IMDEA Networks
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 Award
Diletta Olliaro, Michela Meo, Matteo Sereno, Andrea Marin, Marco Ajmone Marsan / June 2025
36th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 36), 2-5 June 2025, Trondheim, NorwayEnergy/Performance Trade-Off in RANS with Dynamic Management of Frequency Bands [PDF 
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Best Student Paper Award
Serly Moghadas Gholian, Claudio Fiandrino, and Joerg Widmer / May 2025
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking 2025, 26-29 May, Barcelona, SpainBest Paper Award
Beyza Bütün, David De Andrés Hernández, Michele Gucciardo, Marco Fiore / May 2025
IEEE INFOCOM 2024, 19-22 May 2025, London, United KingdomBest Demo Runner-Up Award
Javier Talavante, Salvatore Corallo, Domenico Giustiniano / December 2024
International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2024), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 10-13 December 2024ACM Artifact Badges: Available and Functional
Rostand A. K. Fezeu, Claudio Fiandrino, Eman Ramadan, Jason Carpenter, Lilian Coelho de Freitas, Faaiq Bilal, Wei Ye, Joerg Widmer, Feng Qian and Zhi-Li Zhang / August 2024
ACM SIGCOMM 2024, August 4 - 8, 2024, Sydney, AustraliaBest Paper Award
Juan Marcos Ramírez, Vincenzo Mancuso and Marco Ajmone Marsan / June 2024
Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet), 11-13 June 2024, Nizza, FranceBest Paper Award
Claudio Fiandrino, Eloy Pérez Gómez, Pablo Fernández Pérez, Hossein Mohammadalizadeh, Marco Fiore and Joerg Widmer / May 2024
IEEE INFOCOM 2024, 20-24 May 2024, Vancouver, CanadaBest 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, CanadaACM Artifact Badges: Available, Functional, and Reproduced
Leonardo Peroni, Sergey Gorinsky, Farzad Tashtarian, Christian Timmerer / December 2023
CoNEXT 2023, 5- 8 December 2023, Paris, FranceACM Artifact Badges: Available, Functional, and Reproduced
Claudio Fiandrino, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro, Michele Polese; Tommaso Melodia, Joerg Widmer / December 2023
CoNEXT 2023, 5- 8 December 2023, Paris, FranceBest 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, MalaysiaBest Paper Award
Kun Woo Cho, Marco Cominelli, Francesco Gringoli, Joerg Widmer, Kyle Jamieson / October 2023
ACM MobiHoc 2023, 23-26 October, Washington DC, USARunner-up: Andreas Pfitzman Best Student Paper Award
Amogh Pradeep, Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Ashwin Rao, Martina Lindorfer, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez and David Choffnes / July 2023
PETS Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, Online, 10-15 July 2023Best Paper Runner-Up Award
Pablo Fernández, Claudio Fiandrino, Joerg Widmer / October 2023
ACM WiNTECH 2023 (co-located with ACM MobiCom), 6 October 2023, Madrid, SpainBest 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, SpainBest Paper Award
V. Cislaghi, C. Quadri, V. Mancuso, M. Ajmone Marsan / April 2023
IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2023, 26-28 April, Istanbul, TurkeyBest 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, USABest 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 IrelandMario 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, CyprusCNIL-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, USAAEPD 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 2021Best 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 2021Best Paper Award
Hany Assasa, Nina Grosheva, Tanguy Ropitault, Steve Blandino, Nada Golmie, Joerg Widmer / June 2021
The Workshop on ns-3 (WNS3) 2021Best 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 StatesAX-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, SpainBest 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 2020AEPD 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, CanadaBest 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, USACNIL-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, USAAEPD 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, USABest 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 ]
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.Demo: Channel Estimation and Custom Beamforming on the 60 GHz TP-Link Talon AD7200 Router (Demo, peer-reviewed) [PDF ]
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.Third best student paper award “Study on privacy of parental control applications” (Extended abstract) [PDF ]
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, GermanyAnchorless Underwater Acoustic Localization (Paper) [PDF ]
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, ItalyBest-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, USABest-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, USABest-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:
- Arash Asadi, Qing Wang, Vincenzo Mancuso (April 2014)
A Survey on Device-to-Device Communication in Cellular Networks [PDF]
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 16 (4) pp. 1801-1819. ISSN 1553-877X - Arash Asadi, Vincenzo Mancuso, Rohit Gupta (April 2016)
An SDR-based Experimental Study of Outband D2D Communications (Paper) [PDF]
In: The 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2016), 10-15 April 2016, San Francisco, USA - Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Domenico Giustiniano, Albert Banchs, Andreea Hossmann-Picu (January 2016)
Offloading Cellular Traffic Through Opportunistic Communications: Analysis and Optimization [PDF]
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 34 (1) pp. 122-137. ISSN 0733-8716 - Qing Yang, Kejie Lu, Vincenzo Mancuso, Chan-Hyun Youn (August 2016)
Device-to-device communications with social awareness [Guest Editorial] [PDF]
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 23 (4) pp. 10-11. ISSN 1536-1284
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, USAPassive Communication with Ambient Light (Paper) [PDF ]
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, ChinaBest 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, SpainBest 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, PortugalBest-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, USAAn SDR-based Experimental Study of Outband D2D Communications(Paper) [PDF]
This article was selected for IEEE Communication Society’s Tech Focus of 1 December 2016. Featured Topic: MAC/PHY Prototyping Platform