We are pleased to report that 65 nominations were received for the
Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) 2023. Each nomination was
reviewed by several members of the
selection committee
according to a diverse set of criteria, including scientific merit,
relevance to IETF and/or IRTF activities, and the potential of the
nominee to have impact in the community.
The following people will receive the Applied Networking Research
Prize during the IRTF Open Meeting at IETF-117 in San Francisco,
22-28 July 2023:
Simon Scherrer
for his work on modelling the BBR congestion control algorithm:
The nomination period for the 2023 Applied Networking Research Prize
has ended, and nominations are not currently being accepted.
The nomination period for the 2024 awards will open in September 2023.
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Questions
Please email
anrp@irtf.org
with any questions you may have about the ANRP.
The Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) is awarded to recognise
the best recent results in applied networking, interesting new
research ideas of potential relevance to the Internet standards
community, and upcoming people that are likely to have an impact on
Internet standards and technologies, with a particular focus on cases
where these people or ideas would not otherwise get much exposure or
be able to participate in the discussion.
We encourage nominations of researchers with relevant research results,
interesting ideas, and new perspectives. The award will offer them
the opportunity to present and discuss their work with the engineers,
network operators, policy makers, and scientists that participate in
the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its research arm, the
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). Both self- and third-party
nominations for this prize are encouraged.
The Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) consists of:
a cash prize of $1000 (USD)
an invited talk at the IRTF Open Meeting
a travel grant to attend a week-long IETF meeting (airfare, hotel, registration, stipend)
In addition, prize winners may be offered additional travel grants to
attend future IETF and/or IRTF meetings. Such grants are made at the
discretion of the award committee, based on community feedback,
engagement with the community, and potential future impact.
Applied Networking Research Prize awards are made once per calendar
year with a nomination deadline in late November. Each year, several
winners will be chosen and invited to present their work at one of
the three IETF meetings during the following year.
How to Nominate
Nominations are for a
single
author of an original, peer-reviewed, journal, conference or workshop
paper that was recently published or accepted for publication.
The nominee
must
be one of the main authors of the nominated paper. Both
self-nominations (nominating one’s own paper) and third-party
nominations (nominating someone else’s paper, with their permission) are encouraged.
The nominated paper should provide a scientific foundation for
possible future engineering work in the IETF, or research and
experimentation in the IRTF. It should analyze the behavior of
Internet protocols in operational deployments or realistic testbeds,
make an important contribution to the understanding of Internet
scalability, performance, reliability, security or capability, or
otherwise be of relevance to ongoing or future IETF or IRTF
activities.
Nominations
must
briefly describe how the nominated paper relates to these goals.
They should describe how involving the nominee in the IETF and IRTF
process, and bringing them to an IETF meeting, would help to foster
the transition of the results and/or ideas into new IETF engineering
work or IRTF experimentation, or otherwise seed new activities that
will have an impact on the real-world Internet.
The goal of the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) is to foster
the transitioning of research results into real-world benefits for
the Internet. Therefore, applicants must indicate that they (or the
nominee, in case of third-party nominations) are available to attend
at least one of the IETF meetings in the following year.
In-person attendance is desirable, where possible, but due to the
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic remote participation options will
be available for ANRP prize winners at all IETF meetings in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Nominations are submitted via the
submission site
and must include:
the name and email address of the nominee;
a bibliographic reference to the published (or accepted) nominated
paper;
a PDF copy of the nominated paper;
a statement that describes how the
nominated paper
fulfills the goals of the award and how the
nominee
would engage with the IETF and/or IRTF community;
a statement of the nominees availability to present
their work at the IETF meetings in the award year;
optionally, any other supporting information (link to nominee’s web
site, etc.)
All nominees will be notified by email about the decision regarding their nomination.
Papers nominated for the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) are
not
considered to be contributions to the IETF or IRTF. However, the
invited talks about those papers given at the IRTF Open Meeting
are
considered to be contributions and
the IRTF Intellectual Property Rights disclosure rules
apply.
Important Dates
Nominations open:
10 October 2022
Nomination deadline:
18 November 2022
Award notifications:
4 January 2023
Sponsors
The Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) is supported by the
Internet Society in coordination with the Internet Research Task
Force (IRTF).
Additional corporate sponsorship for the ANRP is kindly provided by:
If your organization would like to support the ANRP, please contact
anrp@irtf.org.
“We like the Applied Network Research Prize because it encourages novel
research that helps companies like Comcast and our partners build better
Internet services and technologies for end users, and helps the community
move important standards work into deployable technology more
effectively.”
Jason Livingood, Vice President - Internet Services, Comcast
Award Committee
An award committee comprised of individuals knowledgeable about the
IRTF, IETF and the broader networking research community will
evaluate the submissions against these selection criteria.
Boris Pismenny, Haggai Eran, Aviad Yehezkel, Liran Liss, Adam Morrison, and Dan Tsafrir,
“Autonomous NIC Offloads”
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Architectural
Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)
2021 (a
teaser video
from ASPLOS is available).
Slides
At IETF-115, to
Corinne Cath
for her ethnographic work on the IETF’s distinct organizational culture and how its ‘rough’ edges limit the ability of human rights’ advocates to get their concerns included in technical discussions:
At IETF-113, to
Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi
for her work on the resilience of the Internet infrastructure
to solar superstorms (large scale coronal mass ejections):
At IETF-104, to
Brandon Schlinker
for presenting the first public analysis of a global, SDN-based content delivery solution serving over two billion users including real-time performance measurements:
At IETF-103, to
Arash Molavi Kakhki
for a detailed analysis of multiple versions of a rapidly evolving, new transport protocol in a large number of environments:
At IETF-102, to
Maria Apostolaki
for a detailed analysis of the impact that Internet routing attacks (such as BGP hijacks) and malicious Internet Service Providers (ISP) can have on the Bitcoin cryptocurrency:
At IETF-102, to
Panos Papadimitratos
for improving our understanding of vehicular public key infrastructure in terms of security, privacy protection, and efficiency:
At IETF-91, to
Misbah Uddin
for developing matching and ranking for network search queries to make operational data available in real-time to management applications:
Misbah Uddin, Rolf Stadler and Alexander Clemm.
Scalable Matching and Ranking for Network Search.
Proc.
International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM),
Zürich, Switzerland, October 2013.
At IETF-90, to
Robert Lychev
for studying the security benefits provided by partially-deployed S*BGP:
At IETF-85, to
Peyman Kazemian
for developing a general and protocol-agnostic framework for statically checking network specifications and configurations:
Mingui Zhang, Cheng Yi, Bin Liu and Beichuan Zhang.
GreenTE: Power-Aware Traffic Engineering.
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP),
pp. 21–30, October 2010.