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Journal papers

international journal papers that I've authored or co-authored.

Book chapters

published book chapters that I 've co-authored.

Conference papers

refereed international conference and workshop papers that I've authored or co-authored.

PhD Thesis

My full PhD thesis for award of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Surrey, UK, July 2005.

Journal papers

[J19]	SDN Controller Placement and Switch Assignment for Low Power IoT K Choumas, D Giatsios, P Flegkas, T Korakis Journal of Electronics 9 (2), MDPI, 325, 2020.
[J18]	5G-XHaul: A novel wireless-optical SDN transport network to support joint 5G backhaul and fronthaul services DC Mur, J. Gutiérrez, E. Grass, A. Tzanakaki, P. Flegkas, et al. IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 57, Is. 7, pp. 99-105, 2019.
[J17]	Wireless-Optical Network Convergence: Enabling the 5G Architecture to Support Operational and End-User Services Anna Tzanakaki, Markos Anastasopoulos, Ignacio Berberana, Dimitris Syrivelis, Paris Flegkas, et al. IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 55, Is. 10, pp. 155-184, October, 2017.
[J16]	5G-XHaul: a converged optical and wireless solution for 5G transport networks” Gutiérrez, Jesús, Nebojsa Maletic, Daniel Camps-Mur, Eduard García, Ignacio Berberana, Markos Anastasopoulos, Anna Tzanakaki, Paris Flegkas et al. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, January, 2016.
[J15]	A Novel Cache Aware Routing Scheme for Information-Centric Networks V. Sourlas, P. Flegkas, L. Tassiulas Computer Networks – Elsevier, Volume 59, pp. 44-61, February 2014.
[J14]	Distributed Cache Management in Information-Centric Networks V. Sourlas, L. Gkatzikis, P. Flegkas, L. Tassiulas to appear in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2013.
[J13]	A content-based publish/subscribe framework for large-scale content delivery M. Diallo, V. Sourlas, P. Flegkas, S. Fdida, L. Tassiulas Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 924-943, March 2013.
[J12]	Storage Planning and Replica Assignment in Content-Centric Publish/Subscribe Networks V. Sourlas, P. Flegkas, G. S. Paschos, D. Katsaros, L. Tassiulas Elsevier Computer Networks, special issue on Internet-based Content Delivery, Elsevier, Vol. 55, No. 18, pp. 4021-4032, December 2011.
[J11]	Managing the Future Internet through Intelligent In-Network Substrates Marinos Charalambides, George Pavlou, Paris Flegkas, Ning Wang, Daphne Tuncer IEEE Network Magazine, special issue on Managing an Autonomic Future Internet, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 34-40, IEEE, November 2011.
[J10]	Policy Conflict Analysis for DiffServ Quality of Service Management [ pdf] M. Charalambides, G. Pavlou, P. Flegkas, J. Rubio-Loyola, A.K. Bandara, E.C. Lupu, A. Russo, N. Dulay, M. Sloman IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 15-30, IEEE, March 2009
[J9]	A Methodological Approach Towards the Refinement Problem in Policy-based Management Systems [ pdf] J. Rubio-Loyola, J. Serrat, M. Charalambides, P. Flegkas, G. Pavlou IEEE Communications, series on Network and Service Management, Vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 60-68, IEEE, October 2006
[J8]	Policy Refinement for IP Differentiated Services Quality of Service Management [ pdf] A. Bandara, E. Lupu, A. Russo, N. Dulay, M. Sloman, P. Flegkas, M. Charalambides, G. Pavlou IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 2-13, IEEE, Second quarter 2006
[J7]	End-to-end Quality of Service Provisioning Through Inter-provider Traffic Engineering [ pdf] M. Howarth, M. Boucadair, P. Flegkas, N. Wang, G. Pavlou, P. Morand, T. Coadic, D. Griffin, H. Asgari, P. Georgatsos Computer Communications, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 683-702, Elsevier, March 2006
[J6]	Provisioning for Inter-domain Quality of Service: the MESCAL Approach [ pdf] M. Howarth, P. Flegkas, G. Pavlou, N. Wang, P. Trimintzios, D. Griffin, J. Griem, M. Boucadair, P. Morand, H. Asgari, P. Georgatsos IEEE Communications, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 129-137, June 2005
[J5]	On Management Technologies and the Potential of Web Services [ pdf] G. Pavlou, P. Flegkas, S. Gouveris, A. Liotta IEEE Communications, special issue on XML-based Management of Networks and Services, Vol. 42, No. 7, pp. 58-66, IEEE, July 2004
[J4]	Service-driven Traffic Engineering for Intra-domain Quality of Service Management [ pdf] P. Trimintzios, G. Pavlou, P. Flegkas, P. Georgatsos, A. Asgari, E. Mykoniati IEEE Network, special issue on Network Management of Multiservice, Multimedia, IP-based Networks, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 29-36, IEEE, May/June 2003
[J3]	Quality of Service Provisioning through Traffic Engineering with Applicability to IP-based Production Networks [ pdf] P. Trimintzios, T. Bauge, G. Pavlou, P. Flegkas, R. Egan Computer Communications, special issue on Performance Evaluation of IP Networks and Services, Vol. 26, No. 8, pp. 845-860, Elsevier Science Publishers, May 2003
[J2]	A Policy-based Quality of Service Management System for IP Differentiated Services Networks [ pdf] P. Flegkas, P. Trimintzios, G. Pavlou IEEE Network, special issue on Policy-Based Networking, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 50-56, IEEE, March/April 2002
[J1]	A Management and Control Architecture for Providing IP Differentiated Services in MPLS-based Networks [ pdf] P. Trimintzios, I. Andrikopoulos, G. Pavlou, P. Flegkas, D. Griffin, P. Georgatsos, D. Goderis, Y. T'Joens, L. Georgiadis, C. Jacquenet, R. Egan IEEE Communications, special issue in IP-Oriented Operations and Management, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 80-88, IEEE, May 2001

Book chapters

[B2]	Content Replication and Delivery in Information-Centric Networks Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Dimitrios Katsaros and Leandros Tassiulas in Advanced Content Delivery and Streaming in the Cloud by Wiley Publishers, USA, May 2014.
[B1]	Internet Traffic Engineering [ pdf] O. Bonaventure, P. Trimintzios, G. Pavlou, B. Quoitin, A. Azcorra, M. Bagnulo, P. Flegkas, A. Garcia-Martinez, P. Georgatsos, L. Georgiadis, C. Jacquenet, L. Swinnen, S. Tandel, S. Uhlig in Quality of Future Internet Services - COST Action 263 Final Report, M. Smirnov et al, eds., pp. 118-179, Springer-Verlag, 2003.

Conference & Workshop papers (Peer-reviewed)

[C43]	Edge to Cloud Service Placement based on Reinforcement Learning in 6G Networks P. Flegkas, G. Roumpos, V.Sourlas, A. Amditis. To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference of Communications (ICC 2025), Montreal, Canada, June 2025.
[C42]	Media Services in Dense, Static and Mobile Environments Leveraging Edge Deployments M. Xezonaki, et. al. Proceedings of IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, Springer, pp.66-76, June 2023.
[C41]	Techno-economic Analysis Highlighting Aspects of 5G Network Deployments at Railway Environments I. Mesogiti, et. al. Proceedings of IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, Springer, pp.139-150, June 2023.
[C40]	Railway services support over a 5G infrastructure exploiting a multi-technology wireless transport network D. Cvetkovski et al. Proceedings of 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), IEEE, pp. 585-590, October 2022.
[C39]	5G-VICTORI: future railway communications requirements driving 5G deployments in railways I. Mesogiti, et al. Proceedings of IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, Springer, pp. 21-30, June 2021.
[C38]	Session Management across Heterogeneous Wireless Technologies in a Rail Transport Environment Panagiotis Karamichailidis, Nikos Makris, Paris Flegkas, et al. Proceedings of CAM'21: IEEE 5G for Connected & Automated Mobility, May 2021.
[C37]	5G-VICTORI: Future Railway Communications Requirements Driving 5G Deployments in Railways I. Mesogiti, E. Theodoropoulou, F. Setaki, G. Lyberopoulos, A. Tzanakaki, M.Anastassopoulos, C. Politi, P. Papaioannou, C. Tranoris, S. Denazis, P. Flegkas, et al. Proceedings of 6th Workshop on 5G – Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge (5G-PINE 2021), AIAI 2021 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, 2021.
[C36]	The SDN control plane challenge for minimum control traffic: distributed or centralized? K Choumas, D Giatsios, P Flegkas, T Korakisr Proceedings of 2019 16th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), pp 1-7.
[C35]	Design and evaluation of a hierarchical SDN control plane for 5G transport networks D Giatsios, K Choumas, P Flegkas, T Korakis, JJA Cruelles, DC Mur Proceedings of ICC 2019, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1-6.
[C34]	Virtualized Heterogeneous 5G Cloud-RAN deployment over Redundant Wireless Links N. Makris, C. Zarafetas, K. Choumas, P. Flegkas and T. Korakis demo showcased at IEEE LANMAN 2019 in Paris, France.
[C33]	SDN implementation of slicing and fast failover in 5G transport networks D. Giatsios, K. Choumas, P. Flegkas, T. Korakis and D. Camps-Mur Proceedings of 2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Oulu, 2017, pp. 1-6.
[C32]	5G-XHaul: Enabling scalable virtualization for future 5G Transport Networks Daniel Camps-Mur, Paris Flegkas, Dimitris Syrivelis, Qing Wei, Jesus Gutierrez Proceedings of IUCC 2016, En2ESO Workshop, Granada, Spain, December 2016.
[C31]	5G Infrastructures Supporting End-User and Operational Services: The 5G-XHaul Architectural Perspective A. Tzanakaki, M. Anastasopoulos, D. Simeonidou, I. Berberana, D. Syrivelis, T. Korakis, P. Flegkas, et al. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC) 23 (pp. 57-62), May 2016.
[C30]	Partition-based Caching in Information-Centric Networks Vasilis Sourlas, Panos Georgatsos, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom) (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM), Hong kong, April 2015.
[C29]	Cache-Aware Traffic Engineering in Information-Centric Networks Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Panos Georgatsos and Leandros Tassiulas Proceedings of the IEEE 19th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) , Athens, Greece, December 2014.
[C28]	On Exploiting Network Coding in Cache-Capable Small-Cell Networks Konstantinos Poularakis, Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas Proceedings of the Smart Video-multicast for Next-generation Multi-hop Networks (SmartVision) workshop of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2014), Madeira, Portugal, June 2014.
[C27]	Cache-Aware Routing in Information-Centric NetworksStorage Replication in Information-Centric Networking Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas and Leandros Tassiulas Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2013), pp. 582-588, Ghent, Belgium, May 2013.
[C26]	Storage Replication in Information-Centric Networking Paris Flegkas, Vasilis Sourlas, George Parisis, Dirk Trossen Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp. 850-855, San Diego, USA, January 2013.
[C25]	Pursuing a Software Defined Information-centric Network Dimitris Syrivelis, George Parisis, Dirk Trossen, Paris Flegkas, Vasilis Sourlas, Thanasis Korakis, Leandros Tassiulas Proceedings of the 2012 European Workshop on Software Defined Networking (EWSDN), IEEE, pp. 103-108, Darmstad, Germany, October 2012.
[C24]	Demonstrating an Information-Centric Network in an International Testbed George Parisis, Ben Tagger, Dirk Trossen, Dimitris Syrivelis, Paris Flegkas, Leandros Tassiulas, Charilaos Stais, Christos Tsilopoulos, George Xylomenos Proceedings of the International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2012, Springer, pp. 400-402, Thessanoliki, Greece, June 2012.
[C23]	Autonomic Cache Management in Information-Centric Networks Vasilis Sourlas, Paris Flegkas, Lazaros Gkatzikis, Leandros Tassiulas Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2012), pp. 121-129, Hawaii, April 2012.
[C22]	Mobility Work Re-Visited Not Considered Harmful [ pdf] Dirk Trossen, Xenofon Vasilakos, Paris Flegkas, Vasilis Sourlas, George Parisis Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing and Networking Technologies (WMCNT 2011), Budapest, Hungary, October 2011.
[C21]	Leveraging caching for Internet-scale content-based publish/subscribe networks [ pdf] M. Diallo, S. Fdida, V. Sourlas, P. Flegkas, L. Tassiulas Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2011), 5-9 June, Kyoto, Japan 2011.
[C20]	Modeling the dynamics of caching in content-based publish/subscribe systems [ pdf] V. Sourlas, G. S. Paschos, P. Mannersalo, P. Flegkas and L. Tassiulas Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Taiwan, March, 2011.
[C19]	Storing and Replication in Topic-Based Publish/Subscribe Networks [ pdf] V. Sourlas, P. Flegkas, G. S. Paschos, D. Katsaros, L. Tassiulas Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom 2010 Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium,Miami, USA, December 2010.
[C18]	Mobility Support through Caching in Content-based Publish/Subscribe Networks [ pdf] V. Sourlas, G. S. Paschos, P. Flegkas, L. Tassiulas Proceedings of the 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), Melbourne, Australia, May 2010
[C17]	Caching in Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems [ pdf] V. Sourlas, G. S. Paschos, P. Flegkas, L. Tassiulas Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom 2009 Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Hawaii, USA, December 2009
[C16]	Distribute, Store and Retrieve Management Policies on Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks using the Content Delivery Publish/Subscribe Paradigm [ pdf] V. Sourlas, P. Flegkas, G. S. Paschos, L. Tassiulas Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management - IM 2009 / ACNM 2009, pp 169-176, NY, USA, June 2009
[C15]	Policy Distribution using the Publish-Subscribe Paradigm for Managing MANETs [ pdf] V. Sourlas, P. Flegkas, L. Tassiulas Proceedings of the 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, September 2008
[C14]	A Functional Solution for Goal-oriented Policy Refinement [ pdf] J. Rubio-Loyola, J. Serrat, M. Charalambides, P. Flegkas, G. Pavlou Proceedings 7th IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systemsand Networks (Policy 2006), Ontario, Canada, June 2006
[C13]	Dynamic Policy Analysis and Conflict Resolution for DiffServ Quality of Service Management [ pdf] M. Charalambides, P. Flegkas, G. Pavlou, J. Loyola, A. Bandara, E. Lupu, A. Russo, N. Dulay, M. Sloman Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2006), Vancouver, Canada, April 2006
[C12]	Policy Conflict Analysis for Quality of Service Management [ pdf] M. Charalambides, P. Flegkas, G. Pavlou, A. Bandara, E. Lupu, A. Russo, N. Dulay, M. Sloman Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Policy for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2005), Stockholm, Sweden, IEEE, June 2005.
[C11]	Using Linear Temporal Model Checking for Goal-Oriented Policy Refinement Frameworks [ pdf] J. R. Loyola, J. Serrat, M. Charalambides, P. Flegkas, G. Pavlou, A. L. Lafuente Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Policy for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2005), Stockholm, Sweden, IEEE, June 2005.
[C10]	Policy Refinement for DiffServ Quality of Service Management [ pdf] A. Bandara, E. Lupu, A. Russo, N. Dulay, M. Sloman, P. Flegkas, M. Charalambides, G. Pavlou Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Integrated Management Symposium (IM'2005), Nice, France, IEEE, May 2005.
[C9]	An Architectural Framework for Inter-domain Quality of Service Provisioning [ pdf] M. Howarth, P. Flegkas, G. Pavlou, P. Trimintzios, H. Asgari, D. Griffin, J. Griem, M. Boucadair, P. Georgatsos Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Integrated Management Symposium (IM'2005), Nice, France, IEEE, May 2005.
[C8]	Design and Implementation of a Policy-based Resource Management Architecture [ pdf] P. Flegkas, P. Trimintzios, G. Pavlou, A. Liotta Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Integrated Management Symposium (IM'2003), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, Kluwer, pp. 215-229, March 2003.
[C7]	Quality of Service Provisioning for Supporting Premium Services in IP Networks [ pdf] P. Trimintzios, T. Bauge, G. Pavlou, L. Georgiades, P. Flegkas, R. Egan Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, IEEE, November 2002.
[C6]	Policy-based Network Dimensioning for IP Differentiated Services Networks [ pdf] P. Trimintzios, P.Flegkas, G. Pavlou, L. Georgiades, D. Griffin Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2002), Dallas, Texas, USA, pp. 171-176, October 2002.
[C5]	Policy-driven Traffic Engineering for Intra-domain Quality of Service Provisioning [ pdf] P. Trimintzios, P.Flegkas, G. Pavlou Proceedings of Quality of Service for future Internet Services (QofIS'02), Zurich, Switzerland, Springer, pp. 179-193, October 2002.
[C4]	Buffer and Bandwidth Management for the Expedited Forwarding Traffic Class in Differentiated Services Network [ pdf] S. Georgoulas, G. Pavlou, P. Flegkas, P. Trimintzios Proceedings of the London Communications Symposium (LCS), London, UK, pp. 349-352, September 2002.
[C3]	On Policy-based Extensible Hierarchical Network Management in QoS-enabled IP Networks [ pdf] P. Flegkas, P.Trimintzios, G. Pavlou, I. Andrikopoulos, C. F. Cavalcanti Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy '01), Bristol, UK, M. Sloman, J. Lobo, E. Lupu, eds., pp. 230-246, Springer-Verlag,January 2001.
[C2]	Considerations on Policy-based Network Management [ pdf] P. Flegkas, P. Trimintzios, I. Andrikopoulos, G. Pavlou Proceedings of the London Communications Symposium (LCS), London, UK, September 2000.
[C1]	QoS Provisioning in an IP-based Studio Production Network T. Baugι, R. Egan, P. Flegkas, P. Trimintzios, I. Andrikopoulos, G. Pavlou Proceedings of PGNet 2000, 1st Annual PostGraduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool, UK, June 2000.

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