Publications

• X60: A Programmable Testbed for Wideband 60 GHz WLANs with Phased Arrays
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Yasaman Ghasempour, Muhammad Kumail Haider, Tariq Siddiqui, Paulo De Melo, Neerad Somanchi, Luke Zakrajsek, Arjun Singh, Roshan Shyamsunder, Owen Torres, Daniel Uvaydov, Josep Miquel Jornet, Edward Knightly, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Dimitris Pados, Zhi Sun, and Ngwe Thawdar
  Accepted In Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications (COMCOM), September 2018
• Dolphin: Real-Time Hidden Acoustic Signal Capture with Smartphones.
  Man Zhou, Qian Wang, Kui Ren, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Lu Su, Yanjiao Chen.
  Accepted In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), May 2018
• Robust, cost-effective and scalable localization in large indoor areas.
  Tong Guan, Le Fang, Wen Dong, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Geoffrey Challen, and Chunming Qiao.
  In Elsevier Computer Networks (ComNet), Vol. 120(2017), pp 43-55, June 2017
• 60 GHz Indoor WLANs: Insights into Performance and Power Consumption.
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Darshan Godabanahal Malleshappa, Avinash Palamanda, Viral Vijay Vira, Anuj Garg, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas.
  In Springer Wireless Networks (WINE), , February 2017.
• Experimental Evaluation of WiFi Active Power/Energy Consumption Models for Smartphones.
  Li Sun, Haotian Deng, Ramanujan K. Sheshadri, Wei Zheng, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas.
  In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 16(1), pp 115-129, January 2017
• CDMA-based Analog Network Coding for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks.
  Hovannes K. Kulhandjian, Tommaso Melodia, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas.
  In IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 14(11), pp. 6495-6507, November 2015
• Performance Comparison of Routing Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks.
  Li Sun, Wei Zheng, Naveen Rawat, Vikramsinh Sawant, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas.
  In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 14(6), pp. 1272-1286, June 2015
• An Experimental Study of Routing Metrics in 802.11n Wireless Mesh Networks.
  Ramanujan K. Sheshadri, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas.
  In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 13(12), pp. 2719-2733, December 2014

• Measurement-based Characterization of a Wireless Mesh Network
  Saumitra Das, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y.Charlie Hu
  Book Chapter, In Handbook of Wireless Mesh and Sensor Networking, McGraw-Hill International, New York.

• ELI: Empowering LTE with Interference Awareness in Unlicensed Spectrum.
  Ramanujan K Sheshadri, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Eugene Chai, Sampath Rangarajan, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2018), Cambridge, UK, September 24-27, 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 17.9%)
• 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. (Acceptance Rate: 22.4%)
• 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. (Acceptance Rate: 22.4%)
• Towards Environment Independent Device Free Human Activity Recognition
  Wenjun Jiang, Chenglin Miao, Fenglong Ma, Shuochao Yao, Yaqing Wang, Ye Yuan, Hongfei Xue, Chen Song, Xin Ma, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Wenyao Xu, and Lu Su
  In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom 2018), New Delhi, India, October 29 – November 2, 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 22.4%)
• Fast and Infuriating: Performance and Pitfalls of 60 GHz WLANs Based on Consumer-Grade Hardware
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Hany Assasa, Adrian Loch, Naveen Muralidhar Prakash, Roshan Shyamsunder Anantharamakrishna, Shivang Aggarwal, Daniel Steinmetzer, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Joerg Widmer, and Matthias Hollick
  In Proceedings of the 15th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON 2018), Hong Kong, June 11-13, 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 23.2%)
• Medium Access and Transport Protocol Aspects in Practical 802.11ad Networks
  Hany Assasa, Swetank Kumar Saha, Adrian Loch, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Joerg Widmer
  In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2018), Hong Kong, June 11-13, 2018.
• Two-dimensional Reduction of Beam Training Overhead in Crowded 802.11ad based Networks
  Sihua Shao, Hanbin Zhang, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Abdallah A Khreishah.
  In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Millimeter-Wave Networked Systems (mmSys 2018), Honolulu, HI, May 16, 2018.
• Enabling Indoor Mobile Millimeter-wave Networks Based on Smart Reflect-arrays
  Xin Tan, Zhi Sun, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Josep Miquel Jornet
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2018), Honolulu, HI, May 15-19, 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 19.2%)
• ABC: Enabling Smartphone Authentication with Built-in Camera
  Zhongjie Ba, Sixu Piao, Xinwen Fu, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Aziz Mohaisen, Kui Ren
  In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2018), San Diego, CA, USA, February 18-21, 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 21.4%)
• BLU: Blue-printing Interference for Robust LTE Access in Unlicensed Spectrum
  Ramanujan K Sheshadri, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Eugene Chai, Amir Khojastepour, Sampath Rangarajan, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2017), Seoul/Incheon, South Korea, December 12-15, 2017. (Acceptance Rate: 18%)
• Multipath TCP in Smartphones: Impact on Performance, Energy, and CPU Utilization
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Abhishek Kannan, Geunhyung Lee, Nishant Ravichandran, Parag Kamalakar Medhe, Naved Merchant, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2017), Miami Beach, MI, USA, November 21-25, 2017.
• X60: A Programmable Testbed for Wideband 60 GHz WLANs with Phased Arrays
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Yasaman Ghasempour, Muhammad Kumail Haider, Tariq Siddiqui, Paulo De Melo, Neerad Somanchi, Luke Zakrajsek, Arjun Singh, Owen Torres, Daniel Uvaydov, Josep Miquel Jornet, Edward Knightly, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Dimitris Pados, and Zhi Sun
  In Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization (WiNTECH 2017), Snowbird, Utah, USA, October 20, 2017.
• A Detailed Look into Power Consumption of Commodity 60 GHz Devices
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Tariq Siddiqui, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Adrian Loch, Joerg Widmer, Ramalingam Sridhar
  In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2017), Macau, China, June 12-15, 2017. (Acceptance Rate: 27%)
• Fine-grained Location Extraction and Prediction with Little Known Data
  Tong Guan, Wen Dong, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Chunming Qiao
  In Proceedings of the Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2017), San Francisco, CA, March 19-22, 2017.
• On Packet Loss Rates in Modern 802.11 Networks
  Ramanujan K. Sheshadri, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017), Atlanta, GA, May 1-4, 2017. (Acceptance Rate: 21%)
• AmorFi: Amorphous WiFi Networks for High-density Deployments
  Ramanujan K Sheshadri, Mustafa Y. Arslan, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Sampath Rangarajan, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2016), Irvine, CA, USA, December 12-15, 2016. (Acceptance Rate: 17.9%)
• Messages Behind the Sound: Real-Time Hidden Acoustic Signal Capture with Smartphones
  Qian Wang, Kui Ren, Man Zhou, Tao Lei, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Lu Su
  In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom 2016), New York, NY, USA, October 3-7, 2016. (Acceptance Rate: 12.5%)
• A Feasibility Study of 60 GHz Indoor WLANs
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Viral Vijay Vira, Anuj Garg, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN 2016), Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, August 1-4, 2016..
• Revisiting 802.11 Power Consumption Modeling in Smartphones
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Pratham Malik, Selvaganesh Dharmeswaran, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2016), Coimbra, Portugal, June 21-24, 2016.
• Multi-Gigabit Indoor WLANs: Looking Beyond 2.4/5 GHz
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Viral Vijay Vira, Anuj Garg, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 10-15, 2016. (Acceptance Rate: 39%)
• SAMER+: Balancing Short Term Throughput and Long Term Stability in Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks
  Li Sun, Selvaganesh Dharmeswaran, Aswin Gokulachandran, Ashish Kumar, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 10-15, 2016. (Acceptance Rate: 39%)
• A Walk on the Client Side: Monitoring Enterprise Wifi Networks Using Smartphone Channel Scans
  Jinghao Shi, Lei Meng, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Chunming Qiao, Aaron Striegel, and Geoffrey Challen
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016), San Francisco, CA, May 23-27, 2016. (Acceptance Rate: 18.25%)
• Twitter – An Overlay of Two Separate Networks
  Meng Tong, Ameya Sanzgiri, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Shambhu Upadhyaya
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Computing, Networking and Communications (CNC 2016), Kauai, Hawaii, February 15, 2016.
• Improving Connectivity, Coverage, and Capacity in 60 GHz Indoor WLANs Using Relays
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Li Sun, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop (S³ 2015), Paris, France, September 11, 2015.
• Robust, Cost-Effective and Scalable Localization in Large Indoor Areas
  Tong Guan, Wen Dong, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Geoffrey Chalen, and Chunming Qiao
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015), San Diego, CA, December 6-10, 2015.
• A Little Sharing Goes a Long Way: The Case for Reciprocal Wifi Sharing
  Jinghao Shi, Liwen Gui, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Chunming Qiao, and Geoffrey Challen
  In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Hop Topics in Wireless (HotWireless 2015), Paris, France, September, 2015.
• WiDraw: Enabling Handsfree Drawing in the Air on Commodity WiFi Devices
  Li Sun, Souvik Sen, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Kyu-Han Kim
  In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom 2015), Paris, France, September 7-11, 2015. (Acceptance Rate: 18%)
• Characterizing Mobile User Habits: The Case for Energy Budgeting
  Ramanujan K. Sheshadri, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Henrik Lundgren, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Anna-Kaisa Pietilainen, Augustin Soule, and Jaideep Chandrashekar
  In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Global Internet Symposium (IEEE GI 2015), Hong Kong, April 27, 2015. (Acceptance Rate: 32%)
• Power-Throughput Tradeoffs of 802.11n/ac in Smartphones
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Pratik Deshpande, Pranav P Inamdar, Ramanujan K. Sheshadri, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2015), Hong Kong, April 26 - May 1, 2015. (Acceptance Rate: 19%)
• Crowdsourcing Access Network Spectrum Allocation Using Smartphones
  Jinghao Shi, Zhangyu Guan, Chunming Qiao, Tommaso Melodia, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Geoffrey Challen
  In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2014), Los Angeles, CA, October 27-28, 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 22%)
• Bringing Mobility-Awareness to WLANs using PHY layer information
  Li Sun, Souvik Sen, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2014), Sydney, Australia, December 2-5, 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 20%)
• Modeling WiFi Active Power/Energy Consumption in Smartphones
  Li Sun, Ramanujan K. Sheshadri, Wei Zheng, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2014), Madrid, Spain, 30 June - 3 July, 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 13.2%)
• Securing Underwater Acoustic Communications through Analog Network Coding
  Hovannes K. Kulhandjian, Tommaso Melodia, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communications and Networking (SECON 2014), Singapore, 30 June - 3 July, 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 19.8%)
• Performance Comparison of Routing Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks
  Li Sun, Wei Zheng, Naveen Rawat, Vikramsinh Sawant, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2013), San Francisco, CA, August 13-16, 2013. (Acceptance Rate: 27%)
• Comparison of Routing Metrics in 802.11n Wireless Mesh Networks
  Ramanujan K. Sheshadri, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2013), Turin, Italy, April 14-19, 2013. (Acceptance Rate: 17%)
• CDMA-based Analog Network Coding through Interference Cancellation for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
  Hovannes K. Kulhandjian, Tommaso Melodia, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (WUWNet 2012), Los Angeles, CA, November 5-6, 2012. (Acceptance Rate: 32%)
• A First Look at 802.11n Power Consumption in Smartphones
  Ninad Wart, Ramanujan K. Sheshadri, Wei Zheng, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  In Proceedings of the ACM Mobicom International Workshop on Practical Issues and Applications in Next Generation Wireless Networks (PINGEN 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2012.
• Realizing the Full Potential of PSM using Proxying
  Ning Ding, Abhinav Pathak, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Clay Shepard, Y. Charlie Hu, and Lin Zhong
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2012 Mini-Conference), Orlando, FL, USA, March 26, 2012. (Acceptance Rate: 26%)
• FEC-Based AP Downlink Transmission Schemes For Multiple Flows: Combining the Reliability and Throughput Enhancement of Intra- and Inter-flow Coding
  Chih-Chun Wang, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, and Ness B. Shroff
  In Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (IFIP PERFORMANCE 2011), 18-20 October, 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Acceptance Rate: 20%)
• The Impact of Inter-layer Network Coding on the Relative Performance of MRC/MDC WiFi Media Delivery
  Rohan Gandhi, Meilin Yang, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, Mary Comer, Amr Mohamed, and Chih-Chun Wang
  In Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2011), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. June 1-3, 2011.
• Efficient Online WiFi Delivery of Layered-Coding Media using Inter-layer Network Coding
  Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charlie Hu, Chih-Chun Wang, Mary Comer and Amr Mohamed
  In Proceedings of the EEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 20-24, 2011. (Acceptance Rate: 15.4%)

• Poster: X60: A Programmable Testbed for Wideband 60 GHz WLANs with Phased Arrays
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Yasaman Ghasempour, Muhammad Kumail Haider, Tariq Siddiqui, Paulo De Melo, Neerad Somanchi, Luke Zakrajsek, Arjun Singh, Owen Torres, Daniel Uvaydov, Josep Miquel Jornet, Edward Knightly, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Dimitris Pados, and Zhi Sun
  Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2017), Snowbird, Utah, USA, October 16-20, 2017.
• Poster: Can MPTCP Improve Performance for Dual-Band 60 GHz/5 GHz Clients?
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Roshan Shyamsunder, Naveen Muralidhar Prakash, Hany Assasa, Adrian Loch, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Joerg Widmer
  Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2017), Snowbird, Utah, USA, October 16-20, 2017.
• Demo: Real-Time Hidden Acoustic Signal Capture with Smartphones
  Qian Wang, Kui Ren, Man Zhou, Tao Lei, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Lu Su
  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2016), New York, NY, USA, October 3-7, 2016.
• Poster: Enabling Hands-free Drawing on WiFi Devices
  Li Sun, Souvik Sen, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, and Kyu-Han Kim
  Proceedings of the 7th ACM Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop (S³ 2015), Paris, France, September 11, 2015.
• On the Feasibility of Indoor IEEE 802.11ad WLANs (abstract)
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Viral Vijay Vira, Anuj Garg, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2015 Student Workshop), Hong Kong, April 26, 2015.
• A First Look at TCP Performance in Indoor IEEE 802.11ad WLANs (abstract)
  Swetank Kumar Saha, Anuj Garg, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2015 Student Workshop), Hong Kong, April 26 - May 1, 2015.
• Detecting Client Mobility in WLANs using PHY Layer Information (abstract)
  Li Sun, Souvik Sen, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas.
  Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2014), Maui, Hawaii, September 7-11, 2014.
• Evaluation of Routing Metrics in an 802.11n Wireless Mesh Network (abstract)
  Jay Inamdar, Ramanujan K. Sheshadri, Rohit Kundalkar, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Chunming Qiao.
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2012 Student Posters), Orlando, FL, March 25, 2012.

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

• d.koutsonikolas@northeastern.edu
• 424 ISEC
  Northeastern University
  Boston, MA 02120