2026 ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper Award
C3Lab researchers receive the 2026 ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper Award
The paper “Analysis and Design of the Google Congestion Control for Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)”, authored by Gaetano Carlucci, Luca De Cicco, Stefan Holmer, and Saverio Mascolo, has been selected as the Overall Winner of the 2026 ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper Award, also winning in the Systems and Networks category.
The ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper Award recognizes papers published 10–12 years earlier at ACM SIGMM-sponsored conferences that have demonstrated the greatest lasting impact and influence on the multimedia field, in terms of research, technological development, products, or ideas.
The awarded paper, published at the 7th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Systems (MMSys 2016), presented the analysis, design, and experimental evaluation of a delay-based congestion control algorithm for WebRTC. The proposed approach exploits end-to-end delay measurements and Kalman filtering to dynamically adapt the transmission rate to network conditions, addressing the challenging requirements of low-latency real-time multimedia communication.
This recognition highlights the lasting scientific and technological relevance of the research conducted by C3Lab in the field of congestion control and real-time multimedia communications.
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