The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers

SEC and Survival RSA Problem on EONs with Time-Varying Traffic
Der-Rong Din

Performance Improvement of Colored Optical Packet Switching Thanks to Time Slot Sharing.
Amira Kamli, Tulin Atmaca, Artur Ratay, Djamel Amar, Catherine Lepers

QBAIoT: QoS Based Access for IoT Environments
Ahmad Khalil, Nader Mbarek, Olivier Togni

A New Clipping Function for PAPR Mitigation: The Gaussian Clipping Function
Jacques Palicot, Yves Louet, Désiré Guel

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Securing Tire Pressure Monitoring System
Kevin Daimi, Mustafa Saed

Reducing Link Failure Test Cases for Telecom Networks by Focusing on Topological Similarity
Megumi Shibuya, Toshihiko Kato, Teruyuki Hasegawa, Hirozumi Yamaguchi

Fixed Complexity Soft-Output Detection Algorithm Through Exploration and Exploitation Processes
Bastien Trotobas, Amor Nafkha

Dynamic Resource Allocation and Balanced Cell Loading - a Stochastic Meanfield Control Approach
Abheek Saha

Pedagogical Design Principles Guided Integration of Social Media Concepts in a Hybrid Learning Environment: Analysing and Reporting Focus Group Results
Manal Assaad, Tiina Mäkelä, Dimitris Pnevmatikos, Panagiota Christodoulou

Proposal of Power Saving Techniques for Wireless Terminals Using CAZAC-OFDM Scheme
Takanobu Onoda, Ryota Ishioka, Masahiro Muraguchi

Actor4j: A Software Framework for the Actor Model Focusing on the Optimization of Message Passing
David Alessandro Bauer, Juho Mäkiö

Stochastic Modeling for Self-evolving Botnets in Infection Control Environments
Koki Hongyo, Tomotaka Kimura, Takanori Kudo, Yoshiaki Inoue, Kouji Hirata