Research Interests

• Network economics, incentive mechanisms, pricing
• Applications of optimization theory and game theory in communication networks
• Mechanisms and architectures employing caches
• Peer-to-peer architectures
• Social awareness as a means to achieve efficient traffic management
• Cloud computing architectures
• Wireless networking technologies (WiFi, WiMax) and positioning
• Market analysis of xDSL and FTTx technologies

Studies

• PhD in Computer Science 
  Thesis: Incentive-based caching mechanisms for overlay traffic management [pdf1] [pdf2]
  Supervisor: Prof. George D. Stamoulis (AUEB) 
  Advisors: Prof. Costas Courcoubetis (AUEB), Prof. Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich) 
  Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Informatics , 09/2008 - 07/2013.

• MSc in Computer Science 
  Thesis: BitTorrent Optimization Approaches 
  Supervisor: Prof. George D. Stamoulis (AUEB) 
  Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Informatics , 10/2006 - 07/2008.

• BEng in Computer and Communications Engineering 
  Thesis: Spatial modulation and scheduling techniques for optimal performance in wireless networks 
  Supervisor: Lect. Iordanis Koutsopoulos (UTH), Prof. Leandros Tassiulas (UTH) 
  University of Thessaly, Department of Computer and Communications Engineering, 10/2001 - 10/2006. 

Publications

Journals & Books

• M. Seufert, G. Darzanos, I. Papafili, R. Lapacz, V. Burger, T. Hossfeld. , Socially-Aware Traffic Management , Social Informatics: The Social Impact of Interactions between Humans and IT, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, Zweig, K., Neuser, W., Pipek, V., Rohde, M., Scholtes, I. (Eds.), ISBN 978-3-319-09377-2 , October 2014
• D. Papadimitriou, T. Zahariadis, P. Martinez-Julia, I. Papafili, V. Morreale, F. Torelli, B. Sales, P. Demeester , Design Principles for the Future Internet Architecture , FIABook Future Internet - From Technological Promises to Reality, Editor(s): F. Alvarez, et al., IOS Press Books Online , May 2012
• A. Kostopoulos, I. Papafili, C. Kalogiros, T. Levä, N. Zhang, D. Trossen , A Tussle Analysis for Information-centric Networking architectures , In F. Αlvarez et al. (Eds.): Future Internet – From Technological Promises to Reality, FIA 2012, LNCS 7281, pp. 6-17 , May 2012 , [pdf]
• Assessment of Economic Management of Overlay Traffic: Methodology and Results , I. Papafili, G. Stamoulis, R. Stankiewicz, S. Oechsner, K. Pussep, R. Wojcik, J. Domzal, D. Staehle, F. Lehrieder, B. Stiller , FIABook The Future Internet: Achievements and Technological Promises, ISBN 978-3-642-20897-3. Editor(s):J. Domingue, et al., IOS Press Books Online , May 2011
• T. Hossfeld, D. Hausheer, F. Hecht, F. Lehrieder, S. Oechsner, I. Papafili, P. Racz, S. Soursos, D. Staehle, G. D. Stamoulis, P. Tran-Gia, B. Stiller , An Economic Traffic Management Approach to Enable the TripleWin for Users, ISPs, and Overlay Providers , FIABook Towards the Future Internet - A European Research Perspective, ISBN 978-1-60750-007-0. Editor(s): G. Tselentis, et al., pp.:24, IOS Press Books Online , May 2009
• G. Dan, T. Hossfeld, S. Oechsner, P. Cholda, R. Stankiewicz, I. Papafili, G. D. Stamoulis , Interaction patterns between P2P content distribution systems and ISPs , IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 49, Is. 5, pp. 222-230 , May 2011

Conferences & Workshops

• K. Wadja, R. Stankiewicz, Z. Dulinski, T. Hossfeld, M. Seufert, D. Hausheer, M. Wichtlhuber, I. Papafili, M. Dramitinos, P. Cruschelli, S. Soursos, R. Lapacz, B. Stiller , Socially-aware Management of New Overlay Applications Traffic - The Optimization Potentials of the SmartenIT Approach , 6th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI 2014) , Wuerzburg, Germany , September 2014 , [pdf]
• G. Darzanos, I. Papafili, G. D. Stamoulis. , A Socially Aware ISP-friendly Mechanism for Efficient Content Delivery , 26th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 26) , Karlskrona, Sweden , September 2014 , [pdf]
• I. Papafili, K. Wajda, R. Lapacz, A. Predieri, T. Bocek, M. Seufert , An Overview of Application Traffic Management Approaches: Challenges and Potential Extensions , 8th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing 2014 (IMIS-2014) , Birmingham, UK , July, 2014 , [pdf]
• M. Dramitinos, N. Zhang, M. Kantor, J. Costa, I. Papafili , Video Delivery over Next Generation Cellular Networks , Workshop on Social-aware Economic Traffic Management for Overlay and Cloud Applications (SETM) , Zurich, Switzerland , October, 2013 , [pdf]
• M. Seufert, G. Darzanos, V. Burger, I. Papafili, T. Hossfeld. , Socially-Aware Traffic Management , Workshop SozioInformatik 2013 , Koblenz, Germany , September 2013 , [pdf]
• I. Papafili, J. Rueckert, P. Poullie, S. Soursos, T. Bocek, K. Wajda, D. Hausheer, G. D. Stamoulis, B. Stiller , SmartenIT cloud traffic management approach and architectural considerations , Future Network and Mobile Summit 2013, FuNeMS 2013 , Lisbon, Portugal , July 2013 , [pdf]
• I. Papafili, S. Soursos, G. D. Stamoulis , A Novel Game-Theoretic Framework for Modeling Interactions of ISPs Anticipating Users' Reactions , 6th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, (VALUETOOLS) , Cargese, France , October 2012 , [pdf]
• I. Papafili, S. Soursos, G.D. Stamoulis , A game-theoretic Framework for ISP Interactions in the Context of ETM , EuroNF Workshop on Traffic and Congestion Control for the Future Internet (TCCFI) , Volos, Greece , March 2011
• I. Papafili, G.D. Stamoulis, F. Lehrieder, B. Kleine, S. Oechsner , Cache Capacity Allocation to Overlay Swarms , 5th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS'2011) , Karlsruhe, Germany , February 2011
• I. Papafili, G. D. Stamoulis , A Markov Model for the Evaluation of Cache Insertion on Peer-to-Peer Performance , EuroNF NGI Conference , Paris, France , June 2010
• M.A.C. Rodriguez, J.A.S. Garcia, A.M. Martin-Carnerero, P. Racz, F. Hecht, S. Spirou, I. Papafili, G.D. Stamoulis, W. Kellerer, K. Wajda , NGN Usage in Future Internet Scenarios , MobileSummit 2010 , Florence, Italy , June 2010
• P. Racz, F. Hecht, Hasan, B. Stiller, S. Soursos, G. D. Stamoulis, I. Papafili, M. A. Callejo Rodriguez, S. Spirou , Economic Traffic Management for Overlay Networks , ΙCT-MobileSummit 2009 , Santander, Spain , June 2009
• I. Papafili, S. Soursos, G. D. Stamoulis , Improvement of BitTorrent Performance and Inter-Domain Traffic by Inserting ISP-owned Peers , 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT'09) , Aachen, Germany , May 2009
• S. Oechsner, S. Soursos, I. Papafili, T. Hossfeld, G. D. Stamoulis, B. Stiller, M. A. Callejo, D. Staehle , A Framework of Economic Traffic Management Employing Self-Organization Overlay Mechanisms , 3rd International Workshop On Self-Organizing Systems, (IWSOS'08) , Vienna, Austria , December 2008
• G. Darzanos, I. Papafili, G. D. Stamoulis. , A model for posting and selection of videos by the users of an On-line Social Network , Workshop on Social-aware Economic Traffic Management for Overlay and Cloud Applications (SETM) , Zurich, Switzerland , October 2013
• M. Dramitinos, N. Zhang, M. Kantor, J. Costa, I. Papafili , Business Analysis of Video Delivery over Next Generation Cellular Networks , Workshop on Social-aware Economic Traffic Management for Overlay and Cloud Applications (SETM) , Zurich, Switzerland , October 2013
• J. P. Fernandez-Palacios Gimenez, M. A. Callejo Rodriguez, H. Hasan, T. Hossfeld, D. Staehle, Z. Despotovic, W. Kellerer, K. Pussep, I. Papafili, G. D. Stamoulis, B. Stiller , A New Approach for Managing Traffic of Overlay Applications of the SmoothIT Project , 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS '08) , Bremen, Germany , July 2008
• A. Kostopoulos, I. Papafili, G. Fortetsanakis, M. Papadopouli , Pricing Wireless Access Services: The Effect of Offloading and Users' Bounded Rationality , IEEE/IFIP 12th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2016) , Cortina d' Ampezzo, Italy , January 2016 , [pdf]

Research Projects Participation

• SmartenIT: Socially-aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic combined with Energy Efficiency in the Internet, FP7, STREP, 11/2012 - present, Focus on designing and evaluating mechanisms for economic management of traffic generated by cloud-based applications and services w.r.t. energy efficiency constraints.
• Co-writer of funded FP7 Research Proposal for project "SmartenIT: Socially-aware Management of New Overlay Application Traffic combined with Energy Efficiency in the Internet", graded with 14.5/15.0, 2012
• SESERV: Socio-Economic Services for European Research Projects, FP7, CSA, 01/2011 - 08/2012, Focus on socio-economic evaluation for Information-centric architectures.
• EuroNF: Anticipating the Network of the Future, FP7, Network of Excellence, JRA3.2: SLAs, Pricing and Quality-of-Experience, 01/2008 - 07/2012, Focus on designing mechanisms for QoE improvement & cost-benefit analysis.
• SmoothIT: Simple Economic Management Approaches of Overlay Traffic in Heterogeneous Internet Topologies, FP7, STREP, 01/2008 - 03/2011, Focus on designin, and evaluating mechanisms for management of traffic generated by P2P applications.
• EuroNF: Anticipating the Network of the Future, FP7, Network of Excellence, SJRP ISPeer: ISP-friendly Peer-assisted Content Distribution, 01/2009 - 12/2009, Focus on developing modeling tools for the analysis of P2P networks performance.

 

Professional experience

• Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) S.A.
• Department of Measurement and Wireless Technologies, Subdivision of Laboratories and New Technologies, Maroussi, 10/2012 - present
• Department of Development of Systems and Procedures for Customer Service and Project Management, Subdivision of Operational Support and Quality Assurance, Maroussi, 01/2012 - 10/2012
• Department of Technical Support of New Services (IPTV, VoIP, VDSL, SAT TV), Paleo Psychiko, 06/2008 - 01/2012
• AUEB, Computer lab of MBA International program, Administrator, 09/2009 - 08/2010
• OTENET S.A., Paleo Psychiko, Department of Technical Support of Pilot Services IPTV and VoIP, 02/2007 - 06/2008
• UNISYSTEMS S.A., Athens, Department of Hardware Engineering, Internship - Support of electronic automation of APLHA BANK (Athens 2004 Olympic Games sponsor), 07/2004 - 08/2004
• MOTOR OIL S.A., Corinth, Department of Internal Control, Internship, 07/2003 - 08/2003

 

Contact Info

iopapafi@aueb.gr