Scientific highlights

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The following publications have either received or been nominated to a Best Paper Award. They are listed in order of publication, starting by the most recent:

A. Bikfalvi (EXTRAORDINARY DOCTORAL AWARD UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID –Academic year 2011/2012)
Peer-to-Peer Television for the IP Multimedia Subsystem. PhD thesis, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
“Premio extraordinario de doctorado Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Curso 2011/2012”.
PhD Thesis defended on July 18^th, 2012, in Madrid, Spain. The prize was awarded on November 27^th, 2012.

P. Patras (EXTRAORDINARY DOCTORAL AWARD UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID –Academic year 2011/2012)
Control-Theoretic Adaptive Mechanisms for Performance Optimization of IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Design, Implementation and Experimental Evaluation. PhD thesis, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
“Premio extraordinario de doctorado Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Curso 2011/2012”.
PhD Thesis defended on March 18^th, 2011, in Madrid, Spain. The prize was awarded on November 27^th, 2012

K. Verma, G. Rizzo, A. Fernández Anta,  R. Cuevas, A. Azcorra (*BEST PAPER AWARD ) 
Greening the Internet: Energy-optimal File Distribution (; 417 KB)
The 11^th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications(NCA12)
23-25 August, 2012, 2012, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)

S. Arévalo, A. Fernández Anta, D. Imbs, E. Jiménez, M. Raynal (*BEST PAPER AWARD  “Sociedad de Computación Concurrente y Distribuida)”) 
Failure Detectors in Homonymous Distributed Systems (with an Application to Consensus) (; 117 KB)
Premio “Sociedad de Computación Concurrente y Distribuida”
XX Jornadas de Concurrencia y Sistemas Distribuidos
13-15 June, 2012, (Pamplona, Navarra, Spain)

B. Rengarajan, G. Rizzo, M. Ajmone Marsan (*BEST PAPER AWARD ) 
Bounds on QoS-Constrained Energy Savings in Cellular Access Networks with Sleep Mode (; 686 KB)
The 23^rd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 2011)
6-9 September, 2011, (San Francisco, USA)

F. Giust, A. de la Oliva, C.J. Bernardos (*BEST PAPER AWARD )
Flat Access and Mobility Architecture: an IPv6 Distributed Client Mobility Management Solution (; 385 KB)
3rd IEEE International Workshop on Mobility Management in the Networks of the Future World (Mobiworld 2011), in conjunction with The 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2011)
10 April, 2011, (Shanghai, China)

A. Cuevas, M. Urueña, G. de Veciana (*BEST PAPER AWARD )
Dynamic Random Replication for Data Centric Storage (; 497 KB)
The 13^th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM 2010)
17-21 October, 2010, (Bodrum, Turkey)

X. Wu, A. L. Narasimha Reddy (*BEST PAPER AWARD NOMINATION )
Exploiting concurrency to improve latency and throughput in a hybrid storage system (; 238 KB)
The 18^th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (IEEE MASCOTS)
17-19 August, 2010 (Miami Beach, Florida, EE.UU.)

A. Bikfalvi, J. Garcia-Reinoso, I. Vidal, F. Valera (*BEST PAPER AWARD)
Nozzilla: A Peer-to-Peer IPTV Distribution Service for an IMS-based NGN (; 364 KB)
Fifth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS)
20-25 April 2009, (Valencia, Spain)

I. Martínez-Yelmo, A. Bikfalvi, C. Guerrero, R. Cuevas Rumín, A. Mauthe (* IEEE FMN 2008 Best Paper Award )
Enabling Global Multimedia Distributed Services based on Hierarchical DHT Overlay Networks (; 266 KB) 
Proceedings Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications Services and Technologies 2008. 1st IEEE International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking Workshop – FMN 2008, Vol. 1, pp. 543-549
Editorial: IEEE Computer Society, 
17-18 September 2008, (Cardiff, Wales, UK)

Report on the media impact of the joint publication by Institute IMDEA networks, the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Technische Universität Darmstadt and the University of Oregon

The media repercussion of the publication Is Content Publishing in BitTorrent Altruistic or Profit Driven presented at one of the leading international conferences on network research - the ACM CoNEXT 2010 held in San Diego, California (USA) from the 30 November to 3 December last - has been dramatically enhanced at both a national and international level due to two news items: the first sent out by the Press and Public Relations Service at the Institute IMDEA Networks and posted on our website to coincide with the conference kick-off, and the second sent out by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), which appeared in madrimasd's "notiweb".

Study indicates BitTorrent publishers dominated by profit motive
Institute IMDEA Networks - 26/11/2010

A new study identifying the parties responsible for uploading most of the content available from P2P piracy networks
Madrimasd - 24/01/2011

Due to the publication of both news items and the work carried out by the Institute IMDEA Networks and the UC3M to maximize their take up, foremost national and international media echoed the results of this joint study led by the UC3M, the Institute IMDEA Networks, UTechnische Universität Darmstadt (TUD) and the University of Oregon. The news was carried online (in news boards, articles and blogs), in print (magazines) and the audiovisual media (in news reports and interviews that appeared on various national television channels).

The authors of the study

Ruben Cuevas (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid), Michal Kryczka (Institute IMDEA Networks and Univ. Carlos III de Madrid), Angel Cuevas (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid), Sebastian Kaune (TU Darmstadt), Carmen Guerrero (Univ. Carlos III de Madrid), Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon).

The collaboration with national and international research bodies that has made such excellent research results possible

Institute IMDEA Networks strives to bring together scientists, researchers, institutions, governing bodies and companies that share our interest in carrying out and promoting top level, cutting-edge research in the field of network technologies. We seek to provide a consistent meeting point where individuals and institutions can foster collaboration and go on to design new lines of work, through specific research-related activities.

The levels of collaboration behind this work are as follows:

• NEC Laboratories Europe (Heidelberg, Germany) and Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD) (Darmstadt, Germany) - Memorandum of Understanding.
• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) – a wide-reaching collaboration agreement.
• University of Oregon – a temporary contract (September 2009 – August 2010) that has enabled Dr. Reza Rejaie to work at the Institute IMDEA Networks as a Visiting Researcher, where he also played an active role in the NETCOM research group at the UC3M's Telematics department.

The media impact of this publication only serves to consolidate Institute IMDEA Networks' mission to promote international collaboration throughout Europe. Collaboration with other research bodies is, and will continue to be, vital if we are to address and resolve the most pressing challenges facing the technological development of communication networks. This is one specific example of how scientific research can be of great social, political and economic relevance; this relevance can even be immediate and clearly recognized as such, when research adds scientific arguments to a discussion that affects numerous interest groups. In this particular instance, the research proved relevant to the controversial additional stipulation of the Spanish "Ley de Economía Sostenible" (Law for a Sustainable Economy or LES), otherwise known as the "Ley SINDE", which represented the first "anti-download" legislation introduced in Spain, i.e. the first rules proposed by the Government to shut down websites that link to content subject to copyright.

The recognition generated can only serve to strengthen the bonds that unite the organizations involved in this research project still further, and to incentivize the international community to pay an interest in getting to know and collaborating with this research institution which, in spite of its youth, is already more than able to make a significant socio-economic impact.

In the words of Dr. Albert Banchs, Deputy Director of the Institute IMDEA Networks: IMDEA Networks operates in a field of knowledge that is key to today's society: that of information technologies. IT plays a vital role in our day-to-day activities, whether they are of an economic, political or cultural nature. Information in all its forms and expressions serves to generate wealth and society's capacity to understand, communicate and thereby tap knowledge determines its economic development.

Summary of the research results on network piracy

The study found that the distribution of largely copyright files on major BitTorrent portals, such as The Pirate Bay, is dominated by about 100 publishers.

Around 40 profit-making content publishers are responsible for 40 percent of BitTorrent downloads of content largely subject to copyright, such as TV series or Hollywood movies. Furthermore, 25% of downloads are associated to fake content published by either antipiracy agencies or malicious users.

The authors concluded that "Content publishing in BitTorrent is largely driven by companies with financial incentive. Therefore, if these companies lose their interest or are unable to publish content, BitTorrent traffic/portals may disappear or at least their associated traffic will significantly reduce".

Media impact

A selection of the most relevant media impact follows:

• TV

• Newspapers

ABC

El País

• Blogs: Meneame
• International media impact: Slashdot/ ACM TechNews / ars technica
• For more information visit our News Section or download the Press clipping report (; 54,4 KB)