The CNOM Test of Time Paper Award recognizes papers published 10 to 12 years in the past in flagship conferences and journals supported by CNOM, which are deemed to be outstanding and whose contents are still a vibrant and useful contribution today.

CNOM Test of Time Paper Award

The recipients of the CNOM Test of Time Paper Award are:

• 2024: Bari, Md Faizul, Arup Raton Roy, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Qi Zhang, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Reaz Ahmed, and Raouf Boutaba. Dynamic controller provisioning in software defined networks. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management, (2013): 18-25
• 2023: Bao, Fenye, Ray Chen, MoonJeong Chang, and 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 9.2 (2012): 169-183
• 2022: Kind, Andreas, Marc Ph Stoecklin, and Xenofontas Dimitropoulos. Histogram-based traffic anomaly detection. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 6.2 (2009): 110-121.
• 2021: Michael Cardosa, Madhukar R. Korupolu, and Aameek Singh. Shares and Utilities Based Power Consolidation in Virtualized Server Environments. 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009)

Award Committee

The current committee members are:

• Yixin Diao, PebblePost, USA (chair)
• Deep Medhi, NSF and UMKC, USA
• Carlos Raniery Paula dos Santos, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
• Kohei Shiomoto, Tokyo City University, Japan
• Rémi Badonnel, University of Lorraine, France

Nominations

Deadline

• March 29, 2024

Eligibility

1. Only papers that have been published in IM/NOMS, CNSM, TNSM, IJNM, JNSM and the ComMag NSM Series are eligible (published in 2011, 2012 or 2013) excluding survey papers.
2. Self-nominations are accepted.
3. Nominations must be submitted to yixin.diao@gmail.com with subject line “ComSoc CNOM Test of Time Paper Award Nomination” and should include the following data:
   • Title of paper
   • Author List
   • Author contact info (email address only)
   • Conference/journal where published
   • DOI link if available
   • Nominee name and email address
4. Include as attachment to the email
   • A PDF copy of the paper
   • A nomination justification providing the rationale for the nomination (this can be in the body of the email) and any supporting materials
   • If possible, reviewers’ reports of the paper (PDF or text)
5. The award committee members may also conduct their own assessment to identify additional potential candidate papers.