Dr. Ing-Ray Chen, NCR Campus CS Program Director and Professor of Computer Science received the 2015 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking. This award was presented at IEEE 2015 International Conference on Communications in London, UK, during the Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 and comes with a plaque and a honorarium of $1,000. Dr. Chen worked together with his PhD graduates, Dr. Fenye Bao and Dr. Jin-Hee Cho, and his former postdoc, Dr. MoonJeong Chang.
Prof. Chen won the award with his paper entitled, ‘Hierarchical Trust Management for Wireless Sensor Networks and its Applications to Trust-Based Routing and Intrusion Detection. Every year the IEEE Communications Society selects an original paper published in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking or the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management in the previous 3 calendar years as the winner for this award on the basis of quality, originality, utility, timeliness, and clarity of presentation.
According to Dr. Chen, the paper advances the basic knowledge on defending selfish and malicious nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The methodology proposed in this paper can be applied to a wide range of WSN applications. Read More Here