2026 Georgios Smaragdakis: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	35	11595	11263	215	205	131	6070

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Georgios Smaragdakis is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, focusing on research within the field of Computer Science. Their work prominently spans several subfields, including Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Signal Processing, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research encompasses main topics such as:

Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Spam and Phishing Detection
Network Traffic and Congestion Control
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Software-Defined Networks and 5G
Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies

Smaragdakis has published extensively in peer-reviewed venues and repositories. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Deposit Once (Technische Universität Berlin)
Communications of the ACM
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Smaragdakis are:

"A year in lockdown," 2021, Communications of the ACM
"The Lockdown Effect: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic," 2020, Deposit Once (Technische Universität Berlin)
"A Tale of Two Markets: Investigating the Ransomware Payments Economy," 2023, Communications of the ACM
"The state of network neutrality regulation," 2020, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
"Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Internet Traffic," 2021, Deposit Once (Technische Universität Berlin)

Frequent co-authors include:

Anja Feldmann
Oliver Gasser
Juan Tapiador
Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
Oliver Hohlfeld

Smaragdakis has received recognition in the form of the ACM Senior Member award in 2020. This professional distinction acknowledges contributions to the computing community.

Best Publications

SEP: A Stable Election Protocol for clustered heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

Georgios Smaragdakis;Ibrahim Matta;Azer Bestavros

2106
Citations
Pushing CDN-ISP collaboration to the limit

Benjamin Frank;Ingmar Poese;Yin Lin;Georgios Smaragdakis

219
Citations
Delay tolerant bulk data transfers on the internet

Nikolaos Laoutaris;Georgios Smaragdakis;Pablo Rodriguez;Ravi Sundaram

210
Citations
The Lockdown Effect: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic

Anja Feldmann;Oliver Gasser;Franziska Lichtblau;Enric Pujol

206
Citations
Comparing DNS resolvers in the wild

Bernhard Ager;Wolfgang Mühlbauer;Georgios Smaragdakis;Steve Uhlig

190
Citations
There is more to IXPs than meets the eye

Nikolaos Chatzis;Georgios Smaragdakis;Anja Feldmann;Walter Willinger

159
Citations
Improving content delivery using provider-aided distance information

Ingmar Poese;Benjamin Frank;Bernhard Ager;Georgios Smaragdakis

135
Citations
Distributed Placement of Service Facilities in Large-Scale Networks

N. Laoutaris;G. Smaragdakis;K. Oikonomou;I. Stavrakakis

130
Citations
Web content cartography

Bernhard Ager;Wolfgang Mühlbauer;Georgios Smaragdakis;Steve Uhlig

127
Citations
The growing complexity of content delivery networks: Challenges and implications for the Internet ecosystem

Volker Stocker;Georgios Smaragdakis;Georgios Smaragdakis;William Lehr;Steven Bauer

119
Citations
Spatio-temporal network anomaly detection by assessing deviations of empirical measures

Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis;Georgios Smaragdakis

112
Citations
Peering at Peerings: On the Role of IXP Route Servers

Philipp Richter;Georgios Smaragdakis;Anja Feldmann;Nikolaos Chatzis

112
Citations
One step at a time: Optimizing SDN upgrades in ISP networks

Konstantinos Poularakis;George Iosifidis;Georgios Smaragdakis;Leandros Tassiulas

95
Citations
Enabling content-aware traffic engineering

Ingmar Poese;Benjamin Frank;Georgios Smaragdakis;Steve Uhlig

95
Citations
On the benefits of using a large IXP as an internet vantage point

Nikolaos Chatzis;Georgios Smaragdakis;Jan Böttger;Thomas Krenc

91
Citations
Delay-tolerant bulk data transfers on the internet

Nikolaos Laoutaris;Georgios Smaragdakis;Rade Stanojevic;Pablo Rodriguez

86
Citations
Detecting Peering Infrastructure Outages in the Wild

Vasileios Giotsas;Christoph Dietzel;Georgios Smaragdakis;Anja Feldmann

82
Citations
Exploring EDNS-client-subnet adopters in your free time

Florian Streibelt;Jan Böttger;Nikolaos Chatzis;Georgios Smaragdakis

82
Citations
A year in lockdown: how the waves of COVID-19 impact internet traffic

Anja Feldmann;Oliver Gasser;Franziska Lichtblau;Enric Pujol

77
Citations
Inferring BGP blackholing activity in the internet

Vasileios Giotsas;Georgios Smaragdakis;Christoph Dietzel;Philipp Richter

67
Citations
A Haystack Full of Needles: Scalable Detection of IoT Devices in the Wild

Said Jawad Saidi;Anna Maria Mandalari;Roman Kolcun;Hamed Haddadi

44
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anja Feldmann Max Planck Society

Nikolaos Laoutaris Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies

Azer Bestavros Boston University

Steve Uhlig Queen Mary University of London

John W. Byers Boston University

Arthur W. Berger MIT

Ibrahim Matta Boston University

George Iosifidis Delft University of Technology

Walter Willinger NIKSUN, Inc.

William Lehr MIT

External Links

Personal website of Georgios Smaragdakis

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