This page contains a list of awards from the lab.

JADE: Just A Deterministic Emulator to Support the Verification of Protocol Implementations

Tom Rousseaux, Alix Temmerman, Olivier Bonaventure

2026, 2026 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking)

Best Paper Award

Towards an Internet Deployment of Flexible Multicast QUIC

Louis Navarre, Olivier Bonaventure

2025, SIGCOMM 25: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM 25 Poster and Demo Sessions

Runner-up for the ACM SIGCOMM SRC

TCPLS: Modern Transport Services with TCP and TLS

Florentin Rochet, Emery Assogba, Maxime Piraux, Korian Edeline, Benoit Donnet, Olivier Bonaventure

2021, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

Best Community Award

FLIP the (Flow) Table: Fast LIghtweight Policy-preserving SDN Updates

Stefano Vissicchio, Luca Cittadini

2016, INFOCOM

Best Paper Award Runner-up

SMAPP : Towards Smart Multipath TCP-enabled APPlications

Benjamin Hesmans, Gregory Detal, Sebastien Barre, Raphael Bauduin, Olivier Bonaventure

2015, Proc. Conext 2015

IETF 2016 Applied Networking Research Prize

Central Control Over Distributed Routing

Stefano Vissicchio, Olivier Tilmans, Laurent Vanbever, Jennifer Rexford

2015, SIGCOMM

Best Paper Award IETF 2016 Applied Networking Research Prize

Improving Network Agility with Seamless BGP Reconfigurations

Stefano Vissicchio, Laurent Vanbever, Cristel Pelsser, Luca Cittadini, Pierre Francois, Olivier Bonaventure

2013, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

IETF ANRP (Applied Networking Research Prize) 2013

Using Routers to Build Logic Circuits: How Powerful is BGP?

Marco Chiesa, Luca Cittadini, Giuseppe Di Battista, Laurent Vanbever, Stefano Vissicchio

2013, ICNP

Best Paper Award

Methods and Techniques for Disruption-Free Network Reconfiguration

Laurent Vanbever

2012, PhD Thesis

ICTEAM Best Thesis Award 2013 Runner-up SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award

How Hard Can It Be? Designing and Implementing a Deployable Multipath TCP

Costin Raiciu, Christoph Paasch, Sébastien Barré, Alan Ford, Michio Honda, Fabien Duchene, Olivier Bonaventure, Mark Handley

2012, USENIX Symposium of Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'12), San Jose (CA)

USENIX Community award

Disruption-free topology reconfiguration in OSPF Networks

Pierre François, Mike Shand, Olivier Bonaventure

2007, IEEE INFOCOM

Best Paper Award

In addition to these scientific awards, the Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice textbook received one of the first Open Textbook challenge organised by the Saylor foundation in the US.

We also develop open-source software that is used by researchers and industry. Some examples include :