The paper “Priority Enabled Grant-Free Access With Dynamic Slot Allocation for Heterogeneous mMTC Traffic in 5G NR Networks” pulished in the journal IEEE Transactions on Communications“ was awarded runner-up Best Journal Paper IEEE ComSoc  – CSIM (Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) Technical Committee) Journal 2021 Edition.

The first author of the publication is Dr. Thilina Weerasinghe which obtained his PhD degree in 2021 within WP3 in SFI Offshore Mechatronics. Frank Y. Li (University of Agder) was the PhD supervisor. Thilina is curently Lecturer at University of Ruhuna, Sri-Lanka.

The paper was co-authored with Vicente Casares-Giner (Professor Emeritus, Universitat Politècnica de València), Indika A. M. Balapuwaduge (Lecturer at University of Ruhuna, Sri-Lanka and former PostDoc at University of Agder) and Frank Y. Li (Professor, University of Agder).

Congratulations to Thilina and his co-authors.