1. Best Paper Award Recipient in the Long Paper Category:
Title: Surpassing Flow Fairness in a Mesh Network: How to Ensure Equity among End Users?
Authors: Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Sukumar Nandi (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India); Subhrendu Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

2. Best Paper Award Recipient in the Short Paper Category:
Title: On Downstream Coax Framing in EPON Protocol over Coax (EPoC)
Authors: Partha Bhaumik (University of California, Davis, USA); Saigopal Thota (University of California, Davis, USA); Kira Zhangli (Huawei Technologies, P.R. China); Jim Chen (Huawei Technologies, USA); Hesham ElBakoury (Huawei Technologies, USA); Liming Fang (Huawei Technologies, USA); Biswanath Mukherjee (University of California, Davis, USA)

3. Honorable Mention Recipient in the Long Paper Category:
Title: On Fault Tolerance in Data Center Network Virtualization Architectures
Authors: Sagar Joshi (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Krishna M. Sivalingam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

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A subset of the accepted papers will be considered for special issues of journals including the Springer Photonic Network Communications Journal.