ConTEL 2007

Best Student Paper Award

The Best Student Paper Award was given to author(s) of the paper selected by a panel of judges appointed by the Program Committee. 

The Program Committee is pleased to announce the winners:

• Best Student Paper Award: Sawsan Al Zahr, for the paper „Gain Equalization versus Electrical Regeneration Tradeoffs in Hybrid WDM Networks“, authored by Sawsan Al Zahr, Nicolas Puech and Maurice Gagnaire;
• Best Student Presentation Award: Sherif Ramzy, for the presentation of the paper „Optimization of 802.11b/g Networks for High Mobility and Dynamic Data Applications“, authored by Sherif Ramzy, Mina Milad, Rami Morgan, Karim Henain, Ramez Daoud and H. H. Amer;
• Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award: Goran Dumic, for the paper „An agent-based optimization of service fulfillment in next-generation telecommunication systems", authored by Goran Dumic, Vedran Podobnik, Gordan Jezic, Krunoslav Trzec and Ana Petric.

Two other finalists were:

1. Barbara Zagajsek, Katija Separovic, Zeljka Car, „Requirements Management Process Model for Software Development Based on Legacy System Functionalities“
2. Levente Eros, Ferenc Bozoki, Antal Wu-Hen-Chang, Gyula Csopaki, „Refactoring test data structures“

The Best Student Paper nominees were:

1. Goran Dumic, Vedran Podobnik, Gordan Jezic, Krunoslav Trzec, Ana Petric, „An agent-based optimization of service fulfillment in next-generation telecommunication systems“
   
2. Sawsan Al Zahr, Nicolas Puech, Maurice Gagnaire, „Gain Equalization versus Electrical Regeneration Tradeoffs in Hybrid WDM Networks“
3. Barbara Zagajsek, Katija Separovic, Zeljka Car, „Requirements Management Process Model for Software Development Based on Legacy System Functionalities“
4. Moez Cherif, Sihem Guemara-El Fatmi, „QoS Oriented Contention Resolution Techniques for Optical Burst Switching Networks“
   
5. Levente Eros, Ferenc Bozoki, Antal Wu-Hen-Chang, Gyula Csopaki, „Refactoring test data structures“
6. Rakesh Singhai, Shiv Dutt Joshi, Rajendra K. P. Bhatt, „A Novel Discrete Distribution and Process to Model Self-Similar Network Traffic“
   
7. Sherif Ramzy, Mina Milad, Rami Morgan, Karim Henain, Ramez Daoud, H. H. Amer, „Optimization of 802.11b/g Networks for High Mobility and Dynamic Data Applications“
8. Josip Lorincz, Nenad Ukic, Dinko Begusic, „FTP Throughput Comparison of AODV and DSR Protocols in Multi-hop Static Environments“
9. Lijun Wang, Wu Jianping, „Utilizing Route Correlation to Improve BGP Routing Convergence“
   
10. Endre Varga, Tibor Csvórics, Laszlo Bacsardi, Márton Bérces, Vilmos Simon, S. Szabo, „Novel Information Dissemination Solutions in Biologically Inspired Networks“