SmartCom 2025

Best Paper Awards

Cross-Domain Data-Driven Digital Twins for Mobility Networks
Jin Nakazato (TUS), Tetsuya Iye (KKE), Kazuki Maruta, Mikio Hasegawa (TUS)

Experimental Evaluation of WLAN-based Device-Free Localization in Large-scale Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Fuma Kunihiro, Osamu Muta (Kyushu Univ.), Tomoki Murakami, Shinya Otsuki, Hanae Otani (NTT)

Best Student Paper Awards

A Comparative Study on Spatial Uniformity Metrics for Reverberation Chambers
Nazanin Farid, Asad Korfiatis, Jonas Friden, Sander Bronckers (TU/e)

Single-Feed Two-Layer PCB Design for Sequentially Rotated Dipoles
Héctor Ortega-González, Jean-Philippe Fraysse, Ulf Johannsen (Eindhoven University of Technology)

SmartCom 2024

Best Paper Awards

Completion Time Minimization for UAV-Based Post-Disaster Data Collection
Renkai Zhao, Gia Khanh Tran (Science Tokyo)

Development and Evaluation of Support Node Function for Reliability-ensuring Platform of Cybernetic Avatar
Homare Murakami, Kazuo Ibuka, Atsushi Wakayama, Shinichi Hama, Jun Amagai, Takeshi Matsumura (NICT)

Best Student Paper Awards

Beam Tracking for mmWave Connectivity in Vehicular Scenarios
Alexander Baron, Firooz B. Saghezchi, Haris Gačanin (RWTH Aachen)

Decentralized Multi-agent DRL for Wireless Power Allocation
Amna Kopic, Ivan Karetic, Erma Perenda, Firooz B. Saghezchi, Haris Gacanin (RWTH Aachen)

SmartCom 2019

Best Paper Awards

Joint Channel and AP/STA Assignment for Infrastructure-Mode IEEE 802.11 Multi-Interface Wireless Mesh Networks
Tomoki Takahashi, Tomio Kamada, Chikara Ohta, Naoyuki Tamura (Kobe Univ.), Taka Maeno (Space-Time Engineering Japan)

IBM's mmWave 5G Software Defined Phased Array Radio (SDPAR): A Platform for Fast Channel Measurements, Beam Optimization and Beyond
Arun Paidimarri, Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Mark Ferriss, Mark Yeck, Xiaoxiong Gu, Alberto Valdes-Garcia (IBM Research)

Best Student Paper Awards

Intra-Cluster Modeling for mm-wave Communications in the Presence of Blockages
Yavuz Yaman, Swapnil Mhaske, Predrag Spasojevic (Rutgers University)

Millimeter-Wave WBAN for Overcrowded Environment: Evaluation of Throughput with Consideration of the Human Body Direction
Taichi Yokouchi (Tohoku Univ.), Kohei Akimoto (Akita Prefectural Univ.), Mizuki Motoyoshi, Suguru Kameda, Noriharu Suematsu (Tohoku Univ.)

SmartCom 2018

Best Paper Awards

Phase Noise Compensation for mm-Wave MU-MIMO OFDM Systems
-- Phase-Noise-Robust Channel Estimation and PER Characteristics Evaluation --
Yuyuan Chang, Kazuhiko Fukawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Direct RF undersampling receiver for wireless IoT real-time spectrum monitor using high-speed clock switching
Tomoyuki Furuichi, Mizuki Motoyoshi, Suguru Kameda, Noriharu Suematsu (Tohoku University)

Best Student Paper Awards

Device-free Indoor Localization utilizing BLE devices by controlling advertisement channels
Junming Jiang, Azril Haniz, Kentaro Saito, Jun-ichi Takada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

SmartCom 2017

Best Paper Awards

Performance Characterization of Urban HetNets with Multi-RAT Small Cells
Gourab Ghatak, Antonio De Domenico (CEA LETI), Marceau Coupechoux (Telecom ParisTech)

Analysis of Utilizing Lossless Networks for Self-Interference Cancellation Purpose in Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers
Ramez Askar, Abdulsalam Hamdan, Wilhelm Keusgen, Thomas Haustein (Fraunhofer HHI)

Best Student Paper Awards

Received-Power-Aware Design of Transmission Probability for Frameless ALOHA
Shun Ogata, Koji Ishibashi (The University of Electro-Communications)

SmartCom 2016

Best Paper Awards

Iterative Detection and Decoding of Implicitly Concatenated Channel Code in Bluetooth Low Energy
Shinsuke Ibi, Seiichi Sampei (Osaka University)

Toward Realization of a New Wireless Transmission Technology: -- Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Multiplexing --
Doohwan Lee, Hirofumi Sasaki, Hiroyuki Fukumoto, Tadao Nakagawa (NTT)

Best Student Paper Awards

An Ultrawideband Conformal Loop Antenna for Wireless Capsule Endoscope System
Miah Md Suzan, Katsuyuki Haneda, Clemens Icheln, Afroza Khatun (Aalto University), Ken-ichi Takizawa (NICT)

Best Technical Exhibition Awards

Modular Multi- Wireless-Technology Enabled IoT
Konstantin Mikhaylov, Juha Petajajarvi, Marko Makelainen, Anton Paatelma, Tuomo Hanninen (Centre for Wireless Communications)

SmartCom 2015

Best Paper Awards

Inter-carrier Interference Compensation Scheme for Millimeter Wave OFDM Systems
Yuyuan Chang, Gia Khanh Tran, Kei Sakaguchi, Kiyomichi Araki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Best Technical Exhibition Awards

Multi-Beam Based Spatial Multiplexing for EHF-band Massive MIMO System and Evaluation by Outdoor Experimental Trial
Akihiro Okazaki, Hideki Morishige, Kenji Nakagawa, Hiroki Iura, Shigeru Uchida, Kazuaki Ishioka (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.), Tatsunori Obara, Satoshi Suyama, Yukihiko Okuyama (NTT DOCOMO), Atsushi Okamura (Mitsubishi Electric Corp.)

SmartCom 2014

Best Paper Awards

Efficient and Scalable Distributed Autonomous Spatial Aloha Networks via Local Leader Election
Jiangbin Lyu (National University of Singapore), Yong Huat Chew (I2R), Wai Choong Wong (National University of Singapore)

Best Student Paper Awards

Statistical Propagation Channel Interpolation for Detecting Illegal Radio Emitters in Urban Environments
Azril Haniz, Gia Khanh Tran, Ryosuke Iwata (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kei Sakaguchi (Osaka University), Jun-ichi Takada (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Daisuke Hayashi, Toshihiro Yamaguchi, Shintaro Arata (Koden Electronics)

Best Technical Exhibition Awards

Broadband Spectrum Sensing Platform based on Received Waveform Cross-correlation using Distributed Sensors
Takayuki Yamada, Doohwan Lee, Hiroyuki Shiba, Yo Yamaguchi, Takana Kaho, Tadao Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Uehara (NTT)