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May 23, 2016

Rhee’s Paper Wins 2016 William R. Bennett Prize

Congratulations to Dr. Injong Rhee, Professor of Computer Science at NC State University, on having his paper selected to receive the 2016 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking
 
The winning paper, “Mobile Data Offloading:  How Much Can WiFi Deliver?,” appeared in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 21, No. 2, April 2013, pages 536-551.  The paper was chosen for the award on the basis of its quality, originality, utility, timeliness, and clarity of presentation. 
 
Co-authors include:  Drs. Kyunghan Lee, Assistant Professor at The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (Ulsan, Korea); Joohyun Lee, Postdoctoral Researcher at Ohio State University; Yung Yi, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; and Song Chong, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. 
 
The award was presented on May 24 during the Awards Ceremony at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2016) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
 
This is the second time Rhee has won the William R. Bennett Prize.  His paper, “On the Levy-Walk Nature of Human Mobility”, that appeared in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 3, June 2011, pages 630-643, won the prize in 2013.
 
To read the winning paper, click here.
 
For more information on Dr. Rhee, click here.
 
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