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 completed my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in August 2010. My dissertation titled "Exotic Routing Protocol Design and Implementation for Wireless Mesh Networks" was supervised by 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 protocol design and implementation, testbed prototyping, network measurements, and performance evaluation. I lead the UB Wireless Networking and Systems Lab (UB WiNS Lab).

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[Research]

[Publications]

[Teaching]

[Software]

[Awards]

[Professional]

[UB WiNS Lab]

[Links]

Research

• UBMesh: An 802.11n wireless mesh network at UB



• 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. Performance Comparison of Routing Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE MASCOTS 2013 (27%)
2. Comparison of Routing Metrics in 802.11n Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2013 (17%)
3. CDMA-based Analog Network Coding through Interference Cancellation for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, ACM WUWNet 2012 (32%)
4. Realizing the Full Potential of PSM using Proxying, IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference 2012 (26%)
5. 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%)
6. Efficient Online WiFi Delivery of Layered-Coding Media using Inter-layer Network Coding, IEEE ICDCS 2011 (15.4%)
7. CCACK: Efficient Network Coding Based Opportunistic Routing Through Cumulative Coded Acknowledgments, IEEE INFOCOM 2010 (17.5%), IEEE/ACM ToN 2011
8. Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without “Crying Babies” in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2010 (17.5%), IEEE/ACM ToN 2012
9. An Empirical Study of Performance Benefits of Network Coding in Multihop Wireless Networks, IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference 2009 (26.6%)
10. TDM MAC Protocol Design and Implementation for Wireless Mesh Networks, ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT 2008 (17.5%)
11. How To Evaluate Exotic Wireless Routing Protocols?, ACM HotNets 2008 (20%)
12. Practical Service Provisioning for Wireless Meshes, ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT 2007 (20%)
13. The case for FEC-based Reliable Multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE/IFIP DSN 2007 (22.6%), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal 2009
14. High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE ICDCS 2006 (13.8%), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal 2008
15. DMesh: Incorporating Practical Directional Antennas in Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE JSAC 2006 (19%)

Students

PhD Students

• Ramanujan Kotikanyakadanam Sheshadri
• Li Sun

Graduated Students

• Ninad Arun Warty (M.S June 2012, ViaSat, Inc.)
• Naveen Rawat (M.S. December 2012, Qualcomm Atheros)
• Prasanth Chakka (M.S. May 2013, Experis, Inc.)
• Dhruv Naithani (M.S. May 2013, Arktan, Inc.)
• Vikramsinh Gorkshnath Sawant (M.S. May 2013, Dow Jones & Co.)
• Wei Zheng (M.S. May 2013, PhD student at UB)

Teaching

• 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

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

Awards

• 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.



• Editorial Board, Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks, an International Journal (AHSWN).



• TPC Member
  • 2014: IEEE INFOCOM.
  • 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.
  
  
• Program Co-Chair, ACM CoNEXT 2011 Student Workshop.



• Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE MASS 2012.



• Session Chair, 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: ACM Wireless Networks, Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, EEE/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, Elsevier Information Sciences.

Links

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

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