PhD Thesis & Publications List

PhD Thesis, 2015.

Title: Coexistence and energy efficiency in wireless networks

The Thesis manuscript can be found here The work included in the Thesis is based on the following peer-reviewed technical papers:

1. I. Glaropoulos, and V. Fodor, "Spectrum sharing with low power primary networks", IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 2014. (PDF)

2. I. Glaropoulos, M. Lagana, V. Fodor, and C. Petrioli, "Energy Efficient COGnitive-MAC for Sensor Networks under WLAN coexistence", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. (Tech. Report)

3. I. Glaropoulos, and V. Fodor, "Discrete stochastic optimization based parameter estimation for modeling partially observed WLAN spectrum activity", Infocommunications Journal 4(2), 2012. (PDF)

4. I. Glaropoulos, A. Vizcaino Luna, V. Fodor, and M. Papadopouli, "Closing the gap between traffic workload and channel occupancy models for 802.11 networks ", Elsevier Ad hoc Networks, 2014. (PDF)

5. V. Vukadinovic, I. Glaropoulos, and S. Mangold, "Enhanced power saving mode for low-latency communication in multi-hop 802.11 networks", Elsevier Ad hoc Networks, 2014. (PDF)

6. I. Glaropoulos, and V. Fodor "Towards Energy-balanced, Low-delay RPL Tree Formation by Individual Agents", 2015 (submitted to IEEE Med-Hoc-Net 2015). (PDF)

  

  

Extended List of Publications

The complete list of research publications - including those not part of the Thesis - can be found here. For easy access, the publications are organized by scientific field.

A. Cognitive Radio Networking 

A1. V. Fodor, and I. Glaropoulos, "Detecting low power primary signals via distributed sensing to support opportunistic spectrum access", IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2009. (PDF)

A2. I. Glaropoulos, and V. Fodor, "On the Efficiency of Distributed Spectrum Sensing in Ad-hoc Cognitive Radio Networks", ACM MobiCOM, Workshop on Cognitive Radio Networks, 2009. (PDF)

A3. A. Nahvi, V. Fodor, and I. Glaropoulos, "Performance of deterministic local sensing aggregation under interference", ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, 2010. (PDF)

A4. I. Glaropoulos, and V. Fodor, "Spectrum sharing with low power primary networks", IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 2014. (PDF)

A5. H. Shokri-Ghadikolaei, I. Glaropoulos, V. Fodor, and C. Fischione, "Energy efficient spectrum sensing and handoff strategies in cognitive radio networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, (submitted) (PDF)

B. Wireless Sensor Networks

B1. V. Fodor and I. Glaropoulos, "On the gains of deterministic placement and coordinated activation in sensor networks" , IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008. (PDF)

B2. I. Glaropoulos, V. Fodor, L. Pescosolido, and C. Petrioli, "Cognitive WSN Transmission Control for Energy Efficiency under WLAN Coexistence", ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, 2011. (PDF)

B3. M. Lagana, I. Glaropoulos, V. Fodor, and C. Petrioli, "Modeling and Estimation of Partially Observed WLAN activity for Cognitive WSNs", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2012. (PDF)

B4. I. Glaropoulos, M. Lagana, V. Fodor, and C. Petrioli, "Energy Efficient COGnitive-MAC for Sensor Networks under WLAN coexistence", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (minor revision). (Tech. Report)

C. WLAN traffic characterization

C1. I. Glaropoulos, and V. Fodor, "Discrete stochastic optimization based parameter estimation for modeling partially observed WLAN spectrum activity", Infocommunications Journal, 4(2), 2012. (PDF)

C2. I. Glaropoulos, V. Fodor, A. Vizcaino Luna, and M. Papadopouli, "WLAN Channel Occupancy Modeling and Validation", Swedish Communication Technologies Workshop, 2013 (PDF) (Poster PDF)

C3. I. Glaropoulos, A. Vizcaino Luna, V. Fodor, and M. Papadopouli, "Closing the gap between traffic workload and channel occupancy models for 802.11 networks ", Elsevier Ad hoc Networks, 2014. (PDF)

D. Energy-efficient WLAN Protocol Stack Design

D1. I. Glaropoulos, S. Mangold, and V. Vukadinovic, "Enhanced IEEE 802.11 Power Saving for Multi-Hop Toy-to-Toy Communication", IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, 2013. (PDF)

D2. V. Vukadinovic, I. Glaropoulos, and S. Mangold, "Enhanced power saving mode for low-latency communication in multi-hop 802.11 networks", Elsevier Ad hoc Networks, 2014. (PDF)

E. Internet of Things

E1. I. Glaropoulos, V. Vukadinovic, and S. Mangold, "Contiki80211: An 802.11 Radio Link Layer for the Contiki OS", IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, 2014. (PDF)

E2. I. Glaropoulos, V. Vukadinovic, and S. Mangold, "Implementation and performance evaluation of an 802.11 radio link layer for the Contiki OS", IEEE Internet of Things Journal (under submission). (PDF)

E3. I. Glaropoulos, and V. Fodor "The Stability of Multiple Objective RPL Tree Formation", (submitted to IEEE Med-HocNet'15), 2015. (PDF)