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TWS Announces Speakers, Special Events for 2016 Summit

Sept. 6, 2016
Texas Wireless Summit (TWS) 2016: Reshaping Wireless Through Automated Vehicles, recently announced their speaker line-up and other exciting special reveals for this year’s event. On October 18, 2016, TWS will explore how automated vehicles will reshape wireless over the next 10 years with their demands for coordinated sensing and decision-making. The event will look at the benefits and requirements of connectivity, the key challenges of vehicle sensing and shared data analytics, including lightly processed radar, lidar and camera data.
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Alumni Yung Yi and Song Chong Receive 2016 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize

April 26, 2016
  Alumni Yung Yi (PhD '06) and Song Chong (PhD '95) received the 2016 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize for their paper "Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?," from the April 2013, Volume 21 edition of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. The prize is given to the best original paper published in any communication networking journal sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society during the previous three calendar years. Drs. Yi and Chong will receive the prize at the IEEE ICC 2016 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 24th.