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Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
33
Citations
5252
World Ranking
5998
National Ranking
2007

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas is a researcher affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their work primarily intersects the fields of Engineering and Computer Science with a particular focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications as key subfields. The research portfolio encompasses a significant number of publications related to Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization, Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling, and Wireless Networks and Protocols.

The scientist's scholarly output includes work on Telecommunications and Broadcasting Technologies, IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, and Image and Video Quality Assessment. Their involvement covers both theoretical and applied aspects of networking and wireless communication technologies.

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas has contributed to several research venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Networking
  • Computer Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Their recent papers indicate an emphasis on practical and experimental investigations into wireless LANs, 5G mmWave networks, and network scheduling, exemplified by these recent publications:

  • "MuSher: An Agile Multipath-TCP Scheduler for Dual-Band 802.11ad/ac Wireless LANs," 2022, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • "An experimental study of the performance of IEEE 802.11ad in smartphones," 2021, Computer Communications
  • "Performance and Pitfalls of 60 GHz WLANs Based on Consumer-Grade Hardware," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • "Vivisecting Beam Management in Operational 5G mmWave Networks," 2025, Proceedings of the ACM on Networking
  • "Demystifying Resource Allocation Policies in Operational 5G mmWave Networks," 2025, IEEE Transactions on Networking

Collaborative work is an important aspect of their research activity, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Moinak Ghoshal
  • Imran Khan
  • Shivang Aggarwal
  • Joerg Widmer
  • Z. Jonny Kong

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas was recognized as an ACM Senior Member in 2017, highlighting a level of professional distinction within the computing community.

Best Publications

  • Towards Environment Independent Device Free Human Activity Recognition

    Wenjun Jiang;Chenglin Miao;Fenglong Ma;Shuochao Yao

  • Path planning of mobile landmarks for localization in wireless sensor networks

    Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Saumitra M. Das;Y. Charlie Hu

  • WiDraw: Enabling Hands-free Drawing in the Air on Commodity WiFi Devices

    Li Sun;Souvik Sen;Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Kyu-Han Kim

  • Enabling Indoor Mobile Millimeter-wave Networks Based on Smart Reflect-arrays

    Xin Tan;Zhi Sun;Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Josep M. Jornet

  • Efficient network-coding-based opportunistic routing through cumulative coded acknowledgments

    Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Chih-Chun Wang;Y. Charlie Hu

  • Hierarchical geographic multicast routing for wireless sensor networks

    Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Saumitra M. Das;Y. Charlie Hu;Ivan Stojmenovic

  • High-throughput multicast routing metrics in wireless mesh networks

    Sabyasachi Roy;Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Saumitra Das;Y. Charlie Hu

  • High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks

    S. Roy;D. Koutsonikolas;S. Das;Y.C. Hu

  • DMesh: Incorporating Practical Directional Antennas in Multichannel Wireless Mesh Networks

    S.M. Das;H. Pucha;D. Koutsonikolas;Y.C. Hu

  • CCACK: Efficient Network Coding Based Opportunistic Routing Through Cumulative Coded Acknowledgments

    Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Chih-Chun Wang;Y. Charlie Hu

  • Pacifier: high-throughput, reliable multicast without "Crying babies" in wireless mesh networks

    Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Y. Charlie Hu;Chih-Chun Wang

  • X60: A Programmable Testbed for Wideband 60 GHz WLANs with Phased Arrays

    Swetank Kumar Saha;Yasaman Ghasempour;Muhammad Kumail Haider;Tariq Siddiqui

  • X60: A Programmable Testbed for Wideband 60 GHz WLANs with Phased Arrays

    Swetank Kumar Saha;Yasaman Ghasempour;Muhammad Kumail Haider;Tariq Siddiqui

  • Path Planning of Mobile Landmarks for Localization inWireless Sensor Networks

    D. Koutsonikolas;S.M. Das;Y.C. Hu

  • Characterizing multi-way interference in wireless mesh networks

    Saumitra M. Das;Dimitrios Koutsonikolas;Y. Charlie Hu;Dimitrios Peroulis

  • Messages behind the sound: real-time hidden acoustic signal capture with smartphones

    Qian Wang;Kui Ren;Man Zhou;Tao Lei

  • Modeling WiFi Active Power/Energy Consumption in Smartphones

    Li Sun;Ramanujan K. Sheshadri;Wei Zheng;Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

  • Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without ``Crying Babies'' in Wireless Mesh Networks

    D. Koutsonikolas;Y. C. Hu;C.-C. Wang

  • Power-throughput tradeoffs of 802.11n/ac in smartphones

    Swetank Kumar Saha;Pratik Deshpande;Pranav P. Inamdar;Ramanujan K Sheshadri

  • An in-depth study of uplink performance of 5G mmWave networks

    Unknown

  • Hierarchical Geographic Multicast Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks

    D. Koutsonikolas;S. Das;H.Y. Charlie;I. Stojmenovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Chunming Qiao
Chunming Qiao University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Edward W. Knightly
Edward W. Knightly Rice University
Zhi Sun
Zhi Sun Tsinghua University
Josep Miquel Jornet
Josep Miquel Jornet Northeastern University
Tommaso Melodia
Tommaso Melodia Northeastern University
Karthikeyan Sundaresan
Karthikeyan Sundaresan NEC (United States)
Amr Mohamed
Amr Mohamed Qatar University
Carlos Cordeiro
Carlos Cordeiro Intel (United States)
Ness B. Shroff
Ness B. Shroff The Ohio State University
Dimitrios Peroulis
Dimitrios Peroulis Purdue University West Lafayette

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