Awards

MMC is rolling out two committee awards given to our outstanding members to encourage and promote research and services in the multimedia communications technical areas.

Award Recipients for 2009

• Mea Wang, Baochun Li. "R2: Random push with random network coding in live peer-to-peer streaming," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems, Vol. 25, No. 9, pp. 1655-1666, December 2007
• B. Li, S.-S. Xie, G. Y. Keung, J.-C. Liu, I. Stoica, H. Zhang and X.-Y. Zhang, "An empirical study of the Coolstreaming+ system," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming System, 25(9):1627-1639, December 2007

Award Recipients for 2008

• X. Hei, Y. Liu and K. W. Ross, "Inferring network-wide quality in P2P live streaming systems", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 25, Issue 9, December 2007 Page(s):1640-1654
• Zhi Li, Qibin Sun, Yong Lian and Chang Wen Chen, "Joint Source-Channel-Authentication Resource Allocation and Unequal Authenticity Protection for Multimedia Over Wireless Networks", IEEE Trans. Multimedia, Vol. 9, NO. 4, June 2007, pp. 837-850

Award Recipients for 2007

• Best-paper Award: Yi J. Liang, Nikolaus Farber, and Bernd Girod
  "Adaptive playout scheduling and loss concealment for voice communication over IP networks", published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Dec. 2003

Award Recipients for 2006

• Distinguished Service Award: Dr. Alex Gelman
  For his distinguished long-term service to the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee and the multimedia communications community which includes the foundation of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)

Award Recipients for 2004

• Best-paper Award: Wuttipong Kumwilaisak, Y. Thomas Hou, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, C.-C. Jay Kuo, and Ya-Qin Zhang
  "A cross-layer quality-of-service mapping architecture for video delivery in wireless networks," published in IEEE JSAC, Dec. 2003
• Distinguished Service Award: Dr. Charles N. Judice
  For his exemplary service to the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee and the multimedia communications community at large

Call for Nominations (Best-Paper Award)

It is time once again for our Multimedia Communications Technical Committee to elect the best-paper award for the paper in the multimedia communication area.

We started this award in 2004 to recognize the contributions of MMC TC members on technical achievement in multimedia communications area. This year we decide to select the awardee from papers published in the following conferences and journals that IEEE ComSoc co-sponsored. More specifically, we will include IEEE Journal Selected Areas of Communications, IEEE Transactions of Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICME, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, and IEEE ISM. Papers published in 2003, 2004 and 2005 are eligible. Nominations have to be sent by email to MMTCawdcommittee@netscape.net, with subject line 'MMTC-BPA Nomination'. The nomination should include the complete reference of the paper, author information, a brief supporting statement (maximum one page), the name of the nominator, and an electronic copy of the paper when possible.

The hard deadline for paper nomination is set to Dec. 15th, 2006.

An independent subcommittee has been created to evaluate nominated papers, and the Best-paper Award 2006 will be presented at ICC 2007, by the MMC TC chair, to one of the authors of the best paper. The authors will be notified at least 6 weeks prior to the conference.

Nomination Criteria (Distinguished Service Award)

Nominations are accepted until August 1st for the Distinguished Service Award. The prize is a certificate and an IEEE plaque signed by ComSoc President. The Distinguished Service Award will be given at our yearly MMC meeting during GLOBECOM.

Basis for Judging:
Exemplary service to MMC over a sustained period of time

Eligibility:
a. The nominee must be a MMC member at the time of nomination
b. The nominee must have been a MMC member for a sustained period of time

Nominations should be sent to MMC Chair using the following format:

- Award name
- Nominator name, affiliation, and contact info
- Nominee name & affiliation
- Up to one page supporting statement

Nominee Solicitation and Selection Process: Nominations shall be solicited by the MMC award committee. Final selection shall be made by the award committee and approved by MMC chair.

MMC Award Subcommittee: Subcommittee chair and members shall be elected at MMC bi-yearly election meeting. Only the award subcommittee shall make decisions regarding the award.

Chair: Dapeng Wu

Members:
Prof. Oliver Wu, University of Florida
Prof. K.P. Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology
Prof. Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna
Prof. Chang Wen Chen, Florida Institute of Technology
Dr. Olivier Verscheure, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights
Prof. Zhihai He, University of Missouri Columbia
Dr. Jin Li, Microsoft Research, Redmond
Prof. Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University

Additional information about the best-paper award and election bylaws are available here.