ICIN Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards

At each ICIN conference the ICIN Technical Programme Committee makes an award for the most outstanding paper.

Delegates to ICIN also vote to select Best Presentation awards.

ICIN 2016 Best Paper Awards

Best Paper

Cloud RAN Challenges and Solutions – Rajeev Agrawal and Anand Bedekar (Nokia, USA); Troels Kolding (Nokia, Denmark); Vishnu Ram (Nokia, India)

Best Paper Runner-up

Resource Allocation Using Virtual Objects in the Internet of Things: a QoI Oriented Consensus Algorithm – Andrea Carta, Virginia Pilloni and Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy)

ICIN 2016 Best Poster Awards

Best Poster/Demo

OpenStack orchestration with Watcher – Antoine Cabot, Xavier Priem (B-Com, France)

ICIN 2015 Best Paper Awards

Best Paper

Signalling-On-the-fly: SigOfly (WebRTC Interoperability Tested in Contradictive Deployment Scenarios)
Paulo Chainho (Coordenação Tecnológica e Inovação Exploratória, Portugal); Kay Haensge and Steffen Druesedow (Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany); Michael Maruschke (Hochschule für Telekommunikation, University of Applied Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)

ICIN 2015 Best Presentation Awards

Best Presentation

How Will Rebooting Computing Help IoT?
Bichlien Hoang and SinKuen Hawkins (IEEE Future Directions, USA)

Best Presentation

An IoT Electric Business Model Based on the Protocol of Bitcoin
Yu Zhang and Jiangtao Wen (University of Tsinghua, China)

ICIN 2015 Best Poster Awards

Best Poster

Short Paper - A Model Driven Approach for Telecommunication Service Creation Environments Relying on Enterprise Architecture
Iyas Alloush (Telecom Bretagne, France); Vanea Chiprianov (University of Pau & Pays Adour Mont-de-Marsan, France); Jacques Simonin, Siegfried Rouvrais and Yvon Kermarrec (Telecom Bretagne, France)

ICIN 2013 Best Paper Awards

Best Paper

Hybrid Composition of Telecom and Internet Services: The Telecom Operator Perspective
Pierpaolo Baglietto; Massimo Maresca; Michele Stecca (CIPI, Italy); Corrado Moiso (Telecom Italia, Italy)

Best Paper – Runner-up

WebRTC, the Day After
Emmanuel Bertin; Sébastien Cubaud; Stephane Tuffin; Stéphane Cazeaux (Orange Labs, France); Noel Crespi; Maria Victoria Beltran (Institut Mines-Télécom, France)

Best Paper – Runner-up

Manifesto of Edge ICT Fabric
Antonio Manzalini; Roberto Minerva (Telecom Italia, Italy); Eliezer Dekel; Yoav Tock (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel); Ernest Kaempfer (Intel Corporation, Italy); Wouter Tavernier; Koen Casier; Sofie Verbrugge; Didier Colle (Ghent University, Belgium); Franco Callegati; Aldo Campi; Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy); Ricard Vilalta; Raul Muñoz; Ramon Casellas; Ricardo Martinez (CTTC, Spain); Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Télécom, France); Nicola Mazzocca; Elisa Maini (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)

ICIN 2013 Best Presentation Awards

Best Presentation – Day 1

The Virtual Set-Top Box: On the Shift of IPTV Service Execution, Service & UI Composition Into the Cloud
Alexandra Mikityuk (Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Germany)

Best Presentation – Day 2

Moving to Content-Centric Networks
Mike E Nilsson (BT, UK)

ICIN 2012 Best Paper Awards

Best Paper

SightFinder: Enhanced Videophone Service Utilizing Media Processing
Hiroaki Nishihata; Masahiro Otsuka; Koichi Asatani; Osamu Mizuno (Kogakuin University, Japan); Haruno Kataoka; Michio Shimomura (NTT, Japan)

Best Paper – Runner-up

Application-Aware Traffic Control for Network-based Data Processing Services
Kouichirou Amemiya; Kenichi Abiru; Tomohiro Ishihara (Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan)

Best Paper – Runner-up

Towards a User-Centric Personal Data Ecosystem - the Role of the Bank of Individuals' Data
Corrado Moiso; Roberto Minerva (Telecom Italia, Italy)

ICIN 2012 Best Presentation Awards

Best Presentation – Day 2

Towards Halos Networks: Ubiquitous Networking and Computing at the Edge
Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia, Italy); Noel Crespi (Télécom SudParis, France); Vânia Gonçalves (IBBT-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium); Roberto Minerva (Telecom Italia, Italy)

Best Presentation – Day 3

A Perspective on Regulation and Users' Experience
David Ludlam (formerly Marconi, UK)

Best Presentation – Demonstration

Monitoring and Abstraction for Networked Clouds
Michael Scharf; Thomas Voith (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Germany); Bill Roome; Robert D Gaglianello; Moritz Steiner; Volker Hilt; Vijay Gurbani (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA)

ICIN 2011 Best Paper Awards

Best Paper

Service Oriented Network Architecture for Scalable M2M and Sensor Network Services
Kazumine Matoba; Kenichi Abiru; Tomohiro Ishihara (Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan)

ICIN 2011 Best Presentation Awards

Best Presentation – Day 1

The Sending Party Network Pays: a First Step Towards End-To-End Quality of Service
Max Roettgermann; Falk von Bornstaedt (Deutsche Telekom, Germany); Isabelle Korthals (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Finn Tore Johansen; Håkon Lønsethagen (Telenor, Norway)

Best Presentation – Day 2

Rich Communication Suite: the Challenge and Opportunity for MNOs
Min Lin (China Unicom, P.R. China); Javier Arias (Telefonica Espana, Spain)

Best Presentation – Demonstration

Spatial Segmentation for Immersive Media Delivery
Ray van Brandenburg; Martin Prins; Omar Niamut; Anton Havekes; Hans Stokking (TNO, The Netherlands)

ICIN 2010 Best Paper Awards

Best Paper

Privacy Leaks in Mobile Phone Internet Access
Collin Mulliner, TU Berlin and Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Best Paper – Runner-up

New UPnP Service for Multimedia Remote Sharing with IMS Framework
Mohamed Mahdi, Olivier Dugeon, Remi Bars, Bastien Lamer, France Telecom R&D, France

Best Paper – Runner-up

Word of Mouth Mobile Marketing for Real World Recommendations
Matthias Will, Tâm Huynh, Veit Vogel, T-Systems International, Germany; Martin Stub, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany

ICIN 2010 Best Presentation Awards

Best Presentation – Day 1

Can you Predict Human Behavior?
Jose Simoes, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Best Presentation – Day 2

How Can Recommendations Be Presented to TV Viewers? Concept Testing with Potential Users
Sue Hessey, BT Innovate and Design, UK

Best Presentation – Demonstration

Blending the Telecommunication Domain with Web 2.0 Services
Konstantinos Vandikas, Ioannis Fikouras, Ericsson

ICIN 2009 Best Paper Awards – sponsored by

Best Paper – Business Models

Lessons Learned From Retail: Capturing the IKEA Effect
Erik Kayser, Capgemini, Sweden

Best Paper – New Services and Applications

Visual Search: Advancing Mobile Internet Services with Visual Interaction
Tâm Huỳnh, Elisabeth Felt and Veit Vogel, T-Systems Enterprise Services, Germany
Michael Rohs, Rahul Swaminathan, Michael Nischt and Roland Schwaiger, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Best Paper – Service Enablers and Infrastructure

If the Web is the platform, then what is the SDP?
Antonio Manzalini, Roberto Minerva and Corrado Moiso, Telecom Italia, Italy

ICIN 2009 Best Presentation Awards – sponsored by

Best Presentation – Day 1

If the Web is the platform, then what is the SDP?
Antonio Manzalini, Roberto Minerva and Corrado Moiso, Telecom Italia, Italy

Best Presentation – Day 2

Assessing Social Networking Effectiveness: Survey Results from a Large Enterprise
Frederico Figueiredo, Luis Soares and Tiago Pocinho, Nokia Siemens Networks, Portugal

Best Presentation – Day 3

Mining the bit pipes: Discovering and leveraging users' behavior
Michael Brenner, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Daping Wang, Alcatel-Lucent, Australia

ICIN 2008 Best Paper Awards – sponsored by

Best Paper – Business Models

Practical quantitative approach for estimating business contribution of enablers and service platforms
Josip Zoric, Telenor Research and Innovation, Norway

Best Paper – New Services and Applications

The OSIP Experience
Rebecca Copeland, Huawei Technologies, UK
Michael Crowther, BT Group CTO, BT, UK

Best Paper – Service Enablers and Infrastructure

Service Delivery Platform Architecture for the Next-Generation Network
Hiroshi Sunaga, Yoji Yamato, Hiroyuki Ohnishi, Masashi Kaneko, Masami Iio, and Miki Hirano, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan

ICIN 2008 Best Presentation Awards – sponsored by

Best Presentation – Business Models

An Advertisement-based Platform Business Model for Mobile Operators
Pieter Ballon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Best Presentation – New Services and Applications

Using Video Mashup to Deliver Personalized and Added-Value Video Services
Eric Julien, Hewlett-Packard, France

Best Presentation – Service Enablers and Infrastructure

Fixed-mobile hybrid mashups: experiences and lessons on applying the REST software architecture principles to exposing mobile operator services
Sami Makelainen, Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland

ICIN 2007 Best Paper Awards

Best Paper – Business Models

There is a Broker in the Net ... Its name is Google
Roberto Minerva and Tiziana Demaria, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy

Best Paper – New Services and Applications

Delivering Quadruple Play with IPTV over IMS
Bruno Chatras and Mikhael Said, France Telecom Research & Development, France

Best Paper – Service Enablers and Infrastructure

Multi-Access Modular-Services Framework – Supporting SMEs with an innovative Service Creation toolkit based on integrated SDP/IMS infrastructure
B. Freese, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
H. Stein, T-Systems Enterprise Services, Germany
T. Magedanz and S. Dutkowski, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS / Technical University of Berlin, Germany