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Ioannis Tomkos

Ioannis Tomkos

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Greece
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
53
Citations
12159
World Ranking
4799
National Ranking
22

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
53
Citations
12477
World Ranking
2372
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Greece Leader Award
  • 2019 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to dynamic optical networks
  • 2013 - OSA Fellows For outstanding scientific contributions to the field of transparent optical networking.

Overview

Ioannis Tomkos is affiliated with the University of Patras in Greece. Their research primarily centers around the field of Engineering, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics covered in their publications include:

  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Advanced Optical Network Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization

Ioannis Tomkos has many frequent coauthors involved in collaborative research such as:

  • Moshe Nazarathy
  • Dan M. Marom
  • Dimitris Uzunidis
  • Charalampos Papapavlou
  • Konstantinos Moschopoulos

Their research contributions have been published repeatedly in notable venues including:

  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Telecom
  • IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
  • Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • IT Professional

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Toward the 6G Network Era: Opportunities and Challenges, 2020, IT Professional
  • Optical Switching in Future Fiber-Optic Networks Utilizing Spectral and Spatial Degrees of Freedom, 2022, Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Optimized Joint Allocation of Radio, Optical, and MEC Resources for the 5G and Beyond Fronthaul, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
  • Toward SDM-Based Submarine Optical Networks: A Review of Their Evolution and Upcoming Trends, 2022, Telecom
  • Accurate Power-Efficient Format-Scalable Multi-Parallel Optical Digital-to-Analogue Conversion, 2021, Photonics

Throughout their career, Ioannis Tomkos received recognition such as:

  • IEEE Fellow (2019) for contributions to dynamic optical networks
  • OSA Fellow (2013) for outstanding scientific contributions to the field of transparent optical networking

Best Publications

  • Elastic Bandwidth Allocation in Flexible OFDM-Based Optical Networks

    K Christodoulopoulos;I Tomkos;E A Varvarigos

  • A Survey on Optical Interconnects for Data Centers

    Christoforos Kachris;Ioannis Tomkos

  • Roadmap of optical communications

    Erik Agrell;Magnus Karlsson;A R Chraplyvy;David J Richardson

  • A survey on physical layer impairments aware routing and wavelength assignment algorithms in optical networks

    Siamak Azodolmolky;Mirosław Klinkowski;Eva Marin;Davide Careglio

  • A tutorial on the flexible optical networking paradigm: State of the art, trends, and research challenges

    Ioannis Tomkos;Siamak Azodolmolky;Josep Solé-Pareta;Davide Careglio

  • Routing and Spectrum Allocation in OFDM-Based Optical Networks with Elastic Bandwidth Allocation

    K. Christodoulopoulos;I. Tomkos;E. A. Varvarigos

  • Optical interconnection networks in data centers: recent trends and future challenges

    Christoforos Kachris;Konstantinos Kanonakis;Ioannis Tomkos

  • Survey of Photonic Switching Architectures and Technologies In Support Of Spatially and Spectrally Flexible Optical Networking {[}Invited]

    Dan M. Marom;Paul D. Colbourne;Antonio D’Errico;Nicolas K. Fontaine

  • Toward the 6G Network Era: Opportunities and Challenges

    Ioannis Tomkos;Dimitrios Klonidis;Evangelos Pikasis;Sergios Theodoridis

  • Failure location algorithm for transparent optical networks

    C. Mas;I. Tomkos;O.K. Tonguz

  • A Survey on FEC Codes for 100 G and Beyond Optical Networks

    Georgios Tzimpragos;Christoforos Kachris;Ivan B. Djordjevic;Milorad Cvijetic

  • Comparison of Spectral and Spatial Super-Channel Allocation Schemes for SDM Networks

    Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas;Jose Manuel Rivas-Moscoso;Domenico Siracusa;Federico Pederzolli

  • Survey of Photonic and Plasmonic Interconnect Technologies for Intra-Datacenter and High-Performance Computing Communications

    Christos A. Thraskias;Eythimios N. Lallas;Niels Neumann;Laurent Schares

  • Performance engineering of metropolitan area optical networks through impairment constraint routing

    I. Tomkos;D. Vogiatzis;C. Mas;I. Zacharopoulos

  • Experimental Demonstration of an Impairment Aware Network Planning and Operation Tool for Transparent/Translucent Optical Networks

    S Azodolmolky;Jordi Perelló;M Angelou;F Agraz

  • Dynamic bandwidth allocation in flexible OFDM-based networks

    K. Christodoulopoulos;I. Tomkos;E. Varvarigos

  • Optical Interconnects for Future Data Center Networks

    Christoforos Kachris;Keren Bergman;Ioannis Tomkos

  • Plasmonic communications : light on a wire

    Juerg Leuthold;C. Hoessbacher;S. Muehlbrandt;A. Melikyan

  • Scalable Extended Reach PON

    J A Lazaro;J Prat;P Chanclou;G M Tosi Beleffi

  • Quantifying spectrum, cost, and energy efficiency in fixed-grid and flex-grid networks [Invited]

    E. Palkopoulou;M. Angelou;D. Klonidis;K. Christodoulopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep Prat
Josep Prat Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Juerg Leuthold
Juerg Leuthold ETH Zurich
Andrew D. Ellis
Andrew D. Ellis Aston University
Emmanouel Varvarigos
Emmanouel Varvarigos National Technical University of Athens
Wolfgang Freude
Wolfgang Freude Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Periklis Petropoulos
Periklis Petropoulos University of Southampton
Dimitra Simeonidou
Dimitra Simeonidou University of Bristol
Hercules Avramopoulos
Hercules Avramopoulos National Technical University of Athens
Francesca Parmigiani
Francesca Parmigiani Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)

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