DELAY TOLERANT TRANSFERS ON THE INTERNET

N. Laoutaris, G. Smaragdakis, P. Rodriguez, R. Sundaram,  “Delay Tolerant Bulk Data Transfers on the Internet,” in Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS'09. [pdf] 

N. Laoutaris, P. Rodriguez, “Good Things Come to Those Who (Can) Wait or How to Handle Delay Tolerant Traffic and Make Peace on the Internet,” in Proc. of ACM HotNets-VII, Calgary, Canada, Oct. 2008. [pdf]. 

SOCIAL NETWORKS

J.-M. Pujol, V. Erramilli, G. Siganos, X. Yang, N. Laoutaris, P. Chhabra, P. Rodriguez,  “The Little Engine(s) that could: Scaling Online Social Networks,” in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM'10. [pdf]

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

V. Valancius, N. Laoutaris, L. Massoulie, C. Diot, P. Rodriguez, “Greening the Internet with Nano Data Centers,” in Proc. of ACM CoNEXT'09. [pdf]

N. Laoutaris, P. Rodriguez, L. Massoulie, “ECHOS: edge capacity hosting overlays of nano data centers,” ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol. 38, no. 1, pp.51-54,  Jan. 2008. [pdf]

NETWORK PRICING / FLAT RATES

R. Stanojevic, N. Laoutaris, P. Rodriguez, “On Economic Heavy Hitters: Shapley value analysis of 95th-percentile pricing,” in Proc. of ACM IMC'10. [pdf]  

J. Londoño, A. Bestavros, N. Laoutaris, “Trade & Cap: A Customer-Managed, Market-Based System for Trading Bandwidth Allowances at a Shared Link,” in Proc. of USENIX NetEcon'10.

P. Chhabra, N. Laoutaris and P. Rodriguez, “Home is where the (Fast) Internet is: Flat-rate Compatible Incentives for Reducing Peak Load,” ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Home Networking (HomeNets’10), 2010. [pdf]

BITTORRENT

R. Cuevas, N. Laoutaris, X. Yang, G. Siganos, P. Rodriguez, “Deep Diving into BitTorrent Locality,” arXiv:0907.3874.

N. Laoutaris, D. Carra, P. Michardi, “Uplink Allocation Beyond Choke/Unchoke or How to Divide and Conquer Best,” in Proc. of ACM CoNEXT'08. [pdf]

 OVERLAY CONSTUCTION

N. Laoutaris, L. Poplawski, R. Rajaraman, R. Sundaram, and S.-H. Teng, “Bounded Budget Connection (BBC) games or How to make friends and influence people, on a budget,” in Proc. of  ACM PODC'08, [full version] from arXiv. 

G. Smaragdakis, V. Lekakis, N. Laoutaris, A. Bestavros, J. Byers, M. Roussopoulos, “The EGOIST Overlay Routing System,” in Proc. of ACM CoNEXT'08. [pdf]

G. Smaragdakis, N. Laoutaris, P. Michiardi, A. Bestavros, J. Byers, M. Roussopoulos, “Swarming on optimized graphs for n-way broadcast,” in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM'08, Phoenix, AZ, 2008. [pdf] [Long version in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems].

N. Laoutaris, G. Smaragdakis, A. Bestavros, and J. Byers, “Implications of selfish neighbor selection in overlay
networks,” in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM ’07, Anchorage, AK, May 2007. [pdf]


REPLICATION

G. Smaragdakis, N. Laoutaris, K. Oikonomou, I. Stavrakakis, and A. Bestavros,  “Distributed Server Migration for Scalable Internet Service Deployment,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, conditionally accepted, 2009.

N. Laoutaris, G. Smaragdakis, K. Oikonomou, I. Stavrakakis, and A. Bestavros, “Distributed placement of service facilities in large-scale networks,” in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM ’07, Anchorage, AK, May 2007. [pdf]

N. Laoutaris, O. Telelis, V. Zissimopoulos, and I. Stavrakakis, “Distributed selfish replication,” IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 1401–1413, Dec. 2006. [pdf]

N. Laoutaris, V. Zissimopoulos, and I. Stavrakakis, “On the optimization of storage capacity allocation for
content distribution,” Computer Networks, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 409–428, Feb. 2005.

N. Laoutaris, V. Zissimopoulos, and I. Stavrakakis, “Joint object placement and node dimensioning for internet content distribution,” Information Processing Letters, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 273–279, Mar. 2004. [pdf]

N. Laoutaris, O. Telelis, V. Zissimopoulos, and I. Stavrakakis, “Local utility aware content replication,” in
Proc. of IFIP Networking ’05, Waterloo, Canada, May 2005.

N. Laoutaris, V. Zissimopoulos, and I. Stavrakakis, “Storage capacity allocation algorithms for hierarchical
content distribution,” in Proc. of IFIP Net-Con ’04, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Nov. 2004.

N. Laoutaris, A. Panagakis, and I. Stavrakakis, “Content distribution through autonomic content and storage
management,” in Proc. WAC ’04, Berlin, German, Oct. 2004.


CACHING

N. Laoutaris, G. Zervas, A. Bestavros, and G. Kollios, “The cache inference problem and its application to
content and request routing,” in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM ’07, Anchorage, AK, May 2007. [pdf]

N. Laoutaris, G. Smaragdakis, A. Bestavros, and I. Stavrakakis, “Mistreatment in distributed caching groups:
Causes and implications,” in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM ’06, Barcelona, Spain, 2006. [pdf]

N. Laoutaris, G. Smaragdakis, A. Bestavros, I. Matta, and I. Stavrakakis, “Distributed selfish caching,” IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 18, no. 10, Oct. 2007. [pdf]

N. Laoutaris, “A closed-form method for LRU replacement under generalized power-law demand,” 2007,
arXiv:0705.1970v1 [cs.DS]. [ps]

G. Smaragdakis, N. Laoutaris, A. Bestavros, I. Matta, and I. Stavrakakis, “Mistreatment-resilient distributed
caching,” Computer Networks, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 2917–2937, 2007.

G. Smaragdakis, N. Laoutaris, I. Matta, A. Bestavros, and I. Stavrakakis, “A feedback control approach to
mitigating mistreatment in distributed caching groups,” in Proc. of IFIP Networking ’06, Coimbra, Portugal,
May 2006.

N. Laoutaris, H. Che, and I. Stavrakakis, “The LCD interconnection of LRU caches and its analysis,”
Performance Evaluation, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 609–634, July 2006.

E. Balafoutis, A. Panagakis, N. Laoutaris, and I. Stavrakakis, “Study of the impact of replacement granularity
and associated strategies on video caching,” Cluster Computing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 89–100, Jan. 2005.

N. Laoutaris, S. Syntila, and I. Stavrakakis, “Meta algorithms for hierarchical web caches,” in Proc. IEEE
IPCCC ’04, Phoenix, Arizona, Apr. 2004. [pdf]

E. Balafoutis, A. Panagakis, N. Laoutaris, and I. Stavrakakis, “The impact of replacement granularity on video
caching,” in Proc. IFIP Networking ’02, Pisa, Italy, May 2002.


MULTIMEDIA STREAMING

C. C. Vassilakis, N. Laoutaris, and I. Stavrakakis, “On the Impact of Playout Scheduling on the Performance of Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming,” Computer Networks, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 456-469, 2009.

C. C. Vassilakis, N. Laoutaris, and I. Stavrakakis, “The impact of playout policy on the performance of P2P
live streaming,” in Proc. of SPIE/ACM MMCN ’08, San Jose, California, Jan 2008. [pdf]

N. Laoutaris, B. V. Houdt, and I. Stavrakakis, “Optimization of a packet video receiver under different levels
of delay jitter: An analytical approach,” Performance Evaluation, vol. 55, no. 3-4, pp. 251–275, Feb. 2004. [pdf]

N. Laoutaris and I. Stavrakakis, “An analytical design of optimal playout schedulers for packet video
receivers,” Computer Communications, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 294–303, Mar. 2003.

N. Laoutaris and I. Stavrakakis, “Intrastream synchronization for continuous media streams: A survey of playout schedulers,” IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 16, no. 3, May 2002. [pdf]

N. Laoutaris, G. Boukeas, and I. Stavrakakis, “Design of optimal playout schedulers for packet video
receivers,” in Proc. QofIS ’01, Coimbra, Portugal, Sept. 2001.

N. Laoutaris and I. Stavrakakis, “Adaptive playout strategies for packet video receivers with finite buffer
capacity,” in Proc. IEEE ICC ’01, Helsinki, Finland, June 2001.

N. Karelos, N. Laoutaris, P. Balaouras, and I. Stavrakakis, “Endsystem performance issues for continuous
media streaming applications,” in Proc. ATM & IP, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K, July 2000.


OTHER

 C. Xenakis, N. Laoutaris, L. Merakos, and I. Stavrakakis, “A generic characterization of the overheads imposed
by IPsec and associated cryptographic algorithms,” Computer Networks, vol. 50, no. 17, pp. 3225–3241, Dec.
2006.

N. Kranitis, A. Merentitis, N. Laoutaris, G. Theodorou, A. Paschalis, D. Gizopoulos, and C. Halatsis,
“Optimal periodic testing of intermittent faults in embedded pipelined processor applications,” in Proc. of
DATE ’06, Munich, Germany, Mar. 2006.