Georgios P. Katsikas

I serve as Technical Project Manager and Fundraising Manager in UBITECH's Network Softwarization and IoT (NSIT) group. Specifically, I work as:
(i) technical coordinator for 3 EU projects,
(ii) work package/task leader for 7 EU projects in total, while
(iii) driving the design and development of UBITECH's flagship service orchestrator titled Maestro.
To this end, I am mentoring a team of 8 software developers, network engineers, and devops engineers in the company with a common vision to take Maestro to the world of 6G communications, sensor networks, edge computing, and artificial intelligence.
I also find some time for intriguing development in the context of SDN and NFV, mainly acting as: (i) the P4 expert of the ETSI Software Development Group for TeraFlowSDN (SDG TFS), where I serve as Technical Steering Committee member and P4 module developer and (ii) Technical Steering Committee member of the ETSI SDG for OpenSlice (SDG OSL).

Highlights

Passionate about network and computer systems' development!

Interests

  • Computer Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Software-Defined Networks
  • Network Functions Virtualization

Technologies

  • Kubernetes, ProxMox, Docker
  • ETSI TFS, Stratum, P4, Cilium CNI
  • ETSI OpenSlice, DPDK, Click
  • Ansible, Helm, Git

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Full publications' record is available here.

Conferences

  1. Community award
    Hamid Ghasemirahni, Tom Barbette, Georgios P. Katsikas, Alireza Farshin, Massimo Girondi, Amir Roozbeh, Marco Chiesa, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, "Packet Order Matters! Improving Application Performance by Deliberately Delaying Packets" , In the proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Renton WA, U.S, April 04-06, 2022.
  2. Georgios P. Katsikas, Tom Barbette, Marco Chiesa, Dejan Kostić, and Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., "What You Need to Know About (Smart) Network Interface Cards", In the proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement conference (PAM), Cottbus–Senftenberg, Germany, March 29-31, 2021.
  3. Tom Barbette, Georgios P. Katsikas, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, "RSS++: load and state-aware receive side scaling", In the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Orlando, Florida, U.S, December 9-12, 2019.
  4. Georgios P. Katsikas, Tom Barbette, Dejan Kostić, Rebecca Steinert, and Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., "Metron: NFV Service Chains at the True Speed of the Underlying Hardware" , In the proceedings of the 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Renton WA, U.S, April 09-11, 2018.

Journals

  1. Georgios Amponis, Thomas Lagkas, Maria Zevgara, Georgios P. Katsikas, Thanos Xirofotos, Ioannis Moscholios, and Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, "Drones in B5G/6G Networks as Flying Base Stations", Drones 2022, vol. 6, article 39, (February 2022).
  2. Georgios P. Katsikas, Tom Barbette, Dejan Kostić, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Rebecca Steinert, "Metron: High Performance NFV Service Chaining Even in the Presence of Blackboxes", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), vol. 38, issue 1-2, article 3, p. 45 (July 2021).
  3. Georgios P. Katsikas, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, "Profiling and accelerating commodity NFV service chains with SCC" , Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 127C, p. 12-27, ISSN 0164-1212, Feb. 2017.
  4. Georgios P. Katsikas, Marcel Enguehard, Maciej Kuzniar, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., and Dejan Kostić, "SNF: Synthesizing high performance NFV service chains" , PeerJ Computer Science, vol. 2, p.e98, ISSN 2376-5992, Nov. 2016.

Theses

  1. Georgios P. Katsikas, "NFV Service Chains at the Speed of the Underlying Commodity Hardware" , Doctoral thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kista, Stockholm, Sweden, Sep. 2018, TRITA-EECS-AVL-2018:50.
  2. Georgios P. Katsikas, "Realizing High Performance NFV Service Chains" , Licentiate thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Information and Communication Technology, Kista, Stockholm, Sweden, Nov. 2016, TRITA-ICT 2016:35.

Book Chapters

  1. Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Panagiotis Spapis, Makis Stamatelatos, George Katsikas, Roi Arapoglou, Alexandros Kaloxylos, and Nancy Alonistioti, "Spectrum Aggregation in Cognitive Radio Access Networks from Power Control Perspective" . IGI Global, pp. 105-141, 2012.
  2. Apostolos Kousaridas, George Katsikas, Nancy Alonistioti, Esa Piri, Marko Palola, and Jussi Makinen, "Testing End-to-End Self-Managemet in a Wireless Future Internet Environment" . Future Internet: Achievements and Technological Promises (FIA Book) 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-20897-3, edited by J. Domingue, A. Galis, A. Gavras, T. Zahariadis, D. Lambert, F. Cleary, P. Daras, S. Krco, H. Müller, M. Li, H. Schaffers, V. Lotz, F. Alvarez, B. Stiller, S. Karnouskos, S. Avessta, M. Nilsson.

Contact

Web page

katsikas dot gp at gmail dot com

0030 698 0709 049

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