Conferences

Conference Publications

[C57] K. Bora, E. Kartsakli and E. Quiñones Moreno, "Temporal Fusion Transformer Based Vertical Scaling Management for Kubernetes," 2025 IEEE 18th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Helsinki, Finland, 2025, pp. 468-473, doi: 10.1109/CLOUD67622.2025.00058.

[C56] D. Shafaie, J. Hassanpour, A. Karkehabadi, E. Quiñones and E. Kartsakli, "Competitive Task Offloading in Hierarchical Edge-Cloud Compute Continuum," 2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN), Athens, Greece, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN66355.2025.11349435.

[C55] E. Kartsakli,et al., "Advanced Edge Computing Architecture for AI-Driven Automation and Slicing in Beyond 5G, 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024).

[C54]J. Pérez-Romero, O. Tuna, O. Sallent, N. Bartzoudis, E. Kartsakli, et. al,"On the Deployment of an AI-driven Power Control Mechanism for D-MIMO in Beyond 5G Scenarios", IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN'24).

[C53] J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, I. Villa, E. Kartakli, et al., "Towards Trustworthy Reinforcement Learning-based Resource Management in Beyond 5G," 2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), Antwerp, Belgium, 2024, pp. 806-811, doi: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit60053.2024.10597001

[C52] E. Kartsakli et al., “An Evolutionary Edge Computing Architecture for the Beyond 5G Era”, 2023 IEEE 28th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 61-67, doi: 10.1109/CAMAD59638.2023.10478426. 

[C51] E. Kartsakli et al., "AI-Powered Edge Computing Evolution for Beyond 5G Communication Networks", EuCNC/6G Summit, June 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden. 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit58263.2023.10188371

[C50] A. Antonopoulos, P. V. Mekikis, E. Kartsakli, "Network Neutrality in Content Cache Sharing: A Bankruptcy Problem Formulation", IEEE ICC 2021, Canada. 10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500336 

[C49] B. Ojaghi, F. Adelantado, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, C. Verikoukis, "Sliced-RAN: Joint Slicing and Functional Split in Future 5G Radio Access Networks", IEEE ICC, 20-24 May 2019, Shanghai, China. 

[C48] A. Mesodiakaki, P. Maniotis, G. Kalfas, C. Vagionas, J. Vardakas, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, C. Verikoukis, N. Pleros, "Delay Analysis of a Gated Service MAC Protocol for Fiber-Wireless 5G MmWave C-RANs", IEEE ICC, 20-24 May 2019, Shanghai, China.

[C47] A. Mesodiakaki, P. Maniotis, G. Kalfas, C. Vagionas, J. Vardakas, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, E. Datsika, C. Verikoukis, N. Pleros, "A Gated Service MAC Protocol for 5G Fiber-Wireless Cloud-Radio Access Networks", ONDM 2019, 13-16 May 2019, Athens, Greece. 

[C46] E. Datsika, E. Kartsakli, J. Vardakas, A. Antonopoulos, G. Kalfas, P. Maniotis, Ch. Vagionas, N. Pleros and C .Verikoukis “QoS-aware resource management for converged Fiber Wireless 5G Fronthaul networks”, IEEE Globecom, 9-13 Dec. 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 

[C45] I. Sarigiannis, K. Ramantas, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, and C. Verikoukis,  “Application and Network VNF migration in a MEC-enabled 5G Architecture”, IEEE CAMAD, 17-19 Sept. 2018, Barcelona, Spain. 

[C44] K. Ramantas, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, P-V. Mekikis, J. Vardakas and C. Verikoukis, “A C-RAN based 5G platform with a fully virtualized, SDN controlled optical/wireless Fronthaul”, IEEE ICTON 2018, 1-5 July 2018, Bucharest, Romania.  

[C43] J. Vardakas, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, S. Papaioannou, G. Kalfas, N. Pleros, C. Verikoukis, "Quality of Service Provisioning in High-Capacity 5G Fronthaul/Backhaul Networks", IMCL 2017, 30 Nov.-1 Dec. 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

[C42] K. Ramantas, E. Kartsakli, M. Irazabal, A. Antonopoulos, C. Verikoukis, "Implementation of an SDN-enabled 5G Experimental Platform for Core and Radio Access Network Support", IMCL 2017, 30 Nov.-1 Dec. 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece.

[C41] M. Oikonomakou, P. Kaloudis, A. Antonopoulos, P. Maniotis, E. Kartsakli, J. Vardakas, "Internet services market across Europe during crisis: A study focused on low-income groups", in IEEE CAMAD, 19-21 June 2017, Lund, Sweden.

[C40] P.-V. Mekikis, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, N. Passas, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, “Stochastic Modeling of Wireless Charged Wearables for Reliable Health Monitoring in Hospital Environments”, in IEEE ICC, 21-25 May 2017, Paris, France. 

[C39] M. Vincenzi, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, J. Vardakas, L. Alonso, and C. Verikoukis, “Cooperation Incentives for Multi-Operator C-RAN Energy Efficient Sharing”,  in IEEE ICC, 21-25 May 2017, Paris, France. 

[C38] N. Giatsoglou, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, J. Vardakas, C. Verikoukis, “Transmission Policies for Interference Management in Full-Duplex D2D Communication”, IEEE Globecom, 4-8 December 2016, Washington DC, USA.

[C37] P.-V. Mekikis, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, “Connectivity Analysis in Wireless-Powered Sensor Networks with Battery-less Devices”, IEEE Globecom, 4-8 December 2016, Washington DC, USA.

[C36] A. Bousia, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis, “Auction-based Offloading for Base Station Switching Off in Heterogeneous Networks”, European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 27-30 June 2016, Athens, Greece. (EuCNC/EURACON Student Best Paper Award)

[C35]  S. Tennina, M. Dos Santos, A. Mesodiakaki, P.V. Mekikis, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, M. Di Renzo, A. Stavridis, F. Graziosi, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, “WSN4QoL: WSNs for Remote Patient Monitoring in e-Health Applications”, IEEE ICC, 23-27 May 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

[C34] P.-V. Mekikis, E. Kartsakli, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulos, L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis, “Connectivity of Large-Scale WSNs in Fading Environments under Different Routing Mechanisms”, IEEE ICC 2015, London (UK), 8-12 June 2015.

[C33] A. Lalos, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, M. Di Renzo, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, “Cooperative Compressed Sensing schemes for Telemonitoring of Vital Signals in WBANs”, in IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, Austin (Texas, USA), 8-12 Dec. 2014.

[C32] A. Bousia, E. Kartsakli, A.  Antonopoulos, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, “Sharing the Small Cells for Energy Efficient Networking: How much does it cost?”, in IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, Austin (Texas, USA), 8-12 Dec. 2014 (Best Paper Award).

[C31] A. Mesodiakaki, F. Adelantado, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis, “Energy Impact of Outdoor Small Cell Backhaul in Green Heterogeneous Networks”, in IEEE CAMAD 2014, Athens (Greece), 1-3 Dec. 2014. 

[C30] E. Kartsakli, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulos, S. Tennina, M. Di Renzo and L. Alonso, “End-to-End Communication Challenges in M2M Systems for mHealth Applications”, in IEEE CAMAD 2014, Athens (Greece), 1-3 Dec. 2014.

[C29] S. Tennina, E. Kartsakli, F. Grasiozi, M. Santos, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulos, P.V. Mekikis, M. Di Renzo,  L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis,  “An Energy Efficient Protocol Architecture for m-Health Systems”, in IEEE CAMAD 2014, Athens (Greece), 1-3 Dec. 2014 (Best Demo Award).

[C28] P.-V. Mekikis, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, A. Lalos, L. Alonso and C.Verikoukis “Two-tier Cellular Random Network Planning for Minimum Deployment Cost”, in IEEE ICC 2014, Sydney (Australia), 10-14 June 2014.

[C27] E. Ibarra, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, J. Rodrigues and C.Verikoukis “Joint Power-QoS Control Scheme for Energy Harvesting Body Sensor Nodes”, in IEEE ICC 2014, Sydney (Australia), 10-14 June 2014.

[C26] S. Tennina, E. Kartsakli, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulosz, V.-P. Mekikis, M. Di Renzo, F. Graziosi, L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis, “A Protocol Architecture for Energy Efficient and Pervasive eHealth Systems”, IEEE-EMBS International Conferences on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), Valencia (Spain), 1-4 June 2014.

[C25] E. Ibarra, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos and C.Verikoukis “Energy Harvesting Aware Hybrid MAC Protocol for WBANs”, in IEEE Healthcom 2013, Lisbon (Portugal), 9-12 Oct. 2013.

[C24] E. Kartsakli, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulosz, V.-P. Mekikis, M. Di Renzo, Y.Z. Lun, F. Graziosi, L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis “WSN4QoL: Wireless Sensor Networks for Quality of Life”, in IEEE Healthcom 2013, Lisbon (Portugal), 9-12 Oct. 2013.

[C23] A. Bousia, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis, “Game Theoretic Approach for Switching Off Base Stations in Multi-Operator Environments”, in IEEE ICC 2013, Budapest (Hungary), 9-13 June 2013.

[C22] D. Gajic, E. Kartsakli, N. Zorba, Ch. Liß, L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis “'Energy Efficient Techniques for 802.11n Multiuser MAC WLANs”, in IEEE ICC 2013, Budapest (Hungary), 9-13 June 2013.

[C21] A. Bousia, E. Kartsakli , L.Alonso and C. Verikoukis “Dynamic Energy Efficient Distance-Aware Base Station Switch On/Off Scheme for LTE-Advanced”, in IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim (California, USA), 3-7 Dec. 2012.

[C20] A. Bousia, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis, “Energy Efficient Base Station Maximization Switch Off Scheme for LTE-Advanced”, in IEEE CAMAD 2012, Barcelona (Spain), 17-19 Sept. 2012.

[C19] J. Higuera, E. Kartsakli, J.L. Valenzuela, L. Alonso, A. Laya, R. Martinez and A. Aguilar, “Experimental Study of Bluetooth, ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4 Technologies on Board High-Speed Trains”, IEEE VTC-Spring 2012, Yocohama (Japan), 6-9 May 2012. 

[C18] J. Higuera, E. Kartsakli, C. Collado, J.-M. González-Arbesú, L Alonso, J.L. Valenzuela, A. Laya, E. Flores, I. Navarro, R. Martínez, J. González, J. Hierro and A. Vlad, “An Experimental Study of Multi-radio Platform Coexistence in the 5 GHz Band for Railway Applications”, in Nets4Cars/ Nets4Trains 2011, Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany), 23-24 March 2011.

[C17] E. Kartsakli, N. Zorba, L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis, “A Threshold-Selective Multiuser Downlink MAC Scheme for 802.11n Wireless Networks”, in ICC 2010, Cape Town (South Africa), 23-27 May 2010.

 [C16] J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso and Ch. Verikoukis, “Coexistence of a Novel Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and the IEEE 802.11”, in ICC 2010, Cape Town (South Africa), 23-27 May 2010.

[C15] J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, M. Katz and Ch. Verikoukis, “Multi-Radio Cooperative ARQ in Wireless Cellular Networks”, in ICST MOBILIGHT 2010, Barcelona (Spain), 10-12 May 2010.

[C14] J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, L. Alonso and Ch. Verikoukis, “Handoff Functions for a Distributed Queuing Collision Avoidance Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless LANs”, in ICUMT 2009, St. Petersburg (Russia), 12-14 Oct. 2009.

[C13] E. Kartsakli, N. Zorba, L. Alonso and C. Verikoukis, “Multiuser MAC protocols for 802.11n Wireless Networks,” in IEEE ICC 2009, Dresden (Germany), 14-18 June 2009.

[C12] E. Kartsakli, J. Alonso-Zárate, L. Alonso, and C. Verikoukis, "QoS Guarantee over DQCA for Wireless LANs with Heterogeneous Traffic",  in ICT Mobile Summit 2009, Santander (Spain), 10-12 June, 2009.

[C11] J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, P. Chatzimisios, L. Alonso, and C. Verikoukis, “Self-Organizing Mobile Ad hoc Networks: Spontaneous Clustering at the MAC Layer”, in ICST MOBILIGHT 2009, Athens (Greece), May 18-20, 2009.

[C10] J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis and L. Alonso, “Throughput Analysis of a Medium Access Control Protocol for a Distributed Cooperative ARQ Scheme in Wireless Networks”, in IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, New Orleans (USA), 30 Nov.- 4Dec. 2008.

[C9] J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis and L. Alonso, “A Novel Near-Optimum Medium Access Control Protocol for a Distributed Cooperative ARQ Scheme in Wireless Networks”, in IEEE PIMRC, Cannes (France), 15-18 Sept. 2008.

[C8] J. Alonso-Zárate, P. Giotis, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis and L. Alonso, “Performance Evaluation of a Medium Access Control Protocol for Distributed Cooperative ARQ schemes in Wireless Networks”, in ICT Mobile Summit, Stockholm (Sweden), 10-12 June 2008.

[C7] J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis and L. Alonso, “Performance Enhancement of a DQMAN-based Wireless Ad Hoc Networks in Multi-hop Scenarios”, in IEEE ISWPC’08, Santorini (Greece), 7-9 May 2008.

[C6] J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis and L. Alonso, “Saturation Throughput Analysis of a Passive Cluster-based Medium Access Control Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks”, in ICCC 2008, Beijing (China), 19-23 May 2008.

[C5] J. Alonso-Zárate, E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura, C. Verikoukis and L. Alonso, “Enhanced Operation of DQMAN based Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, in IEEE ISWCS’07, Trondheim (Norway), Sept. 2007.

[C4] E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura, J. Alonso, C. Verikoukis and L. Alonso, “Cross-Layer Enhancement for WLAN Systems with Heterogeneous Traffic based on DQCA”, in IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow (UK), 24-28 June 2007.

[C3] E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura, J. Alonso, C. Verikoukis and L. Alonso, “Opportunistic Scheduling using an Enhanced Channel State Information Update Scheme for WLAN Systems with DQCA,” in IEEE VTC 2007–Spring, Dublin (Ireland), 22-25 Apr. 2007.

[C2] C. Verikoukis, J. Alonso, E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura and L. Alonso, “Cross-Layer Enhancement for WLAN Systems based on a Distributed Queuing MAC protocol”, in IEEE VTC 2006–Spring, Melbourne (Australia), 7-10 May 2006.

[C1] E. Kartsakli, A. Cateura, C. Verikoukis and L. Alonso “A Cross-Layer Scheduling Algorithm for DQCA-based WLAN Systems with Heterogeneous Voice-Data Traffic”, in IEEE LANMAN, Chania (Greece), 18 Sept. 2005.