Anastasios Giannoulis

• Overview:

    I am a PhD candidate in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rice University, Houston, USA. I am also member of the Rice Networks Group (RNG), headed by Prof. Edward Knightly.

    My research interests include mobile networks, wireless systems design, performance evaluation, wide-spectrum and cognitive networks, client-access design as well as any area that may introduce important challenges in the future.

    During my PhD studies, I acquired a rich experience in designing, building and experimenting with wireless systems and testbeds.

• Education:

• Publications:

1. A. Giannoulis, E. W. Knightly, "Network Coding in Wide-Spectrum Networks: Design and Experimental Evaluation", in preparation for ACM MobiCom, 2012
2. A. Giannoulis, P. Patras, E. W. Knightly, "Mobile Access of Wide-Spectrum Networks: Design and Experimental Evaluation", in preparation for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2012 (draft available upon request)
3. A. Giannoulis, M. Fiore, E. W. Knightly, "Supporting Vehicular Mobility in Urban Multi-hop Wireless Networks", in Proceedings of ACM MobiSys, 2008, Breckenridge, CO, June 2008. (.pdf, .ps)
"FullRoaming Software" (HostAP-based driver) is available here.
4. A. Giannoulis, T. Salonidis, E. W. Knightly, "Congestion Control and Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks", in Proceedings of Fifth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2008), San Francisco, CA, June 2008. (.pdf)
5. A. Giannoulis, K. P. Tsoukatos, L. Tassiulas, "Lightweight Throughput-Optimal Power Control: Algorithms and Proof of Throughput Optimality", Technical Report (draft available upon request)
6. A. Giannoulis, K. P. Tsoukatos, L. Tassiulas, "Lightweight Cross-Layer Control Algorithms for Fairness and Energy Efficiency in CDMA Ad-Hoc Networks", in Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad-hoc and Wireless Networks, (WiOpt '06), Boston, MA, April 3 - 7, 2006. (.pdf)
7. A. Giannoulis, K. P. Tsoukatos, L. Tassiulas, "Maximum Throughput Power Control in CDMA Wireless Networks", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC' 06), Istanbul (Turkey), June 11 - 15, 2006. (.pdf)
8. A. Giannoulis, K. P. Tsoukatos, L. Tassiulas, "Cross-Layer Power Control in Wireless Networks", In special issue of ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, also in Performance 2005 poster session, Juan-les-Pins (France), October 2005. (.pdf)
9. A. Giannoulis, "Supporting Vehicular Mobility in Urban Multi-hop Wireless Networks", MS Thesis, Rice University, Houston, TX. (.pdf)

• Experience in Experimentation:

    - Deployed and experimented with a multi-band network testbed operating in 700 MHz, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz ad 5 GHz.
      Tesbed employed in evaluation of novel mobile-access and network-coding schemes for wide-spectrum networks.

    - Customized a hostAP driver to implement novel mobile-access schemes for mesh networks.
      Employed it in experimentation with a vehicular client and the TFA network, an urban mesh network of 20 APs.

    - Collected, via wardriving, an extensive set of measurements characterizing coverage and performance in the TFA network.
      Distributed the measurements to the research community, aiming to enable more realistic emulation models in future research.
      As of today, the website has been visited more than 3000 times from 1200 cities in 93 countries.

• Internships:

    - Viasat (Carlsbad, CA):    May09 - Aug09
      Developed a platform- and technology-agnostic software for remote evaluation of user experience in wireless networks.
      Software tested in operational satellite (Viasat) and urban mesh networks (TFA, Rice)

    - Intracom (Athens, Greece):    Jul01 - Sep01,   Aug02 - Oct02,   Jul03 - Sep03

• Awards:

• Personal: Born in Greece, in '83.