CS researchers win 2025 CNOM Best Paper Award

Friday, December 12, 2025

Research explores how to allocate resources to 5G network slices efficiently while guaranteeing quality of service.

PhD candidate Muhammad Sulaiman, former postdoctoral researcher Mahdieh Ahmadi, Assistant Research Professor Mohammad Salahuddin, Cheriton School of Computer Science Director Raouf Boutaba, and Aladdin Saleh from Rogers Communications Canada have received the 2025 CNOM Best Paper Award for their research presented at NOMS 2023. Their paper, Generalizable Resource Scaling of 5G Slices Using Constrained Reinforcement Learning, was published in the proceedings of the 36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium.

The CNOM Best Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers published over the previous two years in conferences supported by CNOM, the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management.

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