Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Department University at Buffalo, SUNY Address: 338 Davis Hall                Buffalo, NY 14260-2500 Office: 311 Davis Hall Phone: 716-6454733 Email: dimitrio@buffalo.edu

I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. I received my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in August 2010. My dissertation was supervised by Prof. Y. Charlie Hu. Previously, I received my Bachelor's degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

My research interests are broadly in experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a focus on high performance/power-aware protocol design and implementation, testbed prototyping, network measurements, and novel wireless applications. I lead the UB Wireless Networking and Systems Lab (UB WiNS Lab). I received the NSF CAREER Award in 2016, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Early Career Researcher of the Year Award in 2015, and the CSE Early Career Faculty Teaching Award in 2015.

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[Research]

[Publications]

[Students]

[Teaching]

[Software]

[Awards]

[Professional]

[UB WiNS Lab]

[Links]

News

• 07/15/2016: New NSF CRI Grant.
• 02/10/2016: I am co-chairing the First International Workshop on 5G Millimeter-Wave Channel Models collocated with IEEE GLOBECOM 2016.
• 02/17/2016: NSF CAREER Award.
• 02/10/2016: I am co-chairing ACM WiNTECH 2016.
• 12/10/2015: CSE Early Career Faculty Teaching Award.
• 12/09/2015: Invited to Serve on the TPC of ACM MobiCom 2016.
• 11/27/2015: Paper accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2016.
• 11/17/2015: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Early Career Researcher of the Year Award.
• 10/26/2015: Seminar talk at UC Davis "Enabling Fine-Grained Motion Detection on Commodity WiFi Devices using PHY Layer Information".
• 10/26/2015: Seminar talk at Purdue "Enabling Fine-Grained Motion Detection on Commodity WiFi Devices using PHY Layer Information".
• 09/14/2015: Technical Report on 60 GHz WLANs.
• 06/2015: Papers accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and ACM HotWireless 2015.
• 06/2015: Paper accepted to ACM Mobicom 2015.
• 06/2015: I am co-organizing the IEEE ICNP 2015 PhD Forum. Both beginning and senior PhD students are encouraged to submit their work.

Research

Current projects at UB

• Multi-Gigabit Millimeter-Wave WLANs
• Power-Performance Tradeoffs for Mobile Devices in Next Generation WiFi Networks
• Motion Detection in WLANs using PHY Layer Information
• CANSAS: Crowdsourcing Access Network Spectrum Allocation Using Smartphones
• Routing in 802.11n/ac wireless mesh networks
• UBMesh: An 802.11n wireless mesh network at UB
• Routing in cognitive radio networks
• Analog Network Coding in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

Past projects at Purdue

• 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. AmorFi: Amorphous WiFi Networks for High-density Deployments, ACM CoNEXT 2016 (17.9%)
2. Messages Behind the Sound: Real-Time Hidden Acoustic Signal Capture with Smartphones, ACM MobiCom 2016 (12.5%)
3. A Walk on the Client Side: Monitoring Enterprise Wifi Networks Using Smartphone Channel Scans, IEEE INFOCOM 2016 (18.25%)
4. WiDraw: Enabling Handsfree Drawing in the Air on Commodity WiFi Devices, ACM MobiCom 2015 (18%)
5. Power-Throughput Tradeoffs of 802.11n/ac in Smartphones, IEEE INFOCOM 2015 (19%)
6. Bringing Mobility-Awareness to WLANs using PHY layer information, ACM CoNEXT 2014 (20%)
7. Crowdsourcing Access Network Spectrum Allocation Using Smartphones, ACM HotNets 2014 (22%)
8. Modeling WiFi Active Power/Energy Consumption in Smartphones, IEEE ICDCS 2014 (13.2%), IEEE TMC 2016
9. Securing Underwater Acoustic Communications through Analog Network Coding, IEEE SECON 2014 (19.8%)
10. Performance Comparison of Routing Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE MASCOTS 2013 (27%), IEEE TMC 2014
11. Comparison of Routing Metrics in 802.11n Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2013 (17%), IEEE TMC 2013
12. CDMA-based Analog Network Coding through Interference Cancellation for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, ACM WUWNet 2012 (32%), IEEE TWC 2015


13. FEC-based AP downlink transmission schemes for multiple flows: Combining the reliability and throughput enhancement of intra- and inter-flow coding, IFIP PERFORMANCE 2011 (20%)
14. Efficient Online WiFi Delivery of Layered-Coding Media using Inter-layer Network Coding, IEEE ICDCS 2011 (15.4%)
15. CCACK: Efficient Network Coding Based Opportunistic Routing Through Cumulative Coded Acknowledgments, IEEE INFOCOM 2010 (17.5%), IEEE/ACM ToN 2011
16. Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without “Crying Babies” in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2010 (17.5%), IEEE/ACM ToN 2012
17. TDM MAC Protocol Design and Implementation for Wireless Mesh Networks, ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT 2008 (17.5%)
18. How To Evaluate Exotic Wireless Routing Protocols?, ACM HotNets 2008 (20%)
19. Practical Service Provisioning for Wireless Meshes, ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT 2007 (20%)
20. The case for FEC-based Reliable Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE/IFIP DSN 2007 (22.6%), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal 2009
21. High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE ICDCS 2006 (13.8%), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal 2008
22. DMesh: Incorporating Practical Directional Antennas in Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE JSAC 2006 (19%)

Students

PhD Students

• Ramanujan Kotikanyakadanam Sheshadri
• Li Sun
• Swetank Kumar Saha
• Geunhyung Lee
• Hanbin Zhang

MS Students

• Elroy Alva
• Abhishek Gautam
• Armaan Goyal
• Abhishek Kannan
• Nishant Ravichandran
• Tariq Siddiqui

Teaching

• CSE 630 Advanced Wireless Networking Concepts (Fall 2016).
• CSE 709 Selected Topics in Cellular Networking (Spring 2016).
• CSE 489/589 Modern Networking Concepts (Spring 2016).
• CSE 630 Advanced Wireless Networking Concepts (Fall 2015).
• CSE 630 Advanced Wireless Networking Concepts (Spring 2015).
• CSE 489/589 Modern Networking Concepts (Fall 2014).
• CSE 489/589 Modern Networking Concepts (Spring 2014).
• CSE 630 Advanced Wireless Networking Concepts (Fall 2013).
• CSE 489/589 Modern Networking Concepts (Spring 2013).
• CSE 630 Advanced Wireless Networking Concepts (Fall 2012).
• CSE 489/589 Modern Networking Concepts (Spring 2012). Supported by Microsoft Research (Hawaii Cloud-Enabled Mobile Computing Project)
• CSE 708 Seminar: Advanced Topics in Wireless Networks (Fall 2011). Supported by Microsoft Research (Hawaii Cloud-Enabled Mobile Computing Project)
• CSE 701 Seminar: Advanced Topics in Wireless Networks (Spring 2011).

Software/Datasets

• WiFi datasets (scan results and connection status collected using the PhoneLab smartphone testbed) from our INFOCOM 2016 paper.
• 802.11n/ac datasets (throughput, power, energy) from our ICDCS 2014 paper.
• Pacifier: An application-layer implementation of our reliable, high-throughput multicast protocol (presented in INFOCOM 2009) and the MORE protocol in Linux.

Awards

• NSF CAREER Award, February 2016.
• CSE Early Career Faculty Teaching Award, December 2015.
• School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Early Career Researcher of the Year Award, November 2015.
• 1st place in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), MobiCom 2009.
• 3rd place in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), MobiCom 2008.
• Best Paper Award, SENSORCOMM 2007.

Professional Service

• Member of USENIX, ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, NIST 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance.


• Editorial Board
• European Alliance for Innovation Transactions on Collaborative Computing (EAI TCC), 2015-2016.
• Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN), Old City Publishing, 2011-2015.


• TPC Member
• 2017: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE/IFIP WONS.
• 2016: ACM MobiCom, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, IEEE ICCCN, IEEE/IFIP WONS, IEEE WiNMeE, IEEE mmNet.
• 2015: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, IEEE ICCCN, IEEE ICNC, IEEE CNTCV.
• 2014: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking, IEEE/IFIP WONS, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, IEEE ICNC, ACM WiNTECH, ACM PE-WASUN.
• 2013: IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE MASS, IFIP Networking, IEEE/IFIP WONS, IEEE VTC-Spring, ICACCI.
• 2012: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE ICNC, IEEE IWQoS, IEEE HotMM, Q2SWinet.
• 2011: IEEE ICDCS, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE HotMesh, IEEE IWQoS, IEEE VTC-Fall.
• 2008: ACM CoNEXT Shadow TPC.


• Co-organizer/Co-Chair
• First International Workshop on 5G Millimeter-Wave Channel Models collocated with IEEE GLOBECOM 2016.
• ACM WiNTECH 2016.
• IEEE ICNP 2015 Ph.D. Forum.
• ACM CoNEXT 2011 Student Workshop.


• Posters/Demos/Videos Co-Chair, ACM MobiSys 2017.


• Student Travel Grants Chair, ACM MobiCom 2014.


• Travel Grant Co-Chair, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.


• Publicity Co-Chair, ACM WiNTECH 2014, IEEE MASS 2012.


• Session Chair, IEEE ICCCN 2016, IEEE WoWMoM 2016, IEEE INFOCOM 2016, IEEE ICNP 2015, IEEE INFOCOM 2015, IEEE INFOCOM 2014, IEEE INFOCOM 2013, IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference 2012, IEEE ICDCS 2011.


• Invited Conference Reviews: IEEE COMSNETS 2011, IEEE INFOCOM 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, IEEE ICT 2011, 2010, ACM CoNEXT 2009, IEEE NPSec 2009, IEEE IWQoS 2009, IEEE SECON 2009, ACM SIGCOMM 2009, IEEE ICDCS 2009, IEEE WCNC 2011, 2009, IEEE ICC 2011, 2009, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, IEEE LANMAN 2008, ACM REALWSN 2008, IEEE VTC 2010, 2008, IEEE BROADNETS 2007, IEEE WWASN 2007.


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

Links

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