AsianScientist (May 3, 2016) – A research team led by Professors Yi Yung and Chong Song from the Electrical Engineering Department at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has been awarded the prestigious 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) William R. Bennett Prize for a second time.
The KAIST team had previously received the award back in 2013, making them the second recipient ever to win the IEEE William R. Bennett Prize twice. The awards ceremony will take place on May 24, 2016 at the IEEE International Conference on Communications in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The IEEE William R. Bennett Prize is awarded annually by the IEEE Communications Society for the best paper published in their journal, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking or the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, over the previous three calendar years in the area of communications. Entries are based on quality, originality, scientific citation index and peer reviews.
The research team consists of KAIST graduate Dr. Lee Kyoung-Han, who is currently a professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in Korea; Dr. Lee Joo-Hyun, a postdoctoral researcher at the Ohio State University in the US; and Rhee In-Jong, vice president of the Mobile Division at Samsung Electronics.
The research team had the honor of receiving this award for their work on “Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?” Their research paper has been cited more than 500 times since its publication in 2013. The paper proposed an original method to effectively offload the cellular network and maximize WiFi network usage by analyzing the pattern of individual human mobility in daily life. The researchers received the first IEEE William R. Bennett Prize in 2013 for their paper, “On the Levy-Walk Nature of Human Mobility.”
The article can be found at: Lee K. et al. (2016) Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?.
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Source: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
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