Nikolaos Pappas - Activities

Editorial

• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2024 - )

• Area Editor, IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society (2022 - )

• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (2022 - )

• Expert Editor for Invited Papers, IEEE Communications Letters (2021 - )

• Editor, IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks (2018 - )

• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications (2018 - 2023)

• Editor, IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society (2019 - 2022)

• Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (2013 - 2018)

Guest Editorial

• Guest Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  Special Issue on ‘‘Age of Information and Data Semantics for Sensing, Communication and Control Co-Design in IoT”

• Leading Guest Editor, Frontiers in Communications and Networks
  Special Issue on ‘‘Age of Information”

• Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  Special Issue on ‘‘Future of Wireless Access for Industrial IoT (FutureIIOT): Enabling Industry 4.0 revolution”

• Guest Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine,
  Special Issue on ‘‘Task-Oriented Communications and Networking for the Internet of Things (IoT)"

• Guest Editor, IEEE Network,
  Special Issue on ‘‘Tactile Internet for a Cyber-Physical Continuum"

• Guest Editor, Entropy Journal,
  Special Issue on ‘‘Foundations of Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication in Intelligent Networks"

• Leading Guest Editor, IEEE Network,
  Special Issue on ‘‘Goal-oriented Semantic Communication and Networking"

Technical Committees and Standardization

• Vice Chair for the IEEE Tactile Internet TC (in the past was serving as Secretary)

• One6G

• Co-chair for the Special Interest Group on IoT in Tactile Internet (IEEE Technical Committees)

• Voting Member at the IEEE Working Group P1918.1 - Tactile Internet: Application Scenarios, Definitions and Terminology, Architecture, Functions, and Technical Assumptions

Keynotes

• Goal Oriented and Semantic Communications Nov. 2023

• 2023 International Workshop on Learning and Information Theory (WOLIT’23) July 2023

• IEEE ICASSP 2023 workshop on “6G Ubiquitous Space Ground Integrated Communications” June 2023

Tutorials

• IEEE PIMRC 2024: Goal-oriented Semantic Communication

• IEEE MEDITCOM 2024: Age of Information: A Tool for Designing Time-critical Networks

• IFIP/IEEE Networking 2024: From Information Freshness to Semantics of Information and Goal-oriented Communications

• IEEE GLOBECOM 2023: Task-oriented and Semantics-aware Communications and Networking for 6G

• NetSys 2023: Age of information (AoI) - A new performance metric for measuring freshness of information

• IEEE ICC 2023: Task-oriented and Semantic-aware Communications and Networking for 6G

• IEEE WCNC 2023: Task-oriented communications and networks

• IEEE SPS - EURASIP summer school on “Defining 6G: Theory, Applications, and Enabling Technologies”, Goal-oriented and semantic communications

• IEEE/CIC ICCC 2022: Age of Information Optimizations in Wireless Networks: Theories, Applications, and Beyond

• IEEE ICC 2022: Age of Information in Wireless Networks: Fundamentals and Applications

• Spring School 2022: Emerging and future communication networks: technologies, architectures, and tools: Semantics Communications for Future Wireless Communications

• IEEE SPAWC 2021: Goal-Oriented Communication for Networked Intelligent Systems

• IEEE GLOBECOM 2020: Age of Information: Theory, Applications, and Testbed Implementation

• IEEE/CIC ICCC 2020: Age of Information as a New Data Freshness Metric in the IoT Era: From Theory to Implementation

Summer Schools

• IEEE SPS - EURASIP summer school on “Defining 6G: Theory, Applications, and Enabling Technologies”, Linköping, Sweden, August 29-September 1, 2022

• Summer School on Topics on Network Anticipation and IoT within 5G, Lund, Sweden, 16-18 June 2017

• The 1st SOrBet Summer School Analytical Tools for Dense Wireless Networks, Heraklion, Crete, Greece 27-31 July 2015

Conferences

Symposium chair

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022

• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2022

• Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 2015 (WTS 2015)

Chair/Co-chair Special session/Workshop

• 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications and Networking (AI4WCN)

• IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop on Task-Oriented and Generative Communications for 6G

• ACM Mobihoc 2024 Workshop on Age and Semantics of Information

• WiOpt 2024 Workshop on Machine Learning in Wireless Communications (WMLC)]

• IEEE INFOCOM 2024 Workshop on Age and Semantics of Information

• IEEE VTC 2024 Spring Workshop on Real-Time Communications toward 6G (WRTC)

• IEEE ICASSP 2024 Workshop on Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks

• IEEE WCNC 2024 Workshop on Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks

• IEEE SPAWC 2023 Special Session on Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks

• IEEE SECON 2023 Workshop on Distributed, Private, and Robust Machine Learning over Networks

• IEEE ICASSP 2023 Workshop on Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks

• IEEE WoWMoM 2023 Workshop on Extended Reality over 5G New Radio and Beyond (XRNR)

• IEEE ICC 2023 Workshop on Beyond URLLC: Research Trends and Open Challenges in Real-Time IoT toward 6G (BUW-6G)

• IEEE SECON 2022 Workshops Co-Chair

• IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2022 Workshop on Incorporating Physical Layer Security in 6G Security Protocols

• IEEE SPAWC 2021 Special session on Information Freshness in Real-Time Communication Networks

• 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) 2021 - Special Session on Age of Information

• IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 Workshop on Future wireless access for Industrial IoT (FutureIIoT)

• IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Workshop on Ultra-Low Latency in Wireless Networks (ULLWN)

• IEEE SPAWC 2018 Special session on Low Latency Communications in Cooperative Networks

• 13th IEEE WiMob 2017 Workshops Co-chair

• IEEE PIMRC 2016 Workshop on Inclusive Radio Communication Networks for 5G and Beyond

Publicity chair

• The 22nd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) 2024

• The 19th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) 2021

• The 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP)

TPC chair

• The 4th Age of Information Workshop (AoI’21) in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2021

• IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 Workshop on Optimizing Heterogeneous Networking Technologies for the IoT