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ICCS academics win IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize
19 June 2023
Prof Christos Masouros and Prof Hugh Griffiths, both prominent researchers in ICCS, have recently been awarded the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize for their outstanding joint work on Radar-Communication systems.
A paper, “Joint Radar and Communication Design: Applications, State-of-the-Art, and the Road Ahead” authored by ICCS researchers, in collaboration with Rutgers University and University of Southampton, has been awarded the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize.
The award-winning work combines the expertise of two world-leading researchers at the Institute of Communications and Connected Systems (ICCS) in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UCL – Radar research led by Professor Hugh Griffiths and Communications and Sensing work steered by Professor Christos Masouros. The leading author is Dr Fan Liu, a former research associate under the supervision of Professor Christos Masouros.
On receiving the award, co-author Christos Masouros, Professor of Signal Processing and Wireless Communications commented:
“It's been exciting to work on introducing a sensing functionality for the first time in wireless networks, looking towards 6G and beyond. I am grateful to my co-authors for our fruitful collaboration.
The Stephen O. Rice Prize is granted to the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications during the past three calendar years, following a rigorous selection process. Awarded on an annual basis, the nominations are solicited by Transactions Editor-in-Chief from the Editorial Board, Guest Editors, and readership through a published notice. The nominations are then screened and reduced to a shortlist by a committee of the Editorial Board and submitted to the IEEE Communications Society Awards Committee for final selection.
The prize includes a plaque and honorarium up to 500 USD for each author.
About the paper
The paper discusses the importance of high-quality joint radar and communication designs to address the emerging issues linked to communication and radar spectrum sharing (CRSS). At the time of publication, the paper proposed a novel transceiver architecture and frame structure operating in the millimetre wave (mmWave) band, providing performance advantages in comparison to current systems while adhering to state-of-the art design protocols. The feasibility and efficiency of the proposed approaches are also validated by numerical simulations.
This work was supported in part by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and in part by the UK MOD University Defence Research Collaboration (UDRC) in Signal Processing.
Author List
F. Liu, C. Masouros, A. P. Petropulu, H. Griffiths and L. Hanzo
IEEE Transactions on Communications, EiC invited paper vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 3834-3862, June 2020.
You can read the full paper here.