Broadband Wireless Networking Lab

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz was an invited guest at, "Internet50: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Birth of the Internet", held at UCLA, CA, on October 29, 2019. [Link] [Photos]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz gave a keynote speech titled, "Security Challenges in Future Communication Networks", at the US Army Conference on Cyberconflict in Washington, D.C. on November 19, 2019. [Link]

• BWN Lab PhD student Bige Deniz Unluturk has been selected to participate in Rising Stars 2019, a prestigious, highly-selective academic career workshop for women in EECS hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from October 29 to November 1. [Link]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz received a commemorative plaque from Elsevier for his stewardship of the Computer Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, Physical Communication, and Nano Communication Networks journals, on July 2, 2019. [Photos]

• New Roadmap Paper: Akyildiz, I. F., Pierobon, M., and Balasubramaniam, S., "Moving Forward With Molecular Communication: From Theory to Human Health Applications," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 107, no. 5, pp. 858 - 865, May 2019.  [Full Article]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz gave a keynote speech titled, "PANACEA: A Cyber-Physical System for Early Detection and Mitigation of Infections", at The 13th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT 2019) in Oslo, Norway on May 10, 2019. [Photos]

• New provisional patent application filed, "Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization based Architecture for the Internet of Space Things/CubeSats", U.S. Patent Application No. 62/780,136 on December 14, 2018.

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz received the, "Pioneer Award in Underwater Communication", at The 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'18) in Shenzhen, China on December 4, 2018. [Photos]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz received the, "Pioneer Award in Underwater Communication", at The 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'18) in Shenzhen, China on December 4, 2018. [Photos]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz gave a keynote speech titled, "Underwater Communication Challenges in the Next Decade", at The 13th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'18) in Shenzhen, China on December 4, 2018. [Photos]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz gave a keynote speech titled, "What is the latest research on 5G Architectures and Deployment Cases? What after?", at the Argela/Netsia/Turk Telekom Conference on 5G & Network Transformation in Istanbul, Turkey on October 18, 2018. [Photos]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz was an invited panelist at the Open Innovation Forum in Skolkovo, Moscow on October 17, 2018. [Photos]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz gave a keynote speech titled, "Intelligent Environments to Support Communication in 5G and beyond Wireless Systems", at the Moscow Wireless Week in Moscow, Russia on October 1, 2018. [Photos]

• The BWN Lab was awarded the project, "IntraBioNets: Foundational Models of Heterogeneous Intrabody Biomolecular Communication Network Links for the Internet of Bio-NanoThings" from NSF, for a duration of two years starting from October 1, 2018 to September 31, 2020.

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz delivered a keynote on, "The Internet of Space Things", at the 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2018) in Lisbon, Portugal, on August 29, 2018. [Photos]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz gave a keynote on, "Internet of NanoThings and BioNanoThings" at the GTTI annual meeting in Bari, Italy on June 26, 2018. [Photos]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz delivered a keynote on, "The Internet of Space Things", at the 17th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2018) in Capri, Italy, on June 20, 2018.

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz was an invited panelist at the Huawei Stockholm workshop on TeraHertz, Opto and Satellite Communication, in Kista, Sweden on May 7-8, 2018. [Photos]

• Prof. I. F. Akyildiz was interviewed by Fox News on, "What is 5G and why is it a big deal?" on March 9, 2018. [Photos]

• Prof. I.F. Akyildiz was awarded the “2017 IEEE ComSoc TCCN Recognition Award” by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) with citation “for pioneering contributions to spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing algorithms and communication protocols for cognitive radio networks”.[Link]

• The BWN Lab alumni met at the IEEE INFOCOM 2018 TPC Meeting held at Boston on November 11, 2017. [Photo]

• Prof. I.F. Akyildiz was featured on Forbes Turkey November 2017 issue with his vision on the “Future of Wireless Communications”. [Photo]

• The paper entitled “Novel MI-based (FracBot) Sensor Hardware Design for Monitoring Hydraulic Fractures and Oil Reservoirs” coauthored by Carlos Martins, Abdallah Alshehri and Ian F. Akyildiz received the best paper award at the the 8th IEEE Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication, in New York City, on Oct 19-21, 2017. [Photo]

• Former BWN Lab student Josep Miquel Jornet has been selected for the “2017 SEAS Early Career Researcher of the Year Award” by University at Buffalo.

• Prof. I.F. Akyildiz delivered a talk on “SoftAir: A Software-Defined Networking Architecture for 5G Wireless Systems” at 5tonic Labs, Madrid, Spain on July 19, 2017. [Video] [Slides]

• I.F. Akyildiz and J.M. Jornet are granted the patent, “Graphene-based Plasmonic Nano-antenna for Terahertz Band Communication”, U.S. Patent No. 9,643,841 on May 9, 2017. [Link] [Plaque]

• Dr. I.F. Akyildiz and alumnus (2013) Dr. J.M. Jornet are granted the patent “Graphene-based Plasmonic Nano-antenna for Terahertz Band Communication” (US 14/253,539).

• Together with their recently issued patent on “Graphene-based Plasmonic Nano-transceiver employing HEMT for Terahertz Band Communication” (US 14/560,213), Dr. I.F. Akyildiz and Dr. J.M. Jornet own the intellectual property to build the complete front-end for ultra-broadband communication networks in the Terahertz Band, i.e., the next frontier for wireless communications. [Plaque]

• Prof. I.F. Akyildiz was interviewed by WSB-TV for a special presentation at Cox Media Group Annual Conference on the topic of 5G and how it will transform our society. [Video]

• Dr. I.F. Akyildiz is awarded the “2017 IEEE ComSoc TCCN Recognition Award” by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) with citation “for pioneering contributions to spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing algorithms and communication protocols for cognitive radio networks.” [Link]

• BWN Lab member Abdallah Al-Shehri has been awarded the “Best-in-Class Young Researcher” award by Aramco among 170 Aramco students pursuing Ph.D.s in the U.S. and around the world. [Link]

• Dr. I.F. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled “Internet of Things: Trends, Directions and Opportunities” at Annual IoT Forum, Tunisia, April 28, 2017. [Slides]

• Dr. I.F. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled “Internet of MicroThings, Nanothings and Bio-Nanothings” at IoT Tunisia Workshop, SESAME University, Tunisia, April 27, 2017. [Slides]

• Shih-Chun Lin defends his PhD thesis entitled "SoftAir: A Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization Architecture for 5G Wireless Systems" on April 3, 2017. He will join North Carolina State University as an Assistant Professor. [Photo]

• Dr. I.F. Akyildiz has been ranked as the 50^th scientist worldwide and 37^th in United States based on Google h-index rankings [Source] [Ranking List].

• Dr. I.F. Akyildiz had reached a h-index of 100 on Google Scholar as of October 1, 2016.
  h-index of h means that at least h papers have received more than h numbers of citations.

• Former BWN lab student Dr. Zhi Sun receives the NSF Career Award for the project titled "Towards Metamaterial-inspired Networking for Wireless Devices in Extreme Environments" on February 13, 2017.

• Dr. I.F. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Internet of NanoThings and BioNanoThigs" at FORTH (Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas) in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, on January 12, 2017. [Photo].

• Former BWN lab student Dr. Kaushik Chowdhury receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the United States Government [Press Release].

• The website for the CIRCLE project is http://fet-circle.eu.

• Dr. Akyildiz received the "Milestone Award" from ACM NanoCom in New York City on October 2016 [Plaque].

• Dr. I.F. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "Internet of NanoThings and BioNanoThings", at IEEE Ecuador, ETCM Conference, Guayaquil, Ecuador, October 12-14, 2016. [Photo]

• Youssef Chahibi defends his PhD thesis entitled "A Molecular Communication Framework for Modeling Targeted Drug Delivery Systems" on July 25, 2016.

• New patent issued: I.F. Akyildiz and J.M. Jornet, "Graphene-based Plasmonic Nano-Transceiver employing HEMT for Terahertz Band Communication" , U.S. Patent No. 9,397,758 on July 19th, 2016. [Plaque]

• NANOCOMNET: Nano Communication Networks (Elsevier) Journal launched in March 2010, has received the SCIE/ISI status from Thompson Reuters, May 2016.

• PHYCOM: Physical Communication (Elsevier) Journal launched June 2008, has received the SCIE/ISI status from Thompson Reuters, February 2016.

• Eulogy for "The Greatest"

• Ahmet Ozan Bicen defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Fundamentals of Molecular Communication over Microfluidic Channels on March 15, 2016.

• Chong Han defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Physical Layer Solutions for Ultra-Broadband Wireless Communications in the Terahertz Band on March 10, 2016. Chong Han joins the UM-SJTU Joint Institute, University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, as a tenure track Assistant Professor, starting on June 1, 2016.

• Thompson Reuters announced that Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal has been accepted for indexing in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) on February 2, 2016! [PHYCOM]

• Dr. Akyildiz's latest work on "the internet of bio-nano things" is featured in the IEEE ComSoc Tech Focus for the internet of things, on January 2016. [ComSoc Tech Focus] [Full Paper]

• Evolving Nanoscale Communication - ITFT Future NOW Interview: Dr. Akyildiz is interviewed by the ITFT Future NOW, regarding his preeminent research in nanoscale networks, 2015. [Full Article]

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "Nano-Scale Communication Challenges and Sensor Networks for Smart Grid," at the Int. Workshop on Nano-scale Machine Communciation and Sensor Networks for Smart Grid, King Abdulaziz Univ, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 18-22, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz is interviewed by the New Electronics, regarding his pioneering research on ultra massive MIMOs for high speed short range communications, on December 2015. [Full Article]

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a distinguished seminar on "Internet of NanoThings and BioNanoThings," at Missouri State University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, Nov. 9-10, 2015.

• Alumni get-together in Atlanta for the IEEE Infocom TPC meeting on November 7 and at a party on November 6. [Pictures]

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a distinguished seminar on "Internet of NanoThings and BioNanoThings," at Pennsylvania State University, State College, Penn, Oct. 28-30, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "Quo Vadis Research in Underwater Communication?," at the 10th ACM Int. Conf. on Underwater Networks & Systems (ACM WUWNET), Washington DC, October 22-24, 2015.

• BWN Lab member Youssef Chahibi earns a gold medal at the 12th annual iGEM Giant Jamboree, where over 250 student-led teams from all over the world compete and show their best innovations in the emerging field of synthetic biology. In collaboration with NTNU (Trondheim, Norway), Youssef's team (Julia Anna Adrian, Madina Akan, Typhaine Le Doujet and Marit Vaagen R�e) has developed an implantable microcapsule containing glucose-sensing bacteria. The competition results are available here, and the team's website is here.

• Chong Han defends his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, entitled Physical Layer Solutions for Ultra-Broadband Wireless Communications in the Terahertz Band on September 17, 2015.

• A. Ozan Bicen defends his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, entitled Fundamentals of Molecular Communication over Microfluidic Channels on September 16, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "SoftAir: Software Defined Networking Architecture for 5G Cellular Systems," at the Information Technology and Systems, Sochi, Russia, September 7-11, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "Internet of NanoThings and BioNanoThings," at the 33rd Symposium on Telecommunications, Juiz de Fora, Brasil, September 1-4, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a distinguished seminar on "Internet of NanoThings and BioNanoThings," at the Universidad Federal de Minhas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, August 31, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives an invited speech on "On the Quest for Capacity: Ultra-broadband Communication Networks from 60 GHz up to 10 THz," at the Huawei University Days (HUD) Annual Meeting, Chicago, ILL, August 3-6, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "SoftAir: Software Defined Networking Architecture for 5G Cellular Systems," at the 24th Int. Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 3-6, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "SoftAir: A Software Defined Networking Architecture for 5G Cellular Systems," at University of Technology Compiegne, Compiegne, France, July 22, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "Internet of BioNanoThings," at the Int. Workshop on the MELODY Project, Oslo University and Trondheim Univ of Science and Technology, from Bergen to Trondheim on the Hurtigruten ship, June 14-16, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz attended Humboldt Research Prize ceremony hosted by His Excellency, German Bundespresident, Joachim Gauck at Schloss Bellevue, Berlin, Germany, on June 11, 2015. [Photo]

• Dr. Akyildiz gives Humboldt Seminar on "SoftAir: A Software Defined Networking Architecture for 5G Cellular Systems," at University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, June 9, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "SoftAir: A Software Defined Networking Architecture for 5G Cellular Systems," at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia, May 15, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "A Journey from 1G to 5G Cellular Systems," at the Int. Conf on Engineering and Natural Science (ICENS), Skopje, Macedonia, May 15-19, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "A Software Defined Networking Architecture for 5G Cellular Systems," at the Int. Workshop on 5G Cellular Systems, ARGELA Turkish Telekom, Istanbul, Turkey, March 31, 2015.

• Prof. Akyildiz, and BWN Alumni Dr. David Gutierrez-Estevez and Dr. Elias Chavarria-Reyes are granted the patent entitled: "Femto-Relay Systems and Methods Managing the Same" on March 10, 2015.

• Ravikumar Balakrishnan defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Handover Management in Heterogeneous Networks for 4G and Beyond Cellular Systems on March 4, 2015.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "A Journey from 1G to 5G Cellular Systems," and a half day tutorial on "Software Defined Networking," at the Int. Arab Conf on Information Technology, University of Nizwa, Oman, December 8-11, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Software Defined Networking for Wireless Systems," at King Abdulaziz University, Research Visit, Nov. 29- Dec. 5, 2014.

• Youssef Chahibi defends his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, entitled Molecular Communication Fundamentals for Targeted Drug Delivery Systems on November 21, 2014.

• Elias Chavarria Reyes defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Energy Modeling and Analysis in Heterogeneous Cellular Systems on November 10, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "4G and 5G Research Challenges," at NICTA, Sydney, Australia on Nov 6, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Nanoscale and Molecular Communication Research Challenges," at UNSW, Sydney, Australia, October 27, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz visits The University of New South Wales, Sydney and NICTA, Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence in Sydney, Australia, October 24- November 7, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz received ACM MSWIM Reginald A. Fassenden Award with the citation: "For pioneering contributions for modeling and analysis of cellular and multihop wireless communication systems", September 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "Underwater and Underground Sensor Networks," at the 17th ACM MSWIM Int. Conf. on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Montreal, Canda, September 21-24, 2014.

• David Gutierrez Estevez defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Interference Analysis and Mitigation for Heterogeneous Cellular Networks on August 15, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a distinguished seminars on "Wireless Sensor Networks," and on "A Journey from 1G through 5 Cellular Systems," at DIT (Dar Es Salaam Institue of Technology, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, July 23-24, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a distinguished seminar on "Wireless Sensor Networks," and on "A Journey from 1G through 5 Cellular Systems," at SUZA (State University of Zanzibar), Stone Town, Zanzibar, July 21-22, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Research Challenges for 5G Cellular Systems," at University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, July 17, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Wireless Sensor Networks in Challenged Environments such as Underwater and Underground," at University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, July 10, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "NanoNetworks: A New Frontier in Communications," at the First Int. Conf. on Advanced Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications (INDS'2014), Bejaia, Algeria, June 17-19, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a distinguished seminar on "LTE-A: Next Generation Cellular Systems," at University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria, June 16, 2014.

• We celebrated the 60th birthday of Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz on April 11, 2014!!! [Photos]

• International Workshop on "Future of Wireless Communications" takes place to celebrate the birthday of Prof. Akyildiz in Atlanta, GA, on April 11, 2014.

• Dr. Akyildiz's latest work on graphene-based plasmonic nano-transceivers and nano-antennas for Terahertz Band communication in nanonetworks is featured in the SPIE Newsroom, on March 6, 2014. [Full Article]

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a distinguished seminar on "Nano-Scale Communications and Molecular Communication," at University of Passau, Passau, Germany, Febr. 6, 2014.

• Elias Chavarria defends his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, entitled "Energy Modeling and Analysis in Heterogeneous Cellular Systems", on December 17, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz's latest work on graphene-based plasmonic nano-antennas for Terahertz Band communication is featured in IEEE Spectrum, on December 13, 2013. [Full Article]

• Dr. Akyildiz's latest work on graphene-based plasmonic nano-antennas for nanoscale communication is featured in Georgia Tech News Center, on December 11, 2013. [Full Article] [Picture]

• Dr. Akyildiz is interviewed by the Turkish edition of Forbes magazine, regarding his leadership in the scietific research and development of technology in telecommunications field, on December 2013. [Full Article - English] [Full Article - Turkish]

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "HETNETS: Research Directions" at the HETNETS/Small Cells workshop within the IEEE Globecom 2013, December 9, 2013.

• Ravikumar Balakrishnan defends his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, entitled "Mobility Management for Next Generation Cellular Systems", on December 5, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz received Humboldt Research Prize from German Humboldt Foundation in November 2013. Dr. Akyildiz will be conducting research on TeraHertzBand with University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Department of Digital Communication, within the next three years.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Nanoscale Communication Networks" at Al Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Nov. 20, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a tutorial on "Wireless Sensor Networks" at KACST (King Abdullah Council for Science and Technology) (Saudi Arabia NSF) on Nov 20, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Underground and Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks" at KACST (King Abdullah Council for Science and Technology) (Saudi Arabia NSF) on Nov 19, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a speech on "Smart Grid: Research Challenges" at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Nov 18, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a speech on "LTE-A: Research Challenges" at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Nov. 17, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at Turgut Ozal University, Nov 13, 2013.

• David Gutierrez-Estevez defends his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, entitled "Interference Analysis and Mitigation for Heterogeneous Cellular Networks", on November 1, 2013.

• Brandon Lo defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Design and Analysis of Common Control Channels in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks on October 31, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar entitled "Graphene-based Nano-scale Communication Networks in Terahertz Band" at the Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 17, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "Rocking the World Nanoscale: Future Internet Research for Communication Networks in Medicine, Health and Beyond" at the VERDIKT-Conference "Rock 'n' Roll Technologies" organized by the Research Council of Norway, Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 15, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz is interviewed by the Research Council of Norway - VERDIKT, regarding his pioneering research on on molecular communication for nanomedicine, on October 2013. [Full Article - English] [Full Article - Norwegian]

• Dr. Akyildiz is interviewed by the Communications of the ACM, regarding his pioneering research on graphane-based nano-antennas for wireless communication in the terahertz band, on October 2013. [Full Article]

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar entitled "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications" at the National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (NRU ITMO), St. Petersburg, Russia, Sept. 24, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz's latest work on wireless underground sensor networks is featured in the Wireless Sensor Networks Magazine, on September 23, 2013. [Full Article]

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar entitled "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications" at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, September 12, 2013.

• Massimiliano Pierobon joins the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, as an Assistant Professor, August 2013.

• Massimiliano Pierobon defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Fundamentals of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks on August 7, 2013.

• Josep Miquel Jornet joins the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Department of Electrical Engineering, as an Assistant Professor, August 2013.

• Josep Miquel Jornet defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Nanonetworks in the Terahertz Band on August 6, 2013.

• Pu Wang joins the Wichita State University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as an Assistant Professor, August 2013.

• Pu Wang defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization for Wireless Networks in the Presence of Heavy Tails on August 6, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives 2 speeches on "Terahertz Band: New Communication Challenges" and "Next Generation Cellular Systems Challenges" at the Unviersity of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany, on July 15-19, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Nanonetworks" at Paristech, Paris, France, July 9, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends and serves as the General Chair at the First IEEE BlackSeaCom conference in Batumi, Georgia, July 2-6, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a speech on "Nanocommunication Networks" at the University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro on June 28, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Research Challenges for Communication of Nanoscale Machines" at Tirana Technical University in Tirana, Albania, on June 27, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia on June 24, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at the Third International Conference on Communications and Information Technology ICCIT 2013, in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 19-21, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a 2 hour speech on "Nanonetwork Research Opportunities" at St. Petersburg State University on June 3, 2013 and had meeting with the RUSNANO investment group on June 4, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a 2 hour speech on "Opportunities for Nanonetworks and Nanocomputing research" at Tallinn Technical University and had meetings with the parliament people and investors for the investments in Nanotechnology area in Tallinn, Estonia, on May 27, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives 2 hour lectures each on "Internet of Nanothings" and "Molecular Nanonetworks" at the First Int. Summer School at Tampere University of Technology, FInland, on May 21 and 22, 2013.

• Dr. Akyildiz is interviewed by BBC regarding his pioneering research on the Internet of Nano-Things, on March 2013. [More]

• Dr. Akyildiz is interviewed by MIT Technology Review regarding his pioneering research on graphene-based nano-antennas for Terahertz Band communications, on March 2013. [Main Link] Additional links: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at the First Computer Engineering Frontiers Symposium (CEFS'13), in King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on March 3, 2013.

• The former lab member Dr. Tommaso Melodia, currently Associate Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, receives the NSF Career Award.

• Dr. Akyildiz is interviewed at Tampere University of Technology (TUT), regarding his pioneering research on nanonetworks and his recently founded research center at TUT. [Full Article]

• Massimiliano Pierobon defends his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, entitled "Fundamentals of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks", on December 7, 2012.

• Pu Wang defends his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, entitled "Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization for Wireless Networks in the Presence of Heavy Tails", on November 30, 2012.

• Josep Miquel Jornet defends his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, entitled "Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Nanonetworks in the Terahertz Band", on November 30, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar entitled "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, on October 30, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar entitled "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, on October 29, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "New Information Theory for Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks" at the Int. Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, WCSP 2012, in Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) City, Anhui Province, China, on October 25-27, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar entitled "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, on October 3, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar entitled "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the Tampere University of Technology, Finland on October 1, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar entitled "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the University of Helsinki, Finland on September 27, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz becomes a FiDiPro Professor at Tampere University of Technology, Department of Communications Engineering, Finland, starting in January 2013. The Academy of Finland, by means of the Finland Distinguished Professor Program (FiDiPro), provides Finnish universities and research institutes the opportunity to employ distinguished professor-level scientists from all around the world, for a fixed period of time, to carry out research and contribute to the advancement of scientific research. Dr. Akyildiz's group will be focused on nanonetworks under the Internet of Things (IoT) concept, which will enable many advanced applications of nanotechnology in the biomedical, environmental, energy and military fields, amongst others. [In the News]

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the ACM Int. Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 22-26, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a talk on "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the INRIA Research Center, Lille, France, on July 26, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a talk on "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the Near East University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus, on July 24, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a talk on "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany, on July 19, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a talk on "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey, on July 4, 2012.

• Dr. Rui (April) Dai joins North Dakota State University, Department of Computer Science, as a tenure track Assistant Professor, August 2012. BWN Lab wishes the best for our alumni.

• Dr. Zhi Sun joins the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), Department of Electrical Engineering, as a tenure track Assistant Professor, July 2012. BWN Lab wishes the best for our alumni.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Internet of Nano-Things" at the Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication. IEEE ISCC'12, in Cappadocia, Turkey, on 1-4 July 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Fundamentals of Molecular Nano Communication Networks" at the IEEE Int. Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2012) in Ottawa, Canada, on June 10-15, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "GRANET: Graphene Based Nano Communication Networks" at the Second IEEE Int. Workshop on Molecular and Nanoscale Communication Networks" within the (IEEE ICC 2012) in Ottawa, Canada, on June 11, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Internet of Nano-Things" at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems, CITS 2012, in Amman, Jordan, on May 13-16, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Internet of Nano-Things" at the 5th IFIP Int Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, NTMS 2012, in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 7-10, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Internet of Nanothings" at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 26, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz has an Advisory Board meeting for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, on April 21, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communication" at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, on April 19-20, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Fundamentals of Molecular Nano Communication Networks" at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, on March 1-2, 2012.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a tutorial on "Wireless Sensor Networks in challenged environments such as underwater and underground" at the International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief, ACWR2011, Amrita University, Kochi, India, on December 19-21, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz has several meetings at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, on December 11-17, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz receives the 2011 TUBITAK (Turkish National Science Foundation) Exclusive Award, which consists of 25K Dollars, a Golden Trophy and a Plaque, for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of scholarship/research at international level.[Pictures] [Reception Speech]

• Pu Wang receives the 2012 Researcher of the Year Award within the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab.

• Massimiliano Pierobon receives the 2011 Researcher of the Year Award within the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Internet of Nanothings" at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, on November 15, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Graphene Based Nanonetworks" at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, on November 14, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications" and has several meetings at the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, Hanoi, Vietnam, on November 9-10, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications" and has several meetings at the University of Science, Vietnam National University, Ho CHi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 4-7, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Molecular Communication" and has several meetings at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, on November 3, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Internet of Nano-Things" at the International workshop on M2M Technology to be held by Intel-NTU center in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 31-November 2, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a tutorial on "Advanced Sensor Networks" at King's College, London, UK, on October 20, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives two keynote speeches on "Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks" and "Internet of Nano-Things" at the Second International MELODY Project Workshop in Oslo, Norway, on October 17-18, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches "Nano Sensor Networks" at the summer school at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, on September 3, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Wireless Multimedia Nano Sensor Networks" at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance in Klagenfurt, Austria, on September 1, 2011.

• Josep Miquel Jornet gives a talk on "Wireless Nanosensor Networks," at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA, on September 1, 2011.

• Josep Miquel Jornet gives a presentation on "Graphene-based Nano-antennas for Electromagnetic Communication among Nano-Devices," at the Nanoelectronic Devices for Defense & Security Conference, NANO-DDS, at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY, USA, on August 31, 2011.

• Josep Miquel Jornet gives a seminar entitled "The Internet Of Nano-Things," at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, on August 30, 2011.

• Rui Dai defends her PhD thesis entitled Correlation-Based Communication in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks on August 17, 2011.

• An interdisciplinary team led by Dr. Akyildiz and composed of five Georgia Tech faculty from Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biology, and Mechanical Engineering has been awarded a $3M National Science Foundation grant entitled "Fundamentals of Molecular Nano-Communication Networks". [News] [Picture] [More]

• Dr. Akyildiz, as the co-director of the NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya (N3Cat), organizes the Third NaNoNetworking Summit in Barcelona, Spain, on June 22-23, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Information Theory" at the 2011 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW) 2011, Sitges (Barcelona), Spain, on June 20-22, 2011.

• Zhi Sun defends his PhD thesis entitled Reliable and Efficient Communication in Wireless Underground Sensor Networks on June 3, 2011.

• David Guti�rrez Est�vez receives a fellowship from "Fundaci�n Caja Madrid" to continue with his PhD in the School of ECE at Georgia Tech. The fellowship is given personally by the Prince of Spain and his wife the Princess, on May 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz receives the IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award with the citation for pioneering contributions in wireless sensor network architectures and communication protocols. He receives this award in a ceremony in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 25, 2011 [Video] [Pictures].

• Dr. Akyildiz gives the keynote speech on "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications" at the 18th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2011), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, on May 8-11, 2011.

• Massimiliano Pierobon gives a seminar entitled "Diffusion-based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks," at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, on April 18, 2011.

• Massimiliano Pierobon gives a seminar entitled "Diffusion-based Molecular Communication in Nanonetworks," at the UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, on April 15, 2011.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a distinguished lecture on "Nanonetworks: A New Communication Paradigm" at the Triangle CS Distinguished Lecturer Series (TCSDLS) at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 21-22, 2011.

• The former lab member Dr. Dario Pompili, currently Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, receives the NSF Career Award.

• The BWN Lab has four papers on the list of the 25 most downloaded papers published in Computer Networks (Elsevier) journal according to ScienceDirect as of December 2010.

• Josep Miquel Jornet receives the 2010 Researcher of the Year Award within the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at the I2TS 2010 - 9th International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 13-15, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz receives the IEEE Communications Society Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (AHSN TC) Technical Recognition Award with the citation for pioneering contributions to wireless sensor networks and wireless mesh networks. He receives this award at the IEEE Globecom 2010 Conference, in Miami, Florida, on December 6-10, 2010. [Picture]

• Zhi Sun and Dr. Akyildiz receive the Best Paper Award for "Deployment Algorithms for Wireless Underground Sensor Networks using Magnetic Induction" in IEEE Globecom 2010, on December 6-10, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a plenary talk on "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications" at the IEEE Globecom Conference, Miami, Florida, on December 6-10, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz visits the Advanced Sensor Networks Lab at the University of Pretoria and MERAKA research institute, Pretoria, South Africa, Nov 20-Dec. 3, 2010

• Josep Miquel Jornet participates with the talk entitled "Terahertz Communications for Graphene-based Devices," at the IEEE 802.15 WPAN Terahertz Interest Group, IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, on November 7-12, 2010.

• Josep Miquel Jornet gives a seminar entitled "Enabling Electromagnetic Communication in Wireless Nanosensor Networks," at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, on November 10, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at the IFIP Wireless Days Conference, in Venice, Italy, on October 20-22, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "Modeling and Analysis of Nanocommunication Networks" at the ACM MSWiM 2010, the 13th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, in Bodrum, Turkey, on October 17-21, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends the yearly MURI (Multi University Research Initiative) progress report meeting for the project entitled Modeling, Analysis and Control of Complex Multi-Scale Data Networks at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on October 13-14, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Molecular and Electromagnetic based Nanosensor Networks" at the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC), in Istanbul, Turkey, September 26-30, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "Research Challenges on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks" at the ICDSC 2010, the Fourth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, on September 2, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications" at the 2010 International Conference of e-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2010, in Athens, Greece, on July 26-28, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches "Cognitive Networks and NanoNetworks" at the Lipari International School for Computer Science Researchers (now "J. T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research") within the scope of "Mobile Computing and Communications: Towards the New Generation of Networks" in the Lipari Island, Sicily, Italy, July 17-24, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz, as the co-director of the NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya (N3Cat), organizes the Second NaNoNetworking Day in Barcelona, Spain, on June 23, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Cooperative Communication in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks", at the CROWNCOM'2010 5th Int. Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, in Cannes, France, on June 9-11, 2010

• Dr. Akyildiz serves as a member of the review panel for the scientific progress review of the ITOBO - Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable and Optimised Building Operation SRC. for the Science Foundation Ireland at the University College Cork, Ireland, on June 2-4, 2010.

• Josep Miquel Jornet gives a seminar entitled "Wireless NanoSensor Networks (WNSNs)," at the Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, on June 4, 2010.

• Josep Miquel Jornet gives a talk on "Electromagnetic Wireless Nanosensor Networks," at the Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey,oin June 3, 2010.

• Josep Miquel Jornet gives a seminar entitled "Research Challenges in Electromagnetic Wireless Nanosensor Networks," at the IEEE EDS/PHOTONICS/CAS Technical Meeting, IEEE South Africa Section, at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa on May 31, 2010.

• Josep Miquel Jornet participates with the talked entitled "Electromagnetic Wireless Nanosensor Networks," at the Seminar in Communication and Networks organized by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE South Africa Section at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, on May 26, 2010.

• Josep Miquel Jornet receives a fellowship from "La Fundaci�n Caja Madrid" to continue with his PhD in ECE at Georgia Tech. The fellowship is given personally by the Prince of Spain and his wife the Princess, on May 21, 2010.

• Weilian Su, Caterina Scoglio, Tricha Anjali and Linda Jiang Xie have been tenured and promoted to Associate Professor.

• Linda Jiang Xie and Mehmet Can Vuran received NSF career award.

• Dr. Akyildiz chairs a panel on "MIMO vs Cooperation" and serves as a member on another panel on "Green Communications" at the IEEE VTC Spring conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 16-19, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a distinguished lecture on "NanoSensor Networks" at University of Oklahoma, in Norman, on April 30, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Propagation Modeling and Analysis of Nanosensor Networks" at the EuCAP 2010, 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, in Barcelona, Spain, April 12-16,2010

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a talk about "Future Wireless Systems" at SINERJITURK SUMMIT, Antalya, Turkey, March 26-28, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz visits King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 15-26, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends the meetings related to the EU Project entitled "FARAMIR: Enabling Spectrum-Aware Radio Access for Cognitive Radios" at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain and at RWTH Aachen, Germany on January 10-16, 2010.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a tutorial on "Nano-Sensor Networks using Molecular Communications" at IEEE Globecom Conference in Hawaii, Dec. 4, 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends the "NSF Workshop on Future Wireless Communication Networks", Waterview Conference Center and Hotel Palomar Arlington, VA, November 2-3, 2009

• Zhi Sun receives the 2009 Researcher of the Year Award within the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives the keynote speech "Latest Developments in Wireless Communications" at the International Congress in Software, Information Systems and Telecommunication Engineering, in Trujillo, Peru, in November 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches a postgraduate class on "Wireless Sensor Networks" at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany, October 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches a postgraduate class on "Wireless Sensor Networks" at Politecnico di Milano, October 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends the yearly MURI progress report meeting at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, September 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives the keynote speech "CRAHNs: Cognitive Radio AdHoc Networks" at the AdHocNets workshop, Niagara Falls, Canada, September 2009.

• K. R. Chowdhury joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Northeastern University, Boston, as an Assistant Professor in August 2009.

• W. Y. Lee defends his PhD thesis entitled Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks on August 4, 2009.

• M. Gregori defends her Master thesis entitled A New NanoNetwork Architecture using Flagellated Bacteria and Catalytic Nanomotors on July 29, 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz, as the co-director of the NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya (N3Cat), organizes the First NaNoNetworking Day in Barcelona, Spain, on June 23, 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz is interviewed at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) on July 2009, regarding his pioneering research on nanonetworks and his recently founded NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya at UPC. [Full Article]

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches a graduate class on "Wireless Mesh Networks" at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, July 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz visits Universities and Telecom Companies in Riga (Latvia), Kaunas and Vilnius (Lithuania) and Kiev (Ukraine) in June-July 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives the keynote speech on "Nano-Sensor Networks using Molecular Communication", and a full day tutorial on "Wireless Sensor Networks" at the [IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS), Hammamet, Tunesia, in June 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends the IEEE ICC 2009 conference in Dresden, Germany, June 2009.

• K. R. Chowdhury and Dr. Akyildiz received the best paper award for "Interferer Classification, Channel Selection and Transmission Adaptation for Wireless Sensor Networks" in the Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (AHSN) symposium at IEEE ICC, June 2009.

• K. R. Chowdhury defends his PhD thesis entitled Communication Protocols for Wireless Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks on June 5, 2009.

• Josep Miquel Jornet receives a fellowship from "Obra Social la Caixa" to pursue his PhD in ECE at Georgia Tech. The fellowship is given personally by the King of Spain and his wife the Queen, on June 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz participates in the Assessment Panel "Computer Science and Information Technology" at the Alto University, Helsinki, Finland, June 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech entitled "Nano-Sensor Networks using Molecular Communication" at "Tech Horizons 2009" workshop at the University of California, Riverside on May 13, 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives an invited talk entitled "Research Challenges on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", at the "ONR/ARO/NSF Interdisciplinary Workshop on Distributed Video Sensor Networks" which takes place at the University of California, Riverside on May 11-12, 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz delivers the keynote speech "CRAHNs: Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks" at the IEEE VTC (Vehicular Technology Conference) in Barcelona, Spain, April 27, 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz receives the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award (5k and a plaque) for his 20+ years service and dedication to Georgia Tech and producing outstanding PhD students. The award is sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Research and Innovation at Georgia Tech and will be presented at the Georgia Tech Faculty Staff Honors Luncheon on Wednesday, April 15, 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz receives the 2009 ECE Distinguished Mentor Award by the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Honors Committee. This award is presented to a faculty member whose mentoring of junior faculty (in connection with teaching and research activities) over an extended period of time. He receives this award ($1,000 check and a plaque) at a ceremony on April 22, 2009.

• Josep Miquel Jornet and Elias Chavarria receive the Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Award from the School of ECE at Georgia Tech, for earning the highest score on the ECE preliminary exam in Spring 2009 and Fall 2008 respectively. They receive these awards ($1,000 check and a plaque) at a ceremony on April 22, 2009.

• Violetta Ravagnoli and Tommaso Melodia are now proud parents of two baby girls. Matilde was born on April 2009, and joins her elder sister Ludovica.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends the board meeting of the CREATE-NET research center, in Milano, Italy on April 3, 2009.

• The BWN Lab has two papers on the list of the ten most popular articles published in IEEE Communication Society journals based on PDF views through IEEE Xplore as of March 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz becomes an Honorary Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa on March 1, 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a talk on "Latest Developments and New Opportunities in WiMAX and Mobile WiMAX" at the WiMAX-Turkey workshop in Istanbul, Turkey, February 27, 2009.

• Dr. Akyildiz was interviewed on Feb. 2009, regarding his paper on "A survey on wireless multimedia sensor networks" in Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), Mar. 2007, identified by Thomson Reuter's Essential Science Indicators as a fast breaking paper in the field of computer science.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar entitled "Infocommunications: View to the Future" at the 90th celebration of R&D ZNIIS (Central Research Institute for Telecommunications) in Moscow, Russia in November 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade and Beyond" at the Open House workshop of the Broadband Institute at Georgia Tech, on October 21, 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches a postgraduate class on "Cognitive Radio Networks" at University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany, in October 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Networks" and a tutorial on "Cognitive Radio Networks" at the IEEE WiMOB, 4th Int. Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications in Avignon, France, on October 12-14, 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches a postgraduate class on "Cognitive Radio Networks" and gives a seminar on NANO NETWORKS at Politecnico di Milano, in Italy in October 2008.

• Jaudelice de Oliveira and Rainer were blessed with a baby boy, Jonas, on October 16 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends the MURI (Multi University Research Initiative) kickoff meeting for the project entitled "MODELING, ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF COMPLEX MULTI-SCALE DATA NETWORKS" in Columbus, Ohio on Sept. 18-19, 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz becomes an Honorary Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)in Barcelona, Spain on June 17, 2008.

• Cristina Blázquez successfully defends her master thesis on "Nanonetworking Using Molecular Communication" under the guidance of Dr. Akyildiz at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona, Spain on June 30, 2008.

• Former lab member, Eylem Ekici and his wife, Ozlem Ekici became proud parents of a baby boy, Deniz, in Columbus, Ohio, on June 16 2008. Heartiest Congratulations.

• Former lab member, Dr. Giacomo Morabito and his wife, Laura Galluccio are blessed with a baby girl, GAIA, in Catania, Italy in June 2008. Heartiest Congratulations.

• Former lab member, Dr. Wenye Wang gets tenure and promotion to Associate Professor level at North Carolina State University in May 2008.

• Former lab member, Dr. Eylem Ekici is tenured and promoted to Associate Professor level at Ohio State University in May 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a talk on ''Cross Layer Design for Wireless Mesh Networks'', at CTTC (Centre Tecnol�gic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya), Spain on July 2, 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a talk on "Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks" at Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain on July 1, 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "cognitive radio adhoc networks" at the MedHoc'08, Mediterrenean Ad Hoc Networks Conference, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches a graduate class on "cognitive radio networks" at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona, Spain, in June 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a set of various lectures in Almaty (Kazakstan), Bishkek (Kyrgizystan), Tashkent, Samarkand, Buhara (Uzbekistan), Ashgabad (Turkmenistan) ,May 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a tutorial on "cognitive radio networks" at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC'08), in Beijing China, May 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "future wireless communications" at the SuperCOM Istanbul'08 , in Istanbul, Turkey, May 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at a workshop at the University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, May 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech on "Network Operation and Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Networks" and a tutorial on "Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Networks" at the International IEEE NOMS'08, (Network Operation and Management) Conference in Salvador de Bahia, Brasil, April 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech and a tutorial on "sensor networks" at the ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Qatar, April 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar at the University of Karlskrona, Sweden and also serves on a PhD thesis committee in March 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a talk at "Sinerjiturk" workshop in Antalya, Turkey, January 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends the board meeting for Create-Net, Trento, Italy, in January 2008.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Cognitive Radio Networks, Wireless Mesh Networks and WiMax and Research Directions" at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, November 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on "Next Generation Sensor Networks" at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio" in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, November 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz is invited by the Brasilian company Promom to present a talk on "Future Wireless Networking" in Sao Paulo, Brasil, October 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches a Postgraduate Class on "Advanced Sensor Networks" and has several research meetings at Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, September 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech "Key Technologies in Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" JITEL'07 at the National Spanish conference, (Jornadas de Ingenieria Telematica), in Malaga, Spain, September 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches a Postgraduate Class on "Advanced Sensor Networks" and has several research meetings at University of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch, and University of Pretoria, in South Africa, August 2007.

• Gulcin and Tuna Tugcu were blessed with a baby girl, BILGE ADA, in Istanbul, Turkey on August 20, 2007.

• Violetta Ravagnoli and Tommaso Melodia became proud parents of a baby girl, LUDOVICA, in Atlanta, on August 18 2007.

• Burcu Bakir and Cagri Gungor got married in Ankara, Turkey, on August 6, 2007.

• Demet Batur and Mehmet Can Vuran got married in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 19, 2007.

• Our lab has the top paper on the list of the Ten Most Downloaded Papers published in Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal according to ScienceDirect as of July-September 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches a Postgraduate Class on "Advanced Sensor Networks" and has several research meetings at University of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch, and University of Pretoria, in South Africa, in August 2007.

• Tommaso Melodia joins the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Department of ECE, as an Assistant Professor, August 2007.

• M. Can Vuran joins University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Department of CSE, as an Assistant Professor, August 2007.

• Dario Pompili joins Rutgers University, Department of ECE, as an Assistant Professor, August 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches a Postgraduate Class on "Advanced Sensor Networks" and has several research meetings at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in July 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends the wedding of M. Can Vuran in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 19, 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents an extended research talk on "Wireless Networking Technoligies in the Next Decade" at the Sixth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Conference (Med-Hoc-Net 2007), in Corfu, Greece, on June 12-17, 2007.

• M. Can Vuran defends his PhD thesis entitled Correlation-based Cross-Layer Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks on June 7, 2007.

• Tommaso Melodia defends his PhD thesis entitled "Communication and Coordination in Wireless Multimedia Sensor and Actor Networks" on June 6, 2007.

• Vehbi Cagri Gungor defends his PhD thesis entitled "Real-Time and Reliable Communication in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks" on June 6, 2007.

• Dario Pompili defends his PhD thesis entitled Efficient Communication Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks on June 5, 2007.

• Mehmet Can Vuran receives the ECE Graduate Research Assistant Award for 2007 from School of ECE at Georgia Tech, April 2007.

• M. Can Vuran receives the 2006 RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD within the Broadband and Wireless Networking Lab.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Social Impacts of Sensor Networks on Our Daily Lives" at CUNY Baruch College, New York, on April 20, 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Next Generation Sensor Networks" at New Jersey Institute of Technology, on April 20, 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Key Technologies in Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" at Rice University, Houston, on March 15, 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Keynote Speech on Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade at the International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, Paris, France, May 2-4, 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a tutorial on Cognitive Radio Networks at the International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, Paris, France, May 2-4, 2007.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on Research Challenges for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks at Tsinghua University in Beijing on October 27, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a KeyNote Speech on Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade at the International CHINACOM Conference, in Beijing, China, October 25-27, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a seminar on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: Research Challenges at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, on October 23, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on Grand Challanges in Wireless Sensor Networks" at University of Kentucky, on October 12, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives an invited talk on "State-of-the-Art in Protocol Research for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks" at the First Int. Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WuWNet'2006), in Los Angeles, September 25, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on Wireless Mesh Networks: Research Challenges" at Auburn University in Alabama, on September 15, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz was granted a patent with the number 7,058,027 for "Systems and Methods for Asynchronous Transfer Mode and Internet Protocol" in June 2006. The patent is based on the protocol independent error control (TurboLink product) in wireless systems. The original application was submitted to the USPTO in September 1999.

• Dario Pompili receives the 2005 Researcher of the Year Award within the Broadband and Wireless Networking Lab.

• Tommaso Melodia receives the 2004 Researcher of the Year Award within the Broadband and Wireless Networking Lab.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a full day tutorial "Wireless Sensor Networks" at the Fifth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2006), in Lipari, Sicily, Italy, on June 14-17, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a keynote speech "Cross Layer Solutions for Wireless Sensor Networks" at the Fifth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2006), in Lipari, Sicily, Italy, on June 14-17, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a keynote speech "Cross Layer Solutions for Wireless Sensor Networks" at the 6th Int. Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN 2006) in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 29-June 2, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" at Iowa State University, Ames, on April 14, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Grand Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks" at Northwestern University, Chicago, on April 6, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a keynote speech "Grand Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks" at the 13th GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modeling, and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems, in Nuernberg, Germany, on March 27-29, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a Seminar "Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" at IBM CAIRO and University of Cairo, Egypt, March 23, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents an invited talk at the "From RFID To The Internet Of Things: Pervasive Networked Systems" conference, Organised by the European Commission Directorate (Network and Communication Technologies) in Brussels, Belgium, on March 7-9, 2006.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a Distinguished Seminar "Grand Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks" at University of Florida, February 16, 2006.

• Shantidev Mohanty joins INTEL Research in Oregon, November 2005.

• Shantidev Mohanty defends his PhD thesis entitled "Architecture and Cross Layer Mobility Management Protocols for Next Generation Wireless Systems", on November 21, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a keynote speech on "Key Technologies in Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" at Sixth Annual IFAC International Conf. on Fieldbus Systems and their Applications", (Fet'2005) in Puebla, Mexico, on November 14-15, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz visits Purdue University and attends the Second Annual Workshop and Advisory Board Meeting at the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications, in West Lafayette, Indiana, on November 3-4, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a keynote speech on "Grand Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks" at Eighth Annual ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems", (ACM MSWIM 2005) in Montreal, Canada, on October 10-13, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches two classes on "Future Wireless Networks" and on "Wireless Sensor Networks" at Second EuroNGI (European Next Generation Internet) Summer School in Linz, Austria, on September 29-30, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a full day tutorial on "Wireless Sensor Networks" at Second Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks", (IEEE SECON'2005)) in Santa Clara, CA, on September 26, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a keynote speech on "Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" at IEEE Conference on Wireless, Mobile, Computing, Networking and Communcations (IEEE WIMOB'2005) in Montreal, Canada, on August 22-24, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a keynote speech on "Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" at IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services 2005 (ICPS'05), Santorini Island, Greece, on July 11-14, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a keynote speech on "Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" at Fifth International Network Conference, Samos Island, Greece, on July 5-7, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a keynote speech on "Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" at 2005 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications Distributed Cooperative Laboratories - Issues in Networking, Instrumentation and Measurements in Sorrento, Italy, on July 4-6, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a seminar on "Research Challenges in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks" University of Salerno in Salerno, Italy, on July 1 (pm), 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a seminar on "Underwater Sensor Networking Challenges" University of Napoli in Napoli, Italy, on July 1 (am), 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz takes part in the ceremony for "Honorary Laurea Doctorate in Internet Sciences" awarded by the University of Bologna, Italy, to Prof. Len Kleinrock, on May 24, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz presents a half day tutorial on "Research Challenges in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks" at Int. Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", (IWWAN'05) in London, England, on May 23, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends Fenerbahce-Galatasaray soccer game and celebrates Fenerbahce's championship party in Istanbul on May 22, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar "Key Technologies for Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, May 17, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech "Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks" at Third Int. Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC'05) Conference in Xanthi, Greece, on May 11-13, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks" at University of Waterloo, Canada, on May 3, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a full day tutorial on "Wireless Sensor Networks" at IFIP Networking 2005 Conference in Waterloo, Canada, on May 2, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz receives the "2005 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award" from School of ECE, Georgia Tech on April 27, 2005.

• Chao Chen defends her PhD thesis entitled "Advanced Routing Protocols for Satellite and Space Networks" on April 26, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends Fenerbahce-Besiktas soccer game in Istanbul on April 17, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks" at University of Stuttgart, Germany, on April 13, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends and gives a talk at "Perspectives Workshop: Peer-to-Peer Mobile Ad Hoc Networks - New Research Issues" , in Dagstuhl Castle, Wadern, Germany, on April 9-12, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a full day tutorial on "Wireless Sensor Networks" at IEEE Infocom 2005 Conference , in Miami, Florida, on March 14, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Seminar on "Research Challenges in Wireless SensorNetworks" at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, New Jersey, March 4, 2005.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a visionary talk entitled "Wireless Networking in the Next Decade" at GCATT and GTBI (Georgia Tech Broadband Institute) Day, Atlanta, GA, November 15, 2004.

• Dr. Akyildiz attends the Advisory Board meeting and gives a talk on "Grand Challenges in Wireless Systems" at the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications of Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, November 18-19, 2004.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at the IEEE Int. Conference on Mobile AdHoc and Sensor Systems, MASS'04, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 25-27, 2004.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at the QofIS'04, IP QoS Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, September 29- October 1, 2004.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at the ITC Specialist Workshop on Performance Modeling of Mobile and Wireless Networks, Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 31 - Sept. 2, 2004.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at the 2004 IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON), Atlanta, USA, Sept. 20, 2004.

• Weilian Su defends his PhD thesis on April 2, 2004. Weilian is joining Naval Postgraduate School in California as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2004.

• Ozgur Akan defends his PhD thesis on April 2, 2004. Ozgur is joining Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2004.

• Linda (Jiang) Xie defends her PhD thesis on April 1, 2004. Linda is joining University of North Carolina at Charlotte as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2004.

• Tricha Anjali defends her PhD thesis on March 30, 2004. Tricha is joining Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2004.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a TUTORIAL on WIRELESS SENSOR AND ACTOR NETWORKS at Med Hoc'04 Workshop, Bodrum, Turkey, June 27-30, 2004.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at the Third IFIP-TC6 Networking 2004 Conference, Athens, Greece, May 9-14, 2004.

• Dr. Akyildiz receives "2004 Institute Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award" Georgia Tech, April 7, 2004.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at the Second Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'04), Cambridge, UK, March 24-26, 2004.

• Ozgur B. Akan receives the BWN Lab "2003 Researcher of the Year Award", January 2004.

• Ozgur B. Akan defends his PhD thesis proposal on December 8, 2003.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Lecture at SUNY Stony Brook's inauguration of the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology on November 13, 2003.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a Distinguished Lecture at University of Illinois at Chicago on November 12, 2003.

• Dr. Akyildiz visits Brasil to give talks and tutorials at INATEL (Santa Rita), 5th WCSF Conference in Sao Laurenco, Minas Gerais, Univ. Oeste in Foz do Iguacu, Univ Federal in Rio de Janeiro, and Uni Campinas between October 26-November 4, 2003.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a talk at SAIT (Samsung), i-Networking lab, and presents a tutorial on sensor networks at ICUC '03 (Ubiquitous Computing) Conference, in Seoul, Korea, on October 22, 2003.

• Dr. Akyildiz serves on the committees of two PhD students at UPC (Universitat Polit�cnica Catalunya), Barcelona, October 6-10, 2003.

• Dr. Akyildiz gives a keynote speech at IFIP/IEEE MMNS Conference in Belfast, N. Ireland, September 2003.

• Dr. Akyildiz teaches at Advanced School in Mobile Computing at University of Pisa, September 2003.

• Dr. Akyildiz receives the 2003 ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award with the citation: "For pioneering contributions in the area of mobility and resource management for wireless communication networks", August 2003.

• Weilian Su defends his PhD thesis proposal on August 27, 2003.

• Jiang (Linda) Xie defends her PhD thesis proposal on August 25, 2003.

• Tricha Anjali defends her PhD thesis proposal on August 21, 2003.

• I.F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, E. Cayirci, "A Survey on Sensor Networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 8, pp. 102-114, August 2002; receives the IEEE Communications Society 2003 Best Tutorial Paper Award, April 2003.

• Caterina Scoglio receives the BWN Lab "2002 Researcher of the Year Award", January 2003.