IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks
9 -12 November 2020 // Virtual Conference

Awards

Best Paper Award

Incremental Deployment of Hybrid SDN Network with Optimized Traffic Engineering
Ali Kelkawi (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Ameer Mohammed (Kuwait University, Kuwait); Anwar Alyatama (Kuwait University, Kuwait)

Best Fast Track Paper Award

On the integration of AI/ML-based Scaling Operations in the 5Growth Platform
Jorge Baranda (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Engin Zeydan (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Luca Vettori (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Ricardo Martinez (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Xi Li (NEC, Germany); Andres Garcia-Saavedra (NEC Labs Europe, Germany); Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Claudio E. Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Konstantin Tomakh (Mirantis, Ukraine); Oleksii Kolodiazhnyi (Mirantis, Ukraine); Carlos J. Bernardos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Best Doctoral Symposium Paper Award

MUDED: Integrating Networks with Applications through Multi-Domain Exposure and Discovery Mechanisms
Danny Alex Lachos Perez (University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Brazil); Christian Esteve Rothenberg (University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Brazil)

Best Demo Award

Demonstrating FlowBlaze.p4: Fast Prototyping for EFSM-based Data Plane Applications
Daniele Moro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Davide Sanvito (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany), Antonio Capone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Intel Student Participation Grant Recipients

Alessandra Fais (University of Pisa, Italy)
Kiril Antevski (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)

ComSoc Student Participation Grant Recipents

Sidharth Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)
Alexandre Huff (Federal Technological University of Parana, Brazil)
Aman Khalid (St. Louis University, USA)