Assoc. Prof. Christos Verikoukis

Prof. Christos Verikoukis got his PhD from the Signal Theory and Communications Department of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, in 2000, in Broadband Indoor Wireless Communications. 

He is an Associate Professor with the University of Patras, CEI Department.

He has published 147 journal papers, more than 220 conference papers and 18 chapters in different books. He is also co-author of 4 Books and he filled 4 patents. His publications received more than 7500 citations and his h-index is 45.
Prof. Verikoukis has participated in more than 40 EC funded projects and served as the project coordinator in 3 5GPP projects and one Marie-Curie Action as well as the Technical Manager in 3 projects.

He has received the best paper award of the Communication QoS, Reliability & Modelling Symposium (CQRM) symposium in the IEEE ICC 2011, ICC 2014 & ICC2020, of the Selected Areas in Communications Symposium in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 , of the EUCNC 2016 conference, the EURASIP 2013 Best Paper Award for the Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and the Best Demo Award in IEEE CAMAD2018.

He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Networking Letters and as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, of the IEEE Networks Magazine. Moreover, he has served as a Guest Editor in 14 special issues in prestigious Journals and Magazines (IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Networks Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine etc..).

He was the general Chair of the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and the 22nd IEEE Workshop on Computer-Aided Modelling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), the TPC Co-Chair of the 15th IEEE International Conference on eHealth Networking, Application & Services (Healthcom) and the 7th IEEE Latincom. He was also served as the symposium co-chair of the CQRM symposium in the IEEE ICC 2015 & 2016 and in the IEEE Globecom 2017 as well as of the eHealth Symposium in IEEE Globecom 2015.

He is the Vice-Chair and Member-at-Large of the IEEE ComSoc GITC. He was an officer (Secretary 2013-2014, Vice-Chair 2014-2015 and Chair 2015-2018) of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communication Systems Integration and Modelling (CSIM) and Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committees Board (2019-2020). He was a Member of the IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, and IEEE ComSoc EMEA Director (2020-2021).

ATH / ISI 5G testbed facility

Experimental activities include the development of a flexible platform for smart environments and an end-to-end 5G experimentation platform. The ATH/ISI 5G testbed facility, located at the ISI premises in Greece, implements a full-stack 5G system, as illustrated pictorially in the Figure, encompassing Core, Edge and RAN tiers as well as advanced 5G UE emulation capabilities. The ATH/ISI testbed is based on open-source frameworks and software stacks, including an Amarisoft 5G RAN and Core Network, Kubernetes/OpenStack based MEC nodes and ETSI OSM based Orchestration components. It is currently being upgraded with O-RAN compliance while Zero-Touch management, MANO and dynamic slice reconfiguration enablers are developed.