TEILAR - CS

:: RESEARCH PROJECTS AND INTERESTS
He has participated in numerous European and Greek research projects dealing with the design, implementation and validation of communication networks. He has been mainly involved in the following projects: RACE 1014 (ATMOSPHERIC), RACE 2016 (STRATOSPHERIC), ESPRIT 5193 (MAXI, Metropolitan Area Communication System), ESPRIT 7314 (MANTIS, Metropolitan Area Network for Integrated Services). From 1996 to 1999 he has been working in the area of Service Creation over Open Distributed Platforms. In this area he has participated the ACTS projects ABS (AC206) and in the ACTS project ABROSE (AC316). In the framework of the IST Programme of the European Community he has been involved in the IST projects ANDROID, FAIN, CAUTION and CAUTION++. He was the scientific co-ordinator of several Greek research projects. His research interests include: active networks, nomadic computing, performance evaluation and traffic engineering, resource management for fixed and wireless networks. Dr. Karetsos is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, and of the Greek Association of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers.
:: PARTICIPATION IN THE ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
He has served as a reviewer and member of the Technical Committee for various conferences and journals within his scientific interests. Overall he has participated in the organizational aspects of the following international conferences: EDOC (Enterprise Distributed Object Computing) 1998, San Diego, California, USA IS&N (Intelligence in Services and Networks), Antwerp, Belgium 1998 EDOC (Enterprise Distributed Object Computing) 1999, Mannheim, Germany DSOM (Distributed Systems: Operations & Management), Austin, Texas, 2000 COMCON 8 (8^th International Conference on Advances in Communications and Control), Crete, Greece 2001 IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Barcelona, Spain, 2001 IWAN (International Workshop on Active Networks) 2001, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Radio Network Management & Mobile Location Workshops 2002, Athens, Greece IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2002 Radio Network Management & Mobile Location Workshops 2004, Athens, Greece IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Aveiro, Portugal, 2003 IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Lyon, France, 2004 European Wireless 2005, Nicosia, Cyprus IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit 2005, Dresden, Germany IEEE PIMRC 2005, Berlin Germany First Wireless Euro-Mediterranean International Conference (WEMIC 2006), Amman, Jordan European Wireless 2006, Athens, Greece CCDN 2006 (Content Caching and Distribution Networks), in conjunction with Networking 2006 IFIP Conference IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit 2006, Myconos, Greece, 4-8 June 2006 TEMU 2006, International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia, Crete, Greece IEEE PIMRC 2006, Helsinki, Finland Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications International Conference (MCWC 2006), The Fifth IASTED International Conference on COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (CSN 2006) August 28-30, 2006, Palma de Mallorca, Spain IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit 2007, Budapest, Hungary, 1-5, July 2007 IEEE PIMRC 2007, Athens, Greece, 3-6, September 2007 4^th Mobility Conference, International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems 12-14 September 2007, Singapore IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2007, 17-19 October 2007, Trondheim, Norway MM-CNIT 2007, Multi-Conference on Communications, Networking and Information Technology, 6-8 December 2007, Amman, Jordan MediaWiN 2008, Third Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks, July 6th, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco TEMU 2008, International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia, 16-18 July 2008, Ierapetra, Crete, Greece 5^th Mobility Conference, International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, Yilan, Taiwan, September 10-12, 2008. IEEE PIMRC 2008, 19^th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, September 15-18, Cannes, France 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Modeling Autonomic Communication Environments (MACE 2008) September 25-26, 2008, Samos Island, Greece WCNC 2009, IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, 5-8 April 2009, Budapest, Hungary IST Mobilight, 1st International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems, Athens, Greece, May 18-20, 2009 MediaWiN 2009, Fourth Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks, 5 July 2009 - Sousse, Tunisia IEEE PIMRC 2009, 20^th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, September 13-16, Tokyo, Japan EW2011, 17th European Wireless Conference, April 27-29, 2011, Vienna, Austria IEEE VTC 2011 Spring, 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference, May 15-18 2011, Budapest, Hungary ΙΕΕΕ ICT 2011, 18th International Conference on Telecommunications, May 8-11, 2011, Ayia Napa, Cyprus IEEE ISCC 2011, The 16^th IEEE symposium on Computers and Communications, June 28 - July 1, 2011, Corfu, Greece

:: 4G Mobile and Wireless Communications Technologies (18/08/2008)
Mobile and wireless communications are moving towards a new era that will be characterized by the seamless collaboration of heterogeneous systems, the need for high speed communications while on the move and for advanced services with quality guarantees. Recent market research studies show that most of the traffic in the future wireless networks will be produced by mobile multimedia services which are expected to proliferate by the year 2010. On the other hand mobile and wireless communications technology is becoming more and more important in developing countries where people demand fast deployment and low cost for broadband wireless internet services. The objective of this volume is to gather research and development on topics shaping the fourth generation (4G) in mobile and wireless communications and reveal the key trends and enabling technologies for 4G.
:: Admission control for QoS support in heterogeneous 4G wireless networks (01/05/2008)
Admission control plays a very important role in wireless systems, as it is one of the basic mechanisms for ensuring the quality of service offered to users. Based on the available network resources, it estimates the impact of adding or dropping a new session request. In both 2G and 3G systems, admission control refers to a single network. As we are moving towards heterogeneous wireless networks referred to as systems beyond 3G or 4G, admission control will need to deal with many heterogeneous networks and admit new sessions to a network that is most appropriate to supply the requested QoS. In this article we present the fundamentals of access-network-based admission control, an overview of the existing admission control algorithms for 2G and 3G networks, and finally give the design of a new admission control algorithm suitable for future 4G networks and specifically influenced by the objectives of the European WINNER project.
:: Towards the Wireless 2010 Vision: A Technology Roadmap (01/08/2007)
This paper describes an envisioned technology roadmap for the development of mobile and wireless communications until the year 2010. The roadmap description is based on a 3-years study (2001–2004) and monitoring of the technological developments of characteristically chosen mobile and wireless communication areas. The final definition of the technology roadmap was based on selected areas of high value that the authors consider as the corner aspects of the evolution of mobile communications. Two main groups of areas were defined and analyzed from a technological and from a service perspective. From technological perspective the areas of high research interest include radio technologies with effect on spectrum use, access and radio interface technologies, and technologies related to mobile terminals. From service perspective, we considered interactive broadcasting, location technologies and location based services (LBS) and personalization of services. The paper identifies the open issues to be solved to realize the future of wireless communications and describes the enabling technologies for next generation communications. It identifies the technology and non-technology barriers to development, deployment, as well as guidelines for the use of technology. Finally, a visionary scenario is described to illustrate the necessary evolution of the value chain for the successful deployment of any new service or technology.
:: A Hierarchical Radio Resource Management Framework for Integrating WLANs in Cellular Networking Environments (01/12/2005)
Over the last few years wireless local area networking (WLAN) has become a very important technology that offers high-speed communication services to mobile users in indoor environments. WLAN technology offers some very attractive characteristics such as high data rates, increased QoS capabilities and low installation costs that made many professionals claim that it will be the main opponent of IMT-2000, despite the enormous effort spent for the specification and implementation of 3G systems. However, WLAN present also many important constraints mainly related to their restricted coverage capabilities. On the other hand 3G systems are deployed gradually and carefully since their business prospects are not yet validated and is expected that 2G and 2G+ cellular systems will continue to play an important role for at least five more years. Thus our today’s wireless networking environment is in fact a conglomeration of all these technologies for which there is a strong need for cooperation. In this paper we describe a heterogeneous wireless networking environment, together with its features and user requirements. We explain the importance of the WLAN existence and we describe a framework and a system architecture that supports seamless integration of WLAN in heterogeneous cellular networking environments focusing on supporting efficient resource provision and management.
:: Practical Radio Resource Management in Wireless Systems (01/04/2004)
Despite frustrating customers and loss of revenue for telecommunications providers, cellular network congestion has remained a problem for which few solutions have been found. Covering GSM, GPRS, UMTS and beyond 3G systems, this practical book breaks new ground by providing you with proven techniques for decreasing blocking and dropped call rate due to network congestion. Using real measurements, this book clearly shows you that the maximum traffic that can be accommodated in a wireless network is not a constant value and varies significantly.