• Efficient Cloud Provisioning for Video Transcoding: Review, Open Challenges and Future Opportunities 

      Koziri M.G., Papadopoulos P.K., Tziritas N., Loukopoulos T., Khan S.U., Zomaya A.Y. (2018)
      Video transcoding is the process of encoding an initial video sequence into multiple sequences of different bitrates, resolutions, and video standards, so that it can be viewed on devices of various capabilities and with ...
    • 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 ...
    • Information content in nuclear medicine imaging 

      Michail C.M., Agavanakis K.N., Karpetas G.E., Kalyvas N.I., Valais I.G., Kandarakis I.S., Panayiotakis G.S., Fountos G.P. (2019)
      The aim of the present study was to investigate the information content of positron emission tomography (PET) images. We used the GATE Monte Carlo package (GEANT4 application for tomographic emission) and reconstructed ...
    • Internet of Things in agriculture, recent advances and future challenges 

      Tzounis A., Katsoulas N., Bartzanas T., Kittas C. (2017)
      The increasing demand for food, both in terms of quantity and quality, has raised the need for intensification and industrialisation of the agricultural sector. The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is a highly promising family ...
    • Network store: Exploring slicing in future 5G networks 

      Nikaein N., Schiller E., Favraud R., Katsalis K., Stavropoulos D., Alyafawi I., Zhao Z., Braun T., Korakis T. (2015)
      In this paper, we present a revolutionary vision of 5G networks, in which SDN programs wireless network functions, and where Mobile Network Operators (MNO), Enterprises, and Over-The-Top (OTT) third parties are provided ...
    • Scheduling Video Transcoding Jobs in the Cloud 

      Oikonomou P., Koziri M.G., Tziritas N., Dadaliaris A.N., Loukopoulos T., Stamoulis G.I., Khan S.U. (2018)
      Video transcoding is the process of producing from an original (already encoded) input video sequence, multiple output sequences, each at potentially different bitrate, resolution and/or format. Transcoding is essential ...
    • Server Consolidation in Cloud Computing 

      Tziritas N., Mustafa S., Koziri M., Loukopoulos T., Khan S.U., Xu C.-Z., Zomaya A.Y. (2019)
      Minimizing service-level agreement (SLA) violations and energy consumption through server consolidation is of paramount importance for the sustainability of cloud environments. In this paper, we propose an online method ...