Prof. Matthew McKay has received the 2011 Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory the IEEE Communications Society his paper titled "MIMO Multichannel Beamforming: SER and Outage Using New Eigenvalue Distributions of Complex Noncentral Wishart Matrices," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 56, No. 3, March 2008, pp. 424-434. The paper was co-authored with Shi Jin, Xiqi Gao and Iain B. Collings.
The innovative new results in this project push forward research on multiple-antenna wireless communication systems, which enable very high rates of information to be sent across the world without additional power or bandwidth. As such, this project lays influential grounds for the next generation of wireless communication technologies.
This award is given annually for the best paper published in IEEE Transactions on Communications in the previous 3 calendar years.
