Our DSN’15 paper “FloodGuard: A DoS Attack Prevention Extension in Software-Defined Networks” (by Haopei Wang, Lei Xu, Guofei Gu) received the Test of Time Award at this year’s DSN conference (2025 Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks)! We are so honored and humbled to receive this recognition for our SDN security research in 2015! Congratulations again, Haopei & Lei!
Some background information about this award: “The Test-of-Time Award recognizes two outstanding papers published 10 years ago at DSN, in the DSN proceedings (research track, practical experience report or tool papers), that have had a sustained and important impact on the theory and/or practice of dependable systems and networks computing research. DSN has several areas under its umbrella and with two awards there are conditions to recognize more than one area. In exceptional situations (not enough nominations), the time frame for awards can be extended to 10-12 years, and only one paper can be awarded, in this order.”