Welcome!                                                                                                   

My name is Eftychia Datsika and I am an experienced researcher in the field of Mobile Telecommunications (LinkedIn, Github, ResearchGate, Scholar) with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry.  I work as IT Consultant currently involved in public sector ICT project management in the ICT department of Municipality of Ioannina, Greece.

Recently, I have been a member of Baseband Lab, Huawei Technologies, Sweden. Previously, I was a researcher at IQUADRAT Informatica S.L., Spain. My research interests lie in the areas of mobile and wireless network architecture design and performance optimization.

I hold a PhD degree (2018, UPC Best Doctoral thesis award in ICT, 2020) focused on QoS-oriented 5G network resource management from Signal Theory and Communications (TSC) Department, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain, an MSc degree (2012) with thesis focused on wireless sensor network cross-layer optimization and a BSc degree (2010) in Computer Science, University of Ioannina, Greece.

I have gained significant teaching experience working as an instructor of Informatics related courses in various public institutions in Greece. I also hold a Pedagogical Proficiency certificate (ASPETE, 2014).

Research interests

• Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)

• Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC)

• Edge Cloud Continuum

• End-to-end resource management for 5G and beyond 5G network deployments

• Network slicing and virtualization with SDN/NFV

• Fronthaul architectures and scheduling

• D2D communication

• Energy efficient network design

• Baseband system design

• Video quality enhancement

• Wireless sensor network resource allocation

Tools

• Machine learning

• Multi-objective optimization

• Game theory

• Matching theory

• System level simulators

Selected research outputs

Journals and Magazines

1. E. Datsika, et al., SDN-Enabled Resource Management for Converged Fi-Wi 5G Fronthaul, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IF: 9.144), vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 2772-2788, Sept. 2021. 

2. E. Datsika, et al., Matching Theory for Over-the-top Service Provision in 5G Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IF: 4.951), vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 5452-5464, Aug. 2018.

3. E. Datsika, et al., Software Defined Network Service Chaining for OTT Service Providers in 5G Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine (IF: 9.270), vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 124-131, Nov. 2017.

4. E. Datsika, et al., Cross-Network Performance Analysis of Network Coding Aided Cooperative Outband D2D Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IF: 5.888), vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 3176-3188, May 2017.

International conferences

1. E. Datsika and N. D. Kallimanis, Deep Reinforcement Learning based Uplink Configuration in Multi-RIS assisted MEC network, IEEE WCNC 2025, 24-27 March,  Milan, Italy.

2. E. Datsika, et al., End-to-End Delay Performance of Analog Fiber Wireless Architecture for 5G NR Fronthaul, 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2020 (invited).

3. E. Datsika, et al., QoS-aware resource management for converged Fiber Wireless 5G Fronthaul networks, IEEE Globecom, 9-13 December 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

4. E. Datsika, et al., Green Resource Management for Over-The-Top Services in 5G Networks using Matching Theory, IEEE ICC, 20-24 May 2018, Kansas City, MO, USA.

Grants and distinctions:

1. UPC Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Information and Communication Technologies (UPC Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat TIC) - Academic Year: 2017-18 

2. Scholarship for excellent performance in the national exams (Greece, 2005) and for the academic years 2005-2006, 2006-2007 (Anastasiou Filhtou Bequest) 

Research activities

Talks and presentations:

1. ICTON 2020, End-to-end delay performance of analog fiber wireless architecture for 5G NR fronthaul, Bari, Italy, July 2020 (invited presentation).

2. IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, QoS-aware resource management for converged Fiber Wireless 5G Fronthaul networks, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 2018.

3. IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, Matching Game Based Virtualization in Shared LTE-A Networks, Washington DC, USA, December 2016.

4. IEEE ICC 2015, Adaptive Cooperative Network Coding based MAC protocol for Device-to-Device Communication, London, UK, June 2015.

Volunteering in research community:

1. TPC memberships:

      o IEEE ICC (2019-2025)

      o IEEE GLOBECOM (2020-2025)

      o IEEE WCNC (2024-2025)

      o IEEE MeditCom (2021-2022)

      o IEEE VTC (VTC2022-Spring Recent Results and Workshops, VTC2025-Spring)

2. Reviewer:

      o Journals: IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology (2018, 2020, 2021), IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (2015), IEEE Access (2019-2021, since 2024), IEEE Com. Magazine  (2016), IEEE Network Magazine (2016), IEEE Networking Letters (2020-2022), Engineering Reports (2019, Reviewer of the month March 2019), etc.

     o Conferences: IEEE ICC (since 2015), IEEE GLOBECOM (since 2015), IEEE CCNC (2015, 2017-2019), IEEE WCNC (2016, 2017), IEEE VTC (2015, 2016), etc.

Grants and distinctions:

1. UPC Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Information and Communication Technologies (UPC Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat TIC) - Academic Year: 2017-18 

2. Scholarship for excellent performance in the national exams (Greece, 2005) and for the academic years 2005-2006, 2006-2007 (Anastasiou Filhtou Bequest) 

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