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 original paper, in the category of Communications Networking, 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 Transactions 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). Note: award may not be given if a paper of high quality is not uncovered.
(first presented in 1975)
AWARDEES
| 2012 | Alberto Rabbachin Tony Q.S. Quek Hyundong Shin Moe Z. Win |
"Cognitive Network Interference," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 29, No. 2, February 2011, pp. 480-493. |
| 2011 | Murali Kodialam T. V. Lakshman James B. Orlin Sudipta Sengupta |
"Oblivious Routing of Highly Variable Traffic in Service Overlays and IP Backbones," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 459-472, April 2009 |
| 2010 | No Award | |
| 2009 | Sachin Katti Hariharan Rahul Wenjun Hu Dina Katabi Muriel Medard Jon Crowcroft |
"XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 497–510, June 2008 |
| 2008 | Božidar Radunović Jean-Yves Le Boudec |
"A Unified Framework for Max-Min and Min-Max Fairness With Applications", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 1073 – 1083, October 2007 |
| 2007 | David Applegate |
"Making Routing Robust to Changing Traffic Demands: Algorithms and Evaluation", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 1193-1206, December 2006 |
| 2006 | João Luís Sobrinho | "An Algebraic Theory of Dynamic Network Routing", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 1160 – 1173, October 2005 |
| 2005 | Neil Spring |
"Measuring ISP Topologies With Rocketfuel", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 2-16, February 2004 |
| 2004 | Ion Stoica |
"Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 17-32, February 2003 |
| 2003 | Wu-chang Feng |
"The BLUE Active Queue Management Algorithms", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 513-528, August 2002 |
| 2002 | Sally Floyd Vern Paxson |
"Difficulties in Simulating the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 392-403, August 2001 |
| 2001 | Chung Kei Wong Mohamed G. Gouda Simon S. Lam |
“Secure Group Communications Using Key Graphs”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 16 – 30, February 2000 |
| 2000 | Sally Floyd Kevin Fall |
"Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 7. No. 4, August 1999, pp. 458-472 |
| 1999 | Jorg Nonnenmacher Ernst W. Biersack Don Towsley |
"Parity-Based Loss Recovery for Reliable Multicast Transmission", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 6, No 4, Aug 1998, pp. 349-361 |
| 1998 | Vern Paxson | "End-to-end Routing Behavior in the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October 1997 |
| 1997 | S. H. Low N.F. Maxemchuk S. Paul |
"Anonymous Credit Cards and Their Collusion Analysis", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 1996, Volume 4, Number 6, pp. 809-816 |
| 1996 | R. Ramaswami K. Silvarajan |
"Routing and wavelength assignment in all-optical networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Oct, 1995 |
| 1995 | Will E. Leland Murad S. Taqqu Walter Willinger Dan V. Wilson |
"On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1994 |
| 1994 | Abhay K. Parekh Robert G. Gallager |
"A Generalized Processor Sharing Approach to Flow Control in Integrated Services Networks: The Single Node Case", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 1, No. 3, June 1993 |