Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things Northeastern University Address: 805 Columbus Ave., 129 ISEC, Boston, MA 02115 Office: 424 ISEC Phone: 617-3738046 Fax: 617-3737765 Email: d.koutsonikolas@northeastern.edu

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University. Between January 2011 and December 2020, I was in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University at Buffalo, first as an Assistant Professor (2011-2016) and then as an Associate Professor (2016-2020) and Director of Graduate Studies (2018-2020). I received my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University in 2010. Previously, I received my Bachelor's degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

My research interests are broadly in experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a current focus on 5G and Beyond networks and latency-critical applications (AR, VR, CAVs) over 5G, millimeter-wave networking, and energy-aware protocol design. I lead the NU Wireless Networking and Systems Lab (NU WiNS Lab). I have served as the General Co-Chair for IEEE LANMAN 2024, IEEE WoWMoM 2023, and ACM EWSN 2018 and TPC Co-Chair for IEEE LANMAN 2023, IEEE HPSR 2023, IEEE DCOSS 2022, IEEE WoWMoM 2021, and IFIP Networking 2021. I received the IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award in 2019, the UB Teaching Innovation Award in 2018, the NSF CAREER Award in 2016, the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Senior Teacher of the Year Award in 2017 and the Early Career Researcher of the Year Award in 2015, and the UB CSE Senior Researcher of the Year Award in 2019 and Early Career Faculty Teaching Award in 2015.

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[Research]

[Publications]

[Team]

[Teaching]

[Software]

[Awards]

[Service]

[NU WiNS Lab]

[Links]

News

• 09/30/2025: I will be serving as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) starting on 01/01/2026 with a 3-year appointment.
• 06/03/2025: I am giving a keynote at NSysS 2025, Sylhet, Bangladesh, December 18-20, 2025.
• 03/16/2024: I am giving a keynote at IFIP/IEEE Networking 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 3-6, 2024.

Research

Current projects at NU

• Dissecting 5G Network Performance
• TARGET: Latency-aware Edge Computing for VR/AR in 5G and Beyond Networks, NSF
• Development of X-Mili: An Open, Programmable Platform to Conquer the 5G and 6G Wireless Spectrum, NSF

Past projects at NU

• Predicting 5G mmWave Uplink Bandwidth to Enable High-Quality Augmented Reality, CISCO Research
• Scaling WLANs in Spectrum, User Density, and Robustness, NSF
• A Millimeter-Wave Multi-Layer WLAN Architecture for Multi-Gigabit, Always-On Connectivity, NSF

Past projects at UB

• Power-Performance Tradeoffs for Mobile Devices in Next Generation WiFi Networks, NSF
• X60: A Cross-Layer Reconfigurable Multi-Gigabit WLAN Testbed at 60 GHz, NSF
• Routing in 802.11n/ac wireless mesh networks
• UBMesh: An 802.11n wireless mesh network at UB
• Motion Detection in WLANs using PHY Layer Information
• CANSAS: Crowdsourcing Access Network Spectrum Allocation Using Smartphones
• Routing in cognitive radio networks
• Analog Network Coding in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

Past projects at Purdue

• Bandwidth estimation in wireless broadband access networks
• Mesh@Purdue [MAP]
• "Exotic" routing protocol design, implementation, and evaluation for Wireless Mesh Networks
• Multi-layer techniques and protocols for improving multicast in Wireless Mesh Networks
• Exploiting lower layer techniques for performance improvement in Wireless Mesh Networks
• Measurement-based characterization of Wireless Mesh Networks
• Mobile ad hoc, sensor, and multi-robot networks

Selected Publications [Full list: by type, by year]

5G networks and applications

1. Exploring the 5G Digital Divide in the Non-Contiguous US: LEO Satellites to the Rescue?, ACM SIGMETRICS 2026
2. Replication: Performance of Cellular Networks on the Wheels, ACM IMC 2025
3. 5G Metamorphosis: A Longitudinal Study of 5G Performance from the Beginning, ACM IMC 2025
4. A First Large-Scale Study of Operational 5G Standalone Networks, ACM CoNEXT 2025
5. Vivisecting Beam Management in Operational 5G mmWave Networks, ACM CoNEXT 2025
6. mm-NOLOC: mmWave-based Localization for Mobile Networks without 3GPP Location Service, ACM MobiHoc 2025
7. X5G: An Open, Programmable, Multi-vendor, End-to-end, Private 5G O-RAN Testbed with NVIDIA ARC and OpenAirInterface, IEEE TMC 2025
8. A Large-Scale Study of the Potential of Multi-Carrier Access in the 5G Era, PAM 2025
9. How Mature is 5G Deployment? A Cross-Sectional, Year-Long Study of 5G Uplink Performance, IFIP/IEEE Networking 2024, Elsevier COMCOM 2025
10. Demystifying Resource Allocation Policies in Operational 5G mmWave Networks, IEEE/ACM ToN 2024
11. Performance of Cellular Networks on the Wheels, ACM IMC 2023
12. An In-Depth Study of Uplink Performance of 5G mmWave Networks, ACM SIGCOMM 5G-MeMU 2022
13. Can 5G mmWave Support Multi-User AR Apps?, PAM 2022

AR, VR, video streaming

1. Spatial Video Streaming on Apple Vision Pro XR Headset, ACM HotMobile 2025
2. Co-located Immersive Gaming: A Comparison between Augmented and Virtual Reality, IEEE CoG 2022
3. Throughput Prediction on 60 GHz Mobile Devices for High-Bandwidth, Latency-Sensitive Applications, PAM 2021 (Best Dataset Award)
4. An Analysis of Delay in Live 360^o Video Streaming Systems, ACM Multimedia 2020
5. How to Evaluate Mobile 360^o Video Streaming Systems, ACM HotMobile 2020

Millimeter wave networking

1. A Detailed Look at MIMO Performance in 60 GHz WLANs, SIGMETRICS 2022
2. 802.11ad in Smartphones: Energy Efficiency, Spatial Reuse, and Impact on Applications, IEEE INFOCOM 2021
3. LiBRA: Learning-Based Link Adaptation Leveraging PHY Layer Information in 60 GHz WLANs, ACM CoNEXT 2020
4. Performance and Pitfalls of 60 GHz WLANs Based on Consumer-Grade Hardware, IEEE TMC 2020
5. MuSher: An Agile Multipath-TCP Scheduler for Dual-Band 802.11ad/ac Wireless LANs, ACM MobiCom 2019, IEEE/ACM ToN 2022
6. Multi-Stream Beam-Training for mmWave MIMO Networks, ACM MobiCom 2018
7. LiSteer: mmWave Beam Acquisition and Steering by Tracking Indicator LEDs on Wireless APs, ACM MobiCom 2018
8. Enabling Indoor Mobile Millimeter-wave Networks Based on Smart Reflect-arrays, IEEE INFOCOM 2018

LTE-WiFi co-existence

1. DeMiLTE: Detecting and Mitigating LTE Interference for Enterprise Wi-Fi in 5 GHz, ACM MobiHoc 2019
2. ELI: Empowering LTE with Interference Awareness in Unlicensed Spectrum, IEEE ICNP 2018
3. BLU: Blue-printing Interference for Robust LTE Access in Unlicensed Spectrum, ACM CoNEXT 2017

Wireless/mobile sensing

1. Automating CSI Measurement with UAVs: from Problem Formulation to Energy-Optimal Solution, IEEE INFOCOM 2019
2. Towards Environment Independent Device Free Human Activity Recognition, ACM MobiCom 2018
3. ABC: Enabling Smartphone Authentication with Built-in Camera, ISOC NDSS 2018
4. Messages Behind the Sound: Real-Time Hidden Acoustic Signal Capture with Smartphones, ACM MobiCom 2016, IEEE TMC 2019
5. WiDraw: Enabling Handsfree Drawing in the Air on Commodity WiFi Devices, ACM MobiCom 2015

IEEE 802.11 WLANs

1. Is WiFi 802.11mc Fine Time Measurement Ready for Prime-Time Localization?, ACM WiNTECH 2022 (Best paper award)
2. On Packet Loss Rates in Modern 802.11 Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2017
3. Experimental Evaluation of WiFi Active Power/Energy Consumption Models for Smartphones, IEEE TMC 2017
4. AmorFi: Amorphous WiFi Networks for High-density Deployments, ACM CoNEXT 2016
5. A Walk on the Client Side: Monitoring Enterprise Wifi Networks Using Smartphone Channel Scans, IEEE INFOCOM 2016
6. Power-Throughput Tradeoffs of 802.11n/ac in Smartphones, IEEE INFOCOM 2015
7. Bringing Mobility-Awareness to WLANs using PHY layer information, ACM CoNEXT 2014
8. Crowdsourcing Access Network Spectrum Allocation Using Smartphones, ACM HotNets 2014

Wireless mesh networks

1. Comparison of Routing Metrics in 802.11n Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2013, IEEE TMC 2013
2. CCACK: Efficient Network Coding Based Opportunistic Routing Through Cumulative Coded Acknowledgments, IEEE INFOCOM 2010, IEEE/ACM ToN 2011
3. Pacifier: High-Throughput, Reliable Multicast without "Crying Babies" in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2010, IEEE/ACM ToN 2012
4. TDM MAC Protocol Design and Implementation for Wireless Mesh Networks, ACM CoNEXT 2008
5. How To Evaluate Exotic Wireless Routing Protocols?, ACM HotNets 2008
6. Practical Service Provisioning for Wireless Meshes, ACM CoNEXT 2007

Software/Datasets

Software

• MPTCP: MPTCP source code for a ROG Phone 2, from our WiNTECH 2021 paper.
• MuSher: Source code of our Musher MPTCP scheduler and a set of MPTCP instrumentation tools from our MobiCom 2019 paper.
• Networking Programming Assignments: a set of three networking programming assignments, along with an automated tester/grader, available to both students and instructors. The assignments have been used in CSE 489/589, a joint senior undergraduate/introductory graduate class at UB.
• Pacifier: An application-layer implementation of our reliable, high-throughput multicast protocol (presented at INFOCOM 2009) and the MORE protocol in Linux.

Datasets

• 5G mmWave localization dataset from our MobiHoc 2025 mm-NOLOC paper.
• 5G mmWave beam management dataset from our CoNEXT 2025 paper.
• Multi-carrier cellular dataset collected over three cross-country drives from our PAM 2025 paper.
• Fine-grained cellular throughput prediction dataset from our MASS 2024 paper.
• Year-long cellular performance dataset from 8 cities from our Networking 2024 paper.
• Cellular dataset under driving from our IMC 2023 paper.
• Uplink 5G mmWave dataset from our 5G-MeMU 2022 paper.
• 60 GHz MIMO dataset from our SIGMETRICS 2022 paper.
• Multi-user AR over 5G dataset from our PAM 2022 paper.
• 60 GHz throuphput prediction dataset from our PAM 2021 paper. (Best Dataset Award)
• 60 GHz smartphone dataset from our INFOCOM 2021 paper.
• 60 GHz link adaptation dataset from our CoNEXT 2020 paper and MSWiM 2020 paper.
• MPTCP performance characterization over 802.11ad/802.11ac dataset from our MobiCom 2019 paper.
• X60 dataset (SNR, Impulse Response, Power Delay Profile, RSSI, Throughput, Phase, etc.) from our COMCOM 2018 paper.

Team

Postdoc

• Eduardo Baena Martinez

PhD Students

• Moinak Ghoshal
• Imran Khan
• Phuc Dinh
• Sizhe Wang
• Yufei Feng
• Zhekun Yu
• Zeyu (Zack) Li

MS Students

• Ankita Mandal (MS Project)
• Rajesh Krishnan (MS Project)
• Sahana Sivakumar (MS Project)

Unpaid Intern

• Abhiram Elango

PhD Graduates

• Li Sun (PhD 2017, Best CSE PhD Dissertation Award 2017, VMware, Inc.)
• Ramanujan K. Sheshadri (PhD 2018, Nokia Bell Labs)
• Swetank Kumar Saha (PhD 2019, Best CSE PhD Dissertation Award 2019, Apple Inc.)
• Shivang Aggarwal (PhD 2022, Outstanding PhD Research Award -- Northeastern University College of Engineering 2022, HP Labs)

MS Graduates (Thesis)

• Birender Singh (MS February 2020, Zscaler)
• Moinak Ghoshal (MS May 2022, PhD student at NU)
• Yufei Feng (MS August 2024)
• Sizhe Wang (MS December 2024, PhD student at NU)

Awards

• Best Paper Awards: IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, ACM WiNTECH 2022, ACM mmNets 2019, IEEE WCNC 2017, SENSORCOMM 2007.
• Best Paper Award Runner-Up: IEEE IEEE NG-OPERA 2024, ACM CoNEXT 2017, ACM WiNTECH 2017.
• Best Dataset Award, PAM 2021.
• IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award, September 2019.
• NSF CAREER Award, February 2016.
• Outstanding PC Member Award, ACM MobiCom 2022.
• Distinguished TPC Member Award, IEEE INFOCOM 2018, 2017.
• UB CSE Outstanding Service Award, December 2020.
• UB CSE Senior Researcher of the Year Award, December 2019.
• UB Teaching Innovation Award, June 2018.
• UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Senior Teacher of the Year Award, December 2017.
• UB CSE Early Career Faculty Teaching Award, December 2015.
• UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Early Career Researcher of the Year Award, November 2015.
• 1st place in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), MobiCom 2009.
• 3rd place in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), MobiCom 2008.

Professional Service

• Senior member of IEEE, ACM, member of USENIX, ACM SIGMOBILE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society.
• Steering Committee Member, IEEE LANMAN, August 2024 - present.
• Steering Committee Member, ACM WiNTECH, December 2016 - present.
• Steering Committee Member, ACM mmNets, November 2018 - 2023.


• Editorial Board
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Associate Editor, February 2017 - 2024.
• IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Millimeter Wave Networking", 2019.
• IEEE Networking Letters (LNET), Editor, June 2018 - December 2021.
• Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN), Old City Publishing, 2011 - 2015.


• General Co-Chair
• IEEE LANMAN 2024.
• IEEE WoWMoM 2023.
• ACM EWSN 2018.
• TPC Co-Chair
• IEEE LANMAN 2023.
• IEEE HPSR 2023.
• IEEE DCOSS 2022.
• IFIP Networking 2021.
• IEEE WoWMoM 2021.
• Area/Track TPC Chair
• IEEE INFOCOM 2026.
• IEEE ICNP 2025.
• IEEE WCNC 2025, Medium Access Control and Networking.
• IEEE INFOCOM 2025.
• IEEE ICNP 2024.
• IEEE ICDCS 2024, Distributed Applications, Crowdsourcing and Video Analytics.
• IEEE ICCCN 2024, Network and Communication Architectures, Algorithms, Protocols, and Evaluation Track.
• IEEE ICNP 2023.
• IEEE ICNP 2022.
• IEEE MASS 2022, Emerging Technologies Track.
• IEEE INFOCOM 2022.
• IEEE MASS 2021, Experimental Evaluation and Testbeds Track.
• IEEE ICNP 2021.
• IEEE MASS 2018, Experimental Evaluation and Testbeds Track.
• IEEE ICCCN 2018, Wireless LAN, Ad Hoc, and Mesh Networks (WAM) Track.
• Workshop Co-organizer/Co-Chair
• ACM mmNets 2018.
• IEEE 5GMW 2016.
• ACM WiNTECH 2016.
• IEEE ICNP 2015 Ph.D. Forum.
• ACM CoNEXT 2011 Student Workshop.


• Workshop Co-Chair, IEEE MASS 2025.
• MobiJob Event Chair, ACM MobiCom 2023.
• Workshop Co-Chair, IEEE WoWMoM 2019.
• SRC Chair, ACM MobiCom 2017.
• Posters/Demos Co-Chair, ACM MobiSys 2017.
• Student Travel Grants Chair/Co-Chair, ACM MobiSys 2018, ACM MobiCom 2014, ACM SIGCOMM 2014.
• Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE WoWMoM 2018, ACM WiNTECH 2014, IEEE MASS 2012.


• TPC Member
• 2026: ACM MobiCom, ACM IMC, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE WoWMoM.
• 2025: ACM MobiCom, ACM IMC, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking.
• 2024: ACM MobiSys, ACM IMC, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM SEC, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking.
• 2023: ACM MobiCom, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM PAM, IFIP Networking, IEEE PerCom.
• 2022: ACM MobiCom, ACM WWW, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking.
• 2021: ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM WWW, IEEE ICDCS, IFIP WONS.
• 2020: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking.
• 2019: ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking.
• 2018: ACM MobiCom, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking, IEEE/IFIP WONS.
• 2017: ACM MobiCom, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, IEEE/IFIP WONS.
• 2016: ACM MobiCom, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, IEEE ICCCN, IEEE/IFIP WONS.
• 2015: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, IEEE ICCCN, IEEE ICNC.
• 2014: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IFIP Networking, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, IEEE/IFIP WONS, IEEE ICNC.
• 2013: IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE MASS, IFIP Networking, IEEE/IFIP WONS, IEEE VTC-Spring.
• 2012: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE SECON, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE IWQoS, IEEE ICNC.
• 2011: IEEE ICDCS, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE IWQoS, IEEE VTC-Fall.

Teaching

Courses at NU

• EECE 7364: Mobile and Wireless Networks (Spring 2025).
• EECE 7374: Fundamentals of Networks (Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021).
• EECE 2540: Fundamentals of Networks (Fall 2021).
• EECE 7398: Wireless Network Systems and Applications (Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021).

Courses at UB

• CSE 501 Introduction to Graduate Study in Computer Science & Engineering (Fall 2020, Fall 2019).
• CSE 489/589 Modern Networking Concepts (Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012).
• CSE 709 Seminar: Selected Topics in Wireless Networkings (Fall 2018).
• CSE 709 Seminar: Millimeter-wave networking, sensing, and applications (Fall 2017, Spring 2017).
• CSE 630 Advanced Wireless Networking Concepts (Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012).
• CSE 709 Selected Topics in Cellular Networking (Spring 2016).
• CSE 701/708 Seminar: Advanced Topics in Wireless Networks (Fall 2011, Spring 2011).

Links

• My hometown Trikala, Greece (Greek - English)