In this week’s installment of ECE Awards Roundup, the Communications Group is strongly represented.
Hari, Yousefi and Kschischang
Siddarth Hari, a PhD student supervised by Professor Frank Kschischang, won first place in the Best Student Paper Award Competition at the 27th Queen’s Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC) that took place at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. from June 1-3, 2014. His paper titled “Multi-Eigenvalue Communication via the Nonlinear Fourier Transform,” was co-authored by Mansoor I. Yousefi and Frank R. Kschischang.
The QBSC addresses the need for developing Canadian expertise in the new field of telecommunications, and fosters greater understanding in the fields of coding and information theory as well as telecommunications and signal processing.
Hari’s work on his paper is based on a previous proposal by his old fellow student M. Yousefi. “We worked on this paper together before Mansoor graduated,” said Hari. “His PhD Thesis proposed a radically new way to communicate on the optical fiber channel, and this paper is a preliminary step towards designing signals using the approach that he suggested.”
Spachos and Hatzinakos
Petros Spachos, a PhD student supervised by Professor Dimitris Hatzinakos, received Best Poster Award Runner-Up at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2014 held in Toronto from April 27 – May 2.
In this poster, Spachos introduced an Energy Conserving Opportunistic Routing (ECOR) protocol that tries to keep a balance between the energy consumption and the packet delay. Every node is self-powered and draws energy via solar panels.
Bannazadeh, Kang, Lin and Leon-Garcia
The paper co-authored by Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia, Hadi Bannazadeh, Thomas Lin and Joon-Myung Kang received the Best Paper Award at the 9th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (Tridentcom) held in Guangzhou, China from May 5 – 7, 2014.
Tridentcom brings together international technical experts and researchers from academia, industry and government, to discuss the convergence of advanced networking and cloud computing.
This paper describes the SAVI testbed as a prototype of a new concept called software defining infrastructure, “which combines both the networking resource management and the cloud computing management,” said Bannazadeh. “This enables applications on top of the cloud to configure resources inside the infrastructure.”
More information:
Mireille Khreich
Communications Assistant
The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
416-978-1999; mireille.khreich@utoronto.ca