Nikolaos Pappas
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Associate Professor, Docent, |
Research
My research interests include
Semantic Wireless Communications
Age of Information
Network-Level Cooperative Networks
Wireless Energy Harvesting Networks
Performance analysis and Stochastic modeling
Tactile Internet
Are you interested in visiting the Communications for Networked Intelligent Systems (CNIS) Group? Please get in touch with Nikolaos Pappas with a copy of your resume and a research statement on what you expect to work and achieve during your stay.
Partial financial support may be provided in some cases.
Selected News
11/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Version Age of Information Minimization over Fading Broadcast Channels” at the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
10/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Goal-Oriented Communication, Estimation, and Control over Bidirectional Wireless Links” at the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
10/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘State-Aware Timeliness in Energy Harvesting IoT Systems Monitoring a Markovian Source” at the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
09/2024: Organizing the IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop on ‘‘Task-Oriented and Generative Communications for 6G”.
09/2024: Organizing the Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications and Networking (AI4WCN) at the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
09/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Version Age-Optimal Cached Status Updates in a Gossiping Network with Energy Harvesting Sensor” at the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
09/2024: Appeared in the Top 2% scientists list, single year impact, in the area of Networking and Telecommunications.
09/2024: Accepted paper at the WiOpt 2024 Workshop on Modeling and Optimization for Semantic Communications (MOSC).
08/2024: Joined the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
08/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Age-Threshold Slotted ALOHA for Optimizing Information Freshness in Mobile Networks” at the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
08/2024: Accepted three conference papers at the WiOpt 2024.
08/2024: Accepted conference paper at the ACM Mobihoc 2024 Workshop on Age and Semantics of Information.
08/2024: Named a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS, top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide in the prior 5 years in the areas of Computer Science and Engineering and Computer Science.
07/2024: The HORIZON-JU-SNS-2024-STREAM-B-01-02 project ‘‘6G-LEADER: LEArning-Driven and Evolved Radio for 6G Communication Systems’’ got funded.
07/2024: Accepted conference paper at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2024.
06/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Goal-Oriented Multiple Access Connectivity for Networked Intelligent Systems” at the IEEE Communications Letters.
06/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Improving Information Freshness via Multi-Sensor Parallel Status Updating” at the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
05/2024: Organizing the ACM Mobihoc 2024 Workshop on Age and Semantics of Information.
05/2024: Organizing the Workshop on Machine Learning in Wireless Communications (WMLC) at the WiOpt 2024.
05/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘Timeliness of Status Update System: The Effect of Parallel Transmission Using Heterogeneous Updating Devices‘” at the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
04/2024: Accepted magazine article ‘‘Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications for 6G Networks” at the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.
04/2024: Accepted paper at the PRL Workshop at International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).
04/2024: I gave an invited talk at AUB Talks Semantic Communications.
04/2024: Accepted paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2024.
04/2024: Accepted paper at the IFIP/IEEE Networking 2024.
04/2024: Accepted paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2024.
02/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Towards Natively Intelligent Semantic Communications and Networking” at the IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society.
02/2024: Paper accepted at the IEEE INFOCOM - 7th Age and Semantics of Information Workshop
02/2024: Paper accepted at the IEEE ICASSP Workshops 2024.
02/2024: Serving as publicity chair for WiOpt 2024.
01/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Semantic Filtering and Source Coding in Distributed Wireless Monitoring Systems” at the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
01/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Semantics-Aware Active Fault Detection in Status Updating Systems” at the IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society.
01/2024: Two papers accepted at the IEEE WCNC Workshops 2024.
01/2024: Accepted conference paper at the IEEE ICC 2024.
01/2024: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Real-time Reconstruction of Markov Sources and Remote Actuation over Wireless Channels” at the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
12/2023: Organizing the 1st Workshop on Real-Time Communications toward 6G (WRTC) at the IEEE VTC 2024 Spring.
12/2023: I gave a tutorial on ‘‘Task-oriented and Semantics-aware Communications and Networking for 6G” at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023.
12/2023: Organizing a workshop on Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks at the IEEE WCNC 2024.
11/2023: Elected as Vice-chair for the IEEE Tactile Internet Technical Committe.
11/2023: I gave a keynote titled ‘‘From Information Freshness to Semantics of Information and Goal-oriented Communications” at the Goal Oriented and Semantic Communications.
11/2023: Co-chairing the ‘‘Age and Semantics of Information Workshop” at the IEEE INFOCOM 2024.
10/2023: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Optimal Status Updates for Minimizing Age of Correlated Information in IoT Networks with Energy Harvesting Sensors” at the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
10/2023: Appeared in the Top 2% scientists list, single year impact, in the area of Networking and Telecommunications.
10/2023: Accepted two conference papers at the IEEE CSCN 2023.
09/2023: Accepted paper at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 workshops.
09/2023: Our work “Demo: Goal-Oriented Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Control” has been selected for the Best Demo Award in IEEE SECON 2023. Congratulations Polina!
08/2023: Accepted conference paper at the IEEE 98th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Fall.
08/2023: Invited talk on semantics of information at the A* Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R).
08/2023: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Short Packet Communication Over A Two-user Rayleigh Fading Z-Interference Channel: From Stability Region to the Age of Information” at the IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society.
08/2023: Accepted journal paper ‘‘State-aware Real-time Tracking and Remote Reconstruction of a Markov Source” at the IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN).
07/2023: Accepted two conference papers at the 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
07/2023: Organizing a Special Issue on ‘‘Goal-oriented Semantic Communication and Networking" at the IEEE Network.
07/2023: Organizing a workshop on Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks at the IEEE ICASSP 2024.
07/2023: I gave a webinar on semantics of information at the IEEE ITS Chapter, Bangalore Section, India.
07/2023: The HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023-STREAM-B-01-04 project ‘‘ROBUST-6G - SmaRt, AutOmated, and ReliaBle SecUrity Service PlaTform for 6G’’ got funded.
07/2023: I gave a keynote titled “From Information Freshness to Semantics of Information and Goal-oriented Communications” at the 2023 International Workshop on Learning and Information Theory (WOLIT’23).
06/2023: I gave a keynote titled “From the age of information to data importance and relevance” at the IEEE ICASSP 2023 workshop on “6G Ubiquitous Space Ground Integrated Communications”.
06/2023: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Goal-oriented Policies for Cost of Actuation Error Minimization in Wireless Autonomous Systems” at the IEEE Communications Letters.
06/2023: Accepted three conference papers at the WiOpt 2023.
06/2023: Accepted paper at the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) 2023.
05/2023: The HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01 project ‘‘SOVEREIGN - distributed ledger technologies and user-driven automation towards self-sovereign mobile data access in beyond 5G networks’’, got funded.
05/2023: The COST Action project ‘‘PARADIGM - Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems’’, got funded.
04/2023: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Age of Information of A Dual Queue Status Update System: A Stochastic Hybrid Systems Method” at the IEEE Communications Letters.
04/2023: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Scheduling Policies for AoI Minimization with Timely Throughput Constraints” at the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
04/2023: Accepted paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2023.
03/2023: The HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01-01 project ‘‘ELIXIRION- rEaLIzing healthcare 4.0 eXploIting the 6G netwoRk evolutION’’, got funded.
03/2023: Accepted paper at the IEEE ICC Workshop on Semantic Communications.
03/2023: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Analysis of Age of Information in Dual Updating Systems” at the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
03/2023: Invited talk and panel discussion at the Workshop on Semantic Information and Communication: Towards a semantic 6G.
03/2023: Accepted journal paper ‘‘Age of Information under Frame Slotted ALOHA-Based Status Updating Protocol” at the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - xURLLC in 6G: Next Generation Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications.
03/2023: Organizing a special session on Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks at the IEEE SPAWC 2023.
03/2023: Organizing a workshop on Distributed, Private, and Robust Machine Learning over Networks at the IEEE SECON 2023.
02/2023: Accepted paper at the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) 2023.
02/2023: I gave a tutorial on ‘‘Semantics-aware Goal-Oriented Communications: Age of Information and beyond” at the NCC 2023.
02/2023: Accepter paper at the IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Age of Information.
01/2023: Tactile Internet Webinar on Semantics-aware Goal-Oriented Communications: Age of Information and beyond.
01/2023: Kick-off meeting of EU Smart Network Services (SNS) project ETHER at Luxembourg.
01/2023: Accepted two conference papers at the IEEE ICC 2023.
12/2022: Organizing a Special Issue on ‘‘Tactile Internet for a Cyber-Physical Continuum" at the IEEE Network.
12/2022: Organizing a Special Issue on ‘‘Task-Oriented Communications and Networking for the Internet of Things (IoT)" at the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine.
11/2022: Our work “Information Freshness and Packet Drop Rate Interplay in a Two-User Multi-Access Channel” has been selected for the Best Student Conference Paper Award in Swe-CTW 2022. Congratulations Mano!
11/2022: Organizing a workshop on Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks at the IEEE ICASSP 2023.
11/2022: Organizing a workshop on Extended Reality over 5G New Radio and Beyond (XRNR) at the IEEE WoWMoM 2023.
11/2022: Organizing a Special Issue at the Entropy Journal on ‘‘Foundations of Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication in Intelligent Networks".
11/2022: Our work “Information Freshness and Packet Drop Rate Interplay in a Two-User Multi-Access Channel” has been selected in the top-five nominations for the Best Student Conference Paper Award in Swe-CTW 2022.
11/2022: I gave an invited talk at the Industry Forum at IEEE 8th World Forum on Internet of Things on Semantic Communications.
11/2022: Invited to be the Area Editor for Wireless Networks at the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.
10/2022: I gave a talk on Semantics-aware Goal-Oriented Communications: AoI and beyond at Online Workshop on Semantics at CentraleSupelec, France.
10/2022: Appeared in the Top 2% scientists list, single year impact, in the area of Networking and Telecommunications.
09/2022: Accepted two papers at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 workshops.
09/2022: Organizing a workshop on Beyond URLLC Workshop: Research Trends and Open Challenges in Real-Time IoT toward 6G (BUW-6G) at the IEEE ICC 2023.
09/2022: Accepted Journal paper ‘‘On-Demand AoI Minimization in Resource-Constrained Cache-Enabled IoT Networks with Energy Harvesting Sensors” at the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
08/2022: The HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022-STREAM-B-01-03 project ETHER - ‘‘sElf-evolving terrestrial non-Terrestrial Hybrid nEtwoRks” got funded.
08/2022: Accepted three conference papers at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2022.
07/2002: Joined the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking.
07/2022: Accepted Journal paper ‘‘A Perspective on Time towards Wireless 6G” at the Proceedings of the IEEE.
07/2022: Accepted Journal paper ‘‘Robust Beamforming Design for RIS-Aided URLLC in D2D Networks” at the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
07/2022: Accepted Conference paper ‘‘Semantics-Aware Active Fault Detection in IoT” at the 20th WiOpt.
06/2022: Accepted Journal paper ‘‘QoS Aware Robot Trajectory Optimization with IRS-Assisted Millimeter-Wave Communications” at the IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society.
06/2022: Our White Paper “6G technology overview” by One6G is out.
06/2022: Started with the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University.
05/2022: Organizing a workshop on IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2022 Workshop on Incorporating Physical Layer Security in 6G Security Protocols.
05/2022: I gave a tutorial on ‘‘Age of Information in Wireless Networks: Fundamentals and Applications” at the IEEE ICC 2022.
04/2022: Our work “Age of Information Performance of Multiaccess Strategies with Packet Management” has been selected for the 2022 JCN Best Paper.
04/2022: Accepted Conference paper ‘‘Asymptotically Optimal On-Demand AoI Minimization in Energy Harvesting IoT Networks” at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
04/2022: I gave a tutorial on ‘‘Semantics Communications for Future Wireless Communications” at the DigiCosme Spring School 2022.
04/2022: Accepted Journal paper ‘‘On the Age of Information in a Two-User Multiple Access Setup” at the Special issue ‘‘Age of Information: Concept, Metric and Tool for Network Control", Entropy.
03/2022: I gave a talk on “Age and Semantics of Information” at One6G.
02/2022: Serving as Workshops Co-Chair at the IEEE SECON 2022.
02/2022: Accepted Journal paper ‘‘Information Freshness and Packet Drop Rate Interplay in a Two-User Multi-Access Channel" at the IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN).
12/2021: Our work “The Cost of Delay in Status Updates and Their Value: Non-Linear Ageing” has been selected for the Best Student Journal Paper Award in Swe-CTW 2021. Congratulations Antzela!
11/2021: Our work “Optimal Sampling Cost in Wireless Networks with Age of Information Constraints ” has been selected in the top-five nominations for the Best Student Conference Paper Award in Swe-CTW 2021. In addition, our work “The Cost of Delay in Status Updates and Their Value: Non-Linear Ageing” has been selected in the top-five nominations for the Best Student Journal Paper Award in Swe-CTW 2021.
11/2021: I gave a talk on “Semantics-Empowered Communication for Networked Intelligent Systems” at Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg in 29 Nov. 2021.
11/2021: 4-year project “Semantics-Empowered Communication for Networked Intelligent Systems” funded by Swedish Research Council (VR).
10/2021: Appeared in the Top 2% scientists list, single year impact, in the area of Networking and Telecommunications.
10/2021: Accepted Journal paper ‘‘Power Minimization for Age of Information Constrained Dynamic Control in Wireless Sensor Networks" at the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
10/2021: Dr. Emmanouil Fountoulakis successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations Mano!
09/2021: Accepted Journal paper ‘‘Performance Analysis of a MIMO System with Bursty Traffic under Jamming Attack" at the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
08/2021: Expert Editor for invited papers IEEE Communications Letters.
07/2021: Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member.
06/2021: Accepted Journal paper ‘‘Throughput and Age of Information in a Cellular-based IoT Network’’ at the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
05/2021: Accepted Conference paper ‘‘Goal-Oriented Communication for Real-Time Tracking in Autonomous Systems’’ at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS).
05/2021: Organizing the special session on Information Freshness in Real-Time Communication Networks at the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC).
05/2021: Organizing the special session on Age of Information at the 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS).
05/2021: Serving as TPC at SPC, MWN, and GCSN Symposia at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM).
04/2021: Co-chairing the Networking and MAC track at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
04/2021: Co-chairing the IoT & Sensor Networks Symposium at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).