GSIT PhD Student Outstanding Paper Award

Mr. Ziaur Rahman, a PhD student at Gippsland School of Information Technology, was recently awarded one of three outstanding paper prizes at the 1st International Conference on Next Generation Wireless Systems (ICNEWS'06) held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from Jan 2-6. This international event on wireless technology, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, was dedicated to addressing challenging issues in design, implementation and management of wireless communications, networking, and mobile computing systems, by bringing together leading researchers and practitioners in the broad area of wireless telecommunications systems across the world.

The conference paper is entitled "Efficient Source Localisation in Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Minimum Number of Sensors" and further details can be found here. This top publication award follows on from Ziaur, together with his two supervisors at GSIT, Prof. Laurence S. Dooley and Dr Gour C. Karmakar, being awarded in 2005 a provisional patent for their research on new source localisation methods for wireless sensor networks. Prof. Dooley, in announcing the prize received by Ziaur, notes that he is in rather good company, as the other two top paper awards went to researchers at MIT and Siemens (BenQ Mobile).

M. Ziaur Rahman, Prof. Laurence S. Dooley and Dr Gour C. Karmakar, Gippsland School of Information Technology Monash University, Churchill, VIC 3842,Australia.