Applied Networking Research Prize

Call for Nominations for ANRP is open now!

Nominations open April 4th, 2012
Nominations close May 13th, 2012
Notifications June 1st, 2012

About the ANRP

The Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) is awarded for recent results in applied networking research that are relevant for transitioning into shipping Internet products and related standardization efforts. Researchers with relevant, recently published results are encouraged to apply for this prize, which 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). Third-party nominations for this prize are also encouraged. The goal of the Applied Networking Research Prize is to recognize the best new ideas in networking, and bring them to the IETF and IRTF especially in cases where they would not otherwise see much exposure or discussion.

The Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) consists of:

cash prize of $500 (USD)
invited talk at the IRTF Open Meeting
travel grant to attend the week-long IETF meeting (airfare, hotel, registration, stipend)
recognition at the IETF plenary
invitation to related social activities
potential for additional travel grants to future IETF meetings, based on community feedback

The Applied Networking Research Prize will be awarded three times per year, in conjunction with the three annual IETF meetings.

How to Apply

Applicants must nominate a peer-reviewed, recently-published, original journal, conference or workshop paper. Both self nominations (nominating one’s own paper) and third-party nominations (nominating someone else’s paper) are encouraged. The nominee must be one of the main authors of the nominated paper.
The nominated paper should provide a scientific foundation for possible future IETF engineering work or IRTF experimentation, 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.
Applicants must briefly describe how the nominated paper relates to these goals, and are encouraged to describe how presentation of these research results will foster their transition into new IETF engineering 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 applications) are available to attend at least one of the year's IETF meetings in person and in its entirety.

Applications must include:

the name and email address of the nominee
a reference to the published nominated paper
a PDF copy of the nominated paper
a statement that describes how the nominated paper fulfills the goals of the award
a statement about which of the year's IETF meetings the nominee is available to attend in person and in its entirety
a brief biography or CV of the nominee
optionally, any other supporting information (link to nominee’s web site, etc.)

Please use the ANRP submissions system for all submissions. In exceptional cases, nominations may be submitted via email to anrp@irtf.org. All nominees will be notified by email about the decision regarding their nomination.

Nominations for the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) are not considered to be contributions to the IETF. However, the invited talks at the IRTF Open Meeting are considered to be contributions, and the IRTF Intellectual Property Rights statement does apply to them.

Important Dates

Nominations open April 4th, 2012
Nominations close May 13th, 2012
Notifications June 1st, 2012

Selection Process

A small selection committee comprised of individuals knowledgeable about the IRTF, IETF and the broader networking research community will evaluate the submissions against these selection criteria.

These individuals currently serve on the ANRP selection committee:

Mark Allman, ICIR
Marcelo Bagnulo, UC3M
Lou Berger, LabN
Olivier Bonaventure, UCL Louvain
Ross Callon, Juniper
Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center
Olivier Festor, INRIA
Mat Ford, Internet Society
Andrei Gurtov, HIIT
Lisandro Granville, UFRGS
Dan Massey, Colorado State
Al Morton, AT&T Laboratories
Bruce Nordman, LBL
Jörg Ott, Aalto University
Colin Perkins, University of Glasgow
Stefano Previdi, Cisco
Jürgen Schönwälder, Jacobs University Bremen
Martin Stiemerling, NEC Laboratories
Richard Yang, Yale
Lixia Zhang, UCLA

Prize Winners

ANRP at IETF82, Taipei, Taiwan

Michio Honda for his research into determining the future extensibility of TCP:
Michio Honda, Yoshifumi Nishida, Costin Raiciu, Adam Greenhalgh, Mark Handley and Hideyuki Tokuda. Is it Still Possible to Extend TCP? Proc. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), November 2011, Berlin, Germany.

Slides presented to IRTF Open Meeting (PDF)

Nasif Ekiz for his analysis of misbehaving TCP receivers:
Nasif Ekiz, Abuthahir Habeeb Rahman and Paul D. Amer. Misbehaviors in TCP SACK Generation. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 41, Issue 2, April 2011.

Slides presented to IRTF Open Meeting (PDF)