Presented during the Globecom 2022 Meeting, held online on November 30, 2022.

Best Paper Award in the ICC/Globecom 2022 Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) Symposia

Presented to Hanaa Abumarshoud, Bassant Selim, Mallik Tatipamula, and Harald Haas, for the ICC 2022 paper: Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Enhanced NOMA-based Visible Light Communications, with the following motivation:
“The paper brings a new vision and a strong technical contribution to the emerging and very promising research area on Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Visible Light Communications. The proposed framework and methodology are expected to have relevant impact on future research directions.”

Best Paper Award in the ICC/Globecom 2022 Green Communications Systems and Networks (GCSN) Symposia

Presented to Minsu Kim, Walid Saad, Mohammad Mozaffari, and Merouane Debbah, for the ICC 2022 paper: On the Tradeoff between Energy, Precision, and Accuracy in Federated Quantized Neural Networks, with the following motivation:
“The paper represents a pioneering work on the relevant problem of energy consumption in Federated Learning deployments, looking at the trade-off between energy, precision and accuracy. It offers innovative ideas and important findings that can have major impact on future research directions.”

Outstanding Service Award

Presented to Steve Hranilovic for serving as TAOS Technical Committee Chair in the 2021-2022 term.