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:
AEPD Emilio Aced Award 2019
Gamba, Julien; Rashed, Mohammed; Razaghpanah, Abbas; Tapiador, Juan; Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo / May 2020
The 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 18-20 May 2020, San Fransisco, CA, USA.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.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, USACommunity 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.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 
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This was one out of 3 awards granted.
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.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
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, 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, 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