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
Selected News
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).