Publications

Journals

1. P.-V. Mekikis, P. S. Bouzinis, N. A. Mitsiou, S. A. Tegos, D. Tyrovolas, V. K. Papanikolaou, and G. K. Karagiannidis, Enabling Wireless-powered IoT through Incentive-based UAV Swarm Orchestration, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJCOMS), Oct. 2023. (IF: 7.9) [IEEE, TechRxiv]

2. A. Pitilakis, D. Tyrovolas, P.-V. Mekikis, S. Tegos, et al., On the Mobility Effect in UAV-mounted Absorbing Metasurfaces: A Theoretical and Experimental Study, IEEE Access, Jul. 2023. (IF: 3.9)

3. D. Tyrovolas, P.-V. Mekikis, S. Tegos, P. Diamantoulakis, C. Liaskos, G. Karagiannidis, Energy-Aware Design of UAV-mounted RIS Networks for IoT Data Collection, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 1168-1178, Feb. 2023. (IF: 8.3) [arxiv]

4. C. Liaskos, A. Tsioliaridou, K. Georgopoulos, G. Morianos, S. Ioannidis, I. Salem, D. Manessis, S. Schmid, D. Tyrovolas, S. Tegos, P.-V. Mekikis, P. Diamantoulakis, A. Pitilakis, N. Kantartzis, G. Tasolamprou, O. Tsilipakos, M. Kafesaki, IF Akyildiz, A. Pitsillides, M. Pateraki, M. Vakalellis, I. Spais,  XR-RF Imaging Enabled by Software-Defined Metasurfaces and Machine Learning: Foundational Vision, Technologies and Challenges, IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 119841-119862, 2022. (IF: 3.9) [ieeeXplore][arxiv]

5. E. Datsika, J.Vardakas, K. Ramantas, P.-V. Mekikis, I. Tafur Monroy, L. Anet Neto, C. Verikoukis , SDN-Enabled Resource Management for Converged Fi-Wi 5G Fronthaul, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 2772-2788, Sept. 2021. (IF: 13.081)

6. A. Dalgkitsis, P.-V. Mekikis, A. Antonopoulos, C. Verikoukis , Data driven service orchestration for vehicular networks, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 4100-4109, July 2021. (IF: 9.551)

7. I. Sarrigiannis, K. Ramantas, P.-V. Mekikis, A. Antonopoulos. E. Kartsakli, C. Verikoukis, Online VNF Lifecycle Management in a MEC-enabled 5G IoT Architecture, IEEE Internet of Things journal, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 4183-4194, May 2020, (IF: 10.24) [ieeeXplore] 

8. P.-V. Mekikis, K. Ramantas, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, L. Sanabria-Russo, J. Serra, D. Pubill, C. Verikoukis, NFV-enabled Experimental Platform for 5G Tactile Internet Support in Industrial Environments, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1895-1903, Mar. 2020.  (IF: 11.648) [ieeeXplore]

9. P.-V. Mekikis, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, Connectivity Analysis in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks Powered by Solar Energy,  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 2389-2401, April 2018. (IF: 8.346) [ieeeXplore]

10. P.-V. Mekikis, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, Communication recovery with emergency aerial networks,  IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 63, no. 3, August 2017. (IF: 4.414) [ieeeXplore]

11. P.-V. Mekikis, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, A. Lalos, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, Information Exchange in Randomly Deployed Dense WSNs with Wireless Energy Harvesting Capabilities, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.15, no.4, pp.3008-3018, April 2016. (IF: 8.346) [ieeeXplore, arxiv]

12. P. Di Marco, G. Athanasiou, P.-V. Mekikis, C. Fischione, MAC-aware Routing Metrics for the Internet of Things, Computer Communications, vol. 74, pp. 77-86, January 2016. (IF: 5.047)  [arxiv]

13. P.-V. Mekikis, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulos, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, Wireless Energy Harvesting in Two-Way Network Coded Cooperative Communications: A Stochastic Approach for Large Scale Networks, IEEE Communications Letters, vol.18, no.6, pp.1011-1014, June 2014. (IF: 3.553) [ieeeXplore]

14. S. Tennina, M. Di Renzo, E. Kartsakli, F. Graziosi, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulos, P.-V. Mekikis, L. Alonso, WSN4QoL: a WSN-oriented healthcare system architecture, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, May 2014. (IF: 1.938) [hindawi]

International Conferences

1. M. Giordano, S. Cortesi, P.-V. Mekikis, M. Crabolu, G. Bellusci, M. Magno, Energy-Aware Adaptive Sampling for Self-Sustainability in Resource-Constrained IoT Devices, ACM ENSSys 2023, Nov. 2023. (BEST PAPER AWARD)

2. D. Tyrovolas, A. Chrysologou, G. Chondrogiannis, S. Tegos, P.-V. Mekikis, P. Diamantoulakis, S. Ioannidis, C. Liaskos, N. Chatzidiamantis, G. Karagiannidis, Slotted ALOHA with Code Combining for IoT Networks, IEEE MeditCom, Sep. 2023.

3. V. Papanikolaou, N. Mitsiou, P.-V. Mekikis, S. Tegos, P. Diamantoulakis, G. Karagiannidis, On the Design and Optimization of SLIPT Systems for Aerial Base Stations, IEEE ICC 2023, 28-31 May 2023, Rome, Italy.

4. P.-V. Mekikis, P. S. Bouzinis, N. A. Mitsiou, S. A. Tegos, D. Tyrovolas, V. K. Papanikolaou, P. Diamantoulakis, G. K. Karagiannidis, Powering Inaccessible IoT Devices Through a WPT-enabled Sustainable UAV Network, IEEE INFOCOM 2023, 17-20 May 2023, New York, USA.

5. P.-V. Mekikis, D. Tyrovolas, S. Tegos, A. Papadopoulos, A. Pitilakis, S. Ioannidis, A. Tsioliaridou, P. Diamantoulakis, N. Kantartzis, G. Karagiannidis, C. Liaskos, Dynamic Programmable Wireless Environment with UAV-mounted Static Metasurfaces, IEEE Conference on Standards and Communication Networks (CSCN) 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2022.

6. D. Tyrovolas, P.-V. Mekikis, S. Tegos, P. Diamantoulakis, C. Liaskos, G. Karagiannidis, On the Performance of HARQ in IoT Networking with UAV-mounted Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring, Helsinki, Finland, June 2022.

7. A. Dalgkitsis, L. Garrido, P.-V. Mekikis, K. Ramantas, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, SCHEMA: Service Chain Elastic Management with Distributed Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Madrid, Spain, December, 2021.

8. L. A. Garrido, P. -V. Mekikis, A. Dalgkitsis and C. Verikoukis, Context-Aware Traffic Prediction: Loss Function Formulation for Predicting Traffic in 5G Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2021, pp. 1-6 

9. A. Antonopoulos, P. -V. Mekikis and E. Kartsakli, Network Neutrality in Content Cache Sharing: A Bankruptcy Problem Formulation, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2021, pp. 1-6 

10. A. Dalgkitsis, P. -V. Mekikis, A. Antonopoulos, G. Kormentzas and C. Verikoukis, Dynamic Resource Aware VNF Placement with Deep Reinforcement Learning for 5G Networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2020, pp. 1-6 

11. M. Maule, P. -V. Mekikis, K. Ramantas, J. Vardakas and C. Verikoukis, Dynamic partitioning of radio resources based on 5G RAN Slicing, IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2020, pp. 1-6 

12. M. Maule, P.-V. Mekikis, K. Ramantas, J. Vardakas, C. Verikoukis, Real-time Dynamic Network Slicing for the 5G Radio Access Network, IEEE Globecom, Dec. 2019, HI, USA.

13. P.-V. Mekikis, A. Antonopoulos, Breaking the Boundaries of Aerial Networks with Charging Stations, IEEE ICC, May 2019, Shanghai, China.

14. K. Ramantas, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, P.-V. Mekikis, J. Vardakas, C. Verikoukis, A C-RAN based 5G platform with a fully virtualized, SDN controlled optical/wireless Fronthaul, IEEE ICTON 2018 

15. 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, IEEE ICC, May 2017, Paris, France.

16. P.-V. Mekikis, A. Antonopoulos, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, Connectivity Analysis in Wireless-Powered Sensor Networks with Battery-less Devices, IEEE GLOBECOM, Dec. 2016, Washington DC, USA.

17. P.-V. Mekikis, E. Kartsakli, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, Flexible Aerial Relay Nodes for Communication Recovery and D2D Relaying, IEEE GCCE, 14 Oct 2016, Kyoto, Japan.

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

19. P.-V. Mekikis, E. Kartsakli, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulos, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, Connectivity of Large-Scale WSNs in Fading Environments under Different Routing Mechanisms, IEEE ICC, 8-12 June 2015, London, UK.

20. S. Tennina, E. Kartsakli, F. Grasiozi, M. Santos, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulos, P.-V. Mekikis, M. Di Renzo,  L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis,  An Energy Efficient Protocol Architecture for m-Health Systems, IEEE CAMAD, 1-3 December 2014, Athens, Greece.

21. P.-V. Mekikis, E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, A. Lalos, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, Two-tier Cellular Random Network Planning for Minimum Deployment Cost, IEEE ICC, 10-14 June 2014, Sydney, Australia. 

22. S. Tennina, M. Di Renzo, E. Kartsakli, F. Graziosi, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulos, P.-V. Mekikis, 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), 1-4 June 2014, Valencia, Spain. 

23. S. Tennina, E. Kartsakli, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulos, P.-V. Mekikis, M. Di Renzo, Y.Z. Lun, F. Grasiozi, L. Alonso, C. Verikoukis, WSN4QoL: Wireless Sensor Networks for Quality of Life, IEEE Healthcom, 9-12 October 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.

24. P. Di Marco, C. Fischione, G. Athanasiou, P.-V. Mekikis, Harmonizing MAC and routing in low power and lossy networks, IEEE GLOBECOM, 9-13 December 2013, Atlanta, Georgia.

25. P.-V. Mekikis, G. Athanasiou, C. Fischione, A Wireless Sensor Network Testbed for Event Detection in Smart Homes, IEEE DCOSS, May 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

26. P. Di Marco, C. Fischione, G. Athanasiou, P.-V. Mekikis, MAC-aware routing metrics for low power and lossy networks, IEEE INFOCOM, 14-19 April 2013, Turin, Italy.

PhD Thesis

Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis, Design and Stochastic Analysis of Emerging Large-Scale Wireless-Powered Sensor Networks, PhD Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2017. (BEST THESIS UPC AWARD 2019)

Demos

S. Tennina, E. Kartsakli, F. Grasiozi, M. Santos, A. Lalos, A. Antonopoulos, P.-V. Mekikis, M. Di Renzo, A. Stavridis,  L. Alonso, An Energy Efficient Protocol Architecture for m-Health Systems: a Showcase of Multi Access Relay Channel with Network Coding Scenario (FP7 WSN4QoL), IEEE CAMAD, 1-3 December 2014, Athens, Greece. (BEST DEMO AWARD)

Newsletters 

E. Kartsakli, A. Antonopoulos, S. Tennina, A. Lalos, P.-V. Mekikis, L. Alonso, F. Graziosi, M. Di Renzo, C. Verikoukis, Enhancing Quality of Life with Wireless Sensor Technology

IEEE Life Sciences, Dec. 2013.