Publications

@article{MOHAMED2024110241,
  title = {Service function chain network planning through offline, online and infeasibility restoration techniques},
  journal = {Computer Networks},
  volume = {242},
  pages = {110241},
  year = {2024},
  issn = {1389-1286},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110241},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389128624000732},
  author = {Mohamed, Ramy and Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis and Chinneck, John and Morris, Todd and Djukic, Petar},
  keywords = {Service function chaining, Network function virtualization, Network planning, Feasibility analysis, VNF placement},
}

TNSM

VNF Placement and Dynamic NUMA Node Selection Through Core Consolidation at the Edge and Cloud

Taha Ben Salah, Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and 1 more author

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2024

@article{10496505,
  author = {Salah, Taha Ben and Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management},
  title = {VNF Placement and Dynamic NUMA Node Selection Through Core Consolidation at the Edge and Cloud},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {1-1},
  keywords = {Servers;Delays;Resource management;Costs;Random access memory;Quality of service;Throughput;Network Function Virtualization;Service Function Chaining;Edge Computing;Cloud Computing;Resource Allocation;Non-Uniform Memory Access},
  doi = {10.1109/TNSM.2024.3387275},
}

Online VNF Placement using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Reward Constrained Policy Optimization

Ramy Mohamed, Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and 1 more author

In 2024 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), 2024

@inproceedings{10621193,
  author = {Mohamed, Ramy and Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom)},
  title = {Online VNF Placement using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Reward Constrained Policy Optimization},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {269-274},
  keywords = {Metalearning;Adaptive learning;Costs;Transfer learning;Neural networks;Optimization methods;Deep reinforcement learning;Neural Combinatorial Optimization;Reinforcement Learning;5G;NFV;SFC;VNF Placement},
  doi = {10.1109/MeditCom61057.2024.10621193},
}

ICC

Fragmentation-Aware VNF Placement: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Ramy Mohamed, Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and 1 more author

In ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024

@inproceedings{10623068,
  author = {Mohamed, Ramy and Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis},
  booktitle = {ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications},
  title = {Fragmentation-Aware VNF Placement: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {5257-5262},
  keywords = {Metalearning;Adaptive learning;Costs;Transfer learning;Complex networks;Deep reinforcement learning;Complexity theory;Resource Fragmentation;Neural Combinatorial Optimization;Reinforcement Learning;5G;NFV;SFC;VNF Placement},
  doi = {10.1109/ICC51166.2024.10623068},
}

TMLCN

Optimizing Resource Fragmentation in Virtual Network Function Placement using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Ramy Mohamed, Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and 1 more author

IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, 2024

@article{10695455,
  author = {Mohamed, Ramy and Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking},
  title = {Optimizing Resource Fragmentation in Virtual Network Function Placement using Deep Reinforcement Learning},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {1-1},
  keywords = {Optimization;Network function virtualization;Heuristic algorithms;Deep reinforcement learning;Costs;Resource management;Delays;Cloud computing;6G mobile communication;Terminology;Resource Fragmentation;Neural Combinatorial Optimization;Reinforcement Learning;Service Function Chaining;Virtual Network Function Placement;5G;6G},
  doi = {10.1109/TMLCN.2024.3469131},
}

2023

NOMS

🏆 Travel Grant

Model Predictive Control for Automated Network Assurance in Intent-Based Networking enabled Service Function Chains

Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, and 2 more authors

In NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2023

@inproceedings{avgeris2023model,
  title = {Model Predictive Control for Automated Network Assurance in Intent-Based Networking enabled Service Function Chains},
  author = {Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos and Lambadaris, Ioannis and Falkner, Matthias},
  booktitle = {NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium},
  pages = {1--7},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154316},
}

HPSR

A Two-Stage Cooperative Reinforcement Learning Scheme for Energy-Aware Computational Offloading

Marios Avgeris, Meriem Mechennef, Aris Leivadeas, and 1 more author

In 2023 IEEE 24th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2023

@inproceedings{avgeris2023two,
  title = {A Two-Stage Cooperative Reinforcement Learning Scheme for Energy-Aware Computational Offloading},
  author = {Avgeris, Marios and Mechennef, Meriem and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE 24th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR)},
  pages = {179--184},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/HPSR57248.2023.10147932},
}

NOMS

🏆 Travel Grant

A Reinforcement-Learning Self-Healing Approach for Virtual Network Function Placement

Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and Ioannis Lambadaris

In NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2023

@inproceedings{avgeris2023reinforcement,
  title = {A Reinforcement-Learning Self-Healing Approach for Virtual Network Function Placement},
  author = {Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis},
  booktitle = {NOMS 2023-2023 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium},
  pages = {1--5},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154429},
}

ICC

Reinforcement learning-enabled auctions for self-healing in service function chaining

Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and Ioannis Lambadaris

In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2023

@inproceedings{avgeris2023breinforcement,
  title = {Reinforcement learning-enabled auctions for self-healing in service function chaining},
  author = {Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)},
  pages = {776--781},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ICCWorkshops57953.2023.10283498},
}

CSNet

Security-Oriented Network Intent Placement using Particle Swarm Optimization

Gabriel Landeau, Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and 1 more author

In 2023 7th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet), 2023

@inproceedings{landeau2023security,
  title = {Security-Oriented Network Intent Placement using Particle Swarm Optimization},
  author = {Landeau, Gabriel and Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis},
  booktitle = {2023 7th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet)},
  pages = {19--22},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/CSNet59123.2023.10339783},
}

GLOBECOM

Service Function Chaining in LEO Satellite Networks via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Khai Doan, Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and 2 more authors

In GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2023

@inproceedings{10437296,
  author = {Doan, Khai and Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis and Shin, Wonjae},
  booktitle = {GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference},
  title = {Service Function Chaining in LEO Satellite Networks via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {7145-7150},
  keywords = {Satellites;Service function chaining;System performance;Low earth orbit satellites;Mathematical models;Task analysis;Convergence;Network Function Virtualization;Service Function Chaining;Satellite Networks;Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning},
  doi = {10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10437296},
}

2022

IoT-J

Resource-aware estimation and control for edge robotics: A set-based approach

Dimitrios Spatharakis, Marios Avgeris, Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, and 2 more authors

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022

@article{spatharakis2022resource,
  title = {Resource-aware estimation and control for edge robotics: A set-based approach},
  author = {Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Avgeris, Marios and Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
  volume = {10},
  number = {3},
  pages = {2003--2020},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/JIOT.2022.3141266},
}

Sensors

ENERDGE: Distributed energy-aware resource allocation at the edge

Marios Avgeris, Dimitrios Spatharakis, Dimitrios Dechouniotis, and 3 more authors

Sensors, 2022

@article{avgeris2022enerdge,
  title = {ENERDGE: Distributed energy-aware resource allocation at the edge},
  author = {Avgeris, Marios and Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Leivadeas, Aris and Karyotis, Vasileios and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  journal = {Sensors},
  volume = {22},
  number = {2},
  pages = {660},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  doi = {10.3390/s22020660},
}

Computational offloading for the industrial internet of things: A performance analysis

Sirine Bouhoula, Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and 1 more author

In 2022 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), 2022

@inproceedings{bouhoula2022computational,
  title = {Computational offloading for the industrial internet of things: A performance analysis},
  author = {Bouhoula, Sirine and Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis},
  booktitle = {2022 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom)},
  pages = {1--6},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/MeditCom55741.2022.9928770},
}

2021

ComNet

Task offloading in Edge and Cloud Computing: A survey on mathematical, artificial intelligence and control theory solutions

Firdose Saeik, Marios Avgeris, Dimitrios Spatharakis, and 7 more authors

Computer Networks, 2021

@article{saeik2021task,
  title = {Task offloading in Edge and Cloud Computing: A survey on mathematical, artificial intelligence and control theory solutions},
  author = {Saeik, Firdose and Avgeris, Marios and Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Santi, Nina and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Violos, John and Leivadeas, Aris and Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos and Mitton, Nathalie and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  journal = {Computer Networks},
  volume = {195},
  pages = {108177},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.comnet.2021.108177},
}

NTUA

(PhD Thesis) Dynamic resource allocation and computational offloading at the network edge for Internet of things applications

Marios Avgeris

National Technical University of Athens, 2021

@article{avgeris2021dynamic,
  title = {(PhD Thesis) Dynamic resource allocation and computational offloading at the network edge for Internet of things applications},
  author = {Avgeris, Marios},
  journal = {National Technical University of Athens},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/eadd/50186},
}

Enabling industrial network slicing orchestration: A collaborative edge robotics use case

Ioannis Dimolitsas, Marios Avgeris, Dimitrios Spatharakis, and 2 more authors

In 2021 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), 2021

@inproceedings{dimolitsas2021enabling,
  title = {Enabling industrial network slicing orchestration: A collaborative edge robotics use case},
  author = {Dimolitsas, Ioannis and Avgeris, Marios and Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom)},
  pages = {215--220},
  year = {2021},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/MeditCom49071.2021.9647615},
}

Industrial Robotics Experimentation over Federated Next Generation Internet Testbeds

Dimitrios Spatharakis, Marios Avgeris, Grigorios Kakkavas, and 5 more authors

In 2021 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), 2021

@inproceedings{spatharakis2021industrial,
  title = {Industrial Robotics Experimentation over Federated Next Generation Internet Testbeds},
  author = {Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Avgeris, Marios and Kakkavas, Grigorios and Papadakis-Vlachopapadopoulos, Konstantinos and Dimolitsas, Ioannis and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Karyotis, Vasileios and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom)},
  pages = {1--2},
  year = {2021},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/MeditCom49071.2021.9647524},
}

User association and behavioral characterization during task offloading at the edge

Firdose Saeik, John Violos, Aris Leivadeas, and 3 more authors

In 2021 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), 2021

@inproceedings{saeik2021user,
  title = {User association and behavioral characterization during task offloading at the edge},
  author = {Saeik, Firdose and Violos, John and Leivadeas, Aris and Avgeris, Marios and Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios},
  booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom)},
  pages = {70--75},
  year = {2021},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/MeditCom49071.2021.9647588},
}

2020

IEEE Commun. Mag.

Meson: Optimized cross-slice communication for edge computing

George Papathanail, Angelos Pentelas, Ioakeim Fotoglou, and 8 more authors

IEEE Communications Magazine, 2020

@article{papathanail2020meson,
  title = {Meson: Optimized cross-slice communication for edge computing},
  author = {Papathanail, George and Pentelas, Angelos and Fotoglou, Ioakeim and Papadimitriou, Panagiotis and Katsaros, Konstantinos V and Theodorou, Vasileios and Soursos, Sergios and Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Dimolitsas, Ioannis and Avgeris, Marios and others},
  journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine},
  volume = {58},
  number = {10},
  pages = {23--28},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/MCOM.001.2000207},
}

iThings

A switching offloading mechanism for path planning and localization in robotic applications

Dimitrios Spatharakis, Marios Avgeris, Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, and 2 more authors

In 2020 International Conferences on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) and IEEE Congress on Cybermatics (Cybermatics), 2020

@inproceedings{spatharakis2020switching,
  title = {A switching offloading mechanism for path planning and localization in robotic applications},
  author = {Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Avgeris, Marios and Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  booktitle = {2020 International Conferences on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) and IEEE Congress on Cybermatics (Cybermatics)},
  pages = {77--84},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-SmartData-Cybermatics50389.2020.00031},
}

2019

Sensors

Semantic interoperability for iot platforms in support of decision making: an experiment on early wildfire detection

Nikos Kalatzis, George Routis, Yiorgos Marinellis, and 4 more authors

Sensors, 2019

@article{kalatzis2019semantic,
  title = {Semantic interoperability for iot platforms in support of decision making: an experiment on early wildfire detection},
  author = {Kalatzis, Nikos and Routis, George and Marinellis, Yiorgos and Avgeris, Marios and Roussaki, Ioanna and Papavassiliou, Symeon and Anagnostou, Miltiades},
  journal = {Sensors},
  volume = {19},
  number = {3},
  pages = {528},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  doi = {10.3390/s19030528},
}

Sensors

Where there is fire there is smoke: A scalable edge computing framework for early fire detection

Marios Avgeris, Dimitrios Spatharakis, Dimitrios Dechouniotis, and 3 more authors

Sensors, 2019

@article{avgeris2019there,
  title = {Where there is fire there is smoke: A scalable edge computing framework for early fire detection},
  author = {Avgeris, Marios and Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Kalatzis, Nikos and Roussaki, Ioanna and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  journal = {Sensors},
  volume = {19},
  number = {3},
  pages = {639},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  doi = {10.3390/s19030639},
}

TOIT

Adaptive resource allocation for computation offloading: A control-theoretic approach

Marios Avgeris, Dimitrios Dechouniotis, Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, and 1 more author

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 2019

@article{avgeris2019adaptive,
  title = {Adaptive resource allocation for computation offloading: A control-theoretic approach},
  author = {Avgeris, Marios and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)},
  volume = {19},
  number = {2},
  pages = {1--20},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3284553},
}

FiCloudW

Single vision-based self-localization for autonomous robotic agents

Marios Avgeris, Dimitrios Spatharakis, Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, and 2 more authors

In 2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud Workshops (FiCloudW), 2019

@inproceedings{avgeris2019single,
  title = {Single vision-based self-localization for autonomous robotic agents},
  author = {Avgeris, Marios and Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  booktitle = {2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud Workshops (FiCloudW)},
  pages = {123--129},
  year = {2019},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloudW.2019.00035},
}

2018

SMARTCOMP

Edge computing in IoT ecosystems for UAV-enabled early fire detection

Nikos Kalatzis, Marios Avgeris, Dimitris Dechouniotis, and 3 more authors

In 2018 IEEE international conference on smart computing (SMARTCOMP), 2018

@inproceedings{kalatzis2018edge,
  title = {Edge computing in IoT ecosystems for UAV-enabled early fire detection},
  author = {Kalatzis, Nikos and Avgeris, Marios and Dechouniotis, Dimitris and Papadakis-Vlachopapadopoulos, Konstantinos and Roussaki, Ioanna and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  booktitle = {2018 IEEE international conference on smart computing (SMARTCOMP)},
  pages = {106--114},
  year = {2018},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-67910-5_3},
}

GIIS

Utility decisions for QoE-QoS driven applications in practical mobile broadband networks

Vasileios Karyotis, Marios Avgeris, Michalis Michaloliakos, and 2 more authors

In 2018 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS), 2018

@inproceedings{karyotis2018utility,
  title = {Utility decisions for QoE-QoS driven applications in practical mobile broadband networks},
  author = {Karyotis, Vasileios and Avgeris, Marios and Michaloliakos, Michalis and Tsagkaris, Konstantinos and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  booktitle = {2018 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS)},
  pages = {1--5},
  year = {2018},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/GIIS.2018.8635761},
}

2017

ADHOC-NOW

Semantic Resource Management of Federated IoT Testbeds

Marios Avgeris, Nikos Kalatzis, Dimitrios Dechouniotis, and 2 more authors

In Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks: 16th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2017, Messina, Italy, September 20-22, 2017, Proceedings 16, 2017