A paper by WimNet Ph.D. student Maria Gorlatova, and Professors Peter Kinget, Ioannis Kymissis, Dan Rubenstein, Xiadong Wang and Gil Zussman won the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications. The paper, titled “Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs) for Ubiquitous Object Networking“, appreared in the IEEE Wireless Communications Dec. 2010 Special Issue on the “Internet of Things: the Next Big Thing in Communications?” (bib entry).

The IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications is given to “Papers that open new lines of work, envision bold approaches to communication, formulate new problems to solve, and essentially enlarge the field of communications engineering.” It is given to “an outstanding paper published in any IEEE Communications Society publication in the previous 15 calendar years”.

Additional details are available in the Engineering School news item.