Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI, 工研院) staff member Chiueh Tzi-cker (闕志克) on Tuesday received this year’s “Test of Time Paper Award” from the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), the first Taiwanese to win the prize.
The award was presented to Chiueh, head of the institute’s Information and Communications Research Laboratories, during the conference in San Francisco, California, which is organized by the US-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
The annual conference on networking and communication, which was first held in 1982, each year selects the most-cited papers published between 10 and 12 years ago in its proceedings.
The “Test of Time Paper Award” recognizes the significance of the papers’ impact on the information communication technology research community, the institute said in a statement.
Chiueh’s paper, titled “Architecture and Algorithms for an IEEE 802.11-Based Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Network,” has been cited 1,734 times since it was published in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE INFOCOM.
It was the only paper to receive the honor this year, the institute said.
As Chiueh’s paper is the most-cited one from the conferences held between 2004 and 2006, it was selected by the INFOCOM award committee as this year’s Test of Time Paper Award, Tom Hou, chairman of the IEEE INFOCOM Steering Committee, said at presentation ceremony.
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