The GreenTouch 1000x Award for Extraordinary Contributions Towards the GreenTouch Mission and Improvements of Network Energy Efficiency
Background
The GreenTouch 1000x Award is given out biannually to a GreenTouch member for "leadership in the creation, the organization and the promotion of the GreenTouch consortium and pioneering research contributions to the field of energy efficiency in telecommunications". The 1000x Award candidates are nominated by current GreenTouch members, and are then culled by the Technical Committee, with the final decision made by a selection committee comprised of Chair of the Executive Board, Chair of the Operations Committee and Chair of the Technical Committee. Nominees may be individuals, member organizations or project teams who are current GreenTouch members.
Final GreenTouch 1000x Award Winner
On June 18th at the GreenTouch Celebration in New York City, the final GreenTouch 1000x Award was presented to Professor Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano, for sustained technical and personal contributions to the leadership and success of the BCG2 project and the Mobile Access working group. And to Professor Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds, for sustained technical contributions to the leadership and success of the Core Network working group and the promotion of the GreenTouch consortium.
Antonio Capone is a Full Professor at the Information and Communication Technology Department (Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione) of the Technical University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano), where he is the director of the Advanced Network Technologies Laboratory (ANTLab). Dr. Capone is co-founder and CTO of MobiMESH, a spin-off company of Politecnico di Milano. His expertise is on networking and his main research activities include protocol design (MAC and routing) and performance evaluation of wireless access and multi-hop networks, traffic management and quality of service issues in IP networks, and network planning and optimization. On these topics he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in international journal and conference proceedings. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1994 and 1998, respectively. In 2000 he was visiting professor at UCLA, Computer Science department. He currently serves as editor of IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley), Computer Networks (Elsevier), and Computer Communications (Elsevier), and served as editor of the ACM/IEEE Trans. on Networking until 2014.
Professor Jaafar Elmirghani is a Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the Institute of Physics and is the Director of the Institute of Integrated Information Systems and Professor of Communication Networks and Systems within the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK. He joined Leeds in 2007 having been chair in optical communications at the University of Wales Swansea 2000-2007. Prof. Jaafar Elmirghani is a Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the Institute of Physics and is the Director of the Institute of Integrated Information Systems and Professor of Communication Networks and Systems within the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK. He joined Leeds in 2007 having been chair in optical communications at the University of Wales Swansea 2000-2007. Most recently, Professor Elmirghani was the recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society Outstanding Service Award. The award was recommended by the IEEE Communications Society Transmission, Access and Optical Systems (TAOS) committee in recognition of Professor Elmirghani’s “Leadership and Contributions to the Area of Green Communications”.
Third GreenTouch 1000x Award Winner
At the recent GreenTouch Members Meeting which was held in Melbourne, Australia from 13-17 November, the GreenTouch 1000x Award was presented to the Bi-PON and Cascaded Bi-PON team (Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, IMEC and Orange Labs) for the invention of the Bi-PON protocol and sustained leadership, technical excellence and promotion of the technology for future access networks.
Cascaded Bi-PON provides the key ingredient of the GreenTouch 2020 architecture for wireline access. Thus, Bi-PON and Cascaded Bi-PON are among the key technologies being demonstrated by wireline access. The Bi-PON demo was showcased at TIA 2012, and received wide press attention and provided visibility for GreenTouch. The work for Cascaded Bi-PON demo is currently underway with a demo targeted in 2015. This team first invented a novel idea called Bi-PON, which interleaves user data at the bit-level and enables hardware to operate at lower clock speeds. This reduces the power consumption of the protocol processing in the customer premises equipment (CPE) by more than 10x. The Bi-PON concept was then advanced to a cascaded architecture where multiple stages of bit-interleaving were introduced with progressively smaller rates. Cascaded Bi-PON extends the reach of Bi-PON and enables a transparent CPE in combination with the Virtual Home Gateway project.
Mr. Thierry Van Landegem, Chairman, GreenTouch Executive Board and Mr. Thierry Klein, Chair of the Technical Committee, presented the award to Mr. Björn Debaillie, IMEC and Mr. Prasanth Anthapadmanabhan, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent who were both in attendance at the meeting.
Second GreenTouch 1000x Award Winner
Thierry Van Landegem Congratulates GreenTouch 1000x Award Winner, Tom Marzetta.
During the Members Meeting in May in Milan, the second GreenTouch 1000x Award was presented to Tom Marzetta. Tom received the 1000x Award for the Invention of the Large Scale Antenna System Concept and Sustained Leadership, Technical Excellence and Promotion of the Technology for Future Wireless Networks.
Tom Marzetta was born in Washington, D.C. He received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT. His dissertation extended, to two dimensions, the three-way equivalence of autocorrelation sequences, minimum-phase prediction error filters, and reflection coefficient sequences. He worked for Schlumberger-Doll Research (1978 - 1987) to modernize geophysical signal processing for petroleum exploration. He headed a group at Nichols Research Corporation (1987 - 1995) which improved automatic target recognition, radar signal processing, and video motion detection. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1995. Within the former Math Center he was director of the Communications and Statistical Sciences Department. He is the originator of Large-Scale Antenna System (also called Massive MIMO) which, compared with 4G wireless technology, promises great simplicity, scalability, speed, low radiated power, and a uniformly good user experience irrespective of location in the cell.
Tom was the recipient of the 1981 ASSP Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003. He received the 2013 IEEE Guglielmo Marconi Best Paper Award, and he shared, with Hong Yang, the Best Paper Award from the 2013 IEEE Online Green Communications Conference.
First GreenTouch 1000x Award Winner
During the Members Meeting in Paris, the first GreenTouch 1000x Award was presented to Professor Rod Tucker from the Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) at the University of Melbourne. Professor Tucker received the 1000X Award for the Invention of the Large Scale Antenna System Concept and Sustained Leadership, Technical Excellence and Promotion of the Technology for Future Wireless Networks as well as for his leadership in the creation, organization and promotion of the GreenTouch consortium and pioneering research contributions to the field of energy efficiency in telecommunications.
In presenting the award, Thierry Klein, Chair of the Technical Committee, commented that "Professor Tucker has conducted fundamental research on energy efficiency that was instrumental in setting up the GreenTouch consortium and formed some of the early foundations. His leadership and the technical contributions that he has made, along with the team at CEET, are an inspiration to all GreenTouch members and the industry at large."
Rod Tucker is an Emeritus Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He has previously held positions at the Plessey Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and Agilent Technologies. He was foundation Director of the Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) and the Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET). He served on the Australian Federal Government’s Panel of Experts and was tasked with providing advice on the establishment of a National Broadband Network in Australia. Professor Tucker is a Board Member of GreenTouch, a global consortium focused on research and development in energy-efficient information and communications networks.