Paper Awards

The following publications have either received or been nominated to a Best Paper Award. To distinguish them in cases when the award is the result of joint collaboration with scientists from other organizations, IMDEA Networks’ researchers appear in bold letters. These Paper Awards are listed in order of publication, starting by the most recent:

Best Paper Honorable Mention

Srivastava Ajitesh, Juan Marcos Ramirez, Sergio Díaz Aranda, Jose Aguilar, Antonio Ortega, Antonio Fernández Anta, Rosa Elvira Lillo / February 2024
Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 20-27 February 2024, Vancouver, Canada

Best Paper Award

Duschia Bodet, Phuc Dinh, Milica Stojanovic, Joerg Widmer, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Josep Miquel Jornet / December 2023
IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE Globecom 2023), 4-8 December 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Best Paper Award

Kun Woo Cho, Marco Cominelli, Francesco Gringoli, Joerg Widmer, Kyle Jamieson / October 2023
ACM MobiHoc 2023, 23-26 October, Washington DC, USA

Best Paper Runner-Up Award

Pablo Fernández, Claudio Fiandrino, Joerg Widmer / October 2023
ACM WiNTECH 2023 (co-located with ACM MobiCom), 6 October 2023, Madrid, Spain

Best Poster Award

Devriş Işler, Johanna Gunawan / July 2023
Summer School “Breaking the Bias: Inspire Diversity in R&I”, Athens, 5-7 July, 2023

‘Privacy Behaviors and Perceptions of LGBTQ+ Community in Turkey’

Best Demo Award

Aristide Tanyi-Jong Akem, Beyza Bütün, Michele Gucciardo, Marco Fiore / June 2023
IEEE NetSoft 2023, 19-23 June, Madrid, Spain

Best Paper Award

V. Cislaghi, C. Quadri, V. Mancuso, M. Ajmone Marsan / April 2023
IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2023, 26-28 April, Istanbul, Turkey

Best Student Paper Award

Andrea Pinto, Giuseppe Santaromita, Claudio Fiandrino, Domenico Giustiniano, Flavio Esposito / November 2022
IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, 14-16 November 2022, Chandler, USA

Best Paper Award

Francesco Gringoli, Marco Cominelli, Alejandro Blanco, Joerg Widmer / October 2022
ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization 2022 (ACM WINTECH 2022), 17 October, Sydney, Australia (Hybrid Mode)

Best Student Presentation Award

Nina Grosheva, Hany Assasa, Tanguy Ropitault, Pablo Jimenez Mateo, Joerg Widmer, Nada Golmie / June 2022
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM 2022), 14-17 June, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Mario Gerla Best Paper Award

J. M. Ramirez, P. Rojo, F. Díez Muñoz, V. Mancuso, A. Fernández Anta / June 2022
20th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet 2022), 1-3 June 2022, Paphos, Cyprus

CNIL-INRIA Privacy Protection Award 2022

Joel Reardon, Álvaro Feal, Primal Wijesekera, Amit Elazari Bar On, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Serge Egelman / May 2022
The 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2019). Santa Clara, CA, USA

AEPD Emilio Aced Award 2021

Joel Reardon, Álvaro Feal, Primal Wijesekera, Amit Elazari Bar On, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Serge Egelman / August 2019
The 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2019), 14-16 August 2019, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

Best of CCR 2021

Ralph Holz, Jens Hiller, Johanna Amann, Abbas Razaghpanah, Thomas Jost, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Oliver Holfeld / August 2021
ACM SIGCOMM 2021

Best Teaser Award

Mohamed Moulay, Rafael García, Vincenzo Mancuso, Pablo Rojo, and Antonio Fernández Anta / June 2021
The 22nd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2021), 7-11 June 2021

Best Paper Award

Hany Assasa, Nina Grosheva, Tanguy Ropitault, Steve Blandino, Nada Golmie, Joerg Widmer / June 2021
The Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3) 2021

Best Paper Award

Francesco Gringoli, Alejandro Blanco, Joerg Widmer / April 2021
The 15th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization, ACM WiNTECH 2021, 1 April 2021, New Orleans, United States

AX-CSI: Enabling CSI Extraction on Commercial 802.11ax Wi-Fi Platforms

2nd prize of the award for the three best posters

Elisa Cabana / December 2020
3rd BYMAT Conference - Bringing Young Mathematicians Together, 1-3 December 2020, Valencia, Spain

Best Paper Award

Dolores Garcia, Joan Palacios, Jesús O. Lacruz, Joerg Widmer / November 2020
The 23rd International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2020), Virtual event (previously at Alicante, Spain), 16-20 November 2020

AEPD Emilio Aced Award 2020

Álvaro Feal, Paolo Calciati, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Carmela Troncoso, Alessandra Gorla / July 2020
The 20th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2020), 14–18 July 2020, Montreal, Canada.

Best Paper Award - Honorable Mention

Jesus Omar Lacruz, Dolores Garcia, Pablo Jimenez, Joan Palacios, Joerg Widmer / June 2020
The 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys2020), 16-19 Jun 2020, Toronto, Canada

Best Practical Paper Award

Julien Gamba, Mohammed Rashed, Abbas Razaghpanah, Juan Tapiador, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez / May 2020
The 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 18-20 May 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA

CNIL-INRIA Privacy Protection Award 2019

Julien Gamba, Mohammed Rashed, Abbas Razaghpanah, Juan Tapiador, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez / May 2020
41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 18-20 May 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA

AEPD Emilio Aced Award 2019

Julien Gamba, Mohammed Rashed, Abbas Razaghpanah, Juan Tapiador, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez / May 2020
The 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 18-20 May 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA.

50 Ways to Leak Your Data: An Exploration of Apps' Circumvention of the Android Permissions System

Joel Reardon, Álvaro Feal, Primal Wijesekera, Amit Elazari Bar On, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Serge Egelman / August 2019
28th USENIX Security Symposium, August 14–16, 2019 • Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Best Conference Paper Award of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling 2019

Paolo Castagno, Vincenzo Mancuso, Matteo Sereno, Marco Ajmone Marsan / April 2018
The 37th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2018), 15-19 April 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Best Paper Award

Carlos Andrés Ramiro, Claudio Fiandrino, Alejandro Blanco, Pablo Jimenez Mateo, Norbert Ludant, Joerg Widmer / November 2018
The 12th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (ACM WiNTECH 2018), in conjunction with MobiCom 2018, 2 November 2018, New Delhi, India.

Distinguished Paper Award

Platon Kotzias, Abbas Razaghpanah, Johanna Amann, Kenneth G. Paterson, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Juan Caballero / October 2018
The 18th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2018), 31 October - 2 November 2018, Boston, MA, USA.

Coming of Age: A Longitudinal Study of TLS Deployment [PDF Download PDF in new window]

This was one out of 3 awards granted.

Community Contribution Award (domain ranks)

Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Hohlfeld, Julien Gamba, Jonas Jelten, Torsten Zimmermann, Stephen Strowes, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez / October 2018
The 18th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2018), 31 October - 2 November 2018, Boston, MA, USA.

Best Demo Award

Joan Palacios, Daniel Steinmetzer, Adrian Loch, Joerg Widmer, Matthias Hollick / November 2018
The 12th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (ACM WiNTECH 2018), in conjunction with MobiCom 2018, 2 November 2018, New Delhi, India.

Third Best Student Paper Award

Alvaro Feal / June 2018
IV Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación en Ciberseguridad (JNIC 2018), 13-15 June 2018, Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain.

Best-in-Session Presentation Award

Joan Palacios, Guillermo Bielsa, Paolo Casari, Joerg Widmer / April 2018
The 37th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2018), 15-19 April 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Best-in-Session Presentation Award

Paolo Castagno, Vincenzo Mancuso, Matteo Sereno, Marco Ajmone Marsan / April 2018
The 37th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2018), 15-19 April 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Best Paper Award

Elizaveta Dubrovinskaya, Roee Diamant, Paolo Casari / October 2017
IEEE 14th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communications (WPNC 2017), 25-26 October 2017, Bremen, Germany

Best Student Paper Award

Gaetano Manzo, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Gianluca Rizzo / September 2017
The 29th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 29), 4-8 September 2017, Genoa, Italy

Best-in-Session Presentation Award

Marco Gramaglia, Marco Fiore, Alberto Tarable, Albert Banchs / May 2017
The 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2017), 1-4 May 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA

Best-in-Session Presentation Award

Dario Bega, Marco Gramaglia, Albert Banchs, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Konstantinos Samdanis, Xavier Costa-Perez / May 2017
The 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2017), 1-4 May 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA

Best-in-Session Presentation Award

Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Konstantinos Samdanis, Xavier Costa-Perez, Dario Bega, Marco Gramaglia, Albert Banchs / May 2017
The 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2017), 1-4 May 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA

"Best Reading Topics on Device-to-Device Communications"

January 2017

In January 2017, IEEE COMSOC published a list of BEST READINGS TOPICS ON DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS. The list covers works published over the last 10 years. A testimony to the international acknowledgment of the impact and the quality of research carried out in IMDEA Networks in recent years is the inclusion of the following articles published by our scientists:

Runner up to the Best Paper Award

Qing Wang, Marco Zuniga, Domenico Giustiniano / December 2016
The 12th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2016), 12-15 December 2016, Irvine, California, USA

Best Student Paper Award with Experiments in Memory of Giovanni Toso

Francesca Meneghello, Filippo Campagnaro, Roee Diamanto, Paolo Casari, Michele Zorzi / October 2016
The 11th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (ACM WUWNet 2016), 24–26 October 2016, Shanghai, China

Best Student Paper Award

Joan Palacios, Danilo De Donno, Domenico Giustiniano, Joerg Widmer / September 2016
The 27th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE, PIMRC 2016), 4-7 September 2016, Valencia, Spain

Best Demo Award

Ozgu Alay, Andra Lutu, Rafael García, Miguel Peón-Quirós, Vincenzo Mancuso, Thomas Hirsch, Tobial Dely, Jonas Werme, Kristian Eversen, Audun Hansen, Stefan Alfredsson, Jonas Karlsson, Anna Brunstrom, Ali Safari Khatouni, Marco Mellia, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Roberto Monno, Hakon Lonsethagen / June 2016
The 17th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2016), 21-24 June 2016, Coimbra, Portugal

Best-in-Session Presentation Award

Arash Asadi, Vincenzo Mancuso, Rohit Gupta / April 2016
The 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2016), 10-15 April 2016, San Francisco, USA

An SDR-based Experimental Study of Outband D2D Communications(Paper) [PDFDownload PDF in new window]

This article was selected for IEEE Communication Society’s Tech Focus of 1 December 2016. Featured Topic: MAC/PHY Prototyping Platform

Honorable Mention

José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Giora Alexandron, Zhongzhou Chen, David E. Pritchard / April 2016
The 3rd ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S 2016), 25-26 April 2016, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Best Paper Award

Christian Vitale, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Arash Asadi, Vincenzo Mancuso / November 2015
The 5th IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (OnlineGreenCom 2015), 10-12 November 2015, Virtual Conference

Runner up to the Best Demonstration Paper Award

Héctor J. Pijeira Díaz, Javier Santofimia Ruiz, José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino, Carlos Delgado Kloos / September 2015
The 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), 15-18 September 2015, Toledo, Spain

Honorable Mention

Christian Vitale, Vincenzo Mancuso, Gianluca Rizzo / January 2015
The 7th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2015), 6-10 January 2015, Bangalore, India

Runner up to the Best Paper Award

Christina Vlachou, Albert Banchs, Julien Herzen, Patrick Thiran / October 2014
The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (IEEE ICNP 2014), 21-24 October 2014, The Research Triangle, North Carolina, USA

Best Paper Award

Adrian Loch, Thomas Nitsche, Alexander Kuehne, Matthias Hollick, Joerg Widmer, Anja Klein / June 2014
The 15th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2014), 16-19 June 2014, Sydney, Australia

Runner up to the Best Paper Award

Sim Gek Hong, Joerg Widmer, Balaji Rengarajan / June 2014
The 15th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2014), 16-19 June 2014, Sydney, Australia

Best Paper Award

Kshitiz Verma, Gianluca Rizzo, Antonio Fernández Anta, Rubén Cuevas, Arturo Azcorra / August 2012
The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA 2012), August 23-25, 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA

Best Paper Award “Sociedad de Computación Concurrente y Distribuida”

Sergio Arévalo, Antonio Fernández Anta, Damien Imbs, Ernesto Jiménez, Michel Raynal / June 2012
The 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012), 18-21 June 2012, Macau, China

Best Paper Award

Balaji Rengarajan, Gianluca Rizzo, Marco Ajmone Marsan / September 2011
The 23rd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 2011), 6-9 September, 2011, San Francisco, USA

Best Paper Award

Fabio Giust, Antonio de la Oliva, Carlos Jesús Bernardos / April 2011
The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Mobility Management in the Networks of the Future World (Mobiworld 2011), The 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2011), 10-15 April 2011, Shanghai, China

Best Paper Award

Ángel Cuevas, Manuel Urueña, Gustavo de Veciana / October 2010
The 13th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM MSWIM 2010), 17-21 October 2010, Bodrum, Turkey

Best Paper Award Nomination

Xiaojian Wu, A.L. Narasimha Reddy / August 2010
The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (IEEE MASCOTS 2010), 17-19 August 2010, Miami Beach, Florida, USA

Best Paper Award

Alex Bikfalvi, Jaime García-Reinoso, Iván Vidal, Francisco Valera / April 2009
The 5th International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2009), 20-25 April 2009, Valencia, Spain

IEEE FMN 2008 Best Paper Award

Isaias Martínez-Yelmo, Alex Bikfalvi, Carmen Guerrero, Rubén Cuevas, Andreas Mauthe / September 2008
The 2nd Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2008), 17-18 September 2008, Cardiff, Wales, UK