Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

PhD Candidate Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University Office: MSEE 212 Address: 465, Northwestern Ave.                West Lafayette, IN 47907 Phone: 765-4943431 Email: dkoutson@purdue.edu

News 11/21/09 - Paper accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2010. 09/24/09 - 1st place in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) at Mobicom 2009. 09/07/09 - Source code of an application-layer implementation of Pacifier (our INFOCOM 2009 paper) on Linux is available for download. 07/15/09 - Paper accepted to ACM MICNET 2009. 04/03/09 - Passed the PhD Preliminary Exam. 12/22/08 - Papers accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2009. 09/25/08 - Paper accepted to ACM CoNEXT 2008. 09/17/08 - 3rd place in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) at Mobicom 2008. 08/16/08 - Paper accepted to ACM HotNets-VII 2008.

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I am a PhD candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, USA. Previously, I received my Bachelor's degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.

My advisor is Prof. Y. Charlie Hu and I am a member of the Distributed Systems and Networking Lab. My research interests are broadly in experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a focus on high performance protocol design and implementation, testbed prototyping, network measurements, and performance evaluation.

In the summer of 2007 I did an internship with Thomson Paris Research Lab, working with Theodoros Salonidis and Henrik Lundgren on TDM protocol design for wireless mesh networks. I have also collaborated with Saumitra Das, Sonia Fahmy, Dimitrios Peroulis, Himabindu Pucha, and Chih-Chun Wang at Purdue University, Konstantina Papagiannaki from Intel Research, Pittsburgh, and Ivan Stojmenovic from the University of Birmingham, UK.

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[Research]

[Publications]

[Awards]

[Software]

[Professional]

[Courses]

[Links]

Research

• Bandwidth estimation in wireless broadband access networks
• Mesh@Purdue [MAP]
• "Exotic" routing protocol design, implementation, and evaluation for Wireless Mesh Networks
• Multi-layer techniques and protocols for improving multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks
• Exploiting lower layer techniques for performance improvement in Wireless Mesh Networks
• Measurement-based characterization of Wireless Mesh Networks
• Mobile ad hoc, sensor, and multi-robot networks

Publications [by type, by year]

Selected Publications

1. CCACK: Efficient Network Coding Based Opportunistic Routing Through Cumulative Coded Acknowledgments, IEEE INFOCOM 2010 (17.5%)
   
2. Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without “Crying Babies” in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2009 (19.6%)
   
3. An Empirical Study of Performance Benefits of Network Coding in Multihop Wireless Networks, IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference 2009 (26.6%)
4. TDM MAC Protocol Design and Implementation for Wireless Mesh Networks, ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT 2008 (17.5%)
5. How To Evaluate Exotic Wireless Routing Protocols?, ACM HotNets 2008 (20%)
6. Practical Service Provisioning for Wireless Meshes, ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT 2007 (20%)
7. The case for FEC-based Reliable Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE/IFIP DSN 2007 (22.6%), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal
8. High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE ICDCS 2006 (13.8%), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal
9. DMesh: Incorporating Practical Directional Antennas in Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE JSAC 24(11) 2006 (19%)

Talks

• "Designing Coded Feedback for Efficient Network Coding Based Opportunistic Routing", ACM MobiCom 2009 SRC, Beijing, September 24, 2009.
• "On the feasibility of bandwidth estimation in 1x EVDO networks", ACM MICNET, Beijing, September 21, 2009.
• "Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without “Crying Babies” in Wireless Mesh Networks", IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 23, 2009.
• "An Empirical Study of Performance Benefits of Network Coding in Multihop Wireless Networks", IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 20, 2009.
• "How To Evaluate Exotic Wireless Routing Protocols?", ACM HotNets-VII, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 7, 2008.
• "XCOR: Synergistic Interflow Network Coding and Opportunistic Routing", ACM MobiCom 2008 SRC, San Francisco, CA, September 17, 2008.
• "On TCP Throughput and Window Size in a Multihop Wireless Network Testbed", ACM WiNTECH 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada, September 10, 2007.
• "Hierarchical Geographic Multicast Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks", SENSORCOMM 2007, Valencia, Spain, October 16, 2007.
• "The case for FEC-based Reliable Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks", IEEE/IFIP DSN 2007, Edinburgh, UK, June 27, 2007.
• "CoCoA: Coordinated Cooperative Localization for Mobile Multi-Robot Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE IWDDS 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, July 4, 2006.
• "Path Planning of Mobile Landmarks for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE WWASN 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, July 4, 2006.
• "On optimal TTL sequence-based route discovery in MANETs", IEEE WWAN 2005, Columbus, OH, June 9, 2005.

Awards

• 1st place in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), MobiCom 2009.
• 3rd place in Student Poster Competition, Information Technology Summit, Purdue University, 2009.
• 3rd place in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), MobiCom 2008.
• Best Paper Award, SENSORCOMM 2007.
• Student Travel Grants - MobiCom 2007, 2008, 2009, INFOCOM 2007, 2009, NSDI 2008, SIGMETRICS 2008, DSN 2007.
• Nominated for Microsoft Research Fellowship by ECE, Purdue University, 2006.
• Tellabs Fellowship, Center for Wireless Systems and Applications (CWSA), Dept. of ECE, Purdue University, 2006.
• Ross Fellowship, Purdue University, 2004.
• NTUA Fellowship for being among the top 2% in the batch for 2001-2002, School of ECE, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), 2002.

Software

• Pacifier: An application-layer implementation of our reliable, high-throughput multicast protocol (presented in INFOCOM 2009) and MORE on Linux.

Professional Service

• Student member of USENIX, ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society.



• TPC Member
  • ACM CoNEXT 2008 Shadow TPC.
  
  
• Invited Conference Reviews
• ACM CoNEXT 2009.
• IEEE NPSec 2009.
• IEEE IWQoS 2009.
• IEEE SECON 2009.
• ACM SIGCOMM 2009.
• IEEE ICDCS 2009.
• IEEE WCNC 2009.
• IEEE ICC 2009.
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 WN.
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 AHSN.
• IEEE LANMAN 2008.
• ACM REALWSN 2008.
• IEEE VTC 2008, 2010.
• IEEE BROADNETS 2007.
• IEEE WWASN 2007.
• IEEE INFOCOM 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010.


• Invited Journal Reviews
• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN).
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC).
• Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR).
• Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET).
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (TPDS).
• World Applied Sciences Journal (WASJ).
• MDPI Sensors.
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal.
• Elsevier Information Processing Letters (IPL).
• IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC).
• ACM Computer Communications Review (CCR).
• Elsevier Information Sciences.
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
• Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications.
• Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
• IEEE Communications Letters.
• International Journal of Communication Systems.

Links

• My hometown Trikala, Greece (Greek - English)
• Purdue Hellenic Student Association

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