Multibroad Research Program

Novel Design and Simulation Software Tool for Provisioning and Restoration ofBroadcast and Multicast Connections in Optical Mesh Networks

                        

 

Project Participants

 

The consortium comprises of the University of Cyprus, Digipro Computer Consultants, and PrimeTel Plc. The lead participants from each institution are as follows.

 

Host Organization Members:

Prof. Georgios Ellinas (Project Coordinator) holds a B.S., M.S., M.Phil, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University. Dr. Ellinas is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus. Prior to joining the University of Cyprus Dr. Ellinas was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at City College of the City University of New York. Before joining the academia, Dr. Ellinas was a senior network architect at Tellium Inc. In this role, he worked on lightpath provisioning and fault restoration algorithms in optical mesh networks, and the architecture design of the MEMS-based all-optical switch. Dr. Ellinas also served as a senior research scientist in Telcordia Technologies' (formerly Bellcore) Optical Networking Research Group, where he performed research for the DARPA-funded Optical Networks Technology Consortium (ONTC), Multiwavelength Optical Networking (MONET) and Next Generation Internet (NGI) projects from 1993 to 2000. Dr. Ellinas also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, teaching courses on multiwavelength optical networking in 1999 and 2000, respectively. He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship, from 1987 to 1991, for undergraduate studies at Columbia University, where he received the Armstrong Memorial and the William L. Everitt award at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. Dr. Ellinas also received the Eliahu I. Jury award for the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Jacob Millman graduate teaching assistant award and a fellowship from Bell Communications Research. He has co-authored two books on optical networks (J. Wiley 2007, Cambridge University Press 2008), edited one book on optical networks (Springer 2011), he has authored and co-authored 9 book chapters and more than 130 journal and conference papers, he is the holder of 30 U.S. and international patents on optical networking. He was also awarded the most outstanding project/paper award in the 1996 OPNET competition for a project using OPNET as the simulator platform. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of OSA, ACM, and the Marie Curie Fellows Association.

 

Lead Team Members:

 

Dr. Dimitrios Yiannakopoulos holds a PhD. in Communications Networks from the National Technical University of Athens. He is a PrimeTel Senior Engineer responsible for analysis design and development of offered telephony and data services aiming at the mass market and at custom solutions for big customers. Specifically the responsibility areas were the layers of service logic, service authentication authorization and accounting, monitoring of service execution, and mediation of service accounting data. He is also responsible for the evaluation and selection of new technologies, the estimation traffic demand for future networks, and the design and dimensioning of long-term network architecture along with network/service convergence.

 

Christakis Christodoulou holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Computer Engineering from City University of New York � CUNY. He has been working at Digipro Computer Consultants Ltd since 1990 as a Software Developer. He has participated in several research projects including KLab (Knowledge and Learning amongst Business - ICT tools design and development for the facilitation of interaction and communication among small and medium enterprises at the European Level), SME MPOWER (design and development of the interactive and social web enabled networks necessary for the implementation of the SME MPOWER project), and iSet (design and development of ICT web-enabled infrastructures for the tourism industry that enable the facilitation on cooperation between European Businesses for the tourism industry).

 

 


 
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