Best Paper awards

The Best Paper Award - Long Paper was presented to "Exploration and Implementation of a Next Generation Telepresence System" by Ramachandra Budihal (Wipro Technologies & Indian Institute of Science, India); Navaneeth Mohanan (India Innovation Labs, India); Sahil Anand (India Innovation Labs, India); Saish Kamat (India Innovation Labs, India). The Best Paper Award - Short Paper was presented to "Network Virtualization over WDM Networks" by Shuqiang Zhang (University of California, Davis, USA); Lei Shi (University of California, Davis, USA); Chaitanya S.K. Vadrevu (University of California, Davis, USA); Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California Davis, USA). Honorable Mention was presented to "ONU-Wavelength Grouping Scheme for Efficient Scheduling in Long Reach-PONs" by Anusha Sivakumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Ganesh Chennimalai Sankaran (Indian Institute of Technology Madras & HCL Cisco Offshore Development Center, India); Krishna M. Sivalingam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India).