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The IM/NOMS Steering Committee (NISC) coordinates the nomination and decision processes
for the two prestigious awards presented at IM and NOMS to select individuals for their outstanding contributions
to the network, system and service management community.
The two awards are:
The DAN STOKESBERRY AWARD
presented in memory of IM'97 Chair Dan Stokesberry at each International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM) to
an individual who has made a particularly distinguished technical contribution to the growth of the field.
The recipients of the Dan Stokesberry award are:
1997: Robbie Cohen
1999: Morris Sloman
2001: Heinz-Gerd Hegering
2003: Aurel Lazar
2005: John Strassner
2007: Joe Hellerstein
2009: Raouf Boutaba
2011: George Pavlou
2013: James Hong
2015: Rolf Stadler
2017: Nikos Anerousis
2019: Olivier Festor
2021: Filip De Turck
2023: Luciano Paschoal Gaspary
2025: Burkhard Stiller
The SALAH AIDAROUS AWARD
presented in memory of NOMS'04 Chair Salah Aidarous at each International Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS)
to an individual who has provided unremitting service and dedication to the IT and Telecommunications Network
Operations and Management community.
The recipients of the Salah Aidarous Award are:
2004: Roberto Saracco
2006: Douglas N. Zuckerman
2008: Veli Sahin
2010: Masayochi Ejeri
2012: Raouf Boutaba
2014: Prosper Chemouil
2016: Aiko Pras
2018: Mehmet Ulema
2020: Alexander Clemm
2022: Lisandro Z. Granville
2024: Hanan Lutfiyya
Nominations for these awards are to be submitted to the chair of the IM/NOMS Steering Committee (NISC) to
rboutaba@cs.uwaterloo.ca no later than one month prior to IM for the Dan Stokesberry
award and to NOMS for the Salah Aidarous award. Award presentations will be made at each IM and NOMS.
IFIP WG6.6 also sponsors awards to best papers and best Ph.D. research.
The IFIP WG6.6 BEST PAPER AWARD is presented
at main conferences in the area of network and service management to authors of the best technical paper.
The recipients of the IFIP WG6.6 Best Paper Award are:
- NOMS 2008: Artur Andrzejak (Zuse Institute, Berlin) and Luis Silva (University of Coimbra):
Using Machine Learning for Non-Intrusive Modeling and Prediction of Software Aging
- IM 2009: Carol J Fung, Jie Zhang, Issam Aib, Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo):
Robust and Scalable Trust Management for Collaborative Intrusion Detection
- NOMS 2010: Raphael M. Bahatia and Michael A. Bauerb (University of Western Ontario):
Towards Adaptive Policy-Based Management
- IM 2011: Jun Li, Sharad Singhal, Ram Swaminathan and Alan Karp. (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories):
Managing Data Retention Policies at Scale
- NOMS 2012 (best paper): Andrzej Kochut, Alexei Karve (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA):
Leveraging Local Image Redundancy for Efficient Virtual Machine Provisioning
- NOMS 2012 (best PhD paper): Frederic Francois, Ning Wang, Klaus Moessner and Stylianos Georgoulas (University of Surrey, UK):
Optimization for Time-driven Link Sleeping Reconfigurations in ISP Backbone Networks
- CNSM 2012 (best paper): Rerngvit Yanggratoke, Gunnar Kreitz, Mikael Goldmann and Rolf Stadler (KTH, Sweden):
Predicting Response Times for the Spotify Backend
- IM 2013 (best papers): Noriaki Kamiyama, Ryoichi Kawahara, (NTT):
Analysis of Content Charge by ISPs
and Bong Jun Ko (IBM), Sisi Liu (Broadcom) and Murtaza Zafer, Ho Yin Starsky Wong and Kang-Won Lee (IBM): Gateway Selection in Hybrid Wireless Networks Through Cooperative Probing
- IM 2015 (best paper): Yasaman Amannejad, Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Behrouz Far, (University of Calgary, Canada):
Detecting Performance Interference in Cloud-Based Web Services
- CNSM 2019 (best paper): Nashid Shahriar, Sepehr Taeb, Shihabur R. Chowdhury and Mubeen Zulfiqar (University of Waterloo, Canada), Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano & University of California, Davis, Italy), Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada), Jeebak Mitra and Mahdi Hemmati (Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada)
Reliable Slicing of 5G Transport Networks with Dedicated Protection
- CNSM 2019 (best PhD paper):
Christoph Hardegen, Benedikt Pfulb, Sebastian Rieger, Alexander Gepperth, Sven Reissmann (Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Flow-based Throughput Prediction using Deep Learning and Real-World Network Traffic
- NOMS 2020 (best paper): Karine Birnfeld, Diogo Campos da Silva, Weverton Cordeiro (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Breno Bernard Nicolau de Franca (University of Campinas, Brazil):
P4 Switch Code Data Flow Analysis: Towards Stronger Verification of Forwarding Plane Software
- IM 2021 (best paper): Ting-Li Huo, Yan Luo (University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA), Tong Zhang (Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA):
Encrypted Network Traffic Classification Using a Geometric Learning Model
- CNSM 2021 (best paper): Xiaofan Yu and Weihong Xu (University of California San Diego, USA), Ludmila Cherkasova (ARM Research, USA), Tajana Simunic Rosing (University of California, San Diego, USA):
Automating Reliable and Fault-Tolerant Design of LoRa-based IoT Networks
- CNSM 2022 (best paper): Andrea Mayer, Lorenzo Bracciale, Paolo Lungaroni, Pierpaolo Loreti, Stefano Salsano and Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome, Italy):
eBPF Programming Made Easy with eCLAT
- NOMS 2022 (best paper): Muhammad Sulaiman, Arash Moayyedi, Mohammad A. Salahuddin and Raouf Boutaba (Cheriton School of Computer Science, Canada), Aladdin Saleh (Rogers Communications, Canada) :
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Slicing and Admission Control in 5G C-RAN
- NOMS 2022 (best student paper): Seyed Soheil Johari (Cheriton School of Computer Science, Canada), Nashid Shahriar (Department of Computer Science, University of Regina), Massimo Tornatore (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Raouf Boutaba (Cheriton School of Computer Science, Canada), Aladdin Saleh (Rogers Communications, Canada) :
Anomaly Detection and Localization in NFV Systems: an Unsupervised Learning Approach
- CNSM 2022 (best paper): Andrea Mayer, Lorenzo Bracciale, Paolo Lungaroni, Pierpaolo Loreti, Stefano Salsano and Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome, Italy):
eBPF Programming Made Easy with eCLAT
- CNSM 2022 (best student paper): Kaan Aykurt, Johannes Zerwas, Andreas Blenk and Wolfgang Kellerer (Technical University of Munich, Germany):
On the Performance of TCP in Reconfigurable Data Center Networks
- NOMS 2023 (best paper): Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba (Cheriton School of Computer Science, Canada), Aladdin Saleh (Rogers Communications):
Generalizable Resource Scaling of 5G Slices using Constrained Reinforcement Learning
- CNSM 2023 (best paper):Lorenzo Manca (University of Bologna), Davide Borsatti (University of Bologna), Filippo Poltronieri and Mattia Zaccarini (University of Ferrara), Domenico Scotece, Gianluca Davoli and Luca Foschini (University of Bologna), Genady Ya. Grabarnik (St. John's University), Larisa Shwartz (IBM Research), Cesare Stefanelli and Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara), Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna):
Characterization of Microservice Response Time in Kubernetes: A Mixture Density Network Approach
- CNSM 2023 (best student paper):Pegah Golchin (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany), Chengbo Zhou (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany), Pratyush Agnihotri (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany), Mehrdad Hajizadeh (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany), Ralf Kundel (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany), Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany):
CML-IDS: Enhancing Intrusion Detection in SDN through Collaborative Machine Learning
- NOMS 2024 (best paper): Nils Rodday and Gabi Dreo Rodosek (Research Institute CODE), Aiko Pras and Roland Rijswijk-Deij (University of Twente):
Exploring the Benefit of Path Plausibility Algorithms in BGP
- NOMS 2024 (best student paper): Jesutofunmi Ajayi, Antonio Di Maio, Torsten Braun (Institute of Computer Science, University of Bern, Switzerland):
Drift-Aware Policy Selection for Slice Admission Control
- CNSM 2024 (best paper):G. Gemmi, M. Polese and T. Melodi (Northeastern University, Boston, USA), L. Maccari (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy):
Optimizing and Managing Wireless Backhaul for Resilient Next-Generation Cellular Networks
- CNSM 2024 (best student paper):A. Prado, Z. Ding, F. Mehmeti and W. Kellerer (Technical University of Munich, Germany):
Mobility Management for Computation-Intensive Tasks in Cellular Networks with SD-RAN
The IM/NOMS BEST PHD DISSERTATION AWARD is presented
to students who have recently completed their thesis and performed outstanding research.
The recipients of the best Ph.D. Research Award are:
- NOMS 2008: Maitreya Natu (University of Delaware, USA):
Application of adaptive probing for fault diagnosis in computer networks
- IM 2009: Alberto Gonzalez Prieto (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden):
Adaptive Real-Time Monitoring for Large-Scale Networked Systems
- IM 2011: Clarissa Marquezan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil):
On the Investigation of the Joint Use of Self-* Properties and Peer-To-Peer for Network Management
and Fetahi Wuhib (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden):
Distributed Monitoring and Resource Management for Large Cloud Environments
- IM 2013: Adetokunbo Makanju (Dalhousie University, Canada):
Investigating Event Log Analysis with Minimum Apriori Information
and Carol Fung (University of Waterloo, Canada):
Design and Management of Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks
- IM 2015: Amir Nahir (Technion, Israel):
Resource Allocation and Management in Cloud Computing
- NOMS 2016: Misbah Uddin (KTH, Sweden): A Bottom-Up Approach to Real-Time Search in Large Networks and Clouds
- IM 2017: Vaibhav Bajpai (TU Munich, Germany): Understanding the Impact of Network Infrastructure Changes using Large-Scale Measurement Platforms
- NOMS 2020: Jessica Steinberger (Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector, Germany): Distributed DDoS Defense: A Collaborative Approach at Internet Scale
- NOMS 2022: Shihab Chowdhury (Cheriton School of Computer Science, Canada): Resource management in softwarized networks
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