A Best Paper Award was awarded for the paper “Minimizing the Impact of In-band Jamming Attacks in WDM Optical Networks” by KIOS Center members K. Manousakis and G. Ellinas, that appeared in the 8th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The work described in this paper is part of the research program “KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks”, and focuses on addressing security attacks at the telecommunications infrastructure and specifically at the optical layer of the infrastructure. This research program is supported by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation’s Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Innovation (DESMI 2008), co-funded by the Republic of Cyprus and the European Regional Development Fund, and specifically under Grant Project New Infrastructure/ Strategic/0308/26.
The award demonstrates the high-quality research undertaken at the Center and provides international visibility and recognition for the research performed in Cyprus in the field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and in particular in the areas of Critical Information Infrastructures Security.