The paper “Hot topic: Physical-layer network coding” by Prof. Shengli Zhang, Prof. Soung-chang Liew and Dr. Patrick P. Lam, is among one of the 10 Classic Papers in Computer Networks and Wireless Communication. This paper was first released in MobiCom ’06 Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. Prof. Shengli Zhang and Dr. Patrick Lam are Prof. Liew’s former PhD students.
“Classic Papers” is released by Google, featuring a collection of highly-cited papers in various area of research that have stood the test of time.
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https://scholar.googleblog.com/2017/06/classic-papers-articles-that-have-stood.html