IMC Test of Time Award

The IMC Test of Time Award is given to papers that have had a significant impact on the field of network measurement since their publication.

2024:

• “A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names” by Sarah Meiklejohn, Marjori Pomarole, Grant Jordan, Kirill Levchenko, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, in IMC 2013.

• “The Nature of Data Center Traffic: Measurements & Analysis” by Srikanth Kandula, Sudipta Sengupta, Albert Greenberg, Parveen Patel, and Ronnie Chaiken, in IMC 2009. 

2023:

• "Energy Consumption in Mobile Phones:A Measurement Study and Implications for Network Applications" by Niranjan Balasubramanian, Aruna Balasubramanian, Arun Venkataramani, in ACM IMC 2009.

• "Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior: Inferring Causality Using Quasi-Experimental Designs" By S. Shunmuga Krishnan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, in ACM IMC 2012.

2022:

• "Characteristics of Internet Background Radiation" by Ruoming Pang, Vinod Yegneswaran, Paul Barford, Vern Paxson, Larry Peterson, in ACM IMC 2004.

• "Code-Red: A Case Study on the Spread and Victims of an Interent Worm" by David Moore, Colleen Shannon, k claffy, in ACM IMW 2002.

• "Netalyzr: Illuminating the Edge Network" by Kreibich, C., Weaver, N., Nechaev, B., Paxson, V., in ACM IMC 2010.

• "I Tube, You Tube, Everybody Tubes: Analyzing the World's Largest User Generated Content Video System" by Meeyoung Cha, Haewoon Kwak, Pablo Rodriguez, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Sue Moon, in ACM IMC 2007.

• "Avoiding Traceroute Anomalies with Paris Traceroute" by Brice Augustin, Xavier Cuvellier, Benjamin Orgogozo, Fabien Viger, Timur Friedman, Matthieu Latapy, Clemence Magnien, and Renata Teixeira, in IMC 2006.