The Best Paper Award Committee considered five Best Paper candidates with excellent review scores. Criteria for selection include originality, rigour, and significance taking consideration of the submitted papers, reviews, and video presentations. All the Best Paper candidates were considered to be of excellent quality by all members of the committee and all received votes from at least two members of the committee. In recognition of this quality, authors will be invited to submit an extended version to IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
The five best paper candidates are:
Optimizing All-to-All Data Transmission in WANs
Hao Tan and Wojciech Golab (University of Waterloo, Canada)
State Sharding with Space-aware Representations
Avi Mizrahi and Ori Rottenstreich (Technion, Israel)
From Hodl to Heist: Analysis of Cyber Security Threats to Bitcoin Exchanges
Kris Oosthoek and Christian Doerr (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Trust Management in Decentralized IoT Access Control System
Guntur Putra (UNSW Sydney, Australia), Volkan Dedeoglu (CSIRO, Australia), Salil S. Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia) and Raja Jurdak (QUT, Australia)
Characterizing Orphan Transactions in the Bitcoin Network
Muhammad Anas Imtiaz, David Starobinski and Ari Trachtenberg (Boston University, USA)
The Award for Best Paper Runner Up goes to
Optimizing All-to-All Data Transmission in WANs
Hao Tan and Wojciech Golab (University of Waterloo, Canada)
And the Best Paper Award goes to
Characterizing Orphan Transactions in the Bitcoin Network
Muhammad Anas Imtiaz, David Starobinski and Ari Trachtenberg (Boston University, USA)