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Prize for Best Student Paper awarded to Ahmed Khalid

14 Mar 2019
Photo shows l-r: Professor Cormac Sreenan, Head, School of Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT); Ahmed Khalid (recipient of award); Dr Dan Grigoras - Senior Lecturer, CSIT

Ahmed Khalid, a 4th year PhD student receives the award of Best Student Paper of 2018 at a ceremony in UCC on 14th March 2019.

Title of Paper: "RTOP: Optimal User Grouping and SFN Clustering for Multiple eMBMS Video Sessions"

Supervisors: Professor Cormac Sreenan and Dr Ahmed Zahran

The paper will appear in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), a top-ranked venue for publications in computer networking. 

The award was made after a competitive process overseen by a panel of academic experts. This is the first year that the prize has been awarded in the School of Computer Science & Information Technology.

Ahmed Khalid's research is funded by Science Foundation Ireland.

On behalf of us all in the school, we wish Ahmed our congratulations.

Mobile and Internet Systems Laboratory

Department of Computer Science, Western Gateway Building, University College Cork, Western Road, Cork, Ireland.

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