The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers

Outage Probability of Triple-Hop Mixed RF/FSO/RF Stratospheric Communication Systems
Emmanouel T. Michailidis, Nikolaos Nomikos, Petros Bithas, Demosthenes Vouyioukas, Athanasios G. Kanatas

Leveraging Commercial Software-Defined Radio for Low Cost Deep Space Testing
Timothy Pham, Leslie White

Optimal Relay Location and Oppοrtunistic User-Scheduling for Stratospheric Communications
Emmanouel T. Michailidis, Nikolaos Nomikos, Petros Bithas, Demosthenes Vouyioukas, Athanasios G. Kanatas

GPS AOA Estimation Technique Based on a Null Despreader
Suk-seung Hwang

Application of Aperture Truncated Airy Beams in Free Space Optical Communications
Minghao Wang, Xiuhua Yuan, Peng Deng, Wei Yao, Timothy Kane

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Multi-User Scheduling for Narrow Band Internet of Things
Shu-Feng Cheng, Hsin-An Hou, Li-Chun Wang, Kai-Ten Feng, Jen-Yuan Hsu

28 GHz Monolithic Transmitter on GaN Chip for 5G Application
Rajinikanth Yella, Krishna Pande, Ke Horng Chen, Edward Chang

Software Quality Test Method of Satellite Control System Using Software Test Automation System
Cheol Oh Jeong, Byoung-Sun Lee, In Jun Kim, Yoola Hwang, Soojeon Lee

The Effect of Radar Cross Section and Speed of Target on the Detection of MIMO Radar
Raed Daraghma

Generation and Propagation Characteristics Analysis Through Atmosphere of Gaussian-Bessel-correlated Schell-model Beam
Zeyu Zhou, Xiuhua Yuan

Reliable Routing and Spectrum Allocation Over Network Coding Enabled Elastic Optical Networks
Xin Wang, Yuefeng Ji, Lin Bai

Free Space Optical Communication Networks
Peng Deng, Tim Kane, Xiuhua Yuan, Minghao Wang, Wentao Xia