• C2M: Mobile data offloading to mesh networks 

      Apostolaras, A.; Iosifidis, G.; Chounos, K.; Korakis, T.; Tassiulas, L. (2014)
      As the unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic places significant strain on cellular networks, alternative plans for exploiting already existing and under-utilized wireless infrastructure, become quite attractive. In ...
    • Controller Placement for minimum control traffic in opendaylight clustering 

      Karatisoglou M., Choumas K., Korakis T. (2019)
      Software-defined networking (SDN) decouples the control and data planes and moves the control logic to the SDN controllers. The controllers are servers handling the switches and directing their traffic with the use of open ...
    • Demo: Lora mesh network experimentation in a city-wide testbed 

      Tzimotoudis P., Keranidis S., Kazdaridis G., Symeonidis P., Korakis T. (2019)
      LoRa is a low-power long-range Internet of Things (IoT) standard that offers remarkable performance, especially in remote rural areas. However the single-hop nature of current LoRa networks, poses significant challenges ...
    • Design and Evaluation of a Hierarchical SDN Control Plane for 5G Transport Networks 

      Giatsios D., Choumas K., Flegkas P., Korakis T., Cruelles J.J.A., Mur D.C. (2019)
      Software-defined networking is at the root of future 5G network design. Among others, it allows for automated network reconfiguration and network slicing support. In this paper we present an implementation of a hierarchical ...
    • A Dynamic Pricing and Leasing Module for 5G Networks 

      Chounos K., Apostolaras A., Korakis T. (2020)
      In this paper, a novel framework for enabling dynamic Policy and Charging Rules in modern 5G multi-tenancy environments is designed and presented. More specifically, adaptive pricing schemes are utilized by MNOs for ...
    • Enabling SDN experimentation with wired and wireless resources: The smartFIRE facility 

      Choumas K., Korakis T., Lee H., Kim D., Suh J., Kwon T.T., Martinez-Julia P., Skarmeta A., You T., Baron L., Fdida S., Kim J. (2016)
      Over the last few years, several experimentation platforms have been deployed around the world, providing to the computer science research community a way to remotely perform and control networking experiments. Most of the ...
    • Evaluation of LoRa performance in a city-wide testbed: experimentation insights and findings 

      Kazdaridis G., Keranidis S., Symeonidis P., Tzimotoudis P., Zographopoulos I., Skrimponis P., Korakis T. (2019)
      In this paper, we present a LoRa based city-scale testbed that employs several sensing devices scattered across the urban area to characterize air quality and weather conditions in real-time. The installation is augmented ...
    • EVERUN - Enabling power consumption monitoring in underwater networking platforms 

      Kazdaridis G., Keranidis S., Symeonidis P., Dias P.S., Gonçalves P., Loureiro B., Gjanci P., Petrioli C. (2017)
      The energy restricted nature of underwater sensor networks directly affects the expected lifetime of autonomous deployments and limits the capabilities for long term underwater monitoring. Towards the goal of developing ...
    • Implementation experience in multi-domain SDN: Challenges, consolidation and future directions 

      Katsalis K., Rofoee B., Landi G., Riera J.F., Kousias K., Anastasopoulos M., Kiraly L., Tzanakaki A., Korakis T. (2017)
      Network architectures compliant with the Software Defined Networking (SDN) design paradigm, are expected to provide extreme flexibility for service orientation and allow for efficient use of network resources of cloud ...
    • NITOS testbed: A cloud based wireless experimentation facility 

      Pechlivanidou, K.; Katsalis, K.; Igoumenos, I.; Katsaros, D.; Korakis, T.; Tassiulas, L. (2014)
      The NITOS wireless testbed, is one of the main building blocks in the wireless testbed experimentation, offered by the FIRE community, and a core Fed4Fire partner. Its main focus is on wireless accessed technologies and ...
    • On Using Raft Over Networks: Improving Leader Election 

      Choumas K., Korakis T. (2022)
      Raft is a state-of-the-art consensus algorithm for state replication over a distributed system of nodes. According to Raft, all state updates occurring anywhere in the system are forwarded to the leader, which is elected ...
    • Online assessment of sensing performance in experimental spectrum sensing platforms 

      Keranidis, S.; Passas, V.; Chounos, K.; Liu, W.; Korakis, T.; Koutsopoulos, I.; Moerman, I.; Tassiulas, L. (2014)
      Dynamic Spectrum Access aims at exploiting underutilized frequency bands towards improving wireless network performance. In this context, spectrum sensing is employed, in order to monitor spectrum occupancy and drive ...
    • Paris metro pricing for 5G HetNets 

      Passas V., Miliotis V., Makris N., Korakis T., Tassiulas L. (2016)
      Heterogeneous network access has been proposed as a solution for the continuously deteriorating congestion problem of cellular infrastructures. In this paper we focus on a multi- Radio Access Technology (RAT) environment ...
    • Pricing Based Distributed Traffic Allocation for 5G Heterogeneous Networks 

      Passas V., Miliotis V., Makris N., Korakis T. (2020)
      Next generation (5G and beyond) mobile networks will highly rely on distributed heterogeneous infrastructure, which is foreseen to create a versatile resource ecosystem. In such network deployments, efficient traffic ...
    • Pricing based MEC resource allocation for 5g heterogeneous network access 

      Passas V., Makris N., Miliotis V., Korakis T. (2019)
      Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is expected to play an important role in next generation networks, as it is able to provide resources accessible through multiple wireless technologies located close to the network edge. ...
    • The SDN Control Plane Challenge for Minimum Control traffic: Distributed or Centralized? 

      Choumas K., Giatsios D., Flegkas P., Korakis T. (2019)
      Software Defined Networking (SDN) decouples the control and data planes and moves the control logic to the SDN controllers. The traffic in the control plane is either related to the interconnection of the controllers or ...
    • Servicing Inelasticity, Leasing Resources and Pricing in 5G Networks 

      Apostolaras A., Chounos K., Tassiulas L., Korakis T. (2020)
      We consider the problem for mobile network operators (MNOs) of leasing resources, servicing and pricing mobile users, in the context of 5G systems that facilitate the use of software-defined radio access network (SD-RAN) ...
    • Video-Aware Multicast Opportunistic Routing over 802.11 Two-Hop Mesh Networks 

      Choumas K., Syrigos I., Korakis T., Tassiulas L. (2017)
      Opportunistic routing benefits from the broadcast nature of wireless communication and outperforms the packet losses occurring in a wireless environment, especially in the case of multicast. In this work, we present and ...
    • When raft meets SDN: How to elect a leader over a network 

      Choumas K., Korakis T. (2020)
      This paper discusses the benefits in the operation of a Raft based SDN controller cluster, when the election of the cluster leader becomes more or less 'fair. Raft is a leader based consensus algorithm, which is used by ...