The paper "Towards End-to-End Integrated Optical Packet Network: Empirical Analysis", work of Nassim Haddaji, Prof. Kim Khoa Nguyen and Prof. Mohamed Cheriet has been selected as one of the two runner up papers in 2018 Fabio Neri Award competition. The Fabio Neri Best Paper Award is presented annually to the best research paper published in Optical Switching and Networking (OSN). The award is named after Fabio Neri, who was the founding co-Editor-in-Chief of OSN; this award is to celebrate his memory by recognizing and promoting excellence in research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.osn.2017.06.003