Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- d.koutsonikolas@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Ave - 435 ISEC
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 424 ISEC
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Research Focus
Experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a current focus on millimeter wave networking, high-bandwidth applications (VR, 360° video streaming) over wireless networks, LTE/WiFi coexistence, energy-aware protocol design for smartphones, and wireless sensing
About
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas joined Northeastern’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2021. Previously, he was a tenured Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University at Buffalo (UB), The State University of New York. His area of research is on experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a current focus on millimeter wave networking, high-bandwidth applications (VR, 360o video streaming) over 5G networks, energy-aware protocol design for smartphones, and wireless sensing. In these areas, he has published over 80 technical papers, in the most impactful conferences (e.g., ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE INFOCOM) and journals (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE JSAC). He has received an IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award in 2019, the NSF CAREER Award in 2016, three best paper awards, and multiple research and teaching awards at UB. He currently serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE Networking Letters.
Education
- PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2010
Honors & Awards
- ACM mmNets Best Paper Award 2019
- IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award, September 2019
- UB Teaching Innovation Award, June 2018
- Best Paper Award, IEEE WCNC 2017
- UB SEAS Senior Teacher of the Year Award, December 2017
- NSF CAREER Award, 2016
- UB SEAS Early Career Researcher of the Year Award, November 2015
- Best Paper Award, SENSORCOMM 2007
Professional Affiliations
- ACM (Senior Member)
- IEEE (Senior Member)
- IEEE Computer Society
- IEEE Communications Society
- USENIX
Research Overview
Experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a current focus on millimeter wave networking, high-bandwidth applications (VR, 360° video streaming) over wireless networks, LTE/WiFi coexistence, energy-aware protocol design for smartphones, and wireless sensing
NU Wireless Networking and Systems Lab
We conduct research in the broad areas of experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, including high performance/energy efficient protocol design and implementation, testbed prototyping, and measurement-based performance characterization. Our current focus is on millimeter wave networking, LTE/WiFi coexistence, energy-aware protocol design for smartphones, and novel RF applications. We are interested in practical problems accross different layers of the network stack (MAC, routing, transport, and applications), as well as in cross-layer interactions.
Selected Research Projects
- An Open, Programmable Platform to Conquer the 5G and 6G Wireless Spectrum
- – Principle Investigator, National Science Foundation
- NSF: CAREER: A Millimeter-Wave Multi-Layer WLAN Architecture for Multi-Gigabit, Always-On Connectivity
- – Principle Investigator, National Science Foundation
- NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Scaling WLANs in Spectrum, User Density, and Robustness
- – Principle Investigator, National Science Foundation
Research Centers and Institutes
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- 802.11ad in Smartphones: Energy Efficiency, Spatial Reuse, and Impact on Applications.
Shivang Aggarwal, Moinak Ghoshal, Piyali Banerjee, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Joerg Widmer.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2021), Virtual Conference, May 10-13, 2021. - MuSher: An Agile Multipath-TCP Scheduler for Dual-Band 802.11ad/ac Wireless LANs.
Swetank Kumar Saha, Shivang Aggarwal, Rohan Pathak, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Joerg Widmer.
In Proceedings of the 25th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2019), Los Cabos, Mexico, October 21-25, 2019. - Multi-Stream Beam-Training for mmWave MIMO Networks.
Yasaman Ghasempour, Muhammad Kumail Haider, Carlos Cordeiro, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Edward Knightly.
In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2018), New Delhi, India, October 29 – November 2, 2018. - LiSteer: mmWave Beam Acquisition and Steering by Tracking Indicator LEDs on Wireless APs.
Muhammad Kumail Haider, Yasaman Ghasempour, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Edward Knightly.
In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2018), New Delhi, India, October 29 – November 2, 2018.
- 802.11ad in Smartphones: Energy Efficiency, Spatial Reuse, and Impact on Applications.
Nov 13, 2023
WIoT Team Wins Best Paper Award at IEEE Globecom 2023
Several College of Engineering faculty and students affiliated with the Institute for Wireless Internet of Things, together with the IMDEA Networks Institute of Madrid, received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2023.
Sep 23, 2021
$3M Award to Improve the Performance of 5G and 6G Wireless Networks
ECE Associate Professor Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Professor Stefano Basagni, Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, Associate Professor Josep Jornet, and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia were awarded a $3M award to create “An Open, Programmable Platform to Conquer the 5G and 6G Wireless Spectrum.”
Jan 08, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2021 as an Associate Professor.