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Dr. Konstantinos Kanonakis was born in Heraklion Crete, Greece, in 1982. He was awarded his PhD degree in the field of optical networks from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2008 and the Dipl.-Ing. Degree from the same university in 2004. In March 2008 he joined the High-Speed Networks and Optical Communications group in AIT as a Post-Doc researcher. His main research interests are in the area of traffic engineering, design and analysis of architectures and control protocols for optical core and broadband access networks as well as their implementation in hardware. He has co-authored more than 20 papers that appeared in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences and serves as a reviewer for major journals (IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Elsevier Computer Networks) and conferences. He has participated in European Union projects (IST-MUSE I-II, IST-NOBEL I-II, ICT-SARDANA) and national ones (NGEAN).
Dr. Kanonakis is a member of the IEEE and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

EDUCATION

2004 – 2007:

Ph.D. (Excellent), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Thesis title: “Architectures and protocols of optical networks with emphasis on optical burst-switched WDM networks”, under the supervision of Prof. I. Pountourakis.

1999 – 2004:

Diploma from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (5-year scheme) of the National Technical University of Athens with a GPA of 8.42/10 (ranking in the upper 10% of the graduates). Diploma thesis titled “Aggregation networks with QoS support – A study using the OPNET simulator”, supervised by Prof. E. Protonotarios.

Foreign Languages:

• Excellent knowledge of English (Cambridge Proficiency, Michigan Proficiency).

• Very good knowledge of German (Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung, Göethe Institut).

Software Skills:

• Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, VHDL, Pascal, HTML

• Commercial Software Platforms: OPNET Modeler, Mathematica, Matlab

• Operating Systems: MS Windows, Linux, UNIX

RESEARCH/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

March 2008 – Present: Athens Information Technology, Athens, Greece:

Position: Post-Doc Researcher, member of the High-Speed Networks and Optical Communications Group.

Participates in the FP7 STREP project ICT-SARDANA, working on Architectural and MAC layer issues of next generation WDM-PON networks. He is also involved in the FP7 NoE projects BONE and EUROFOS.

January 2008 – March 2008: Forthnet S.A., Greece:

He worked for the demonstration application of the national project NGEAN. His involvement was in the programming of the embedded processors of a FPGA-based router.

September 2004 – January 2008: Telecommunication Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Greece:

In the framework of the FP6 IP projects IST-MUSE I-II and IST-NOBEL I-II he was involved in the design, analysis and simulation of optical and broadband access networks.

In the framework of IST-MUSE I-II he performed extensive studies and simulations on broadband access networks. Part of his work was the investigation of scheduling mechanisms for the support of QoS at the access multiplexer. In addition, he was involved in the design of a generic scheduling component which can be configured to support various numbers of flows and used for building hierarchical schedulers in hardware using VHDL. The schedulers reside at the access multiplexer nodes, which aggregate traffic from access networks and forward it to the aggregation/metro networks over 10Gbps links. In October 2006 he cooperated with Alcatel-Lucent researchers for the successful integration of an instance of the design on FPGA at the company’s labs in Antwerp. Finally, he investigated ways of providing QoS at the access network to services lacking explicit signaling.

The work he has done for the projects IST-NOBEL I-II consists of studying novel optical core network architectures and protocols. More specifically, he was involved in the design of two different architectures and the respective control protocols for optical burst-switched networks. The first is based on clustering the system nodes, with different control protocols being used inside and outside the clusters, while the second makes use of slotted pipelined two-way reservations, achieving efficient and loss-less operation. The performance of both schemes has been evaluated using computer simulations, and it has been shown that they both outperform typical OBS approaches. Moreover, he developed analytical models for the evaluation of the aforementioned protocols, as well as for the performance of burst assembly mechanisms.

Summer 2003: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia:

As an exchange student he was involved in the research activities of the computer vision laboratory of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

September 2004 – February 2008: Automation Engineering Department, Technological Institute of Piraeus, Greece:

He worked as a teaching assistant at the Automation Engineering Department of the Technological Institute of Piraeus, teaching the “Internet Protocols” course.

 AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Invited talks:

• Angelopoulos, J. D.; Kanonakis, K.; Leligou, H. C.; Orphanoudakis, T.; Politi, T., "Analytical Evaluation and Implementation of a Novel Slotted Optical Switching Scheme with Two Way Reservations", 9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07, vol.3, no., pp.205-208, 1-5 July 2007, Rome, Italy.

• J. D. Angelopoulos, H.C. Leligou, K. Kanonakis, Ch. Linardakis, I. Pountourakis, “A reservation-based mechanism prevents losses in slotted Optical Burst Switching”, Conference on Networks and Optical Communications, July 5-7, 2005, London, United Kingdom.

Paper reviewer:

He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Elsevier Computer Networks and various conferences.

PUBLICATIONS

International peer-reviewed journals:

• A. Stavdas, J. D. Angelopoulos, A. Lord, Th. Orphanoudakis, H. C. Leligou, K. Kanonakis and A. Drakos, “CANON: An Efficient Multi-domain Core Architecture Based on Node Clustering”, accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Magazine.

• Angelopoulos, J. D.; Kanonakis, K.; Koukouvakis, G.; Leligou, H. C.; Matrakidis, C.; Orphanoudakis, T. G.; Stavdas, A., “An Optical Network Architecture With Distributed Switching Inside Node Clusters Features Improved Loss, Efficiency, and Cost”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol.25, Iss.5, Pages:1138-1146, May 2007.

• Angelopoulos, J.D.; Kanonakis, K.; Leligou, H.C.; Linardakis, C.; Pountourakis, I.E.; Stavdas, A., "Slotted Optical Switching With Pipelined Two-Way Reservations", IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol.24, Iss.10, Pages: 3616- 3624, October 2006.

• T. Orphanoudakis, H.-C. Leligou, E. Kosmatos, J. D. Angelopoulos, K. Kanonakis, G. Prezerakos, and I. Venieris, “Efficient resource allocation with service guarantees in passive optical networks”, OSA-Journal of Optical Networking, Vol.6, No.6, pp.884-896, June 2007. 

• Alexandros Stavdas, Helen-C. Leligou, Konstantinos Kanonakis, Charalambos Linardakis, John D. Angelopoulos, “A Novel Scheme for Performing Statistical Multiplexing in the Optical Layer”, OSA-Journal of Optical Networking, Vol.4, No.5, pp.237-247, May 2005.

• Helen-C. Leligou, Konstantinos Kanonakis, John Angelopoulos,  Ioannis Pountourakis, Theofanis Orphanoudakis, “Efficient burst aggregation for QoS-aware slotted OBS systems”, European Transactions on Telecommunications, Wiley Interscience, Vol.17, Issue 1, pp.93-98, January/February 2006.  

•  H. C. Leligou, Ch. Linardakis, K. Kanonakis, J. D. Angelopoulos and Th. Orphanoudakis, “Efficient medium arbitration of FSAN-compliant GPONs”, Wiley ed. International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol. 19, No:5, pp.: 603-617, June 2006.

• J.D. Angelopoulos, C. Dessauvage, H.-C. Leligou, K. Kanonakis,C. Matrakidis, E. Six, “Dynamic address resolution for enhanced configurability in packet-based TDMA GPONs”, Elsevier Information Sciences, Vol.177, Iss.16, Pages: 3327- 3340, August 2007.

• A. Stavdas, K. Kanonakis, G. Koukouvakis, H. C. Leligou, Th. Orphanoudakis, J. D. Angelopoulos,  “Clustering all-optical core nodes allows distributed aggregation of data bursts under closed-loop control for improved efficiency and reduced loss”, European Transactions on Telecommunications, Wiley Interscience, DOI: 10.1002/ett.1260, 2007.

• J. D. Angelopoulos, K. Kanonakis, H.C. Leligou, Th. Orphanoudakis, G.Kornaros, “Multiplexing QoS-differentiated traffic in an Ethernet-based access network”, accepted for publication in the Mediterranean Journal of Computers and Networks.
   

International peer-reviewed conferences:

• K. Kanonakis, H-C. Leligou, John Angelopoulos, Edith Gilon, Jan Van Den Abeele, “Towards an autonomic access system providing QoS to services lacking explicit signaling”, Conference on Networks and Optical Communications, June 19-21, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.

• Helen-C. Leligou, Theofanis Orphanoudakis, Konstantinos Kanonakis, George Prezerakos, John D. Angelopoulos, “Providing Delay Bounds for Real-time Traffic over EPONs”, 9th WSEAS International Conference on Automatic Control, Modeling & Simulation (ACMOS ‘07), Istanbul, Turkey, 27-29 May 2007.

• J. D. Angelopoulos, K. Kanonakis, H.C. Leligou, C. Linardakis, “Probe-and-go: a novel approach to OBS”, Photonics in Switching 2006, Crete, Greece, October 2006.

• A. Stavdas, K. Kanonakis, G. Koukouvakis, H.C. Leligou, Th. Orphanoudakis, J.D. Angelopoulos, “Clustering core nodes allows efficient all-optical payload switching”, Photonics in Switching 2006, Crete, Greece, October 2006.

• G. Rajan, A. Elizondo, H.C. Leligou, K. Kanonakis, J. D. Angelopoulos, “Strategies for expediting inter-provider QoS support in access networks”, Conference on Networks and Optical Communications, July 10-13, 2006, Berlin, Germany.

• J. D. Angelopoulos, K. Kanonakis, Ch. Linardakis, H.C. Leligou, “Supporting Ethernet with QoS in a Local Access Multiplexer”, Conference on Networks and Optical Communications, July 5-7, 2005, London, United Kingdom.

• J. D. Angelopoulos, H. C. Leligou, K. Kanonakis, H. Linardakis, I. Pountourakis, A. Stavdas, “Slot reservations for lossless Optical Burst Switching", ELMAR2005 conference, Zadar, Croatia, 8-10 June 2005.

• H.-C. Leligou, K. Kanonakis, Th. Orphanoudakis, J.D. Angelopoulos, “Traffic aggregation for slotted OBS systems”, ELMAR2005 conference, Zadar, Croatia, 8-10 June 2005.

• K. Kanonakis, H. C. Leligou, J. Angelopoulos, Th. Orfanoudakis, M. Katsigiannis, “Dynamic QoS provisioning for Ethernet-based networks”, IeCCS 07, electronic conference.

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

• Optical Networks

• Broadband Access Networks

• Queuing Theory

• Network Simulation

• Programming

•  Hardware Design

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 

•  Member of the International Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Society.

• Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Last Updated: April  2008