ICCS members win best paper award
17 October 2018
Members of the Institute of Communications and Connected Systems have recently won the best paper award at a leading network architecture conference.
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Author Dr Michał Król, Research Fellow
Network architecture | Future internet | Information-Centric Networks
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Research fellow Michał Król along with his supervisor Dr Ioannis Psaras has recently been awarded the best paper prize at a leading international network architecture conference.
The pair attended the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) conference on Information-Centric Networks (ICN) last month in Boston, USA. Presenting their paper, "RICE: Remote Method Invocation in ICN".
Król and Psaras, members of the Institue of Communications and Connected Systems (ICCS), co-authored the paper along with Karim Habak (GeorgiaTech), Dirk Kutscher (Huawei) and Dave Oran (MIT, Network Research&Design).
The ACM ICN conference is one of the most highly regarded in the field of future networking architectures and each year selects a single prize paper that was the most appreciated by the reviewers.
Expressing their admiration for the work the judges said:
“RICE is a very well reasoned and strongly presented paper that describes a pragmatic “2nd generation” system for remote computation (method invocation) in the ICN environment.
“The work demonstrates a serious depth of understanding of both architectural and pragmatic issues in its problem domain, and builds on that understanding to propose a system that addresses several real-world requirements while retaining architectural coherence and clarity.
ICN is a network architecture that allows extremely efficient content retrieval (such as video files). However, up until now, more complicated interactions between network nodes (such as WEB/HTML) remained difficult to implement.
In RICE, we proposed a set of techniques allowing to easily translate current, IP-based applications and deploy them within the future Internet. Król and Psaras hope that the paper will increase adaptation of future Internet architectures and speed up their deployment.