Abstract :
The 2009 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award goes to Tracey Ho, Muriel Medard, Ralf Koetter, David R. Karger, Michelle Effros, Jun Shi, and Ben Leong for the paper "A Random Linear Network Coding Approach to Multicast," which appeared in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 4413-4430, October 2006.