Awards received by members of the Chair of Communication Networks (since 2012)

  • 3rd rank in the Graph Neural Network Challenge 2023 (Kaan Aykurt, Maximilian Stephan, Serkut Ayvasik, Johannes Zerwas), ACM CoNEXT GNN workshop 2023, Paris, Dec. 8, 2023.
  • Best Paper Award at IEEE Future Networks 2023 (Alba Jano, Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CQR 2023 (Shakthivelu Janardhanan, Carmen Mas Machuca)
  • Best Demo Award at IEEE SECON 2023 (Polina Kutsevol, Onur Ayan, Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2023 Student Conference Grant (Yash Deshpande)
  • Best Paper Award at IEEE CCNC 2023 (Fidan Mehmeti, Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • IEEE CCNC 2023 Student Travel Grant (Valentin Haider)
  • Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CNSM 2022 (Kaan Aykurt, Johannes Zerwas, Andreas Blenk, Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • Best Demo Award at IEEE CNSM 2022 (Sai Kireet Patri, Saquib Amjad, Carmen Mas Machuca et al.)
  • IEEE CNSM 2022 Student Travel Grant (Cristian Bermudez Serna)
  • Kurt Fischer-Promotionspreis 2021: Dr.-Ing. Amaury Van Bemten for his Dissertation "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Mechanisms for Predictable Latency in Programmable Networks"
  • Best paper award at ACM/IEEE ANCS 2021 (Andreas Blenk)
  • Best paper award at ACM Mobiwac 2021 (Fidan Mehmeti)
  • Best student paper award at IEEE NOF 2021 conference (Saquib Amjad, Amir Varasteh, Nemanja Deric, Carmen Mas-Machuca)
  • Best student paper award at IEEE IM 2021 conference (Patrick Krämer, Philip Diederich, Wolfgang Kellerer, Andreas Blenk)
  • IEEE ComSoc Student Grant for IM 2021 (Patrick Krämer)
  • USENIX NSDI '21 Student Grant (Zikai Zhou)
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2021 NSF Student Conference Award (Alberto Martinez Alba)
  • Dozentenpreis "Bester Dozent 2020" der Fakultät EI (Lecturer Award 2020) (Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • VDE “Ehrenurkunde 2020” awarded for exceptional voluntary service for VDE ITG (Wolfgang kellerer)
  • ACM CoNEXT 2020 EuroP4 Travel Grant (Zikai Zhou)
  • "IEEE ComSoc Selected Publication" for the IEEE TNSM publication "Towards a Cost Optimal Design for a 5G Mobile Core Network based on SDN and NFV” (Arsany Basta, Andreas Blenk, Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • Best Innovation Award at Siemens Summer Camp Digital Twin 2020 (Anna Prado)
  • Best Poster Award at Siemens Summer Camp Digital Twin 2020 (Onur Ayan)
  • Best Customer Orientation and Usability Award at Siemens Summer Camp Digital Twin 2020 (Arled Papa, Onur Ayan)
  • Excellence in DASH Award 2020 for the paper "Comparing Fixed and Variable Segment Durations for Adaptive Video Streaming – A Holistic Analysis" by S. Schwarzmann, C. Sieber (LKN) at al. awarded at ACM MMSys 2020
  • IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2020 for Ingmar Poese (BENOCS) for his work on traffic engineering with the ACM CoNEXT 2019 Best Paper "Steering Hyper-Giant’s Traffic at Scale", co-authored by Johannes Zerwas
  • IEEE CCNC Best Demo Award 2020 (Samuele Zoppi, Onur Ayan, Fabio Molinari, Zenit Music, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Return Fellowship 2020 (Rückkehrstipendium) (Peter Babarczi)
  • ACM CoNEXT 2019 Best Paper Award (Johannes Zerwas)
  • VDE Award 2019 (Serkut Ayvasik)
  • IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant for IEEE Globecom 2019 (Alberto Martinez Alba)
  • ACM CoNEXT 2019 Student Travel Grant (Amir Varasteh)
  • ACM SIGCOMM Best of CCR 2019 (Wolfgang Kellerer, et al.)
  • Nomination for Best Paper Award at IFIP NETWORKING 2019 (Andreas Blenk, Arsany Basta, Wolfgang Kellerer, Stefan Schmid)
  • IEEE Best Dissertation in Network and Service Management Award (Andreas Blenk)
  • GI/ITG NetSys 2019 Best Demo Award (Patrick Kalmbach, Andreas Blenk, Wolfgang Kellerer, Rastin Pries, Marco Hoffmann)
  • Student Travel Grant for IFIP/IM 2019 (Petra Stojsavljevic Vizarreta)
  • Best Paper Award at IEEE/IFIP WONS 2019 (Augustin Jacquelin, Mikhail Vilgelm, Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • Kurt Fischer-Promotionspreis 2018: Dr.-Ing. Andreas Blenk for his Dissertation "Towards Virtualization of Software-Defined Networks: Analysis, Modeling, and Optimization"
  • Student Travel Grant for ACM CoNEXT 2018 (Mu He)
  • Student Travel Grant for IEEE/IFIP CNSM (Mu He)
  • ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Student Research Competition Finalist: Patrick Kalmbach
  • Student Travel Grant for ACM SIGCOMM 2018 (Patrick Kalmbach, Lion Gleiter)
  • Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2018 (Amaury Van Bemten; Jochen W. Guck; Carmen Mas Machuca; Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • Best Paper Award at DRCN 2018 (Carmen Mas Machuca)
  • Best-In-Session Presentation Award IEEE INFOCOM 2018 (Andreas Blenk)
  • Distinguished Talk award of NATO IST-153 Workshop 2017 (Carmen Mas Machuca)
  • Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Research Fellowship 2017 (Forschungsstipendium) (Peter Babarczi)
  • Best Student Paper Award at IEEE PIMRC 2017 (Mikhail Vilgelm, Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • Best Paper Award at IEEE CSCN 2017 (Markus Klügel, Taylan Sahin, Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • ACM Student Travel Grant for ACM SIGCOMM 2017 (Amaury Van Bemten)
  • IEEE Student Travel Grant for IEEE WCNC 2017 (H. Murat Gürsu)
  • ACM Student Travel Grant for ACM CoNext 2016 (Johannes Zerwas)
  • ACM Student Travel Grant for ACM MobiCom 2016 (Elena Grigoreva)
  • IFIP/IEEE Student Travel Grant for CNSM 2016 (Andreas Blenk)
  • Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Research Fellowship 2015 (Forschungsstipendium) (Qian Liu)
  • Student Travel Grant and Best Ideation Award for Franco-German Summer School 2015 (Elena Grigoreva)
  • IFIP/IEEE IM 2015 Student Travel Grant (Andreas Blenk)
  • ERC Consolidator grant 2014 for "Quantifying Flexibility in Communication Networks" (Wolfgang Kellerer)
  • Nomination for the teaching award 2013 in the EI department for professors (Wolfgang Kellerer) and for tutors (Andreas Blenk) for the class "Internetkommunikation"

Student travel awards / poster presentations for Bachelor and Master students to conferences

  • Sebastian Lettner, ACM CoNEXT 2019, Orlando, Florida, USA
  • Lion Gleitner, ACM SIGCOMM 2018, Budapest, Hungary
  • Johannes Zerwas, ACM CoNEXT 2016, Irvine, California, USA