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PERSONAL INFORMATION Family name, Markos First name: Anastasopoulos Date of birth: 20 February 1982 Marital status: Married     Scopus author ID: 8524103200 • EDUCATION 01/09/2004 – 10/06/2009  PhD Thesis: Design of Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Networks Using Game Theory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineer, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece 01/02/2005 – 19/06/2007 Master in Business Administration (MBA) in financial engineering (2-year program) School of Electrical and Computer Engineer, NTUA, Greece (GPA: 8.62/10) 15/09/1999 – 26/07/2004 Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering (5-year program). School of Electrical and Computer Engineer, NTUA, Greece (GPA: 8.90/10, top 2%) • CURRENT POSITION(S) 10/03/2014 -today Research assistant High Performance Networks Group, Department, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, UK • PREVIOUS POSITIONS 01/10/2010-28/02/2014 Senior Research Engineer, Network Design and Services Group, Athens Information Technology-Intracom Group, Athens, Greece Involved in the EU FP7 projects CONTENT, HARP, GEYSERS 15/9/2005-19/11/2009  Technical Consultant, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Athens, Greece International Coordination of the HELLAS SAT network series. International coordination of millimetre wave broadband wireless systems. European Frequency Information System: Provided technical support for the harmonization of the spectrum according to EC Decision 2007/344/EC 01/04/2004-30/9/2010  Research Engineer Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS), National Technical University of Athens, Greece  Involved in the EU FP6 Projects INOS and MUSE Involved in the national project: Measurements in anechoic chamber Industrial project: Development of a pilot Smartgrid BPL at the NTUA’s campus (funded by AMPERION SE). • FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 07/04/2013-10/04/2013 IEEE Communications Society Honour Award in recognition and appreciation for valued services and contributions as a Network Track Co-Chair to IEEE WCNC 2013 01/09/2004-15/06/2009 Best doctoral dissertation award across all Engineering School of the NTUA Greece (15076/05-07-2012 decision of the NTUA's Senate, selected among 500 candidates) 19/05/2013-22/05/2013 Best Paper Award at the 17th Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) Conference for the paper “Stochastic Service Provisioning in Converged Optical Data Center Networks and Smart Grids” M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki, D. Simeonidou, : http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abstractAuthors.jsp?arnumber=6524897 30/05/2009 Thomaidion Award for Scientific Publication for the academic year 2008, Awarded by the National Technical University of Athens, Greece 30/05/2008 Thomaidion Award for Scientific Publication for the academic year 2007, Awarded by the National Technical University of Athens, Greece 30/05/2007 Thomaidion Award for Scientific Publication for the academic year 2006, Awarded by the National Technical University of Athens, Greece 01/09/2005-30/08/2007  Fellowship of Propondis Foundation, Athens, Greece  01/09/2004 Eugenides Foundation Award for outstanding academic performance, Awarded by the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece 15/09/1999 – 30/06/2004 Fellowship of Kyprianides Foundation, Awarded by the Hellenic Ministry of Education, Greece (after Panhellenic Examinations) • SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS 01/04/2004-today Co-supervision of 9 PhD students in the area of telecom system (with Prof. P. Cottis) School of ECE, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Co-supervision of 1 PhD student in the area of optical networking (with Prof. A. Tzanakaki) Athens Information Technology, Greece Co-supervision of 1 Msc student in the area of optical networking (with Prof. D. Simeonidou) University of Bristol, UK • TEACHING ACTIVITIES 15/09/2005-28/02/2014 Lecturer- Computer Science, National Academy of Police Officers, Greece 30/09/2010-30/9/2011 Lecturer- Computer Science, Technological Educational Institute of Chalkida, Greece • ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 25/01/2015-28/01/2015 Chair in the Wireless Systems Architecture and Modeling Track, IEEE Radio Wireless Communication, San Diego, California, USA http://www.radiowirelessweek.org/ 19/01/2014-22/01/2014 Chair in the Wireless Systems Architecture and Modeling Track, IEEE Radio Wireless Communication, Newport Beach, California, USA http://www.radiowirelessweek.org/2014 20/01/2013-23/01/2013 Chair in the Wireless Systems Architecture and Modeling Track, IEEE Radio Wireless Communication, Austin, TX, USA http://www.radiowirelessweek.org/2013  07/04/2013-10/04/2013 Co-Chair, Networks and Applications Track, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference – WCNC, Shanghai, China www.ieee-wcnc.org 25/09/2011-28/09/2011 Chair in the Commun. Software and Hardware Design Track, IEEE ICCT 2011, Jinan, China http://202.194.26.100/web/ieeeicct/index.htm 26/08/2010-28/08/2010 Co-Chair, Optical Communications and Networking Symposium, CHINACOM '10, Aug. 26-28, Beijing, China, http://chinacom.org/2011/ 01/03/2010-03/10/2010 Co-Chair, Network Track Symposium, International Wireless Internet Conference 2010 (WICON 2010), March, 13, 2010, Singapore http://wicon.org 26/08/2009-28/08/2009 Co-Chair, Multimedia Communications Symp. CHINACOM '09, Aug. 26-28,, China • COMMISSIONS OF TRUST 2009 – Today  Editorial Board, International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley 2011-2014    Scientific Evaluator, Romanian National Council for R&D, Romania. 2012-2014  Scientific Evaluator, General Secretariat for Research & Technology, Greece 2010  Scientific Evaluator for Educational Software Applications, Hellenic Ministry of Education, Greece 2004-today  Active reviewer in: IEEE/OSA JOCN, IEEE Journal on Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on System Man and Cybernetics - Part  B, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine, Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Journal of Sensors - Hindawi, Journal of Computer Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Wiley InterScience, Security and Communication Networks -International Journal of Communication Systems , Telecommunication Systems - Springer, IETE Technical Review, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences - Springer. 2004-today  Technical Program Committee Memberships:  IEEE PIMRC 2015, IEEE WCNC 2014 - Mobile and Wireless Networks Track, International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS 2014), IICP2013, IEEE 4th International Conference on Photonics (ICP) 2013, IEEE PIMRC 2013 - Services Applications and Business Track, International Symposium on Control, Automation, Industrial Informatics and Smart Grid (ICAIS) 2013, Subcommittee SC4 of Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP) 2013., International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo 2012, IEEE RWW 2011, Mobile Cloud Computing 2011, Gamenets 2011, IEEE Globecom 2009, IEEE WCNC 2009, IEEE PIMRC 2008, SPACOMM 2008-2012 • MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 01/06/2005 – today Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), Greece 01/01/2005 – today Member of the IEEE, USA • MAJOR PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki, “Stochastic Service Provisioning in Sustainable, Converged IT and Optical Network Infrastructures”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, conditionally accepted.  R. Rofoee, G. Zervas, Y. Yan,  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki, S. Peng, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, “Hardware Virtualized Flexible Network for Wireless-DC Optical Interconnects,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Commun. & Networking, SI on OFC/NFOEC 2014 (invited)  M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Optical Wireless Network Convergence in Support of Energy Efficient Mobile cloud Services,” Photonic network communications, Springer, Extended version of C26 (invited)  J.F. Riera, A. Tzanakaki, A.-F. Antonescu, M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Virtual Infrastructures as a Service enabling Converged Optical Networks and Data Centres,” Optical Switching and Networking (Elsevier), in press, DOI: 10.1016/j.osn.2014.05.017.  K. Georgakilas, M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki, “Stochastic Optimization for Deployment of Correlated Cloud Services over Optical Networks,” IEEE Commun. Letters, 18, (7), July 2014.  Α. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos et al., “Planning of Dynamic Virtual Optical Cloud Infrastructures: The GEYSERS approach,” IEEE Commun. Magazine, SI on Advances in Network Planning, 2014  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos and K. Georgakilas, “Dynamic Virtual Optical Networks Supporting Uncertain Traffic Demands,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, OFC/NFOEC Special Issue (invited), Vol. 5, No. 10, Oct. 2013.  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki and D. Simeonidou, “Stochastic Planning of Dependable Virtual Infrastructures over Optical Datacenter Networks,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol. 5, No. 9, Sep. 2013.  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos, G. Zervas, B. Rofoee, R. Nejabati and D. Simeonidou, “Virtualization of Heterogeneous Wireless-Optical Network and IT infrastructures in support of Cloud and Mobile Cloud Services,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Aug. 2013.  A. Voulkidis, M. P. Anastasopoulos, P.G.Cottis, “Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks: A coalition formation game theoretic approach”, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 9, No. 4, Art.. 43, Jul. 2013 (Citations: 3)  K. Georgakilas, A.Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos and Jens M. Pedersen, “Converged Optical Network and Data Center Virtual Infrastructure Planning”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Vol.4, no.9, pp.681 - 691, Sep. 2012  (Citations: 9)  M .P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Feedback Suppression in Multicast Satellite Networks using Game Theory," IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 6, No.4, pp. 657 - 666, 2012. (Citations: 3)  N. P. Anastasopoulos, M. P. Anastasopoulos, “The evolutionary dynamics of audit”, European Journal of Operational Research Elsevier, Vol. 216, No. 2, pp. 469-476, Jan. 2012. (Citations: 2)  M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Evolutionary Optimization for Energy Efficient Service Provisioning in IT and Optical Network Infrastructures,” OSA Optics Express, 19 (26), 2011  (Citations: 2)  M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Energy Aware Planning of Multiple Virtual Infrastructures over Converged Optical Network and IT Physical Resources", OSA Optics Express, 19(26), 2011. (Citations: 3)  T. Taleb, N. Nasser, M. P. Anastasopoulos, “An Auction-based Pareto-optimal  Strategy for Dynamic and Fair Allotment of Resources in Wireless Mobile Networks”, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology,  Vol. 60, No. 9, pp. 4587-4597, Nov. 2011.  D. K. Petraki, M. P. Anastasopoulos, S. Papavassiliou, “Secrecy Capacity for Satellite Networks Under Rain Fading,'' IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing, 8 (5), 777-782, 2011. (Citations: 1)  M.P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “TCP Throughput Ádaptation in WiMax Networks using Replicator Dynamics”, IEEE Transactions on System Man and Cybernetics-Part B, 40(3), 647-655, 2010. (Citations: 12)  D.K. Petraki, M. P. Anastasopoulos, H-H Chen, P.G.Cottis, “Distributed Resource Al¬location for Delay-Sensitive Services in Satellite Networks Using Game Theory”, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 1(2) pp.134-144, 2009  (Citations: 4)  M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Secure communications in local mul¬tipoint distribution service networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communi¬cations, vol. 8, no. 11, pp.5400-5403, 2009.  (Citations: 1)  M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Call Ad¬mission Control For Multiclass Traffic Under Rain Fading in Satellite Networks”, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, 8(5), 2473-2483, 2009. (Citations: 1)  M. P Anastasopoulos, P.G. Cottis, “High Altitude Platform Networks: A Feedback Suppression Algorithm for Reliable Multicast/ Broadcast Services", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Commun., 8 (4), 1639 -1643, 2009   (Citations: 1)  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Vasilakos, P.Cottis, “An autonomic framework for reli¬able multicast: A game theoretical approach based on social psychology”, ACM Transac¬tions on Auton. & Adaptive Sys., 4(4), 2009. (Citations: 2)  D. Petraki, M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Vasilakos, P. Cottis, ‘‘TCP-Aware Call Ad¬mission control in High Altitude Platforms Using Cross Layer Design’’, Wireless Personal Commun., 51(3), pp.483-498, July 2009. (Citations: 2)  M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “A Feedback Suppression Algo¬rithm to Provide Reliable Multicast Services via Satellite: Spatial-Temporal Modelling of Rainfall Medium”, Int. Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (Wiley), vol.27, pp.117-139, 2009. (Citations: 1)  M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Adaptive Routing Strategies in IEEE 802.16 Multi-Hop Wireless Backhaul Networks: An Evolutionary Game Theory Approach”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication Systems, SI on Game Theory in Communication systems., vol. 26, no. 7, 2008. (Citations: 16)  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. C. Voulkidis, A. Vasilakos, and P.G. Cottis, “A Secure Network Management Protocol for Smartgrid BPL Networks: Design, Implementation and Experi¬mental Analysis”, Computer Communications (Elsevier), Vol.31, No.18, pp.4333-42,2008. (Citations: 12)  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Panagopoulos, P.Cottis, “Distributed Routing Protocol for QoS provisioning in Wireless Mesh Networks,” Wireless Commun. and Mobile Computing (Wiley), 8(10), 1233-1245 , Dec. 2008. (Citations: 5)  D. K. Petraki, M. P. Anastasopoulos and P.G. Cottis,‘‘Call Admission Control in Satellite Networks under Rain Fading", IEEE Communications Letters, vol.12, no.5, pp.377-379, 2008.  D. K. Petraki, M. P. Anastasopoulos, P.G. Cottis “Dynamic Resource Allocation in DVB¬-RCS Networks", International Journal of Satellite Commun. and Networking, 26 (3), 189-210, 2008. (Citations: 8)  A. Panagopoulos, M. P. Anastasopoulos, P.G. Cottis, “Error Performance of Satellite Links Interfered by two Adjacent Satellites”, IEEE Ant. & Wirel. Propag. Letters. 6, 364-367, 2007. (Citations: 4)  A. E. Nikolaidis, G. Doumenis, M. Drakos, G.I. Stassinopoulos, M. P. Anastasopoulos and Sam D'Haeseleer, “Management Traffic in Emerging Remote Configuration Mechanisms for Residential Gateways and Home Devices”, IEEE Communications Magazine, (43) 5, 2005. (Citations: 17) • MAJOR PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki, D. Simeonidou, “Dependable Multi-Tenant Infrastructures Supporting Cloud and Mobile Cloud Services”, in proc. of IEEE Globecom 2014  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki and D. Simeonidou, ``Energy-Aware Offloading in Mobile Cloud Systems with Delay Considerations'', in proc. of IEEE Globecom 2014  M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Planning of Dynamic Mobile Optical Virtual Network Infrastructures Supporting Cloud Services,” in Proc. of EUCNC 2014  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Wireless and wired network convergence in support of cloud and mobile cloud services: The CONTENT Approach”, in proc. EW 2014  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al. “A Converged Network Architecture for Energy Efficient Mobile Cloud Computing'', in proc. of ONDM 2014, An extended version of this work has been invited to a SI of the Springer Photonic Network Communications Journal (11/100 submissions)  K. Katsalis, T. Korakis, G. Landi, G. Bernini, B. Rofoee, S. Peng, M. P. Anastasopoulos et al., “CONTENT Project: Considerations towards a Cloud-based Internetworking Paradigm,'' IEEE SDN4FNS, Italy, Nov 2013  K. N. Georgakilas, M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Planning of Converged OpticalWireless Network and DC Infrastructures in Support of Mobile Cloud Services”, in proc. of ECOC 2013  M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Convergence of Heterogeneous Network and IT infrastructures in Support of Fixed and Mobile Cloud Services,” in proc. of FuNeMS 2013 (Citations: 1)  G. Landi, A. Tzanakaki, G. Bernini, M. P. Anastasopoulos  et al., “Virtualizing converged optical network and IT infrastructures: the benefits of dynamic virtual infrastructure re-planning'”, in proc. of FuNeMS 2013  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki and D. Simeonidou, “Stochastic Service Provisioning in Converged Optical Data Center Networks and Smart Grids,” n proc. of IEEE/IFIP ONDM 2013, BEST PAPER AWARD (Citations: 1)  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos and K. Georgakilas, “Dynamic and Adaptive Virtual Optical Networks,” in Proc. of OSA/IEEE OFC/NFOEC 2013 (INVITED)  M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Virtualization over Converged Wireless, Optical and IT Elements in Support of Resilient Cloud and Mobile Cloud Services”, in proc. of ECOC 2012  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A.Tzanakaki, “Adaptive VI planning over Interconnected IT and Optical Network Resources using Evolutionary Game Theory,” in proc. of ONDM 2012  (Citations: 3)  S. Peng, R. Nejabati, E. Escalona, D.Simeonidou, M. P. Anastasopoulos et al., “Performance Modelling and Analysis of Dynamic Virtual Optical Network Composition,'' in proc. of ONDM 2012  (Citations: 3)  S. Peng, R. Nejabati, E. Escalona, D. Simeonidou, A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos, K. Georgakilas, “Optimized PLI-aware Virtual Optical Network Composition,” in Proc. of ICTON 2012, July 2012, UK  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Virtual Infrastructure Planning: The GEYSERS approach,” in proc. of FuNeMS 2012 (Citations: 2)  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos, D. Simeonidou, “Energy Efficiency and CO2 Emissions Considerations in Integrated IT and Optical Network Infrastructures,” ETSI workshop on Energy Efficiency, Italy, June 2012  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki and K. Georgakilas, “Stochastic Virtual Infrastructure Planning in Elastic Cloud Deploying Optical Networking,” in Proc. of OFC/NFOEC 2012  G. Landi, N. Ciulli, J. Buysse, K. Georgakilas, M. P. Anastasopoulos, et al., “A Network Control Plane architecture for on-demand co-provisioning of optical network and IT services,'” in proc. of FuNeMS 2012. (Citations: 7)  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki and K. Georgakilas, “Virtual Infrastructure Planning in Elastic Cloud Deploying Optical Networking,'' in Proc. of IEEE CloudCom 2011  (Citations: 2)  M. P. Anastasopoulos, K. Georgakilas, A. Tzanakaki, “Evolutionary Optimization for Energy Efficient Service Provisioning in IT and Optical Network Infrastructures,” ECOC 2011  M. P. Anastasopoulos, P. Zervopoulos, “Introducing a Data Generation Process to Tackle the Dimensionality Problem of NonTackle Non--Parametric Techniques: Evidence from Data Envelopment Analysis,” in Proc. of 9th Int. Conf. on DEA, 2011  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos, D. Simeonidou, “Energy Aware Planning of Multiple VIs over Converged Optical Network and IT Physical Resources, ECOC 2011  (Citations: 6)  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Energy efficiency considerations in integrated IT and optical network resilient infrastructures,'' in proc. of ICTON 2011 (invited) (Citations: 2)  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al., “Energy Efficiency in integrated IT and Optical Network Infrastructures: The GEYSERS approach, IEEE INFOCOM, Workshop on Green Commun. & Networ., 2011  (Citations: 10)  D. K. Petraki, M. P Anastasopoulos, A. V. Vasilakos and P. G. Cottis, “Distributed call Admission Control for Satellite Networks under Rain Fading,” in proc. of IWCMC '09.  D. K. Petraki, M. P. Anastasopoulos, T. Taleb and A. V. Vasilakos, “Positioning in Multibeam Geostationary Satellite Networks,” in Proc. of IEEE ICC '09  (Citations: 2)  D. K. Petraki, M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. D. Panagopoulos and P. G. Cottis,``Dynamic Resource Calculation Policy in MF-TDMA Satellite Networks, in proc. of FuNeMS 2007  (Citations: 8)  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. D. Panagopoulos and P. G. Cottis, “A Feedback Suppression Model Using Representatives For Satellite Reliable Multicast Protocols”, in Proc. of 11th Ka Commun. Conference, 2005• BOOKCHAPTERS  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. Tzanakaki, D. Simeonidou, “The impact of renewable energy sources in the CO2 emissions of converged optical network and cloud infrastructures,” Green Communications and Networking, CRC Press, Oct. 2012.  A. Tzanakaki, M. P. Anastasopoulos et.al, “Energy Efficient VI Planning over Converged Optical Networks and IT Resources,” Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms and Applications, CRC Press, edited by J. Wu, S. Rangan, H. Zhang, 2012  M. P. Anastasopoulos, A. V. Vasilakos and P. G. Cottis, “Game Theory Modeling of Social Psychology Principle for Reliable Multicast Services Provisioning in WiMax Networks", Current Technology Developments of WiMax Systems (Springer), ISBN 978-1-4020-9299-2.  A. Vasilakos, M. P. Anastasopoulos, “Application of Evolutionary Game Theory to Wireless Mesh Networks,” Advances in Evolutionary Computing for System Design, Springer 2007. (Citations: 7) • LEADERSHIP IN INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION. The outcome of his research focused on the design and development of advanced modelling tools to analyse the performance of wireless and satellite communications systems under physical layer impairments led to the development of a wireless network planning tool used by the Hellenic Ministry of Transport and Communications to coordinate the HELLAS SAT network series and the Hellenic mm-wave broadband networks