The SOTERN Team is honored to share the winner of the Best Paper Award at the Traffic Measurement and Analysis (TMA) Conference 2026: “A Longitudinal Study of IPv4 Fragmentation Characteristics in Internet Traffic,” authored by:
Lucas Aubard (Inria)
Kensuke Fukuda (NII / Sokendai)
- Johan Mazel (ANSSI)
Pierre Chifflier (ANSSI)
Gilles Guette (IMT Atlantique, SOTERN)
The paper offers a long-term look at how IPv4 packet fragmentation behaves across real Internet traffic, an area that remains relevant for network measurement, security monitoring, and traffic analysis despite the continued rollout of IPv6. The announcement was made during the conference’s award session at TU Delft.
Congratulations to the authors on this recognition from the TMA community!