Best Paper Awards:
- Track 1: PHY and Fundamentals: "Performance Comparison of Constant Envelope and Zero-forcing Precoders in Multiuser Massive MIMO", Alberto Brihuega, Mikko Valkama, Lauri Anttila
- Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design: "Listen Before Receive for Coexistence in Unlicensed mmWave Bands", Sandra Lagen, Lorenza Giupponi
- Track 3: Wireless Networks: "The rival might be not smart: revising a CDMA jamming game", Andrey Garnaev, Wade Trappe
- Track 4: Emerging Technologies, Architectures & Services: "Efficient Virtual Evolved Packet Core Deployment Across Multiple Cloud Domains", Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Adlen Ksentini
Best Student Paper Awards:
- Track 1: PHY and Fundamentals: " Rate-Reliability Tradeoff for Multi-Connectivity", Albrecht Wolf, Philipp Schulz, David Oehmann, Meik Dörpinghaus, Gerhard Fettweis
- Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design: "Efficient and Asymptotically Optimal Resource Block Allocation", Ilai Bistritz, Amir Leshem
- Track 3: Wireless Networks: "On the Performance of Multi-tier Heterogeneous Cellular Networks with Idle Mode Capability", Chuan Ma, Ming Ding, He Chen, Zihuai Lin, Guoqiang Mao, David López-Pérez
- Track 4: Emerging Technologies, Architectures & Services: "Coded caching in a Multi-Server System with Random Topology", Nitish Mital, Deniz Günduz, Cong Ling
Best Student Poster Awards:
- Session 1: "Adaptive Hybrid Wireless Transmission for Packetized Predictive Control Systems", Qi Wang, Guodong Zhao
- Session 2: "A Multi-path TCP Solution for Software-Defined Military Heterogeneous Network", Qi Zhao, Pengyuan Du, Jorge Mena, Mario Gerla
Best Thesis at the 3 Minute PhD Contest:
- Vahid Jamali, "Design and Analysis of Molecular Communication Systems".