IEEE Communication Society Fred W. Ellerscik Prize paper award, 2004. Given annually to the best paper published in Communication Society Magazines in the past year.

IEEE Communication Society William Bennett prize paper award, 2003. Given annually to the best original paper published in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in the past year.

IBM Research Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Best Paper Award, 2003. Given annually to the best original paper published in the past year by authors from IBM Research Labs World Wide.

IBM Research technical achievement award for contribution to Integrated Switch Router Early Vehicle, 1997

Graduate fellowship award, Dept. of Computer Sc., University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1994.

Graduate research fellowship award, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 1993.

Special mention, Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Computer Sc., University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1993.