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 (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Distributed Ledger Technology for Command and Control and Decentralized Operations
David Last, Michael Atighetchi, Partha Pal, Edward Lu, Ryan Toner

Cooperative Communication Scheme using Network Coding and Constructive-Interference Phenomena for Information-Centric Wireless Networks
Shintaro Mori

Resource Allocation in 5G and Beyond Networks for Mu-MIMO Systems
Eirini Barri, Christos Bouras, Apostolos Gkamas, Vasileios Kokkinos, Aspasia Koukouvela

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

Joint Power Control, Pilot Assignment, User Association and Flight Control for Massive MIMO Self-Organizing Drones using Reinforcement Learning
Gabriel Skidmore

Optimization of the Virtual Network Function Reconfiguration Plan in 5G Network Slicing
Hanane Biallach, Mustapha Bouhtou, Dritan Nace