Research Interests

Design, Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Communication Networks; Traffic Engineering; Network Security; Social Networks.

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Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, expected.
Advisor: Associate Professor Konstantinos Psounis.
M.Sc. in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete , Chania, Greece, September 2008.
Advisors: Professor Michael Paterakis, and Assistant Professor Polychronis Koutsakis (McMaster University, Canada).
Professional 5-Year Diploma in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, March 2006.
Advisors: Professor Michael Paterakis, and Assistant Professor Polychronis Koutsakis (McMaster University, Canada).

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Research and Professional Experience

Intern, Alcatel-Lucent, Naperville, IL, USA, June 2011- August 2011.
Research Assistant, Networked Systems Performance and Design Laboratory (NetPD), Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2010 - Today.
Application Support, ATKOSoft S.A., "St. George" General Hospital, Chania, Greece, January 2008 - June 2008.
Research Assistant, Information Processing and Computer Networks Laboratory, Chania, Greece, September 2006 - September 2008.
Intern, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE S.A.), Division of Lefkada, Lefkada, Greece, July 2003 - August 2003.

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Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, September 2006 - July 2008.
- TEL-411: Computer Networks II, Spring 2008.
- TEL-401: Computer Networks I, Fall 2007.
- TEL-411: Computer Networks II, Spring 2007.
- TEL-401: Computer Networks I, Fall 2006.
Instructor, AXON Global Education Network, Chania, Greece, September 2006 - June 2008.
- Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, C programming.

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Professional Societies

IEEE Student Member.
IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) Voting Member.
ACM Student Member.
Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

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Awards

Ericsson Award of Excellence in Telecommunications, June 2007, for the best final year thesis at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at Technical University of Crete for the academic year 2005 - 2006.

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Academic Fellowships

USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA, 2010-2014.
Graduate Fellowship Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, USA, 2009-2010.
Graduate Fellowship, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, 2008.

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Publications

Journal Papers

A. Lazaris and P. Koutsakis, "Modeling Multiplexed Traffic from H.264/AVC Videoconference Streams", Computer Communications Journal, Elsevier Publ, Vol. 33, No. 10, 2010, pp. 1235-1242.
A.M. Kholaif, T.D. Todd, P. Koutsakis and A. Lazaris, "Energy Efficient H.263 Video Transmission in Power Saving Wireless LAN Infrastructure", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2010, pp. 142-153.
P. Koutsakis, M. Vafiadis and A. Lazaris, "A New Bandwidth Allocation Mechanism for Next Generation Wireless Cellular Networks", ACM Wireless Networks Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2010, pp. 331-353.
A. Lazaris and P. Koutsakis, "Pricing - Based Call Admission Control for Wireless MPEG-4 Traffic", Computer Communications Journal, Elsevier Publ, Vol. 32, No. 17, 2009, pp. 1781-1789.
A. Lazaris, P. Koutsakis and M. Paterakis, "On Modeling Video Traffic Originating from Multiplexed MPEG-4 Videoconference Streams", Performance Evaluation Journal, Elsevier Publ., Vol. 65, No. 1, 2008, pp. 51-70.

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Conference Papers

A. Lazaris and P. Koutsakis, "Modeling Video Traffic from Multiplexed H.264 Videoconference Streams", in Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, December 2008, New Orleans, USA.
P. Koutsakis and A. Lazaris, "Integrating Multimedia Traffic with Strict QoS in Wireless Cellular Networks" (invited paper), in Proc. of the IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), August 2008, Limin Hersonissou, Crete, Greece.
A. Lazaris and P. Koutsakis, "Revenue-Based Call Admission Control for MPEG-4 Wireless Videoconference Traffic", in Proc. of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD, in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM), June 2008, Newport Beach, California, USA.
P. Koutsakis, M. Giannotta, A. Ianos and A. Lazaris, "Scheduling for H.264 Video Traffic over GEO Satellite Networks", in Proc. of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC), October 2007, Chania, Greece.
P. Koutsakis and A. Lazaris, "A New MAC Protocol Based on Multimedia Traffic Prediction in Satellite Systems", in Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN), May 2006, St. Petersburg, Russia, published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.
A. Lazaris, P. Koutsakis and M. Paterakis, "On Modeling Video Traffic from Multiplexed MPEG-4 Videoconference Streams", in Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN), May 2006, St. Petersburg, Russia, published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.