BEST PAPER AWARD

The nominations are made by symposium chairs of ICC 2011. Only top 18 papers are nominated out of 1092 papers. A Best Paper Award Committee has been formed to review all the nominated papers and vote to determine the best 11 papers as the winners of the Best Paper Award. The authors of Best Paper Award will be recognized in the conference.

No.	Symposium	Title	Authors
1.	Communication Theory	Analysis of the Level Crossing Rates for Ordered Random Processes	Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Matthew R. McKay (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), Peter J. Smith (The University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
2.	Signal Processing for Communications	Max-Min Fairness Linear Transceiver Design for a Multi-User MIMO Interference Channel	Ya-Feng Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China), Yu-Hong Dai (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China), Zhi-Quan Luo (University of Minnesota, USA)
3.	Wireless Communications	Decoding the `Nature Encoded' Messages for Distributed Energy Generation Control in Microgrid	Shuping Gong (the University of Tennessee, USA), Husheng Li (the University of Tennessee, USA), Lifeng Lai (University of Arkansas, USA), Robert C. Qiu (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
4.	Wireless Communications	ARQ with Packet-Error-Outage-Probability QoS Measure	Mingwei Wu (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Pooi-Yuen Kam (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
5.	Wireless Communications	How Much Training is Needed Against Smart Jamming?	Xiangyun Zhou (University of Oslo, Norway), Dusit Niyato (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Are Hjørungnes (University of Oslo, Norway)
6.	Wireless Networking	OPRA: Optimal Relay Assignment for Capacity Maximization in Cooperative Networks	Dejun Yang (Arizona State University, USA), Xi Fang (Arizona State University, USA), Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA)
7.	Optical Networks and Systems	Survivable Impairment-aware Traffic Grooming and Regenerator Placement with Dedicated Connection Level Protection	Chengyi Gao (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Hakki Cankaya (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Ankitkumar Patel (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Jason P. Jue (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Xi Wang (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., USA), Qiong Zhang (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., USA), Paparao Palacharla (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., USA), Motoyoshi Sekiya (Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., USA)
8.	Next Generation Networking and Internet	Utilizing Social Influence in Content Distribution Networks	Hossam Sharara (University of Maryland, USA), Cedric Westphal (DoCoMo Labs USA, USA), Svetlana Radosavac (DoCoMo Labs USA, USA), Ulas Can Kozat (DoCoMo Labs USA, USA)
9.	Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling	Energy-Efficiency Evaluation of a Medium Access Control Protocol for Cooperative ARQ	Jesus Alonso-Zarate (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain), Eirini Stavrou (University of Western Macedonia, Greece), Adamantia Stamou (University of Western Macedonia, Greece), Pantelis Angelidis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece), Luis Alonso (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain), Christos Verikoukis (Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain)
10.	Adhoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking	An Energy Efficient Priority-based QoS MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks	Jalel Ben-othman (Université de Versailles, France), Lynda Mokdad (Université de Paris 12, France), Bashir Yahya (Université de Versailles, France)
11.	Communication and Information System Security	Quick Detection of Stealthy SIP Flooding Attacks in VoIP Networks	Jin Tang (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), Yu Cheng (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)