Top 6 papers (in no particular order)

• “Modeling the Spread of Worm Epidemics in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks”, Maziar Nekovee, Mobility Research Centre, British Telecom, UK.

• “Location and Mobility Aware Medium Access Control Protocol for Directional Antenna-Based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Kai-Ten Feng and Chih-Ti Lu , National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

• “Efficient Feedback of the Channel Information for Closedloop Beamforming in WLAN”, Joonsuk Kim and Carlos Aldana, Broadcom Corp, USA.

• “ Switching Between OSTBC and Spatial Multiplexing with Linear Receivers in Spatially Correlated MIMO Channels”, Antonio Forenza (UT Austin), Matthew R. McKay ( University of Sydney, Australia), Iain B. Collings (CSIRO), Robert Heath ( University of Texas).

• “ Experimental Antenna Array Calibration with ADAptive LInear Neuron (ADALINE) Network”, Hugo Bertrand, Dominic Grenier, Sabastien Roy , Laval University, Canada.

• “A Novel Framework for Robust WCDMA Planning under Changing Spatial Traffic Distributions”, Jordi Perez-Romero,Oriol Sallent, Ramon Agusti Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC).

The Best paper Prize went to

“Location and Mobility Aware Medium Access Control Protocol for Directional Antenna-Based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Kai-Ten Feng and Chih-Ti Lu , National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

The Best Student Paper Prize went to

“ Switching Between OSTBC and Spatial Multiplexing with Linear Receivers in Spatially Correlated MIMO Channels”, Antonio Forenza ( University of Texas, Austin, USA), Matthew R. McKay ( University of Sydney, Australia), Iain B. Collings (CSIRO, Australia), and Robert Heath ( University of Texas, Austin, USA)

The above results were announced at IEEE VTC 2006-S, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 May 2006. The VTC 2006-S Organising Committee would like to congratulate all the above authors on their great achievements.