Prize
Plaque and honorarium up to US$500 for each author (total award not to exceed US$1000).

Eligibility
Publication of an original paper published in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking or the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management in the previous three calendar years. The author(s) need not be an IEEE member.

Basis for Judging
Quality, originality, utility, timeliness, clarity of presentation.

Nominee Solicitation
Nominations solicited by Transactions Editor-in-Chief from the Editorial Board, Guest Editors, and readership (through published notices).

Selection Process
Nominations screened and reduced to a shortlist by a committee of the Editorial Board and submitted to the IEEE Communications Society Awards Committee for final selection.

Presentation
Annually (as soon as possible after recommendation). If in any year no eligible paper is deemed to be of sufficient quality, no award will be given.

Deadline
Nominations due 15 February unless otherwise noted.

 

2023 Award Recipients

Kevin Spiteri, Rahul Urgaonkar, Ramesh K. Sitaraman 

"BOLA: Near-Optimal Bitrate Adaptation for Online Videos," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1698-1711, August 2020.

 

PAST AWARD RECIPIENTS

2022 - No Award

2021
Arjun Anand, Gustavo de Veciana, and Sanjay Shakkottai
"Joint Scheduling of URLLC and eMBB Traffic in 5G Wireless Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 477-490, April 2020.

2020
Marco Chiesa, Guy Kindler, Michael Schapira
“Traffic Engineering With Equal-Cost-MultiPath: An Algorithmic Perspective”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 779-792, April 2017.

2019
Dejun Yang, Guoliang Xue, Xi Fang, Jian Tang
"Incentive Mechanisms for Crowdsensing: Crowdsourcing with Smartphones", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 24, Issue: 3, pp. 1732-1744, June 2016.

2018 - No Award

2017
Qiuyu Peng, Anwar Walid, Jaehyun Hwang, Steven Low
“Multipath TCP Algorithms: Theory, Design and Implementation”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 596 – 609, February 2016.

2016
Kyunghan Lee, Joohyun Lee, Yung Yi, Injong Rhee, Song Chong
“Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?”, IEEE/ACM Transactions On Networking, Volume 21, No. 2, pp. 536-551, April 2013.

2015
Fenye Bao, Ing-Ray Chen, MoonJeong Chang, Jin-Hee Cho
“Hierarchical Trust Management for Wireless Sensor Networks and its Applications to Trust-Based Routing and Intrusion Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 2012, pp. 169-183.

2014
Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Eno Thereska
“Dynamic Right-Sizing for Power-Proportional Data Centers,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 21, No. 5, October 2013, pp. 1378-1391.

2013
Injong Rhee, Minsu Shin, Seongik Hong, Kyunghan Lee, Seong Joon Kim, Song Chong
"On the Levy-Walk Nature of Human Mobility," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 3, June 2011, pp. 630-643.

2012
Alberto Rabbachin, Tony Q.S. Quek, Hyundong Shin, Moe Z. Win
"Cognitive Network Interference," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 29, No. 2, February 2011, pp. 480-493.

2011
Murali Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, James B. Orlin, Sudipta Sengupta
"Oblivious Routing of Highly Variable Traffic in Service Overlays and IP Backbones,"IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 459-472, April 2009

2010 - No Award

2009
Sachin Katti, Hariharan Rahul, Wenjun Hu, Dina Katabi, Muriel Medard, Jon Crowcroft
"XORs in the Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 497–510, June 2008

2008
Božidar Radunović, Jean-Yves Le Boudec
"A Unified Framework for Max-Min and Min-Max Fairness With Applications", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 1073 – 1083, October 2007

2007
David Applegate, Edith Cohen
"Making Routing Robust to Changing Traffic Demands: Algorithms and Evaluation", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 1193-1206, December 2006

2006
João Luís Sobrinho
"An Algebraic Theory of Dynamic Network Routing", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 1160 – 1173, October 2005

2005
Neil Spring, Ratul Mahajan, David Wetherall, Thomas Anderson
"Measuring ISP Topologies With Rocketfuel", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 2-16, February 2004

2004
Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Liben-Nowell, David R. Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, Frank Dabek, Hari Balakrishnan
"Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 17-32, February 2003

2003
Wu-chang Feng, Kang G. Shin, Dilip D. Kandlur, Debanjan Saha
"The BLUE Active Queue Management Algorithms", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 513-528, August 2002

2002
Sally Floyd, Vern Paxson
"Difficulties in Simulating the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 392-403, August 2001

2001
Chung Kei Wong, Mohamed G. Gouda, Simon S. Lam
“Secure Group Communications Using Key Graphs”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 16 – 30, February 2000

2000
Sally Floyd, Kevin Fall
"Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 7. No. 4, August 1999, pp. 458-472

1999
Jorg Nonnenmacher, Ernst W. Biersack, Don Towsley
"Parity-Based Loss Recovery for Reliable Multicast Transmission", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 6, No 4, Aug 1998, pp. 349-361

1998
Vern Paxson
"End-to-end Routing Behavior in the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October 1997

1997
S. H. Low, N.F. Maxemchuk, S. Paul
"Anonymous Credit Cards and Their Collusion Analysis", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 1996, Volume 4, Number 6, pp. 809-816

1996
R. Ramaswami, K. Silvarajan
"Routing and wavelength assignment in all-optical networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Oct, 1995

1995
Will E. Leland, Murad S. Taqqu, Walter Willinger, Dan V. Wilson
"On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1994

1994
Abhay K. Parekh, Robert G. Gallager
"A Generalized Processor Sharing Approach to Flow Control in Integrated Services Networks: The Single Node Case", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 1, No. 3, June 1993