{"314561":{"#nid":"314561","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alenka Zajic Receives IEEE ICCE Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlenka Zajic received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications and Electronics, held July 30-August 1 in Da Nang, Vietnam.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Zajic received this award with her coauthors Meisam Naderi and Matthias Patzold, a Ph.D. student and professor, respectively, from the University of Agder in Norway.\u0026nbsp;The title of the team\u2019s award-winning paper is \u201cA Geometry-Based Channel Model for Shallow Underwater Acoustic Channels under Rough Surface and Bottom Scattering Conditions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany scientific, defense, and safety endeavors require communications between untethered submerged devices and\/or vehicles. Examples include sensor networks for seismic monitoring, analysis of resource deposits, oceanographic and environmental studies, and tactical surveillance, as well as communications between Unmanned or Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (UUVs or AUVs) for deep-water construction, repairs, scientific or resource exploration, and defense applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the first step toward making these applications feasible, scientists and engineers need to understand underwater propagation mechanisms and how they affect communication systems. In the awarded paper, Zajic and her colleagues develop a stochastic geometry-based channel model for wideband shallow underwater acoustic (UWA) channels under the assumption that the ocean surface and bottom are rough. The paper also proposes a new UWA channel simulator based on a technique known as the equally spaced scatterers method (MESS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis paper is the result of Zajic\u2019s Georgia Electronic Design Center collaboration with the University of Agder and their work on the S2EuNet project, an effort sponsored by the European Commission that will strengthen international partnerships in the areas of next generation mobile systems and wireless networks.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic and her colleagues from the University of Agder received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications and Electronics, held July 30-August 1 in Da Nang, Vietnam.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor Alenka Zajic and her colleagues from the University of Agder received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications and Electronics, held July 30-August 1 in Da Nang, Vietnam."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2014-08-11 13:48:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:52","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"314571":{"id":"314571","type":"image","title":"Alenka Zajic","body":null,"created":"1449244929","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:02:09","changed":"1475895022","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:22","alt":"Alenka Zajic","file":{"fid":"199910","name":"alenka_zajic_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alenka_zajic_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alenka_zajic_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":589835,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/alenka_zajic_0_0.jpg?itok=BGKpNwwf"}}},"media_ids":["314571"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=172","title":"Alenka Zaji\u0107"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.icce-2014.org\/","title":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications and Electronics"},{"url":"http:\/\/s2eunet.org\/","title":"S2EuNet Project"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11173","name":"Alenka Zajic"},{"id":"95681","name":"autonomous underwater vehicles"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"99401","name":"IEEE International Conference on Communications and Electronics"},{"id":"171349","name":"S2EuNet project"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"99411","name":"unmanned underwater vehicle"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}