The Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award
Prize	Plaque and honorarium up to $500 for each author (award total not to exceed $1000).
Eligibility	Given to an outstanding tutorial paper published in any Communications Society magazine or journal in the previous calendar year; author need not be an IEEE member.
Nominee Solicitation	Nominations solicited by Chair of Magazines/Journals Paper Awards Selection Committees in consultation with Magazines/Journals Editors-in-Chief.
Selection Process	- Nominations screened and short list prepared by the Magazines and Journals Paper Awards Selection committees with the approval of the Magazines/Journals Editors-in-Chief, Director of Magazines, and Director of Journals. The short list submitted to the Communications Society Awards Committee for final selection.
Presentation	Annually (as soon as possible after recommendation). Award will not be given if a paper of high quality is not uncovered.
The Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems (first presented in 1958; category defined in 1975).
Prize	Plaque and honorarium up to $500 for each author (award total not to exceed $1000).
Eligibility	Publication of an original paper, in the category Communications Systems, published in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications in the previous calendar year; 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 will not be given if a paper of high quality is not uncovered.
The Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory (first presented in 1975)
Prize	Plaque and honorarium up to $500 for each author (award total not to exceed $1000).
Eligibility	Publication of an original paper, in the category Communications Theory, published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications in the previous calendar year; 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). Award will not be given if a paper of high quality is not uncovered.
The Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Circuits and Techniques (first presented in 1975)
Prize	Plaque and honorarium up to $500 for each author (award total not to exceed $1000).
Eligibility	Publication of original paper, in the category Communications Circuits and Techniques, published in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in the previous calendar year; 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). Award will not be given if a paper of high quality is not uncovered.
Fred W. Ellersick Prize (formerly the Communications Society Magazine Prize Paper Award; renamed in 1992)
Prize	Plaque and honorarium up to $500 for each author (award total not to exceed $1000).
Eligibility	Publication of an original paper in any Communications Society magazine in the previous calendar year; 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 will not be given if a paper of high quality is not uncovered.
IEEE Communications Society/Information Theory Joint Paper Award (Approved 1999)
Prize	A plaque and an honorarium up to $500 for each author (award total not to exceed $1,000 for each paper).
Eligibility	For outstanding papers published in any publication of the Communications Society or Information Theory Society the previous calendar year. The authors do not have to be members of IEEE. Presented annually.
Basis for Judging	Quality, originality, utility, timeliness, and presentation. The paper should cover the interests and achieve the values of both the Communications Society and Information Theory Society.
Sponsorship and Funding	Jointly sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and Information Theory Society (IT). Funding evenly divided by the two sponsoring societies.
Selection Process	(1) Each year ComSoc Awards Committee selects 1 or 2 candidate papers from the previous calendar year; and the IT Awards Committee also selects 1 or 2 candidate papers from the previous calendar year. (Note: the first year this award was recognized, papers published in the previous three years were considered.) (2) A subcommittee of 4 people is formed with 2 members appointed from each of the Awards Committees of the two Societies. This subcommittee considers the 2 to 4 papers selected above and selects 1 or 2 papers as the winning papers. (3) For ComSoc, the normal Nomination Committees for paper awards organized by the publications boards nominate a short list of candidate papers, and the Awards Committee selects the 1 or 2 candidate papers out of the short list. (No paper already selected for a ComSoc paper award is eligible) The processes/timelines are the same as other paper awards. The Awards Chair appoints the two members who will serve on the subcommittee. (4) For IT, the Awards Committee for paper awards will seek nominations and submit 1 or 2 candidate papers. The processes/timelines will be the same as other paper awards. The Awards Chair appoints the two members who will serve on the subcommittee.
Presentation	Annually at any event sponsored by either of the two sponsoring societies selected by the recipient(s).
IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (approved 2003)
Prize	Plaque, honorarium of up to US$1000, travel reimbursement of up to US$3000
Description	The IEEE Guglielmo Marconi Best Paper Award is an annual award, sponsored by Qualcomm Inc., for an original paper in the field of Wireless Communications published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in the previous calendar year. NOTE:IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications is co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Eligibility	Author of an original paper in the filed of Wireless Communications, published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in the previous calendar year, are eligible for the Award. There are no restrictions as to IEEE membership, nationality, race, creed, age or gender.
Basis for Judging	Originality, utility, timeliness, and clarity of presentation.
Nominee Solicitation	Nominations solicited by the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from the Editorial Board, guest Editors, and readership (through published notice).
Selection Process	Annually solicitations are sought from 1 January through 15 February; a short list is generated by 1 March; selection by an award committee (consisting of 3 members of the ComSoc Awards Committee and 1 from the Signal Processing Society) is completed by 10 April; the Chair of the Communications Society Awards Committee notifies recipients no later than 20 April.
Presentation	Annually presented by the IEEE Communications Society Awards Committee Chair, in the name of the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the external sponsor of the award, at the International Conference on Communications.