TMA 2025 and its 13th TMA PhD School delivered a series of awards recognizing the best contributions to the main conference and PhD school, including the Best Paper Award, the Community Contribution Award, the Top-3 Papers of the conference (invited for fast-tracking at IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management), as well as three Best PhD School Poster Awards.

TMA 2025 Best Paper Award

“RPKI Syncing: Delay in Relying Party Synchronization”
Khwaja Zubair Sediqi (Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University), Romain Fontugne (IIJ Research Lab), Amreesh Phokeer (Internet Society), Massimiliano Stucchi (Glevia GmbH), Massimo Candela (NTT) and Anja Feldmann (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)  

TMA 2025 Community Contribution Award

“Towards a Representative DNS Data Corpus: A Longitudinal Comparison of Collection Methods”
Calvin Kranig, Erik Pauley, Wei-Shiang Wung, Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mark Crovella (Boston University) and Joel Sommers (Colgate University)  

13th TMA PhD School Best Poster Awards

“Scanywhere: Distributed Internet Scanning Leveraging Commercial VPN Subscriptions”
Gabriel Gegenhuber, Philipp Frenzel (University of Vienna and SBA Research)

“2OffRAN: Offline Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Safe Handover in O-RAN”
Annalisa Navarro, Roberto Canonico, Alessio Botta (University of Naples Federico II)

“To Block Or Not To Block? Evaluating Parental Controls Across Routers, DNS Services, and Software”
Matteo Liberato, Antonia Affinito, Bernd Meijerink, Mattijs Jonker, Anna Sperotto (University of Twente), Alessio Botta (University of Naples Federico II)

TMA 2025 Top-3 Papers

“RPKI Syncing: Delay in Relying Party Synchronization”
Khwaja Zubair Sediqi (Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University), Romain Fontugne (IIJ Research Lab), Amreesh Phokeer (Internet Society), Massimiliano Stucchi (Glevia GmbH), Massimo Candela (NTT) and Anja Feldmann (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

“Toward a Representative DNS Data Corpus: A Longitudinal Comparison of Collection Methods”
Calvin Kranig, Erik Pauley, Wei-Shiang Wung, Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mark Crovella (Boston University) and Joel Sommers (Colgate University)

“Understanding Orphan Flows”
Kevin Sam Tharayil, Athanasios Avgetidis, Manos Antonakakis, Angelos Keromytis (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Zane Ma (Oregon State University)