The Network Economics and Services Group, part of the Theory, Economics and Systems Laboratory at the Athens University of Economics and Business won the Future Internet Award in Poznan, Poland for their contribution to the TRILOGY: Architecting the Future Internet project.

Funded by the EU Commission with € 9.2 million, the project brought together researchers and companies from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Spain, UK with the aim of finding methods to provide Europeans with faster, more reliable, quality Internet connections.

Specifically, TRILOGY has developed the Multi-Path Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP), an algorithm for multipath routing taking advantage of multi-homing at endpoints and "congestion exposure" extensions to the Internet Protocol (IP) in order to monitor Internet congestion. The Future Internet Award was the first recognition of European researchers' efforts to solve the conundrum of overloaded broadband networks.