ICNS Best Paper Awards were presented on April 11, during the second day of the 2018 ICNS Conference. Congratulations to the recipients on their efforts.
Best Professional Paper
Frequency Assignment Function for Unmanned-Aircraft Command and Control Links
Frank Box, Richard E. Snow, Angela Chen, Steven R. Bodie, Leo Globus, and Timothy S. Luc; The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia
2nd Best Professional Paper
Cyber Security of Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM)
Krishna Sampigethaya, United Technologies Research Center, East Harford, CT, Parimal Kopardekar, Jerry Davis; NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
3rd Best Professional Paper
New APNT Ranging Signals as an Opportunity for Rationalizing Ground Infrastructure
Giuseppe Battista, Rachit Kumar, Okuary Osechas and Boubeker Belabbas; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Communications and Navigation, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Best Student Paper
A Low-Cost GPS/INS Integration Methodology Based on DGPM During GPS Outage
Yuexin Zhang, Lihui Wang, Nan Qiao, Xinhua Tang, Bin Li; Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Best Student Paper – Runner-up
Paving the Way for an IT Security Architecture for LDACS: a Datalink Security Threat and Risk Analysis
Nils Maurer, Arne Bilzhause, Univeristat Passau, Passau, Germany
Best Student Paper – Runner-up
Wide Band Channel Characterization for Low Altitude Unmanned Aerial System Communication Using Software Defined Radios
Nozhan Hosseini, David W. Matolak; University of South Carolina