UBC engineering researchers win international best paper award

UBC electrical and computer engineering former postdoc Jan Mietzner and professors Lutz Lampe and Robert Schober have received the 2010 Best Paper Award by the German Technology Society (ITG) for their paper “Distributed Transmit Power Allocation for Multihop Cognitive-Systems” published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in 2009.

The award is given annually for outstanding scientific publications in information technology and comes with an honorarium of $3,000 Euros.