University of Thessaly

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Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Thessaly

My Publications

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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

[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

[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.