ECE Student and Professor Win Best Paper Award

Ph.D. student Wahida Nasrin and Professor Jiang (Linda) Xie, both of UNC Charlotte Electrical and Computer Engineering, won a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017), which was held in Singapore December 4-8. Their winning paper was titled “An Efficient Target Cell Selection Scheme for Next-generation Open-access Femtocell Networks.”

IEEE Globecom is one of the two flagship conferences and one of the two largest conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. Globecom 2017 received a total of 2,630 technical paper submissions, of which 1,026 were accepted. Among the 1,026 accepted papers, 33 papers were nominated for the Best Paper Award and eventually 15 papers were selected as Best Papers by a committee of 10 distinguished researchers.