Publications

PhD Thesis 

Vasilis Sourlas, "Replication Management and Cache Aware Routing in Information-Centric Networking", Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece, 2013.

Book Chapters

[B.01] Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Dimitrios Katsaros and Leandros Tassiulas, "Content Replication and Delivery in Information-Centric Networks", in Advanced Content Delivery and Streaming in the Cloud by Wiley Publishers, USA, May 2014.

International Journals

[J.17] Ip. Sartzetakis, P. Soumplis, P. Pantazopoulos, K. V. Katsaros, V. Sourlas and Em. Varvarigos, “Resource Allocation for Distributed Machine Learning and General Tasks” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM), 2023.

[J.16] Georgios Drainakis, Panagiotis Pantazopoulos, Konstantinos V. Katsaros, Vasilis Sourlas, Angelos Amditis, Dimitra I. Kaklamani "From Centralized to Federated Learning: Exploring Performance and End-to-End Resource Consumption", in Computer Networks - Elsevier, Volume 25, 2023

[J.15] Onur Ascigil, Argyrios Tasiopoulos, Truong Khoa Phan, Vasilis Sourlas, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou, “Resource Provisioning and Allocation in Function-as-a-Service Edge-Clouds”, in IEEE in Transactions on Services Computing (IEEE TSC), Volume 15, Issue 4,  pp. 2410-2424, July 2021.

[J.14] Vasilis Sourlas, Onur Ascigil, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou, "Enhancing Information Resilience in Disruptive Information-Centric Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM) , Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 746-760, June 2018.

[J.13] Lazaros Gkatzikis, Vasilis Sourlas, Carlo Fiscione and Iordanis Koutsopoulos, “Low Complexity Content Replication through Clustering in Content-Delivery Networks,” in Computer Networks - Elsevier, Volume 121, pp. 137-151, July 2017.

[J.12] George Parisis, Vasilis Sourlas, Konstantinos V. Katsaros, Wei Koong Chai, George Pavlou and Ian Wakeman, "Efficient Content Delivery through Fountain Coding in Opportunistic Information-Centric Networks," in Computer Communications - Elsevier, Volume 100, pp. 118-128, March 2017.

[J.11] Konstantinos V. Katsaros, Vasilis Sourlas, Ioannis Psaras, Sergi Rene and George Pavlou, "Information-Centric Connectivity," in IEEE Communications Magazine (Communications, Caching and Computing for Content-Centric Mobile Networks), Volume 54, Issue 9, pp. 50-57, September 2016.

[J.10] Daphne Tuncer, Vasilis Sourlas,  Marinos Charalambides, Maxim Claeys, Jeroen Famaey, George Pavlou and Filip De Turck, "Scalable Cache Management in ISP-operated Content Delivery Services," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications - S.I. Video Distribution over Future Internet (IEEE JSAC), Volume 34, Issue 8, pp. 2063-2076, August 2016.

[J.09] Vasilis Sourlas, Ioannis Psaras, Lorenzo Saino and George Pavlou, "Efficient Hash-Routing and Domain Clustering Techniques for Information-Centric Networks," in Computer Networks - Elsevier, Volume 103, pp. 67-83, April 2016.

[J.08] Konstantinos Poularakis, George Iosifidis, Vasilis Sourlas and Leandros Tassiulas, "Exploiting Caching and Multicast for 5G Wireless Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IEEE TWC), Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 2995 - 3007, April 2016.

[J.07]  Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas, "A Novel Cache Aware Routing Scheme for Information-Centric Networks", in Computer Networks – Elsevier,  Volume 59,  pp. 44-61, February 2014.

[J.06] Vasilis Sourlas,  Lazaros Gkatzikis, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas, "Distributed Cache Management in Information-Centric Networks", in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM), Volume 10, Issue 3, pp. 286-299, September 2013.

[J.05] Mohamed Diallo, Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Serge Fdida, and Leandros Tassiulas, "A Content-Based Publish/Subscribe framework for Large-scale Content Delivery", in Computer Networks – Elsevier,  Volume 57, Issue 4, pp. 924-943, November 2012.

[J.04] Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Georgios S. Paschos,  Dimitrios Katsaros, and Leandros Tassiulas, "Storage Planning and Replica Assignment in Content-Centric Publish/Subscribe Networks", in S.I. on Internet-based Content Delivery, Computer Networks – Elsevier, Volume 55, Issue 18, pp. 4021-4032, December 2011.

[J.03] Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Vasilis Sourlas, Ioannis Mpakolas and Manos Varvarigos, “A Comparison of Centralized and Distributed Meta-Scheduling Architectures for Computation and Communication Tasks in Grid Networks”, Computer Communications – Elsevier, Volume 32, Issue 7-10, pp. 1172 – 1184, May 2009.

[J.02] Manos Varvarigos, Vasilis Sourlas and Kostas Christodoulopoulos, “Routing and Scheduling Connections in Networks that Support Advance Reservations”, Computer Networks – Elsevier, Volume 52, Issue 15, pp 2988-3006, October 2008.

[J.01] Kostas Manousakis, Vasilis Sourlas, Kostas Christodoulopoulos, Manos Varvarigos and Kuriakos Vlachos, “A Bandwidth Monitoring Mechanism Enhancing SNMP to Record Timed Resource Reservations”, Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), Volume 14, No 4, pp. 583-597, December 2006.

International Conferences

[C.49] I. Sioutis, V. Angelakis, A. Antonakopoulou, V. Sourlas, Id. Grundel, T. Schmidt Neset, A. Amditis, “A methodology for designing sustainable urban mobility interventions towards climate neutral cities, Plastira Lake, Karditsa, Greece, September 2024.

[C.48L. Gkatzikis, I. Neokosmidis, Th. Rokkas, V. Sourlas, “The PDI developments and CCAM ecosystem analysis as per the PoDIUM project” in CSUM 2024, Plastira Lake, Karditsa, Greece, September 2024.

[C.47] G. Drainakis, P. Pantazopoulos, K. V. Katsaros, V. Sourlas, A. Amditis and D. Kaklamani, “Distributed Predictive QoS in Automotive Environments under Concept Drift” in IFIP Networking 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2024.

[C.46] A. Antonakopoulou, E. Grigoriadou,  P. Alexiou,  I. Leventopoulou,  I. Sioutis, V. Sourlas, A. Amditis and E. Latsa, “Approach to ensure inclusiveness for the identification of real mobility and public space re-design needs towards sustainability" in the 15th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2024), Nice, France, June 2024.

[C.45] Ip. Sartzetakis, P. Pantazopoulos, K. V. Katsaros, V. Sourlas and Em. Varvarigos, “Dynamic Edge/Cloud Resource Allocation for Distributed Computation under Semi-Static Demands,in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2024), Denver, USA, June 2024.

[C.44] G. Savva, K. Manousakis, V. Sourlas and G. Ellinas, “Joint Content Placement and Secure Lightpath Provisioning in EONs Supporting Anycast Traffic” in IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD 2022), Paris, France, Nov. 2022. (Best Paper Award)

[C.43] Ip. Sartzetakis, P. Soumplis, P. Pantazopoulos, K. V. Katsaros, V. Sourlas and Em. Varvarigos, “Resource Allocation for Distributed Machine Learning at the Edge-Cloud Continuumin IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2022), Seoul, South Korea, May 2022.

[C.42] V. Sourlas, A. Rizk, K. V. Katsaros, P. Pantazopoulos, G. Drainakis and A. Amditis, "A Distributed ML Framework for Service Deployment in the 5G-based Automotive Vertical” in IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE MeditCom), September 2021.

[C.41] G. Drainakis, P. Pantazopoulos, K. V. Katsaros, V. Sourlas and A. Amditis, “On the Resource Consumption of Distributed ML” in IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (IEEE LANMAN), July 2021.

[C.40] G. Drainakis, P. Pantazopoulos, K. V. Katsaros, V. Sourlas and A. Amditis, "On the distribution of ML workloads to the network edge and beyond", to appear in the 1st International Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning and Fog Networks (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021), May 2021 .

[C.39] G. Drainakis, K. V. Katsaros, P. Pantazopoulos, V. Sourlas and A. Amditis, "Federated vs. Centralized Machine Learning under Privacy-elastic Users: A Comparative Analysis", in 19th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA),  online conference, November 2020.

[C.38] P. Soumplis, P. Kokkinos, D. Lagos, Ar. Kretsis, V. Sourlas and Em. Varvarigos, "Network Slicing and Workload Placement in Megacities", in 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Bari, Italy, July 2020.

[C.37] M. Buchholz , J. Strohbeck, A. Adaktylos, F. Vogl, G. Allmer, S. C. Barros, Y. Lassoued, M. Wimmer, B. Hätty, G. Massot, C. Ponchel, M. Bretin, V. Sourlas, A. Amditis, "Enabling automated driving by ICT infrastructure: A reference architecture", in 8th Transport Research Arena TRA 2020,  Helsinki, Finland, April 2020.

[C.36] Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Kostas Katsalis, Vasilis Sourlas and Angelos Amditis, “Virtual CDN Providers: Profit Maximization through Collaboration” in IEEE Globecom 2019 Communication QoS, Reliability & Modeling Symposium, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, December 2019.

[C.35] Anastasios Rigos, Dimitrios Sofianos, Vasilis Sourlas, Evangelos Sdongos, Miltiadis Koutsokeras and Angelos Amditis, "A resilient, multi-access communication solution for USaR operations: the INACHUS approach", in 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) EN4PPDR workshop, Limassol, Cyprus, October 2018. 

[C.34] Panagiotis Mysiris, Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Anastasios D. Doulamis, Vasilis Sourlas and Angelos Amditis, "Pervasive 3D Reconstruction to Identify Hidden 3D Survival Spaces for Search and Rescue Management", in 13th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (IEEE-PICom'18), Athens, Greece, August 2018. 

[C.33] Onur Ascigil, Truong Khoa Phan, Argyrios Tasiopoulos, Vasilis Sourlas, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou, “On Uncoordinated Service Placement in Edge Clouds”, in 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2017), Hong Kong, December 2017.

[C.32] Onur Ascigil, Vasilis Sourlas, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou, “A Native Content Discovery Mechanism for Information-centric Networks”, in 4th ACM Conference on Information-centric Networking (ACM ICN 2017), Berlin, Germany, September 2017. 

[C.31] Wei Koong Chai, Vasilis Sourlas and George Pavlou, “Providing Information Resilience through Modularity-based Caching in Perturbed Information-Centric Networks,” in 29th ITC, Genoa, Italy, September 2017.

[C.30] Ioannis Psaras, Vasilis Sourlas, Denis Shtefan, Sergi Rene, Mayutan Arumaithurai, Dirk Kutscher and George Pavlou, "On the Feasibility of a User-Operated Mobile Content Distribution Network" in IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Macau, China, June 2017.

[C.29] Konstantinos V. Katsaros, Denis Shtefan, Vasilis Sourlas, Ioannis Psaras, Sergi Rene and George Pavlou, "Information-aware access network selection" in IEEE INFOCOM NOM (Name-Oriented Mobility: Architecture, Algorithms and Applications) workshop, Atlanta, USA, May 2017.

[C.28] Ioannis Psaras, Sergi Rene, Konstantinos V. Katsaros, Nikolaos Bezirgiannidis, Vasilis Sourlas, Sotiris Diamantopoulos, Ioannis Komnios, Vassilis Tsaoussidis George Pavlou, "Keyword-based Mobile Application Sharing," in ACM MobiArch, 2016, New York, USA, October 2016. (Best Paper Award) 

[C.27] Onur Ascigil, Vasilis Sourlas, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou, “Opportunistic Off-Path Content Discovery in Information-Centric Networks”, in IEEE LANMAN, Rome, Italy, June 2016.  (Best Paper Award)

[C.26] Argyrios Tasiopoulos, Ioannis Psaras, Vasilis Sourlas and George Pavlou, "Tube Streaming: Modelling Collaborative Media Streaming in Urban Railway Networks," in 15th IFIP NETWORKING, Vienna, Austria, May 2016.

[C.25] George Parisis, Vasilis Sourlas, Konstantinos V. Katsaros, Wei Koong Chai and George Pavlou, “Enhancing Multi-Source Content Delivery in Content-Centric Networks with Fountain Coding,” in Content Caching and Delivery in Wireless Networks workshop (CCDWN 2015) co-located with ACM CoNEXT, Heidelberg, Germany, December 2015.

[C.24] Lazaros Gkatzikis, Vasilis Sourlas, Carlo Fiscione, Iordanis Koutsopoulos and György Dán, “Clustered Content Replication for Hierarchical Content Delivery Networks,” in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015), London, UK, June 2015.

[C.23] Vasilis Sourlas, Leandros Tassiulas, Ioannis Psaras and George Pavlou, “Information Resilience through User-Assisted Caching in Disruptive Content-Centric Networks” in 14th IFIP NETWORKING, Toulouse, France, May 2015. (Best Paper Award)

[C.22] Vasilis Sourlas, Panos Georgatsos, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas, “Partition-based Caching in Information-Centric Networks ” in 7th IEEE International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom) (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM), Hong Kong, April 2015.

[C.21] Kostas Katsalis, Vasilis Sourlas, Thanasis Papaioannou, Thanasis Korakis and Leandros Tassiulas, “Content Placement in Heterogeneous End-to-end Virtual Networks,” in 30th ACM  Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC),Salamanca, Spain, April 2015.

[C.20] Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Panos Georgatsos and Leandros Tassiulas, ``Cache-Aware Traffic Engineering in Information-Centric Networks,'' in IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), pp. 295-299, Athens, Greece, December 2014.

[C.19] Konstantinos Poularakis, Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas, "On Exploiting Network Coding in Cache-Capable Small-Cell Networks," in Smart Video-multicast for Next-generation Multi-hop Networks (SmartVision) workshop of 19th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC 2014), pp. 1-5, Madeira, Portugal, June 2014.

[C.18] Kostas Katsalis, Vasilis Sourlas, Thanasis Korakis and Leandros Tassiulas, "A Cloud-based Content Replication Framework Over Multi-Domain Environments," in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2014), pp. 2926-2931, Sydney, Australia, June 2014.

[C.17] Vasilis Sourlas and Leandros Tassiulas, "Replication Management and Cache Aware Routing in Information-Centric Networks," in IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014), pp. 1-7, Krakow, Poland, May 2014 (Dissertation Session).

[C.16] Konstantinos Poularakis, George Iosifidis, Vasilis Sourlas and Leandros Tassiulas, "Multicast-aware Caching for Small Cell Networks," in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2014.

[C.15] Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas, ``Cache-Aware Routing in Information-Centric Networks,'' in IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2013), pp. 582-588, Ghent, Belgium, May 2013.

[C.14] Vasilis Sourlas and Leandros Tassiulas, ``Effective Cache Management and Performance Limits in ICN,'' in International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2013), pp. 955-960, San Diego, USA, January 2013.

[C.13] Paris Flegkas, Vasilis Sourlas, George Parisis and  Dirk Trossen, ``Storage Replication in Information-Centric Networking,'' in International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2013), pp. 850 - 855, San Diego, USA, January 2013.

[C.12] Dimitris Syrivelis, George Parisis, Dirk Trossen, Paris Flegkas, Vasilis Sourlas, Thanasis Korakis and Leandros Tassiulas, "Pursuing a Software Defined Information-centric Network," in European Workshop on Software Defined Network (invited paper), Darmstadt, Germany, October 2012.

[C.11] Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Lazaros Gkatzikis and Leandros Tassiulas, "Autonomic Cache Management in Information-Centric Networks" in 13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2012), pp. 121-129, Hawaii, USA, April 2012.

[C.10] Dirk Trossen, Xenofon Vasilakos, Paris Flegkas, Vasilis Sourlas and George Parisis, "Mobility Work Re-Visited Not Considered Harmful", in IEEE WMCNT 2011, pp. 1-8, Budapest, Hungary,  October 2011.

[C.09] Vasilis Sourlas, Lazaros Gkatzikis and Leandros Tassiulas, "On-Line Storage Management with Distributed Decision Making for Content-Centric Networks" in 7th Conference on Next Generation Internet (NGI) 2011, pp. 1-8, Kaiseslautern, Germany, June 2011. 

[C.08] Mohamed Diallo, Serge Fdida, Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas, "Leveraging caching for Internet-scale content-based publish/subscribe networks" in IEEE ICC 2011, pp. 1-5, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.

[C.07] Vasilis Sourlas, Georgios S. Paschos, Petteri Mannersalo, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas, “Modeling the dynamics of caching in content-based publish/subscribe systems” in 26th ACM  Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Taiwan, March 2011.

[C.06] Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Georgios S. Paschos, Dimitrios Katsaros and Leandros Tassiulas, “Storing and Replication in Topic-Based Publish/Subscribe Networks” in IEEE Globecom 2010 Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium,Miami, USA, December 2010.

[C.05] Vasilis Sourlas, Georgios S. Paschos, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas, “Mobility support through caching in content-based publish/subscribe networks” in 5th International Workshop on Content Delivery Networks (CDN 2010) in conjuction with 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010), pp. 715-720, Melbourne, Australia, May 2010.

[C.04] Vasilis Sourlas, Georgios S. Paschos, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas, “Caching in content-based publish/subscribe systems” in IEEE Globecom 2009 Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, pp. 1-6, Hawaii, USA, December 2009.

[C.03] Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Georgios S. Paschos and Leandros Tassiulas, “Distribute, Store and Retrieve Management Policies on Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks using the Content Delivery Publish/Subscribe Paradigm” in 3rd IEEE Workshop on  Autonomic Communications and Network Management - IM 2009 / ACNM 2009, pp 169-176, NY, USA, June 2009. 

[C.02] Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas, “Policy Distribution using the Publish-Subscribe Paradigm for Managing MANETs” in 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008) held as part of Manweek 2008,pp 14-19, Samos, Greece, August 2008.

[C.01] Manos Varvarigos, Vasilis Sourlas and Kostas Christodoulopoulos, “Routing and Scheduling Connections in Networks that Support Advance Reservations”, in 5th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (BROADNETS 2008) pp. 536-543, September 2008.