Congratulations to the winners for the ICNS Conference 2014 Best Paper Competitions in the student and professional categories.
Best Student Paper Competition (Chaired by Robert Kerczewski, NASA Glenn Research Center)
Best Student Paper: Alexandra Filip, Dmitriy Shutin, and Michael Schnell, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; “LDACS1-BASED NON-COOPERATIVE SURVEILLANCE”
First Honorable Mention: Christian Hanses, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Flight Guidance, Braunschweig, Germany; “ON THE COMPATIBILITY OF ACAS WITH THE CONCEPT OF SEGMENTED INDEPENDENT PARALLEL APPROACH”
Second Honorable Mention: Jindong Xie, Jun Zhang, Tao Zhang, Beihang University, Beijing, China; “AN EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION OF 4D TRAJECTORY SHORT MESSAGES ON LDACS1”
Best Professional Paper Competition (Chaired by Mr. Thomas Redling, L-3 Communications, ComCept Division)
1st Place: Dongsong Zeng and John Gonda, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia; “LOGNORMAL APPROACH – A NEW APPROACH TO DATA COMMUNICATIONS PERFORMANCE ALLOCATION”
2nd Place: Dipl.-Ing. Jürgen Teutsch, Anna Postma-Kurlanc, National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), Amsterdam, Netherlands, “ENHANCED VIRTUAL BLOCK CONTROL FOR MILAN MALPENSA AIRPORT IN LOW VISIBILITY”
3rd Place: Kazuyuki Morioka, Naoki Kanada, Shunichi Futatsumori, Akiko Kohmura, Naruto Yonemoto, Yasuto Sumiya, and David Asano, Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan; Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan; “EXPERIMENTS OF VOIP USING WIMAX SYSTEM AND FADING SIMULATOR WITH TWO-PATH MODELS FOR AERONAUTICAL SCENARIOS”