Curriculum Vitae for Ioannis Stavrakakis

Education

• Five-year Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece

(ranked first in the graduating class of 1983)
 
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, May 1988

Thesis: "Random Access Multi-user Communication Networks and Approximation of their Output Processes"

Main Employment History

• Professor, Department of Informatics University of Athens, Athens, Greece (2002 - )
• Associate Professor, Department of Informatics University of Athens, Athens, Greece (1998 - 2002 )
• Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University (NU), Boston, MA, USA (1994 - 1999)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Vermont (UVM), Burlington, VT, USA (1988 - 1994);

tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1994.
• Research Assistant, Communication Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA (1984 - 1988)

Other Professional Experience

• Visiting Scientist, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (Aug. 1990)
• Visiting Scientist, CNUCE Institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy (May - July 1994)
• National Technological University (NTU) Instructor, 1994 - 97
• Consultant for Mayflower Communications on traffic modeling for the ICO satellite system, 1996 - 97
• Consultant for Mitre Corporation on the development of protocols for highly mobile networks with ad-hoc structure, 1997 - 98

Research Interest

Design aspects of (wired and wireless/mobile) networking technologies ranging from link to application layers.

• Resource allocation protocols for Computer/Communication networks.
• Information traffic characterization, shaping and multiplexing for real-time, non-real-time and multimedia applications;

congestion control and deadline-driven scheduling
• Network modeling and performance evaluation; distributed and centralized queuing systems

Focus of Current and Very Recent Research

• Quality of Service Support in IP Networks.
• Video Transport over Broadband and Narrowband IP Networks.
• Multiplexing Schemes for Application-Level Quality of Service Delivery for Real -Time Applications.
• Deadline-Driven Scheduling for Real -Time and Prerecorded Video Transport.
• Traffic Regulation and Scheduling in Real Time Communications; Jitter Control; Fair Rate Allocation in Overload.
• Congestion Control for Broadband High-speed Networks; Pro-active Feedback-Based Scheme for Best Effort Traffic;

Cooperative Traffic Management Schemes; Traffic Profile Shaping.
• Quality of Service (QoS) for Time-Constained Applications in Integrated Services Wireless Networks; fixed and variable frame TDMA.
• Achievable QoS (call admission region) under TDMA-structured Resource Allocation Mechanisms;

Call Admission Region in Interference/ Resource-Limited Shared Wireless Channels.
• Mobility Management in Ad-Hoc Networks; structure-learning multi-mode routing protocols.
• Protocols for Broadband Access in Cable Networks.

Honors and Awards

• National Greek Scholarship, 1978 - 1983.
• Research Assistantship, University of Virginia, 1984 - 1988.
• Panchiakon Scholarship Foundation "Pateras", 1984 - 1987.
• USA National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1990.
• USA National Science Foundation Travel Grant for the 1991 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop.
• Senior Member (since 1993) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Memebership

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); IEEE Communications Society; IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC)
• Executive Committee of the Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) of the IEEE Computer Society
• International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Working Group on Performance of Communication Systems (WG6.3)
• International Teletraffic Congress (ITC)
• Greek Chamber of Professional Engineers (Professional License, 1983).

Journal Editorial

• Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Networking , since 2001.
• Editor for the Computer Networks Journal, North-Holland, since 1999.
• Editor for ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal, since 1998.
• Guest Editor for ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, special issue on "Channel Access in Wireless Networks (with L. Merakos), 1996.
• Guest Editor for ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, special issue on "Wireless LANs" (with T.Chen), 1997.

 
• Reviewer for the Journals:
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
• Computer Networks and ISDN Systems Journal
• Annals of Operations Research
• Telecommunications Systems
• Performance Evaluation Journal
• ACM/Baltzer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal
• ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal

Conference Organization

• IFIP WG6.3 Conference Steering Committee Member
• Organizer of the 1999 IFIP WG6.3 Workshop, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, Aug. 30 - Sept. 1, 1999.
• General Vice-Chair of the IFIP Networking'2002, May 19-24, 2002, Pisa, Italy. [Joint conference of IFIP WG6.2, WG6.3 and WG6.4]
• Technical Program Co-chair of the IFIP/EUNetworking'2000, May 14-19, 2000, Paris, France. [Joint conference of IFIP WG6.2, WG6.3 and WG6.4]
• Co-organizer of the 1996 International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) Mini-Seminar, on "Performance Modeling and Design of Wireless/PCS Networks" (with R. Pandya and P. Yang, Nortel), Oct. 3, 1996, Copley Square Hotel, Boston. [One full day with 12 presentations of leading researchers from USA, Europe and Australia.]
• IEEE TCCC Conference Coordinator [Elected officer of TCCC (of the IEEE Communications Society); 7/97-7/99.]
• Conference Representative of TCCC for the 1995 International Conference on Communications (ICC'95). [The conference representative is, in essence, the technical program chair for the conference sessions, which are sponsored by the committee. 71 complete papers were processed (three reviews were obtained for each paper).]
• Member, Technical Program Committee and Session Organizer for ICUPC'96 Conference: [Together with D. Tennenhouse (MIT), we identified and distributed to the other TPC members for review the summaries of the submitted papers in Networking (about 90 papers). We processed the reviews and organized about 12 sessions.]
• Session Organizer, IEEE GLOBECOM'92&'93, ICC'94, ICC'95 and MILCOM'98 Conferences.
• Member, Technical Program Committee for the Conferences:
• IEEE INFOCOM'92,'93,'94,'95,'96,'97, '98, '01, 02;
• IEEE ICUPC'97;
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'99);
• Fifth International Conference on Data Communication Systems and Their Performance (1993, IFIP);
• Second (1994), Third (1995), Fourth (1996), Fifth (1997), & Sixth (1998) International Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (IFIP);
• 9th IFIP Working Conference on ATM & IP Networks (IFIP ATM & IP 2001);
• 1996 and 1998 SPIE International Conference on Voice, Video, and Data Communications;
• Tenth ITC Specialist Seminar "Control in Communications" (1996);
• Performance of Information and Communications Systems (PICS'98, IFIP);
• 1999 Internet Workshop (IWS'99);
• International Conference on Performance and QoS of Next Generation Networking (P&Qnet2000), Nov. 27-30, Nagoya, Japan.
• The First (2000) and Second (2001) International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services (QofIS'2000 and 2001).
• 14th ITC Specialists Seminar on Access Networks and Systems, April 2001, Barcelona
• European Wireless Conference, Feb. 2002, Florence, Italy.
• Session Chair for the Conferences:
• IEEE INFOCOM'92,'93,'96,'97 &01;
• TRICOMM'93;
• IEEE GLOBECOM'93;
• ICC'94 &'95;
• Fourth (1996) International Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (IFIP);
• ICUPC'96; 1996 ITC Mini-Seminar
• 1996 SPIE International Conference on Voice, Video, and Data Communications;
• IEEE Conference on Protocols for Multimedia Systems - Multimedia Networking (PROMS-MmNet'97);
• International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT'98);
• IEEE MILCOM'98;
• 2000 International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications;

Proposal Evaluation

• Research proposal reviewer for the USA National Science Foundation [Repeatedly since 1990.]
• Research proposal review Panel Member for the USA National Science Foundation (Dec. 1993, Dec. 1996, Feb. 2000, May 2000, Dec. 2000, April 2001,May 2002, Nov. 2002).
• Research proposal reviewer for the FWO, Brussels, Belgium (1997 & 2000).
• Research proposal reviewer for the Louisiana Board of Regents (1996).
• Research proposal reviewer for the IST-FET Programme (2000).

Workshop Presentations (no proceedings)

1. I. Stavrakakis, "Effective modeling for Traffic Processes and Resource Allocation Policies in Packet Communication Networks", 21st Annual IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, June 1991, Rhodes, Greece.

 
2. I. Stavrakakis, "A Recursive Equations Approach to Counting (Rare) Events in Communication Networks", IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks, Sept. 29 - Oct.2, 1992, Montebello, Quebec.

 
3. I. Stavrakakis, "Toward a Relief-Based Design of Congestion Avoidance Mechanisms for ATM", TRIO Workshop, Aug. 31, 1993, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

 
4. I. Stavrakakis, "Traffic Modeling and Regulation (Shaping) for High-Speed Networks", Non-Linear Optics Communication Mountain Workshop, April 12-13, 1994, Breckenridge, CO.

 
5. I. Stavrakakis, "Study of Some Rate Control and Buffer Management Schemes: Optimality and Fairness", First Workshop of the IFIP TC6 Task Force on the Performance of Communication Systems, Jan. 23-24, 1995, St. Thomas.

 
6. J. Capone, I. Stavrakakis, "Delivering Diverse Delay/Dropping QoS Requirements in a TDMA Environment", ITC Mini-Seminar on Performance Modeling and Design of Wireless/PCS Networks, Oct. 3, 1996, Boston, MA.

 
7. I. Stavrakakis, J. Capone, "On the Achievability of Diversified QoS Vectors" Second Workshop of the IFIP TC6a WG6.3 on the Performance of Communication Systems, Oct. 13-14, 1996, Balatonfured, Hungary.

 
8. I. Stavrakakis, Z. Antoniou, "Efficient Transport of Soft Real-Time Applications", 1999 IFIP WG6.3 Workshop, Aug. 29, Sept. 1, 1999, Rethymnon, Greece.

 
9. I. Stavrakakis, "Memory, a Promising Vehicle for Quality "Real Time" Networking", USA NSF sponsored Workshop on Network Quality Engineering, Feb. 25-26, 2000, ASU, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

 
10. I. Stavrakakis, "Toward a New Paradigm for "Real Time" Networking", International Workshop on High Speed Networking, May 21-24, 2000, Balatonfured, Hungary.

 
11. I. Stavrakakis, P. Balaouras, "Rate Adaptable Continuous Media Transmission over IP", COST263 meeting (Quality of future Internet Services), June 5, 2001, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Supervised M.Sc. Theses

1. "A Proposed Congestion Control Mechanism for a High Speed ATM Network", David Hoag, July 1992. [Continued his studies toward a Ph.D. at NU].

 
2. "Analytical Models for the Performance Evaluation of the DQDB Metropolitan Area Network", Randall Landry, Aug. 1992. [Continued working toward a Ph.D. Degree].

 
3. "ATM Buffer Management for Time Constrained Traffic", Geping Chen, June 1995.

 
4. "A Cooperative Scheduling and Regulation Scheme for Real-Time Communications", Steve Iatrou, Feb. 1997.

 
5. "Study of Impact of Network and Source Time Scales on Feedback-Based Congestion Control", Tamer Dag, Feb. 1997.

 
6. "Study of Various TDMA Schemes for Wireless Networks in the Presence of Deadlines and Overhead", Cesar Santivanez, Sept. 1998.

 
7. "Offered Load Estimation for a Multimedia Cable Network System", Firass Abi-Nassif, Sept. 1998.

 
8. "Buffering and playout adaptation for packet video receivers", Nikolaos Laoutaris, June 2001.

 

Supervised Ph.D. Dissertations

1. "Queuing Analysis of Resource Allocation Policies for Communication Networks", Sophia Tsakiridou, Aug. 1994.

 
2. "Performance Evaluation of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks", Randall Landry, Oct. 1994.

 
3. "Traffic Management and Congestion Control", Mohamed Abdelaziz, Oct. 1995.

 
4. "Achievable QoS and Scheduling Policies for Integrated Services Wireless Networks", Jeffrey Capone, July 1997.

 
5. "Proactive/Reactive Congestion Control Schemes for High Speed Networks", Tamer Dag, Dec. 1999.

 
6. "Scheduling Algorithms for Application-Level QoS Support of Continuous Media Streams", Zoe Antoniou, Dec. 1999.

 
7. "Mechanisms toward a Multi-mode Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", Cesar Santivanez, Nov. 2001.

 

Coursework

• EE 171, Signals and Systems (required, undergraduate, UVM).

 
• EE 174, Introduction to Communication Systems (required, undergraduate, UVM).

 
• EE 270, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes (core in Signals and Systems, graduate, UVM).

 
• EE 295, Stochastic Models for Data Networks (graduate, UVM).

 
• EE 373, Digital Communications (graduate, UVM).

 
• EE 378, Special Topics in Statistical Communication and Related Fields (graduate, UVM).

 
• ECE 3241, Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes (required, graduate, NU).

 
• ECE 1458, Communication Networks (undergraduate, NU).

 
• ECE 3511, Data Networks (graduate, NU).

 
• 127, Communication Networks I (undergraduate, UoA)

 
• 518, Advanced Networking Technologies (graduate, UoA)

 
• 524, Network Modeling and Performance Evaluation (graduate, UoA)

 

U.S.A. Funded Research Projects (1990-99)

• U.S.A. National Science Foundation, Research Initiation Award. Amount: $60,000. Title: "Performance Analysis of Communication Networks under m|τ|MM|r|B Packet Arrival Processes". [Principal Investigator].

 
• U.S.A. Department of Defense, Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). Amount: $385,677. Title: "Development of User-Matched/Network-Friendly Traffic Profiles for Congestion Control in High Speed Fiber Optics Networks". [Principal Investigator].

 
• GTE Government Systems Corporation. Amount: $250,000. Period: 8/1/91 - 7/31/96. Title: "Research and Curriculum Development in Communication Networks". [Principal Investigator after 9/94].

 
• Northeastern University, College of Engineering. Amount: $5,000. Title: "Student Support for Research on Resource Management for Diverse Quality of Service (QoS) Delivery in Communication Networks". [Principal Investigator].

 
• U.S.A. National Science Foundation, Amount: $335,319. Period: 9/1/96 - 8/31/1999. Title: "Time-Constant-Based Traffic Control and Multiplexing for High-Speed Networks". [Principal Investigator].

 
• Motorola, Inc., Amount:$8,000. Period: 3/15/98-9/15/98. Title: "Research on Protocols for Broadband Access" [Principal Investigator].

 
• BBN Technologies (GTE Internetworking), Amount: $28,324. Period: 11/98-9/99. Title: "Density Adaptive Routing for the DAWN Project" [Principal Investigator].

 
• U.S.A. Department of Defense, Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). Amount: $200,000. Period: 1993-1996. Title: "Multi-scale Digital Communications", [One of 6 Co-Principal Investigators since 9/94].

 
• Italian National Research Council (CNR). Amount: 45,000,000 Italian Lira. Period: 1995-1996. Title: "Real-Time Traffic Management in High-speed Integrated Services Networks". Institution: CNR - Istituto CNUCE, Pisa, Italy. [USA co-Investigator].

 
• GTE Corporation. Amount: $125,000. Period: 1997-1998. Title: "Research and Curriculum Development in Wireless Communication Systems". [One of 6 Co-Principal Investigators].

 

European and Greek Funded Research Projects (2000- )

• Title: "Resource Management and Traffic Control for Wide Area Networks under QoS Constraints".

Program: EPET II.
Funding Agency: General Secreteriat for Research and Technology (G.S.R.T) of Greece.
Period: 15.01.00 - 15.09.01.
Amount (for UoA): 13,680,000 GRD.
Participating Organizations: Greek National Center for Scientific research (NCSR) Demokritos, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
 
• Title: "A Video Gateway between the Next Generation Broadband Internet and the Current Narrow Band Internet for Live and On-Demand Access (VideoGateway)".

Program: Information Societies Technology - IST.
Funding Agency: European Union (EU).
Period: 01.01.00 - 31.12.01.
Amount (for UoA): 315,378 Euros.
Participating Organizations: Optibase (Israel), Matra Systemes & Information (France), T-Nova (Germany), CSELT (Italy), Teracom (Sweden).
 
• Title: "Broadway, the way to broadband access at 60GHz (BROADWAY)".

Program: Information Societies Technology - IST.
Funding Agency: European Union.
Period: 01.01.02 - 31.12.04.
Participating Organizations: Motorola SA (France), IMST GmbH (Germany), Technical University of Dresden (Germany), Netherlands Organization for Applied research (Netherlands), Intracom SA (Greece) Sony International (Europe) GmbH (Germany).
Amount for UoA: 199,200 Euros.
 
• Title: "Efficient Mechanisms for Networked Multimedia Applications".

Program: University of Athens, Research Grants.
Funding Agency: Special Account for Research (ELKE).
Period: 2000.
Amount: 1,000,000 GRD.
 
• Title: "Efficient Mechanisms for Networked Multimedia Applications".

Program: University of Athens, Research Grants.
Funding Agency: Special Account for Research (ELKE).
Period: 2001.
Amount: 500,000 GRD.
 

Books

• Proceedings of the IFIP/EU Networking'2000 conference, Ed.: G. Pujolle, H. Perros, S. Fdida, U. Kroner, I. Stavrakakis, Springer Verlag, 2000.

Journal Publications

1. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, "A limited Sensing Protocol for Multi-user Packet Radio Systems", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 37, No. 4, April 1989.

 
2. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, "On the Approximation of the Output Process of Multi-user Random Access Communication Networks", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 38, No. 2, Feb. 1990.

 
3. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, "Performance Analysis of a Star Topology of interconnected Networks under 2nd -order Markov Network Output Processes", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 38, No. 10, Oct. 1990.

 
4. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, "A Multi-user Random Access Communication system for Users with Different Priorities", IEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 39, No. 11, Nov. 1991.

 
5. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, "Queuing behavior of Two Interconnected Buffers of a Packet Network with Application to the Evaluation of Packet Routing Policies", International Journal of Digital and Analog Communication systems, John Wiley and Sons, Vol. 4, 1991.

 
6. I. Stavrakakis, "Statistical Multiplexing under Non-i.i.d. Packet Arrival Processes and Different Priority Policies", Performance Evaluation Journal, North-Holland, Vol. 12, No.3, June 1991.

 
7. I. Stavrakakis, "Efficient Modeling of Merging and Splitting Processes in Large Networking Structures:, IEEE Journal on selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 9, No.8, Oct. 1991.

 
8. I. Stavrakakis, "Traffic modeling for Packet Communication Networks", International Journal of Digital and Analog Communication Systems, John Wiley and Sons, Vol. 5, 1992.

 
9. I. Stavrakakis, "Queuing Analysis of a Class of Star Interconnected Networks under Markov Modulated Output Process Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 40, No. 8, Aug. 1992.

 
10. R. Landry, I. Stavrakakis, "Queuing Study of a 3-Priority Policy with Distinct Service Strategies", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 1, No. 5, Oct. 1993.

 
11. I. Stavrakakis, "Channel Assignment Under a Conflict-Free Allocation Policy", IEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 42, No. 2, Feb. 1994.

 
12. I. Stavrakakis, "Delay Bounds on a Queuing System with Consistent Priorities", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 42, No. 2, Feb. 1994.

 
13. I. Stavrakakis, S. Tsakiridou, "A Markov Service Policy with Application to the Queuing Study of a DQDB Station", Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 26, No. 12, Sept. 1994.

 
14. M Abdelaziz, I. Stavrakakis, "Some Optimal Traffic Regulation Schemes for ATM Networks: A Markov Decision Approach", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 2, No. 5, Oct. 1994.

 
15. I. Stavrakakis, "A Two-Server Queuing System with Periodic and Credit-Based Server Availabilities", Annals of Operation Research, issue on Methodologies for High Speed Networks, Vol. 49, 1994.

 
16. I. Stavrakakis, S. Tsakiridou, "Analysis of a Non-Gated Integrated Services TDM", IE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 43, No. 2, March 1995.

 
17. S. Tsakiridou, I. Stavrakakis, "Mean Delay Analysis of a Statistical Multiplexer with Batch Arrival Processes - A Generalization to Viterbi's Formula", Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1, March 1996.

 
18. J. Capone, I. Stavrakakis, "Achievable QoS and Scheduling Policies for Integrated Services Wireless Networks", Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 27 & 28, pp. 347-365. Oct. 1996. [Also presented at the IFIP Performance '96 Conference. Oct. 7-11, 1996. Laussanne, Switzerland.]

 
19. I. Stavrakakis, "Characterization and Multiplexing of Correlated Traffic from Sources with Different Time Constants", Computer Communications Journal, special issue on Enabling ATM Networks, Vol. 19, No. 13, Nov. 1996.

 
20. L. Merakos, I. Stavrakakis, "Editorial for the Special Issue on Channel Access on Wireless Networks", ACM/Baltzer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-2, 1997.

 
21. I. Stavrakakis, S. Tsakiridou, "Study of a Class of Partially Ordered Service Strategies for a System of Two Discrete-Time Queues", Performance Evaluation Journal, Vol. 29, pp. 15-33, 1997.

 
22. R. Landry, I. Stavrakakis, "Multiplexing ATM Traffic Streams with Time-Scale-Dependent Arrival Processes", Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 29, pp. 293-313, 1997.

 
23. R. Landry, I. Stavrakakis, "Study of Delay Jitter With and Without Peak Rate Enforcement", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 543-553, Aug.1997.

 
24. T. Dag, I. Stavrakakis, "Evaluation of ABR Traffic Management Under Various System Time Scales", Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 29, pp. 2103-2177, 1998.

 
25. J. Capone, Stavrakakis, "Determining the Call Admission Region for Real-Time Heterogeneous Application in Wireless TDMA Networks", IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 38-47, March/April 1998.

 
26. I. Stavrakakis, T. Chen, "Editorial for the Special Issue on Wireless LAN's", ACM/Baltzer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 235-236, 1998.

 
27. J. Capone, I. Stavrakakis, "Delivering QoS Requirements to Traffic with Diverse Delay Tolerances in a TDMA Environment", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 75-87, Feb. 1999.

 
28. Z. Antoniou, I. Stavrakakis, "Scheduling Algorithms for Application-Level QoS Support of Continuous Media Stream", European Transactions on Telecommunications, Special issue on Architectures, Protocols and Quality of Service for the Internet of the Future, No. 3, May June 1999.

 
29. C. Santivanez, I. Stavrakakis, "Study of Various TDMA schemes for Wireless Networks in the presence of Deadlines and Overhead", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 1284-1304, July 1999.

 
30. J. Capone, I. Stavrakakis, "Achievable QoS in an Interference/Resource-Limited Shared Wireless Channel", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 17, No. 11, pp. 2041-2051, Nov. 1999.

 
31. S. Iatrou, I. Stavrakakis, "A Dynamic Regulation and Scheduling Scheme for Real Time Traffic Management", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.60-70, Feb. 2000.

 
32. I. Stavrakakis, G. Chen, "Study of a Scheduling Policy for Diversified Deadline-Based Quality-of-Service", Performance Evaluation, pp. 37-62, Vol. 41, 2000.

 
33. M. Conti, E. Gregori, I. Stavrakakis, "Impact of Temporal/Spatial Correlations on per Session Performance Measures: Single and Multiple Node case", Performance Evaluation, pp. 83-116, Vol. 41, No. 2-3, July 2000.

 
34. P. Balaouras, I. Stavrakakis, L. Merakos, "Potential and Limitations of a Teleteaching Environment based on H.323 Audio-Visual Communication Systems", Computer Networks Journal, pp. 945-958, Vo. 34, No. 6, Dec. 2000.

 
35. M. Abdelaziz, I. Stavrakakis, "Adaptive Rate Control in High-Speed Networks: Performance Issues", Computer Networks Journal, to appear.

 
36. T. Dag, I. Stavrakakis ``Proactive Congestion Control for High Speed Networks'', IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, submitted.

 
37. Z. Antoniou, I. Stavrakakis, "Deadline Credit-based Transport for Soft Real-Time Applications", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, submitted.

 
38. A. Panagakis, I. Stavrakakis, "Optimal Call Admission Control under Generalized Processor Sharing Scheduling with / without Best Effort Traffic", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, submitted.

 
39. N. Laoutaris, I. Stavrakakis, "Intrastream Synchronization for Continuous Media Streams: A survey of Playout Schedulers", IEEE Network Magazine, submitted.

 

 

 

Refereed Conference Proceedings¹

1. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, "A Simple Stack Algorithm for a code Division Multiple Access Communication System", 25th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec. 10-12, 1986, Athens, Greece. (***)

 
2. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, "Interconnected Multi-user Packet Radio Networks", Symposium on C3 Research, Jun. 16-19, 1987, National Defense University, fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. (**)

 
3. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, " A Non-Homogeneous User Population Multi-user Random Access Communication System", 26th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec. 9-11, 1987, Los Angeles. (***)

 
4. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, "2nd -order Markovian Approximation on the Output Process of a Multi-user Communication Network", 22nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton University, Mar. 16-18, 1988, Princeton. (**)

 
5. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, "On the Approximation of the Output Process of Multi-user Random Access Communication Networks", IEEE INFOCOM '88, Mar. 28-31, 1988, New Orleans. (***)

 
6. I. Stavrakakis, D. Kazakos, "A Communication Network with Some High Priority Messages", Symposium on Command and Control Research, June 7-9, 1988, Monterey, California. (**)

 
7. I. Stavrakakis, "Analysis of Interconnected Communication Networks", Symposium on Command and Control Research, June 27-29, 1989, Washington D.C. (**)

 
8. I. Stavrakakis, "A Time Division Multiplexer (TDM) with Dependent Packet Arrival Processes", IEEE Southeastcon '90, April 1-4, 1990, New Orleans. (**)

 
9. I. Stavrakakis, "A Fair Statistical Multiplexer for Integrated Services Packet Networks", IEEE Southeastcon '90, April 1-4, 1990, New Orleans. (**)

 
10. I. Stavrakakis, "An Analysis Approach to Multi-Level Networking", International Conference on Communications (ICC '90), April 15-19, 1990, Atlanta. (***)

 
11. I. Stavrakakis, "Analysis of a Statistical Multiplexer under a General Input Traffic Model", IEEE INFOCOM'90, June 5-7, 1990, San Francisco. (***)

 
12. I. Stavrakakis, "Analysis of a Class of Star Interconnected Networks", IEEE INFOCOM'90, June 5-7, 1990, San Francisco. (***)

 
13. I. Stavrakakis, "Statistical Multiplexing under Non-i.i.d. Packet arrival Processes and different Priority Policies", 4th International Conference on Data Communication Systems and Their Performance, June 20-22, 1990, Barcelona, In Data Communication Systems and Their performance, ed.: G. Pujolle and R. Puigjaner, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V, 1991. (***)

 
14. I. Stavrakakis, "Analysis of Interconnected Buffers in a Packet Network", 1990 Canadian Conference in Electrical and Computer engineering, Sept. 4-6, 1990, Ottawa. (**)

 
15. I. Stavrakakis, "Buffer Behavior under Dependent Packet Arrival Processes with Guaranteed Idle Epochs", 25th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), The Hohns Hopkins University, Mar. 20-22, 1991,
     
16. I. Stavrakakis, M. Abdelaziz, D. Hoag, "A User Relief Approach to Congestion Control in ATM Networks", 6th Triangle Conference on Computer Communications (TriComm'93), April 20-21, 1993, Raleigh, NC. In Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks, ed.: I. Viniotis, R. Onvural, Plenum Press, 1993. (***)

 
17. S. Tsakiridou, I. Stavrakakis, "Queuing Analysis of a Versatile Class of Service Policies", 5th International Conference on Data Communication Systems and their Performance, Oct.26-28, 1993, Raleigh, NC. In High Speed Networks and Their Performance, ed.: H. Perros, I. Viniotis, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1994. (***)

 
18. R. Landry, I. Stavrakakis, "Multiplexing Generalized Periodic Markovian Sources with an Application to the Study of VBR Video", International Conference on Communications (ICC'94), May 2-5, 1994, N. Orleans. (***)

 
19. R. Landry, I. Stavrakakis, "Non-Deterministic Periodic Packet Streams and Their Impact on a Finite-Capacity Multiplexer", IEEE INFOCOM'94, June 12-16, 1994, Toronto, Canada. (***)

 
20. R. Landry, I. Stavrakakis, "End-to-End Delay and Jitter Analysis in ATM Networks", 2nd IFIP Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (IFIP ATM'94), July 4-6, 1994, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK. (**)

 
21. R. Landry, I. Stavrakakis, "A Queuing Study of Peak-Rate Enforcement for Jitter Reduction in ATM Networks", IEEE GLOBECOM'94, Nov. 37 - Dec. 1, 1994, San Francisco. (***)

 
22. M. Abdelaziz, I. Stavrakakis, "Open- and Closed-Loop Traffic Regulation Schemes for ATM Networks", IEEE GLOBECOM'94, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 1994, San Francisco. (***)

 
23. R. Landry, I. Stavrakakis, "Traffic Shaping of a Tagged Stream in an ATM Network: Approximate End-to-End Analysis", IEEE INFOCOM'95, April 2-6, 1995, Boston. (***)

 
24. M. Abdelaziz, I. Stavrakakis, "Study of an Adaptive Rate Control Scheme under Unequal Propagation Delays", International Conference on Communications (ICC'95), June 18-22, 1995, Seattle. (***)

 
25. M. Conti, E. Gregori, I. Stavrakakis, "Study of the Impact of Temporal/Spatial Correlations on a Tagged Traffic stream", pp. 194-208, 6th International Conference on Data Communication Systems and their Performance, Oct. 23-26, 1995, Istanbul, Turkey. In Data Communication Systems and their performance, ed.: S. Fdida, R. Onvural, Chapman & Hall, 1996. (***)

 
26. G. Chen, I. Stavrakakis, "ATM Traffic Management with Diversified Loss and Delay Requirements", IEEE INFOCOM'96, March 26-28, 1996, San Francisco. (***)

 
27. X. Wang, I. Stavrakakis, "Study of Scheduling for Group-based Quality of Service Delivery 4th IFIP Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, July 8-10, 1996, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K. (**)

 
28. S. Iatrou, I. Stavrakakis, "A Dynamic Real - Time Traffic Management Scheme with Good Throughput and Jitter Characteristics", pp. 215-226, 10th ITC Specialist Seminar in Control in Communications, Sept. 17-19, Lund, Sweden. (***)

 
29. J. Capone, I. Stavrakakis, "Scheduling VBR Traffic for Achievable QoS in a Shared Unbuffered Environment", International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC'96), Sept. 29 - Oct. 2, 1996, Boston, MA. (**)

 
30. M. Abdelaziz, I. Stavrakakis, "Study of the Effectiveness of Adaptive Rate Control for Slow Arrival Processes", IEEE GLOBECOM'96, Nov. 18-22, 1996, London, U.K. (***)

 
31. T. Dag, I. Stavrakakis, "Study of Impact of Network and Source Time Scales on Feedback-Based Congestion Control", SPIE International Conference on Voice, Video, and Data Communications, Nov. 18-22, 1996, Boston, MA. (**)

 
32. X. Wang, I. Stavrakakis, "Study of Scheduling for Group-based Quality of Service Delivery" Third volume on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, ed.: D. Kouvatsos, Chapman & Hall, 1997. (***)

 
33. J. Capone, I. Stavrakakis, "Achievable QoS in a Shared Wireless Channel" Session III, Paper No. 4, pp.1-6, Fourth IEEE Workshop on the Architecture and Implementation of High Performance Communication Systems (HPCS'97), June 23-25, 1997, Sani Beach, Chalkidiki, Greece. (**)

 
34. T. Tag, I. Stavrakakis, "Toward a Time-Scale Based Framework for ABR Traffic Management", Session I, Paper No. 1, pp.1-13, EXPERT Symposium on ATM Traffic Management, Sept. 17-18, 1997, Mykonos, Greece. (**)

 
35. J. Capone, I. Stavrakakis, "Delivering Diverse Delay/Dropping QoS Requirements in a TDMA Environment", IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking 1997 (MobiCom'97), pp.110-119, September 26-30, 1997, Budapest, Hungary. (***)

 
36. T. Tag, I. Stavrakakis, "On the Impact of Time Scales on Feedback Based Congestion Control", pp.1685-1689, IEEE GLOBECOM'97, Nov. 4-8, 1997, Phoenix, AZ. (***)

 
37. S. Iatrou, I. Stavrakakis, "An Integrated Regulation and Scheduling Scheme for Real Time Traffic Management", pp. 1378-1382, IEEE GLOBEBOM'97, Nov. 4-8, 1997, Phoenix, AZ. (***)

 
38. Z. Antoniou, I. Stavrakakis, "Earliest Due First Scheduling for Application-Level QoS Delivery", pp. 172-181, IEEE Conference on Protocols for Multimedia Systems - Multimedia Networking (PROMS-MmNet'97), Nov. 24-26, Santiago, Chile. (***)

 
39. T. Dag, I. Stavrakakis, "A Proactive Feedback Based Flow Control Scheme for ABR Services", pp. 1342-1346, 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC'97), Dec. 7-10, 1997, Sydney, Australia. (***)

 
40. J. Capone, I. Stavrakakis, "Achievable QoS in an Interface/Resource-Limited Shared Wireless Channel", pp. 283-294, Performance of Information and Communications Systems (PICS'98) May 25-28, 1998, Lund, Sweden. (***)

 
41. Z. Antoniou, I. Stavrakakis, "Efficient QoS Support of Continuous Media Stream Packets with Variable Size and Diverse Deadlines", International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT'98), June 22-25, 1998, Chalkidiki, Greece. (***)

 
42. M. Conti, E. Gregori, I. Stavrakakis, "Impact of Temporal/Spatial Correlations on Per Session Performance Measures: Multiple Node Case", 6th IFIP Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (IFIP ATM'98), July 20-22, 1998, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K. (**)

 
43. C. Santivanez, I. Stavrakakis, "Achievable Dropping Rates under Variable Frame TDMA Schemes in the presence of Deadlines and Overhead", pp. 337-344, Fifth International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communication, Oct. 12-14, 1998, Berlin, Germany. [Best Student Paper Award] (**)

 
44. T. Dag, I. Stavrakakis, "QoS Based ABR Service under the PF Based Flow Control Scheme", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'99), June 6-10, 1999, Vancouver, Canada. (***)

 
45. F. Abi-Nassif, W. Lee, I. Stavrakakis, "Offered Load Estimation in a Multimedia Cable Network System", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'99), June 6-10, 1999, Vancouver, Canada. (***)

 
46. Z. Antoniou, I. Stavrakakis, "Deadline Credit Scheduling Policy for Prerecorded Sources", IEEE GLOBECOM'99, Dec. 5-9, 1999, Rio, Brazil. (***)

 
47. C. Santivanez, I. Stavrakakis, "A Framework for a Multimode Routing Protocol for MANET Networks", IEEE WCNC'99, Sep. 18-22, 1999, N. Orleans. (***)

 
48. F. Abi-Nassif, W. Lee, I. Stavrakakis, "Robust Offered Load Estimation for Dynamic Bandwidth Management in Contention-Based Multiple Access Networks", Applied Telecommunications Symposium (ATS'2000), April 16-20, 2000, Washington, D.C, USA.

 
49. Z. Antoniou, I. Stavrakakis, "Efficient End-to-End Transport of Soft Real-Time Applications", pp. 470-482, IFIP Networking'2000, May 14-19, 2000, Paris, France. (***)

 
50. P. Balaouras, I. Stavrakakis, L. Merakos, "Potential and Limitations of a Teleteaching Environment based on H.323 Audio-Visual Communication Systems", TERENA Networking Conference 2000 (TNC 2000), May 2000, Lisbon, Portugal. (***)

 
51. N. Karelos, N. Laoutaris, P. Balaouras, I. Stavrakakis, "Endsystem Performance Issues for Continuous Media Streaming Applications", ", 8th IFIP Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM and IP Networks (IFIP ATM & IP 2000), July 17-19, 2000, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K. (***)

 
52. Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ioannis Tenidis and Ioannis Stavrakakis, "A Mechanism to Enable Differentiated Services QoS in HIPERPLAN/2", 8th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT'01), Bucharest, Romania, June 2001. (***)

 
53. N. Laoutaris, I. Stavrakakis, "Adaptive Playout Strategies for Packet Video Receivers with Finite Buffer Capacity", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'01), June 11-14, 2001, Helsinki. (***)

 
54. A. Panagakis, I. Stavrakakis, "Optimal Call Admission Control under Generalized Processor Sharing Scheduling", Ninth International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS'2001), June 6-8, 2001, Karlsruhe, Germany. (***)

 
55. P. Balaouras, I. Stavrakakis, "A Multi-State Congestion Control Scheme for Rate Adaptable Unicast Continuous Media Flows", 2001 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications" (IWDC'2001), Sept. 17-20, Taormina, Italy. (invited paper)

 
56. N. Laoutaris, .G. Boukeas, I. Stavrakakis, "Design of Optimal Playout Schedulers for Packet Video Receivers", Second International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services (QofIS'2001), Sept. 24-26, 2001, Coimbra, Portugal. [Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award] (***)

 
57. C. Santivanez, R. Ramanathan, I. Stavrakakis, "Making Link-State Routing Scale for Ad Hoc Networks", MobiHoc 2001, Oct. 4-5, 2001, Long Beach, CA, USA. (***)

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