Team

PhD researchers and bachelor’s and master’s student projects supervised or mentored by Marios Avgeris.

PhD researchers 3

Student Thesis topic Institute Period Role Status
José Zerna Torres Network Telemetry for Data-driven 6G Networks UvA 2024–present Co-Supervisor with Dr Chrysa Papagianni Active
Sangrez Khan Artificial intelligence–based dependent task offloading in next-generation edge networks ÉTS 2023–2026 Daily Supervisor Past
Ramy Mohammed Optimal Placement and Resource Provisioning for Virtual Network Functions: Traditional and Deep Reinforcement Learning Techniques Carleton University 2022–2024 Daily Supervisor Past

Student theses and research projects 24

Student Thesis or project topic Institute Period Type Outcomes
Thies Nieborg Residential Proxies in Telecom Networks UvA 2026 Master Thesis
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Rainer Gomes Comparative Performance Analysis of Unified Carrier SDN Fabrics vs. Stitched SD-WAN Overlays for Distributed Data Centre Interconnects UvA 2026 Master Thesis
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Ilyas Rahimi Local Root Serving by Default: Quantifying the Traffic Trade-off Between Root Queries and Root Zone Distribution UvA 2026 MSc Research Project
IETF 125 presentation
Ilyas Rahimi The Evolution of the Domain Name System: Scaling the Internet at the Cost of Complexity and Security UvA 2026 MSc Research Project
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Daniele Quartinieri Energy Consumption Analysis of Application Layer Protocols in Realistic IoT Uplink Scenarios: An Empirical Study on an ESP32 Microcontroller UvA 2025–2026 Master Thesis
GPECOM 2026 conference paper
Simone Sampognaro Learning to Defend: Adaptive Mitigation of Amplification-Based DDoS Attacks in Programmable Networks UvA 2025–2026 Master Thesis
SecSoft 2026 conference paper
Victor Wie Blueprint for Institutional LLM Adoption: On-Premise, Open-Source, and Domain-Aware UvA 2025 Master Thesis
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Ayoub Oqla Automated Network Topology Generation using Multimodal LLMs for Rapid Prototyping UvA 2025 Bachelor Thesis
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Dani Termaat Automated Network Topology Generation using Multimodal LLMs for Rapid Prototyping UvA 2025 Bachelor Thesis
ICIN 2026 conference paper
Tomas Agata & Muhammad Mansour Design and Integration of a Smart Orchestrator for 6G Services UvA 2025 MSc Research Project
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Tomas Agata & Muhammad Mansour Exploring Programmable Network Techniques for Data Plane Optimization UvA 2025 MSc Research Project
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Hakan Bektas Intelligent Traffic Steering Using Reinforcement Learning UvA 2024–2025 Bachelor Honours Project
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Syrine Bouhoula DRL-based Trajectory Planning and Sensor Task Scheduling for Edge Robotics ÉTS 2024 MSc Thesis
WF-IoT 2024 conference paper
Gabriel Landeau Multi-tenant placement of virtualized security functions expressed by intent ÉTS 2023 MSc Thesis
CSNet 2023 conference paper
Meriem Mechennef Energy-aware computational offloading using reinforcement learning techniques ÉTS 2023 MSc Thesis
HPSR 2023 conference paper
Taha Ben Salah VNF placement and dynamic NUMA node selection through core consolidation at the edge and cloud ÉTS 2023 MSc Thesis
IEEE TNSM journal article
Aliki Matiatou Implementing a Computational Offloading System for Smart Applications using Fuzzy Logic NTUA 2021 BSc Thesis
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Nikolaos Latzonis Resource Allocation in Cloud Architectures for Remote Execution of Mobile Applications NTUA 2021 BSc Thesis
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Aris Smarnakis Implementation of a Robot Positioning Algorithm through Visual Recognition of Static Objects NTUA 2020 BSc Thesis
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Alexios Stournaras Offloading Virtualized Applications to Edge Computing Architectures using Kubernetes NTUA 2020 BSc Thesis
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Anastasios Kouris Topic not listed NTUA 2020 MSc Thesis
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Konstantinos Apostolopoulos Methods for Computational Offloading Between Mobile Devices and Servers for Image Recognition Applications NTUA 2019 BSc Thesis
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Dimitrios Stavrakakis Decision Making Algorithms for Real-Time Computational Offloading in a Two-Tiered Mobile Cloud Computing Architecture NTUA 2018 BSc Thesis
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Dimitrios Spatharakis Implementation of a Load Balancing Algorithm between Cloud Computing Infrastructures NTUA 2018 BSc Thesis
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