Christos Gkantsidis
RESEARCHER
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I am a member of the Systems and Networking Group of Microsoft Research at Cambridge, UK. My current work focuses on various topics such as content distribution, peer-to-peer networking, network coding (especially its applications for efficient content dissemination), network topologies, and modelling of large-scale complex networks. Lately, I have been involved in measurement and modeling studies of some very cool services, such as the Windows Update service, FolderShare, and XBOX live. I am also very interested in wireless networking, with a special focus on content distribution.
I received my Ph.D. from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA. Under the supervision of Prof. Milena Mihail, I worked on analyzing the algorithmic performance of complex communication networks. You can find a copy of my thesis here. While at Georgia Tech, I also collaborated with Prof. Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, and Constantinos Dovrolis. I did my undergrad at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of the University of Patras, Rio, Greece. I have also worked at Sprint Labs, CA, USA and in the Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece.
I received my Ph.D. from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA. Under the supervision of Prof. Milena Mihail, I worked on analyzing the algorithmic performance of complex communication networks. You can find a copy of my thesis here. While at Georgia Tech, I also collaborated with Prof. Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, and Constantinos Dovrolis. I did my undergrad at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of the University of Patras, Rio, Greece. I have also worked at Sprint Labs, CA, USA and in the Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece.
Contact Information
Email: chrisgk@microsoft.com
Phone numbers:
- Office: +44 1223 479739
- Home: +44 1223 411995
- Cell: +44 (7792) 890748
Office Address: 7 JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge, CB3 0FB, UK
Complete list of publications here.
Publications
- Christos Gkantsidis, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Orion Hodson, Dushyanth Narayan, and Antony Rowstron, Automatic IO Filtering for Optimizing Cloud Analytics, no. MSR-TR-2012-3, January 2012
- Christos Gkantsidis and Hitesh Ballani, Network Management as a Service, no. MSR-TR-2010-83, 24 June 2010
- Thomas Karagiannis, Christos Gkantsidis, Dushyanth Narayanan, and Antony Rowstron, Hermes: Clustering Users in Large-Scale E-mail Services, in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2010 (ACM SOCC 2010), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 10 June 2010
- Marshini Chetty, Richard Banks, Richard Harper, Tim Regan, Abigail Sellen, Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, and Peter Key, Who's Hogging the Bandwidth?: The Consequences Of Revealing The Invisible In the Home, in CHI 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 10 April 2010
- Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Peter Key, Bozidar Radunovic, Elias Raftopoulos, and D. Manjunath, Traffic management and resource allocation in small wired/wireless networks, in Fifth ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2009) , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., December 2009
- Milan Vojnovic, Varun Gupta, Thomas Karagiannis, and Christos Gkantsidis, Sampling Strategies for Epidemic-Style Information Dissemination, in to appear ACM/IEEE Trans. on Networking, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., August 2009
- Bozidar Radunovic, Christos Gkantsidis, Peter Key, and Pablo Rodriguez, Toward Practical Opportunistic Routing with Intra-session Network Coding for Mesh Networks, in ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2009
- Thomas Karagiannis, Christos Gkantsidis, Peter Key, Elias Athanasopoulos, and Elias Raftopoulos, HomeMaestro: Distributed monitoring and diagnosis of performance anomalies in home networks, no. MSR-TR-2008-161, 29 October 2008
- Bozidar Radunovic, Christos Gkantsidis, Dinan Gunawardena, and Peter Key, Horizon: Balancing TCP over Multiple Paths in Wireless Mesh Network, in MobiCom'08, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 14 September 2008
- Thomas Karagiannis, Elias Athanasopoulos, Christos Gkantsidis, and Peter Key, HomeMaestro: Order from Chaos in Home Networks, no. MSR-TR-2008-84, May 2008
Projects I have been involved with:
- Home networking: /HomeNetworking/
- Content Distribution with Network Coding /nimbus/
MSRC Colleagues I have published with
