Congratulations to the award winners for Best Paper and Best Student Paper!

VTC2025-Fall – Chengdu

Best Paper – Regular

DRL-Aided Dynamic Beamforming for Reliable Handover in 5G Railway Communication Systems
Authors: Bo Ai, Jingli Li, Yiyan Ma, Guoyu Ma, Mi Yang, and Zhangdui Zhong | Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Best Paper – Student

Model-Assisted Learning for Environment-Aware Content Delivery in Mobile AR
Authors: Shisheng Hu, Xue Qin, Conghao Zhou, Yingying Pei, Xiaodan Shao, Xinyu Huang, and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen | University of Waterloo, Canada

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VTC2025-Spring – Oslo

Best Paper – Regular

Safety-oriented Dynamic Path Planning for Automated Vehicles
Authors: Mostafa Emam and Matthias Gerdts | University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany

Best Paper – Student

Multi-task Domain Adaptation for Computation Offloading in Edge-intelligence Networks
Authors: Runxin Han, Bo Yang, Zhiwen Yu; Northwestern Polytechnical University, China | Xuelin Cao; Xidian University, China | George Alexandropoulos; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece | Chau Yuen; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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VTC2024-Fall – Washington, D.C.

Best Paper – Regular

Joint Positioning and Cooperative Wireless Sensing: Design and Over-The-Air Verification
Authors: Yucheng Dai, Wooseok Nam, Jingchao Bao, Alireza Nooraiepour, Sony Akkarakaran, and Tao Luo | WRD, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, USA

Best Paper – Student

A Fast Rotating-Mirror Sounder for Dynamic Millimeter-Wave Channel Characterization
Authors: Ali Al-Ameri, Juan Sanchez, Fredrik Tufvesson, and Xuesong Cai | Lund University, Sweden

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VTC2024-Spring – Singapore

Best Paper – Regular

Key Point Detection Assisted Near-Field User Localization and Channel Reconstruction
Authors: Mengyuan Li, Yu Han, Shi Jin | Southeast University, China

Best Paper – Student

A Probabilistic Data Offloading and Pricing Mechanism based on Stackelberg Game for Vehicular Crowdsensing
Authors: Hengrui Cui, Ruoyu Zhang, Xumin Huang, Weifeng Zhong | Guangdong University of Technology, China

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VTC2023-Fall – Hong Kong

Best Paper – Regular

Federated Learning based Vehicular Threat Sharing: A Multi-Dimensional Contract Incentive Approach
Chao He, Tom H. Luan, Dr. Nan Cheng, Xidian University, China | Guiyi Wei, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China | Zhou Su, Shanghai University | Yiliang Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Best Paper – Student

DDPG-based Multi-AP Cooperative Access Control in Dense Wi-Fi Networks
Authors: Huanrong Zhang, Rong He, Xuming Fang, Lihong Zhou, Southwest Jiaotong University, China

For all awards given at this conference: vts23-awards-program FINAL-5

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VTC2023-Spring – Florence

Best Paper – Regular

Authors: Pierre Laclau, Stellantis and Heudiasyc (CNRS, UTC), France; Stéphane Bonnet, Heudiasyc, UMR CNRS, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France; Bertrand Ducourthial, Université de Technologie de Compiègne; Xiaoting Li, Trista Lin, Stellantis, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France

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VTC2022-Fall – London / Beijing

Best Paper – Regular

Approximate Noise-Whitening in MIMO Detection via Banded-Inverse Extension
Authors: Sha Hu and Hao Wang

Best Paper – Student

LiDAR aided Wireless Networks – Beam Prediction for 5G
Author: Dileepa Marasinghe, Nalin Jayaweera, Nandana Rajatheva, Sami Hakola, Timo Koskela, Oskari Tervo, Juha Karjalainen, Esa Tiirola, and Jari Hulkkonen

For all awards given at this conference: vts22-awards-program (1)

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VTC2022-Spring – Helsinki

Best Paper – Regular

A Fairness-tunable Strategy for Intelligent Energy Balancing in UAV-IoT Systems
Authors: Xiao-Hui Lin, Su-Zhi Bi, Nan Cheng, Ming-Jun Dai, and Hui Wang

Best Paper – Student

An Interacting Multiple Model Estimator of LEO Satellite Clocks for Improved Positioning
Authors: Nadim Khairallah and Zaher (Zak) M. Kassas

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VTC2021-Fall – Virtual

Best Paper – Regular

EV-Road-Grid: Enabling Optimal Electric Vehicle Charging Path Considering Wireless Charging and Dynamic Energy Consumption
Authors: Yanyu Zhang, Shukui Zhou, Xinpeng Rao

 

For all awards given at this conference:: vts21-awards-program_final

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VTC2021-Spring – Virtual

Best Paper – Regular

Permutation Channel Modulation: New Index Modulation Mechanism for MIMO
Authors: Matti Latva-aho, Rahmat Faddli Siregar, Nandana Rajatheva

Best Paper – Student

PARRoT: Predictive Ad-hoc Routing Fueled by Reinforcement Learning and Trajectory Knowledge
Authors: Benjamin Sliwa, Cedrik Schüler, Manuel Patchou, and Christian Wietfeld