George Mastorakis

George Mastorakis received his B.Eng. (Hons) in Electronic Engineering from UMIST, UK in 2000, his M.Sc. in Telecommunications from UCL, UK in 2001, and his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from University of the Aegean, Greece in 2008. He is serving as an Assistant Professor at Technological Educational Institute of Crete and as a Research Associate in Research & Development of Telecommunications Systems Laboratory at Centre for Technological Research of Crete, Greece. His research interests include cognitive radio networks, networking traffic analysis, radio resource management and energy efficient networks. He has a more than 100 publications at various international conferences proceedings, workshops, scientific journals, and book chapters.

Publications

A Scheduling Scheme for Throughput Optimization in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
A Scheduling Scheme for Throughput Optimization in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
Odysseas Shiakallis, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Athina Bourdena, Evangelos Pallis, Evangelos Markakis, Ciprian Dobre. © 2016. 30 pages.
Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) paradigm includes all the emerging technological advances, mechanisms and schemes for the efficient resource offloading and the energy-efficient...
A P2P Home-Box Overlay for Efficient Content Distribution
A P2P Home-Box Overlay for Efficient Content Distribution
Evangelos Markakis, Daniel Negru, Joachim Bruneau-Queyreix, Evangelos Pallis, George Mastorakis, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis. © 2016. 22 pages.
The overlay networks composed of residential gateways (i.e. home-box) leverage their storage and upload capacity to achieve scalable and cost-efficient content distribution. In...
Causal and Total Order in Opportunistic Networks
Causal and Total Order in Opportunistic Networks
Mihail Costea, Radu-Ioan Ciobanu, Radu-Corneliu Marin, Ciprian Dobre, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis. © 2016. 42 pages.
Opportunistic network applications are usually assumed to work only with unordered immutable messages, like photos, videos or music files, while applications that depend on...
Resource Management of Mobile Cloud Computing Networks and Environments
Resource Management of Mobile Cloud Computing Networks and Environments
George Mastorakis, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Evangelos Pallis. © 2015. 432 pages.
As more and more of our data is stored remotely, accessing that data wherever and whenever it is needed is a critical concern. More concerning is managing the databanks and...
A Cloud Computing Model for Efficient Marketing Planning in Tourism
A Cloud Computing Model for Efficient Marketing Planning in Tourism
George Mastorakis, Nikolaos Trihas, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Emmanouil Perakakis, Ioannis Kopanakis. © 2015. 16 pages.
This article proposes a novel model to optimize e-marketing planning in tourism sector, based on the convergence among interactive digital television, mobile networks and cloud...
Traffic-Based S-MAC: A Novel Scheduling Mechanism for Optimized Throughput in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems
Traffic-Based S-MAC: A Novel Scheduling Mechanism for Optimized Throughput in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems
Odysseas Shiakallis, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Athina Bourdena, Evangelos Pallis. © 2015. 19 pages.
Mobile Peer-to-Peer (MP2P) is a networking paradigm that will be exploited in the future to support technological advances and systems for the efficient provision of multiple...
The Technical Debt in Cloud Software Engineering: A Prediction-Based and Quantification Approach
The Technical Debt in Cloud Software Engineering: A Prediction-Based and Quantification Approach
Georgios Skourletopoulos, Rami Bahsoon, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis. © 2015. 19 pages.
Predicting and quantifying promptly the Technical Debt has turned into an issue of significant importance over recent years. In the cloud marketplace, where cloud services can be...
A Social-Oriented Mobile Cloud Scheme for Optimal Energy Conservation
A Social-Oriented Mobile Cloud Scheme for Optimal Energy Conservation
Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Athina Bourdena, Evangelos Pallis, Dimitrios Stratakis, Emmanouil Perakakis, Ioannis Kopanakis, Stelios Papadakis, Zaharias D. Zaharis, Christos Skeberis, Thomas D. Xenos. © 2015. 25 pages.
This chapter elaborates on energy usage optimization issues by exploiting a resource offloading process based on a social-oriented mobile cloud scheme. The adoption of the...
A Resource Prediction Engine for Efficient Multimedia Services Provision
A Resource Prediction Engine for Efficient Multimedia Services Provision
Yiannos Kryftis, George Mastorakis, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla, Athina Bourdena, Evangelos Pallis. © 2015. 20 pages.
This chapter presents a novel network architecture for optimal and balanced provision of multimedia services. The proposed architecture includes a central Management and Control...
Using Incoming Traffic for Energy-Efficient Routing in Cognitive Radio Networks
Using Incoming Traffic for Energy-Efficient Routing in Cognitive Radio Networks
Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Athina Bourdena, George Mastorakis, Evangelos Pallis. © 2015. 24 pages.
This paper proposes an energy-efficient routing scheme that is based on a resource intensive traffic-aware approach, enabling for the maximization of the energy conservation in...
A Cloud Computing Model for Efficient Marketing Planning in Tourism
A Cloud Computing Model for Efficient Marketing Planning in Tourism
George Mastorakis, Nikolaos Trihas, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Emmanouil Perakakis, Ioannis Kopanakis. © 2014. 17 pages.
This article proposes a novel model to optimize e-marketing planning in tourism sector, based on the convergence among interactive digital television, mobile networks and cloud...
Joint Radio Resource Management in Cognitive Networks: TV White Spaces Exploitation Paradigm
Joint Radio Resource Management in Cognitive Networks: TV White Spaces Exploitation Paradigm
Athina Bourdena, Prodromos Makris, Dimitrios N. Skoutas, Charalabos Skianis, George Kormentzas, Evangelos Pallis, George Mastorakis. © 2013. 31 pages.
In this chapter, Joint Radio Resource Management (JRRM) issues in cognitive networks are discussed presenting the TV White Spaces (TVWS) spectrum exploitation use case. TVWS are...