The paper titled "Network Information Flow" is among those selected for 2018 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award.  This year, there are a total of six selected papers for this award.

Rudolf AHLSWEDE, NING Cai,  Shuo-Yen Robert LI and Raymond W. YEUNG, "Network Information Flow," 46(4), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 2000.

This is the seminal work on network coding that had a profound impact on the networking and mobile systems communities. The information theoretic analysis led to significant academic work for more than a decade in the networking community on leveraging network coding to build systems that achieve higher reliability and throughput.

Prof. Raymond YEUNG is an internationally acclaimed expert in the area of communication and information theory, currently serving as Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering, and Co-Director of INC. In recognition of his achievements, he was also honoured with numerous awards in his early years, including the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany, a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, and the IEEE Fellowship. In 2016, Prof. Yeung and his collaborators were granted the prestigious IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for their pioneering contributions to the field of network coding. As of now, they were the only research team in Asia Pacific to receive this honour. His textbooks on Information Theory and Network Coding have been widely adopted by over 100 universities and research institutes around the world.