A Review of IEEE WCNC 2013 report - Best Paper Award

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) was held in the magnificent city of Shanghai, China, on April 7 – 10, 2013. This was an historical event for the IEEE Communication Society, not only because China is the largest mobile communications market in the world, but also because this was the first ever IEEE WCNC event held in mainland China. IEEE WCNC 2013 received a record-breaking 1903 paper submissions in the main theme, the highest in IEEE WCNC’s history. 843 papers were accepted in the four tracks, following a thorough peer review process that ensured each paper received at least three reviews. The accepted papers were presented in 160 technical sessions organised in the four tracks, 139 sessions of which were dedicated to oral presentations and 21 sessions to posters. This separation among the accepted papers was not based on technical quality, as all oral and poster sessions in IEEE WCNC 2013 were considered to be equally important.

In addition to the main technical sessions, there were five keynote lecturers, five Technology and Business panels, five workshops, and ten tutorials. For the first time WCNC2013 offered free tutorials to all attendees. The conference offered attendees a content-rich program, covering both fundamental research and newly emerging advances in wireless communications systems and wireless networking. On the other hand, the Best Paper Awards promoted world-class research in our community, and the Student Travel Grants encouraged students to participate in the event. Throughout the four-day international event, more than 940 attendees representing 60 countries converged on the Shanghai International Convention and Exhibition Center to discuss the latest wireless communications & networking technologies and their applications.

Wednesday marked the event’s final day, which was initiated by the keynote address by Mr. Guanghua Yang, Director of Huawei Technologies. Mr. Yang discussed “Progress Toward the Future of Mobile Broadband Communications” and the need to fundamentally improve spectrum efficiency and re-architect radio networking protocols and infrastructures. After the keynote address, the Best Papers Awards ceremony was held, where the announcements were made by Professor Jiangzhou Wang, the TPC Chair, and the presentations by Professor Xiaohu You, the General Chair. The authors and papers honored were:
* Jianwei Niu, Long Cheng, Yu Gu, Junghyun Jun and Qingquan Zhang for their paper, entitled “Minimum-Delay and Energy-Efficient Flooding Tree in Asynchronous Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks,”

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* Nam Tuan Nguyen, Rong Zheng and Zhu Han for their paper, entitled “An Unsupervised Mobile Locations Extraction Approach with Incomplete Data,”