Tsaousidis Vassilios

RANK:	Professor
SECTOR:	Software and Application Development Sector
LABORATORY:	Programming and Information Processing Laboratory
EXPERTISE:	Software Technology of Interconnected / Internetworked Wide Scale Computer Systems

CONTACT DETAILS

ADDRESS:	University Campus Kimmeria, Building A, Office 1 (2nd floor)
E-MAIL:
TELEPHONE:	+30 25410 79553, Fax: +30 25410 79576
PERSONAL WEBSITE:	http://utopia.duth.gr/~vtsaousi
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SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Wired and wireless infrastructures
Real-time properties of internetworked systems
Congestion avoidance and control
Energy efficiency of communication protocols
Delay-tolerant networking

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

Introduction to Computer Science
Computer Networks I
Computer Networks IΙ

POSTGRADUATE COURSES

Internet Protocols
Quality of service (QoS) and support mechanisms for multimedia applications

SHORT CV

Vassilis Tsaoussidis was born in Drama, Greece, in November 1966. He holds degrees in Applied Mathematics (Aristotle University, Greece) and Computer Science (Ph.D in Computer Networks Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany). Vassilis returned to Greece to serve the Greek Army and then held a postdoctoral appointment at the Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ and faculty appointments at the Computer Science Department of SUNY Stony Brook, NY and at the college of Computer Science of Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He returned to Greece in May 2003 to join the Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Democritus University, where he was elected full Professor in 2007. He served as distinguished guest at the Graduate School of Technical University of Berlin in 2005 and he was Visiting Professor at MIT, where he served his sabbatical in 2009 and is a research associate since then.

Vassilis is the Director of “Internetworked Systems Lab”, and founder of the first European “Space Internetworking Center – SPICE”. The Lab received funding from ESA and FP7 and coordinates large projects (some of which were ranked first in their respective category). The center includes a unique Testbed for Europe, with internetworked nodes in Greece, Germany, Cambridge, MIT and elsewhere; it is appropriate for evaluating Space and Internetworking protocols in challenging environments and includes satellite links, ground station hardware devices, protocols for delay-tolerant networks as well as for tele-metry / tele-command. The testbed has also direct access to Hellas Sat and – through University of Colorado at Boulder – access to the ISS. His team includes 27 engineers and international research associates, many of whom have worked occasionally in NASA JPL during ongoing joint research efforts between NASA and SPICE. Due to its large funding and novel engineering approaches, the Lab received wide attention in local, national and international news (http://www.spice-center.org/press-releases/).

Vassilis’s research interests lie mainly in transport/network layers including the design and evaluation of energy-saving, real time, delay-tolerant or space protocols as well as the design and evaluation of mechanisms for congestion control, routing, quality of service and reliability. Broadly, his research is associated with internetworking theory and technologies.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Universal, mobile-centric and opportunistic communications architecture (UMOBILE) (2015 – 2018), HORIZON 2020.
SENsing SKIN’ for Monitoring-Based Maintenance of the Transport (SENSKIN), (2015 – 2018), HORIZON 2020.
Alpine – A Low Power, Intelligent, sensor Network architecture for Environmental management, (2013 – 2015) GSRT-EU joint Grant.
Space Internetworking Center (SPICE) (2010 – 2014) FP7-Research Potential.