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About ComSoc

Prize
A plaque and an honorarium up to US$500 for each author (total will not exceed US$1,000 for each paper).

Eligibility
For outstanding papers published in any publication of the IEEE Communications Society or the Information Theory Society within the previous three calendar years. The authors do not have to be a member of IEEE. 

Basis for Judging
Quality, originality, utility, timeliness, and presentation. The paper should cover the interests and achieve the values of both the IEEE Communications Society and the Information Theory Society.

Sponsorship
Jointly sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society.

Funding
Evenly funded by the two sponsoring societies.

Selection Process

  1. Each year a joint papers evaluation subcommittee of six members will be formed with three from each of the awards committees of the two societies. ComSoc's members are appointed by the Chair of the ComSoc Awards Committee.
  2. This subcommittee considers ranked nominations from the Publications Boards in both societies and selects one or two papers as the award recipients. Papers that have already been selected for a ComSoc paper award will not be eligible. The processes and timelines will follow the same as all other paper awards.

Presentation
Annually at any event sponsored by either of the two sponsoring societies selected by the recipient(s).

Deadline
Nominations due 15 February unless otherwise noted.

 

2023 Award Recipients

Xingran Chen, Konstantinos Gatsis, Hamed Hassani, and Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Age of Information in Random Access Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 68, no. 10, pp. 6548-6568, October 2022.

 

PAST AWARD RECIPIENTS

2022
Vamsi K. Amalladinne, Jean-Francois Chamberland, and Krishna R. Narayanan
"A Coded Compressed Sensing Scheme for Unsourced Multiple Access," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 6509-6533, October 2020.

2021
Sung-En Chiu, Nancy Ronquillo, and Tara Javidi
"Active Learning and CSI Acquisition for mmWave Initial Alignment," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 2474-2489, November 2019.

2020
Kangwook Lee, Maximilian Lam, Ramtin Pedarsani, Dimitris Papailiopoulos and Kannan Ramchandran
"Speeding up Distributed Machine Learning Using Codes", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 1514-1529, March 2018.

2019
Yuyi Mao, Jun Zhang, Khaled B. Letaief
Dynamic Computation Offloading for Mobile-Edge Computing With Energy Harvesting Devices,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 3590-3605, Dec. 2016

2018
Arash Gholami Davoodi, Syed Ali Jafar
"Aligned Image Sets Under Channel Uncertainty: Settling Conjectures on the Collapse of Degrees of Freedom Under Finite Precision CSIT"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Oct. 2016

2017
Ido Tal, Alexander Vardy
"List Decoding of Polar Codes" IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 5, pp 2213 – 2226, May 2015.

2016
Angel Lozano, Robert W. Heath Jr., Jeffrey G. Andrews
"Fundamental Limits of Cooperation" IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,Vol. 59, No. 9, March 2013, pp. 5213 - 5226.

2015
Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, David Tse
"Completely Stale Transmitter Channel State Information is Still Very Useful," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 7, July 2012.

2014
Parikshit Gopalan, Cheng Huang, Huseyin Simitci, Sergey Yekhanin
"On the Locality of Codeword Symbols," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 58, No.11, pp. 6925 - 6934, November 2012.

2013
A.Salman Avestimehr, Suhas N. Diggavi, David N. C. Tse
"Wireless Network Information Flow: A Deterministic Approach," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57., No. 4, April 2011, pp.1872-1905.

Bobak Nazer, Michael Gastpar
"Compute-and-Forward: Harnessing Interference Through Structured Codes,"  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 10, October 2011, pp. 6463-6486.

2012
Alexandros G. Dimakis, P. Brighten Godfrey, Yunnan Wu, Martin J. Wainwright, Kannan Ramchandran
"Network Coding for Distributed Storage Systems," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 4539 - 4551, September 2010

Michael Lentmaier, Daniel J. Costello Jr., Arvind Sridharan, and Kamil Sh. Zigangirov
"Iterative Decoding Threshold Analysis for LDPC Convolutional Codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56, No. 10, pp. 5274 - 5289, October 2010

2011
Matthieu Bloch, João Barros, Miguel R. D. Rodrigues, Steven W. McLaughlin
"Wireless Information-Theoretic Security," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 2515-2534,  June 2008

Giuseppe Caire, Nihar Jindal, Mari Kobayashi, Niranjay Ravindran
"Multiuser MIMO Achievable Rates With Downlink Training and Channel State Feedback,"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp.2845-2866, June 2010

2010
Ralf Kötter, Frank Kschischang
"Coding for Errors and Erasures in Random Network Coding," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 54, No. 8, pp. 3579-3591, August 2008

2009
Tracey Ho, Muriel Medard, Rolf Kotter, David Karger, Michelle Effros, Jun Shi, Ben Leong
"A Random Linear Network Coding Approach to Multicast," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp. 4413 - 4429, October 2006

2008
Aliazam Abbasfar, Dariush Divsalar, Kung Yao
"Accumulate-Repeat-Accumulate Codes," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 692 - 702, April 2007

2007
Amin Shokrollahi
"Raptor Codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 2551 - 2567, June 2006

2006
Tsachy Weissman, Eric Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Sergio Verdu, Marcelo J. Weinberger
"Universal Discrete Denoising: Known Channel," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 51, pp. 5-28, January 2005

2005
Nihar Jindal, Sriram Vishwanath, Andrea Goldsmith
"On the Duality of Gaussian Multiple-Access and Broadcast Channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 50, No. 5,  pp. 768-783, May 2004

2004
Guiseppe Caire, Shlomo Shamai
"On the Achievable Throughput of a Multiantenna Gaussian Broadcast Channel," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 49, No. 7, pp. 1691-1706, July 2003

2003
Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Igal Sason
"Variations on the Gallager Bounds, Connections, and Applications,"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 48, No. 12, pp. 3029-3051, December, 2002

2002
Michael L. Honig, Weimin Xiao
"Performance of Reduced-Rank Linear Interference Suppression,"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp.1928-1946, July, 2001

2001
David Tse, Stephen Hanly
"Linear Multiuser Receivers: Effective Interference, Effective Bandwidth and User Capacity,"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 641-657, March 1999

Xiaodong Wang, Vincent Poor
"Iterative (Turbo) Soft Interference Cancellation and Decoding for Coded CDMA," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp.1046-1061, July 1999