Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) awards for IETF 109

[Colin Perkins <csp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I’m pleased to announce that the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) award winners for IETF 109 are as follows:

Debopam Bhattacherjee for his work on the design of network topologies for low-earth orbit satellite constellations: 

• Debopam Bhattacherjee and Ankit Singla, “Network topology design at 27,000 km/hour”, Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, Orlando, FL, USA, December 2019. https://people.inf.ethz.ch/asingla/papers/conext19.pdf  

Georgia Fragkouli for her work on Internet transparency: 

• Georgia Fragkouli, Katerina Argyraki, and Bryan Ford, “MorphIT: Morphing Packet Reports for Internet Transparency”, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2019. https://bford.info/pub/net/morphit.pdf 

Ranysha Ware for her work on congestion control fairness: 

• Ranysha Ware, Matthew K. Mukerjee, Srinivasan Seshan, and Justine Sherry, “Beyond Jain’s Fairness Index: Setting the Bar For The Deployment of Congestion Control Algorithms”, Proceedings of ACM HotNets, Princeton, NJ, USA, November 2019. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rware/assets/pdf/ware-hotnets19.pdf

Congratulations to all! The award talks will be given as part of the IRTF Open Meeting during IETF 109, to be held online in the week of 14-20 November 2020.

More information about the ANRP can be found at https://irtf.org/anrp/. The ANRP is supported by the Internet Society and the IRTF, and sponsored by Comcast and NBC Universal. Nominations for ANRP awards in 2021 are being accepted under 22 November 2020.

Colin Perkins
IRTF Chair