S. Baras |
"On Trust Models and Trust Evaluation Metrics for Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 318-328, February 2006 |
| 2006 | Moritz Borgmann Helmut Bölcskei |
"Noncoherent Space-Frequency Coded MIMO-OFDM", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 23, No.9, pp. 1799 -1810, September 2005 |
| 2005 | Parvathinathan Venkitasubramaniam Srihari Adireddy Lang Tong |
"Sensor Networks With Mobile Access: Optimal Random Access and Coding", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 1058-1068, August 2004 |
| 2004 | Shiwen Mao Shunan Lin Shivendra S. Panwar Yao Wang Emre Celebi |
"Video Transport Over Ad Hoc Networks: Multistream Coding With Multipath Transport", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 1721-1737, December 2003 |
| 2003 | Giovanni Cherubini |
"Filtered Multitone Modulation for Very High-Speed Digital Subscriber Lines", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 1016-1028, June 2002 |
| 2002 | Ralf R. Müller Sergio Verdù |
"Design and Analysis of Low-Complexity Interference Mitigation on Vector Channels", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 19, No. 8, pp 1429-1441, August 2001 |
| 2001 | Tai-Ann Chen Michael. P. Fitz Wen-Yi Kuo Michael. D. Zoltowski Jimm. H. Grimm |
"A Space-Time Model for Frequency Nonselective Rayleigh Fading Channels with Applications to Space-Time Modems", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 1175-1190, July 2000 |
| 2000 | Baochun Li Klara Nahrstedt |
"A Control-Based Middleware Framework for Quality-of- Service Adaptations", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 17, No. 9, September 1999, pp. 1632-1650 |
| 1999 | Robert J. McEliece David J.C. MacKay Jung-Fu Cheng |
"Turbo Decoding as an Instance of Pearl's "Belief Propagation" Algorithm", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol 16, No 2, Feb 1998, pp. 140-152 |
| 1998 | Chi-Yuan Hsu Antonio Ortega Amy R. Reibman |
"Joint Selection of Source and Channel Rate for VBR Video transmission Under ATM Policing Constraints", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Aug 1997 |
| 1997 | Akyildiz Yen |
"Multimedia Group Synchronization Protocols for Integrated Services", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Jan. 1996, Volume 14, Number 1, pp. 162-173 |
| 1996 | Gi-Hong Im Jean-Jacques Werner |
"Bandwith-efficient digital transmission over unshielded twisted pair wiring", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 13, No. 9, Dec 1995 |
| 1995 | Donald E. Smith | "Effects of Feedback Delay on the Performance of Transfer-Controlled Procedure in Controlling CCS Network Overloads", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 12, No. 3, April 1994 |
| 1994 | L. Gong M. A. Lomas R. M. Needham J.H. Saltzer |
"Protecting Poorly Chosen Secrets from Guessing Attacks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 11, No. 5, June 1993 |
| 1993 | Brian H. Marcus Paul H. Siegel Jack K. Wolf |
"Finite-State Modulation Codes for Data Storage", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 5-37, January 1992 |