Papers in Journals

1. Erik Aumayr, Giuseppe Caso, Anne-Marie Bosneag, Almudena Diaz Zayas, Özgü Alay, Bruno Garcia, Konstantinos Kousias, Anna Brünstrom, Pedro Merino Gomez, Harilaos Koumaras. “Service-based Analytics for 5G open experimentation platforms”, Computer Networks journal, Available online 7 January 2022 by Elsevier B.V. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2021.108740
2. A. Morgado, F. Saghezchi, S. Mumtaz, V. Frascolla, J. Rodriguez, I. Otung, “A Novel Machine Learning-based Scheme for Spectrum Management in Virtualized 5G Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. (accepted – under final review.)
3. Nebojsa Maletic, Eckhard Grass, “Modelling Power Amplifier Impairments in mmWave Phased-Array Systems”, IET Electronics Letters, 57(13), April 2021 (open access)
4. G. Caso, O. Alay, G.C. Ferrante, L. De Nardis, M.-G. Di Benedetto, A. Brunstrom, “User-Centric Radio Access Technology Selection: A Survey of Game Theory Models and Multi-Agent Learning Algorithms”, IEEE Access, early access, 2021. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9448025
5. H. Wu, G. Caso, S. Ferlin, O. Alay, A. Brunstrom, “Multipath Scheduling for 5G Networks: Evaluation and Outlook”, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 44-50, 2021. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9433513
6. Michail‐Alexandros Kourtis, Thanos Sarlas, Themis Anagnostopoulos, Sławomir KukliŃski, Lechosław Tomaszewski, Michał Wierzbicki, Andreas Oikonomakis, George Xilouris, Ioannis P. Chochliouros, Na Yi, Alexandros Kostopoulos, Harilaos Koumaras, “Network Slicing for 5G Edge Services”, Internet Technology Letters journal, 2021, (accepted paper) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/itl2.289
7. Caso, G.; Alay, Ö.; De Nardis, L.; Brunstrom, A.; Neri, M.; Di Benedetto, M.-G.; “Empirical Models for NB-IoT Path Loss in an Urban Scenario”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal
8. Zanaj, E.; Caso, G.; De Nardis, L.; Mohammadpour, A.; Alay, Ö.; Di Benedetto, M.-G.; “Energy Efficiency in Short and Wide-Area IoT Technologies – A Survey”. Special Issue: Reviews and Advances in Internet of Things Technologies on the MDPI Technologies 2021 journal,  9, 22. Available at  https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/9/1/22   (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies9010022)
9. Harilaos Koumaras, George Makropoulos, Michael Batistatos, Stavros Kolometsos, Anastasios Gogos, George Xilouris, Athanasios Sarlas and Michail‐Alexandros Kourtis, from NCSRD 5GENESIS partner, published a journal paper entitled: “5G-Enabled UAVs with Command and Control Software Component at the Edge for Supporting Energy Efficient Opportunistic Networks “MDPI, Special Issue 5G Enabled Energy Innovation, Energies 2021, 14, 1480. You may access and read the article online here: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/5/1480/pdf
10. G. Caso, K. Kousias, Ö. Alay, A. Brunstrom, M. Neri, “NB-IoT Random Access: Data-driven Analysis and ML-based Enhancements”, IEEE Internet Things Journal, to appear, 2021. Supplementary materials and Dataset available at https://mosaic-simulamet.com/nbiot-randomaccess/
11. Almudena Díaz Zayas, Giuseppe Caso, Özgü Alay, Pedro Merino, Anna Brunstrom, Dimitris Tsolkas and Harilaos Koumaras, A Modular Experimentation Methodology for 5G Deployments: The 5GENESIS Approach, Sensors special issue Experimentation in 5G and beyond Networks: State of the Art and the Way Forward, Vol 20, Issue 22, 20 Nov 2020. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/22/6652/htm
12. Utilizing Multi-Connectivity to Reduce Latency and Enhance Availability for Vehicle to Infrastructure Communication, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, October 2020, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9211792, doi: 10.1109/TMC.2020.3028306
13. Delia Rico, Pedro Merino, A Survey of End-to-End Solutions for Reliable Low-Latency Communications in 5G Networks, IEEE Access, 21 Oct 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3032726
14. Pingping Chen, Zhaopeng Xie, Yi Fang, Zhifeng Chen, Shahid Mumtaz, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Physical-Layer Network Coding: An Efficient Technique for Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, Volume 34, Issue 2, pp.270-276, March/April 2020. DOI: 10.1109/MNET.001.1900289
15. Konstantinos Kousias, Giuseppe Caso, Özgü Alay, Anna Brunstrom, Luca De Nardis,Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto and Marco Neri, Coverage and Deployment Analysis of Narrowband Internet of Things in the Wild, IEEE Communications Magazine (Internet of Things and Sensor Networks Series, 2020 (Supplementary materials and Dataset available at https://mosaic-simulamet.com/nbiotcoverage/)
16. Hongjia Wu, Özgü Alay, Anna Brunstrom, Simone Ferlin, Giuseppe Caso, Peekaboo: Learning-based Multipath Scheduling for Dynamic Heterogeneous Environments, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Networking, 2020
17. Guofa Cai, Yi Fang, Jinming Wen, Shahid Mumtaz, Yang Song, and Valerio Frascolla, Multi-Carrier M-ary DCSK System With Code Index Modulation: An Efficient Solution for Chaotic Communications, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp.1375-1386, October 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2019.2913944
18. Dehuan Wan, Miaowen Wen, Xiang Cheng, Shahid Mumtaz, and Mohsen Guizani, A Promising Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Based Networking Architecture: Motivation, Conception, and Evolution, IEEE Wireless Communications, Volume 26, Issue 5, pp.152-159, October 2019. DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2019.1900021
19. L. De Nardis, G. Caso, M.-G. Di Benedetto. ThingsLocate: A ThingSpeak-Based Indoor Positioning Platform for Academic Research on Location-Aware Internet of Things. MDPI Technologies, Vol. 7, Issue 3, Sept. 2019
20. Rafay Iqbal Ansari, Haris Pervaiz, Syed Ali Hassan, Chrysostomos Chrysostomou, Muhammad Ali Imran, Shahid Mumtaz, and Rahim Tafazolli, A New Dimension to Spectrum Management in IoT Empowered 5G Networks, IEEE Network, Volume 33, Issue 4, pp.186-193, July/August 2019. DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2019.1800157
21. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Early Access, since June 2019): Sherif Adeshina Busari, Student Member, IEEE, Kazi Mohammed Saidul Huq, Senior Member, IEEE, Shahid Mumtaz, Senior Member, IEEE, Jonathan Rodriguez, Senior Member, IEEE, Yi Fang, Member, IEEE Douglas C. Sicker, Saba Al-Rubaye, Senior Member, IEEE and Antonios Tsourdos, Generalized Hybrid Beamforming for Vehicular Connectivity using THz Massive MIMO
22. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing – (Early Access, since 1 May 2019): G. Cai, Y. Fang, J. Wen, S. Mumtaz, Y. Song and V. Frascolla, Multi-Carrier M-ary DCSK System with Code Index Modulation: An Efficient Solution for Chaotic Communications
23. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 3113-3125, April 2019: Z. Zhou, P. Liu, J. Feng, Y. Zhang, S. Mumtaz and J. Rodriguez, Computation Resource Allocation and Task Assignment Optimization in Vehicular Fog Computing: A Contract-Matching Approach
24. Mobile Information Systems Volume 2019. 1 April 2019: Almudena Dıaz Zayas, Bruno Garcıa Garcıa and Pedro Merino An End-to-End Automation Framework for Mobile Network Testbeds.

Research papers in Conferences

1. Deli Rico, Maria del Mar Gallardo, Pedro Merino, “Modeling and verification of the Multi-connection TactileInternet Protocol”, 17th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet ’21), 22-27 Nov 2021 Alicante, Spain
2. Navaneetha Manjappa, Lara Wimmer, Nebojsa Maletic, Eckhard Grass, “Real-time Physical Layer Secure Key Generation in a mmWave Communication System”, 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), September 2021, Berlin
3. Alejandro Fornes-Leal, Regel Gonzalez-Usach, Carlos E. Palau, Manuel Esteve, Dimitris Lioprasitis, Athanasios Priovolos, Georgios Gardikis, Spyros Pantazis, Socrates Costicoglou, Andreas Perentos, Eleftheria Hadjioannou, Michael Georgiades and Alexander Phinikarides, Deployment of 5G Experiments on Underserved Areas Using the Open5GENESIS Suite, IEEE SmartNets, 22-23 September 2021, Glasgow, Scotland.
4. Dimitris Lioprasitis, Athanasios Priovolos, Georgios Gardikis, Spiros Pantazis, Socrates Costicoglou, Andreas Perentos, Eleftheria Hadjioannou, Michael Georgiades, Alexander Phinikarides, Alejandro Fornés-Leal, Regel Gonzalez-Usach, Carlos E. Palau and Manuel Esteve, Satellite edge computing for 5G rural applications, IEEE MeditCom 2021 (International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking), 7-10 September 2021, Athens, Greece
5. Athanasios Priovolos, Dimitris Lioprasitis, Georgios Gardikis and Socrates Costicoglou, Metrics-based Outlier Detection for 5G security, IEEE MeditCom 2021 (International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking), 7-10 September 2021, Athens, Greece
6. Panos Matzakos, Harilaos Koumaras, Dimitris Tsolkas, Maria Christopoulou, George K Xilouris and Florian Kaltenberger, “An open source 5G experimentation testbed”, IEEE MeditCom 2021 (International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking), 7-10 September 2021, Athens, Greece.
   https://meditcom2021.ieee-meditcom.org/program/demos/
7. Georgios Makropoulos, Harilaos Koumaras, Stavros Kolometsos, Anastasios Gogos, Thanos Sarlas, Tanel Järvet, Gokul Srinivasan and Fotini Setaki, “Field Trial of UAV flight with Communication and Control through 5G cellular network”, IEEE MeditCom 2021 (International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking), 7-10 September 2021, Athens, Greece.
   https://meditcom2021.ieee-meditcom.org/program/sessions/
8. Adaptive and Latency-Aware Load Balancing for Control Plane Traffic in the 4G/5G Core, Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit, 8-11 June 2021, DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit51104.2021.9482513
9. Guidelines for an Energy Efficient Tuning of the NB-IoT Stack, IEEE 45th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). 16-19 November 2020, DOI: 10.1109/LCNSymposium50271.2020.9363265
10. On the Use of a Virtualized 5G Core for Time Critical Communication in Smart Grid, 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering (MobileCloud), 3-6 August, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/MobileCloud48802.2020.00009
11. Le Trung-Kien; Salim Umer; Kaltenberger Florian, Feedback enhancements for semi-persistent downlink transmissions in ultra-reliable low-latency communication, EUCNC 2020, virtual, European Conference on Networks and Communications, 15 June 2020, Dubrovnik, Croatia
12. Anastasios-Stavros Charismiadis, Dimitris Tsolkas, Nikos Passas and Lazaros Merakos, A metaheuristic approach for minimizing service creation time in slice-enabled networks, IEEE ICC 2020. 7-11/06/20, Dublin.
13. Van-Giang Nguyen, Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Javid Taheri, and Anna Brunstrom, A Deployable Containerized 5G Core Solution for Time Critical Communication in Smart Grid, ICIN 2020, 24-27/2/2020, Paris
14. Dr. Valerio Frascolla. What are 3GPP 5G Phase 1 and 2 and What Comes After, SIRS 2019, the 5th Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition System, Dec 2019, Trivandrum, India
15. Le Trung-Kien; Salim Umer; Kaltenberger Florian, Control and data channel combining in Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication, IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 3-6 November 2019, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
16. Midoglu C., Alay Ö., Griwodz C. Evaluation Framework for Real-Time Adaptive 360-Degree Video Streaming over 5G Networks. Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop (S3) @ ACM Mobicom 2019, October 21, 2019, Los Cabos, Mexico
17. Lorenzo Di Gregorio, Valerio Frascolla, Handover Optimality in Heterogeneous Networks, IEEE 5G World Forum, Dresden, 30.09-02.10.2019
18. Almudena Diaz Zayas, Delia Rico, Bruno Garcia, Pedro Marino, A Coordination Framework for Experimentation in 5G Testbeds: URLLC as Use Case. JITEL 2019,XIV Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática. 22-24/10/2019, Zaragoza
19. Le, Trung-Kien; Salim, Umer; Kaltenberger, Florian, Improving ultra-reliable low-latency communication in multiplexing with enhanced mobile broadband in grant-free resources, PIMRC 2019, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 8-11 September 2019, Istanbul, Turkey
20. Le, Trung-Kien; Salim, Umer; Kaltenberger, Florian, Strategies to meet the configured repetitions in URLLC Uplink grant-free transmission ISWCS 2019, 16th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, 27-30 August 2019, Oulu, Finland
21. Le, Trung-Kien; Salim, Umer; Kaltenberger, Florian, Optimal reserved resources to ensure the repetitions in ultra-reliable low-latency communication uplink grant-free transmission, EUCNC 2019, European Conference on Networks and Communications, 18-21 June 2019, Valencia, Spain
22. Delia Rico Marchena, Pedro Merino Gomez, Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications: A state of the art review, JCSD 2019, Saragoza, 19-21 June 2019
23. Schempp et al., Optimizing the deployment of Virtual Network Functions in 5G networks with Model Based Testing, JCSD 2019, Saragoza, 19-21 June 2019
24. Gallardo and Panizo, Modelling Software-Defined Networks with Alloy, JCSD 2019, Saragoza, 19-21 June 2019
25. Dr. Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos) et al. 5G Experimentation Facility Supporting Satellite-Terrestrial Integration: The 5GENESIS approach, EUCNC 2019, 19/06/2019, Valencia.
26. K. Kousias, O. Alay, A. Argyriou, A. Lutu, M. Riegler. Estimating Downlink Throughput from End-User Measurements in Mobile Broadband Networks. IEEE Wowmom 9-12 June, Washington DC – Conference paper, main track
27. S. A. Busari, K. M. S. Huq, G. Felfel, J. Rodriguez Adaptive Resource Allocation for Energy-Efficient Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 9-13 December 2018
28. S. A. Busari, K. M. S. Huq, S. Mumtaz, J. Rodriguez, Impact of 3D Channel Modeling for Ultra-High Speed Beyond-5G Networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 9-13 December 2018
29. Harilaos Koumaras, Dimitris Tsolkas, Georgios Gardikis, Pedro Merino Gomez, Valerio Frascolla, Dionysia Triantafyllopoulou, Marc Emmelmann, Vaios Koumaras, Maria L. Garcia Osma, Daniele Munaretto, Eneko Atxutegi, Jara Suárez de Puga, Ozgu Alay, Anna Brunstrom, Anne Marie Cristina Bosneag 5GENESIS: The Genesis of a flexible 5G Facility CAMAD-2018 IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks 17-19 September 2018 – Barcelona, Spain

Book Chapters

1. F. B. Saghezchi, et al. “Drive Towards 6G”. Chapter in: “Enabling 6G Mobile Networks”, Springer, Cham, p. 3-35, Nov 2021, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74648-3_1
2. Gallardo MM., Luque-Schempp F., Merino-Gómez P., Panizo L. (2019) How Formal Methods Can Contribute to 5G Networks. In: ter Beek M., Fantechi A., Semini L. (eds) From Software Engineering to Formal Methods and Tools, and Back. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11865, Oct 2019, Springer, Cham

Research papers in Workshops

1. Georgios Xylouris (NCSR Demokritos), Maria Christopoulou (NCSR Demokritos), Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos), Michail-Alexandros Kourtis (NCSR Demokritos), Marc Emmelmann (Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication System FOKUS), Dionysia Triantafyllopoulou (5G Innovation Centre – 5GIC), Yogaratnam Rahulan (5G Innovation Centre – 5GIC), Ivan Gonzalez Muriel (Universidad de Málaga), Almudena Diaz Zayas (Universidad de Málaga), Eneko Atxutegi (Nemergent Solutions SL), Georgios Gardikis (Space Hellas (Cyprus) Ltd.), Dimitrios Lioprasitis (Space Hellas (Cyprus) Ltd.), Dimitris Tsolkas (FOGUS Innovations & Services P.C), Panagiotis Kostakis (FOGUS Innovations & Services P.C), Erik Aumayr (Ericsson LMI Research Centre), Anne-Marie Bosneag (Ericsson LMI Research Centre), Ozgu Alay (University of Oslo), Valerio Frascolla (Intel), and Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University), “Experimentation and 5G KPI measurements in the 5GENESIS platforms”, ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on 5G Measurements, Modeling, and Use Cases (5G-MeMU), 23 August 2021
2. Alexander Rabitsch (Karlstad University), George Xilouris (NCSR Demokritos), Themistoklis Anagnostopoulos (NCSR Demokritos), Karl-Johan Grinnemo (Karlstad University), Thanos Sarlas (NCSR Demokritos), Anna Brunstrom (Karlstad University), Özgü Alay (University of Oslo, Simula Metropolitan), and Giuseppe Caso (Simula Metropolitan), “Extending Network Slice Management to the End-host”, ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on 5G Measurements, Modeling, and Use Cases (5G-MeMU), 23 August 2021
3. Paresh Saxena, Thomas Dreibholz, Harald Skinnemoen, Özgü Alay, M. A. Vazquez-Castro, Simone Ferlin, and Guray Acar, Resilient Hybrid SatCom and Terrestrial Networking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, WISARN Workshop IEEE INFOCOM, 6-9/07/2020, Toronto, Canada
4. K. Kousias, G. Caso, O. Alay, F. Lemic. Empirical Analysis of LoRaWAN Adaptive Data Rate for Mobile Internet of Things Applications. Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop (S3) @ ACM Mobicom 2019, October 21, 2019, Los Cabos, Mexico
5. Kaltenberger et al., The OpenAirInterface 5G New Radio Implementation: Current Status and Roadmap,23rd ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, Demo Session,WSA 2019, 24-26 April 2019, Vienna Austria.
6.  Gardikis et al., The 5GENESIS testing facility as an enabler for integrated satellite/terrestrial 5G experimentation, Satellite-Terrestrial Interworking Workshop, WCNC 2019, 5/04/2019, Marrakech.

White Papers & 5G-PPP Papers

1. 5G-PPP, “Basic Testing Guide: A Starter Kit for 5G KPIs Verification”, Test, Measurement, and KPIs Validation Working Group, January 2022
2. 5G-PPP, “5G PPP Architecture white paper v4.0”,  October 2021
3. 5G-PPP, “5G Ecosystems”, 5G Infrastructure Association Vision and Societal Challenges Working Group Business Validation, Models, and Ecosystems Sub-Group, September 2021
4. 5G-PPP, “5GENESIS: Mobile Video Public Safety”, 5G Infrastructure PPP Trials and Pilots Brochure n°3 (page 10), August 2021
5. 5G-PPP and TΜV WG white paper, Understanding the Numbers-Contextualization and Impact Factors of 5G Performance Results, July 2021
6. 5G PPP, Phase 3 Projects Brochure, June 2021
7. 5G-PPP white paper, European Vision for the 6G Network Ecosystem, June 2021
8. 5G-PPP, 5G Annual Journal 2021, May 2021
9. 5G-PPP Technology Board, AI and ML – Enablers for Beyond 5G Networks, white paper version 1, 11 May 2021
10. 5GPPP, Edge Computing for 5G Networks, February 2021
11. 5GPPP, Annual Progress Monitoring Report (2019 release), October 2020
12. 5GPPP, Empowering Vertical Industries through 5G Networks – Current Status and Future Trends, August 2020
13. 5GPPP, The European 5G Annual Journal 2020, June 2020
14. 5GPPP, On Board Procedure to 5G PPP Infrastructure Projects, April 2020
15. 5GPPP, Cloud Native and 5G Verticals’ services, February 2020
16. 5G-PPP, 5G network support of vertical industries in the 5G Public-Private Partnership ecosystem, February 2020
17. NEM.Networld2020.5GPPP – 5G Media Slice Definition White Paper, September 2019
18. 5G-PPP Software Network WG, Cloud-Native and Verticals’ services, August 2019