The Mobile Multimedia Laboratory (MMlab) is performing research in the areas of Wireless Packet Networks and Mobile Communications, Internet Protocols and Applications, Security, Privacy and Trust, Mobile Multimedia, Quality-of-Service & Quality-of-Experience, Multimedia Multicast and Broadcast. MMlab is part of the Telecommunications Services Group of the Dept. of Computer Science of the Athens University of Economics and Business. The lab is headed by Professor George C. Polyzos.

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Athens University of Economics and Business

MMLab is participating in the following research projects:

PURSUIT: Publish Subscribe Internet Technology, EU ICT FP7 Project, 2010-2013.
φSAT: The Role of Satellite in Future Internet Services, European Space Agency, 2011-2012.
Euro-NF: EU FP7 ICT Network of Excellence investigating architectures for the Network of the Future, 2008-2011
Incentive Based Power Control in Wireless Networks of Autonomous Entities with Various Degrees of Cooperation, 2010-2013. This research has been co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds
Weighted Congestion Games and Radio Resource Management in Wireless Networks, 2011-2012. This research is funded by the Research Centre of the Athens University of Economics and Business
COST ICT Action IC0906: WiNeMO - Wireless Networking for Moving Objects

MMLab has recently participated in the following research projects:

PSIRP:Publish-Subscribe Internet Routing Paradigm EU ICT FP7 Project, 2008-2010
Evolved Internet Future For European Leadership EU SSA EIFFEL, 2008-10
ARCHANGEL - (funded by Microsoft Research)

Recent Journal Publications:

• N. Fotiou, G.C. Polyzos, D. Trossen, "Illustrating a Publish-Subscribe Internet Architecture," Telecommunication Systems, Springer, 2011. (available online) [PDF]
• V.G. Douros and G.C. Polyzos, "Review of Some Fundamental Approaches for Power Control in Wireless Networks," Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 34, no. 13, pp. 1580-1592, August 2011. [PDF]
• K.V. Katsaros, G. Xylomenos, and G.C. Polyzos, “MultiCache: an Overlay Architecture for Information-Centric Networking,” Computer Networks, Elsevier, Special Issue on ‘Architectures and Protocols for the Future Internet,’ Guest Editors: T. Wolf & L. Eggert, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 936-947, March 2011. [PDF]
• E.C. Efstathiou, P.A. Frangoudis and G.C. Polyzos, “Controlled Wi-Fi Sharing in Cities: a Decentralized Approach Relying on Indirect Reciprocity,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 1147 1160, August 2010. [PDF]

Recent Conference Publications:

• C. Tsilopoulos and G. Xylomenos, "Supporting Diverse Traffic Types in Information Centric Networks", Proc. ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Information Centric Networking (ICN 2011),Toronto, Canada, August 2011.
• V.A. Siris, X. Vasilakos, and G.C. Polyzos, "A Selective Neighbor Caching Approach for Supporting Mobility in Publish/Subscribe Networks," Proc. 5th ERCIM Workshop on eMobility (in conjunction with WWIC 2011), Vilanova i la Geltru, Catalonia, Spain, June 2011. [PDF]
• C. Stais, G. Xylomenos and A. Archodovassilis, "A comparison of streaming extensions to BitTorrent," Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Corfu, Greece, June 2011. [PDF]
• V.G. Douros, G.C. Polyzos and S. Toumpis, "Negotiation-Based Distributed Power Control in Wireless Networks with Autonomous Nodes," Proc. 73rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2011-Spring), Budapest, Hungary, May 2011. [PDF]
• N. Fotiou, G.C. Polyzos, P. Nikander and D. Trossen, “Developing Information Networking Further: From PSIRP to PURSUIT,” Proc. 7th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (BROADNETS), Athens, Greece, October 2010. (invited paper) [PDF]
• X.S. Vasilakos, J. Sacha and G. Pierre, "Decentralized As-Soon-As-Possible Grid Scheduling: a Feasibility Study," Proc. 2nd IEEE Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer)-in association with ICCCN2010, Zurich, Switzerland, August 2010. [PDF]
• N. Fotiou, G.F. Marias and G.C. Polyzos, "Fighting Spam in Publish/Subscribe Networks Using Information Ranking," Proc. 6th Euro-NF Conference on Next Generation Internet (NGI), Paris, France, June 2010. Best Student Paper Award [PDF]
• K. Katsaros, G. Xylomenos and G.C. Polyzos, "A Hybrid Overlay Multicast and Caching Scheme for Information-Centric Networking," Proc. 13th IEEE Global Internet Symposium, co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, USA, March 2010. [PDF]

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