Konstantinos Psounis

Associate Professor 
Electrical Engineering and (jointly) Computer Science
University of Southern California

Short Bio

I was born in Athens, Greece, in November 1974. I graduated from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department of National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in June 1997. In December 1998, I received the master of science degree, and in December 2002, the Ph.D. degree both from the Electrical Engineering department at Stanford University. In September 2003 I joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at USC, and in May 2009 I was promoted to an associate professor.

Academic

Research

Modelling, design, and performance analysis of a variety of networks including the Internet, mobile ad hoc networks, delay and disruptive tolerant networks, sensor networks, mesh networks, peer to peer networks and the web. Design of methods and algorithms to solve problems related to such systems.

List of publications and patents
Research lab (projects, publications by topic, students, etc.)
Research statement

Selected publications

Mobility-assisted communication - efficient routing in intermittently connected networks

  1. Efficient Routing in Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks: The Single-copy Case, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Konstantinos Psounis, and Cauligi Raghavendra, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 63-76, February 2008.
  2. Efficient Routing in Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks: The Multi-copy Case, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Konstantinos Psounis, and Cauligi Raghavendra, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 77-90, February 2008.
  3. Contention-Aware Performance Analysis of Mobility-Assisted Routing, Apoorva Jindal and Konstantinos Psounis, accepted to appear at IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, July 2008.

Scheduling and rate control for multi-hop wireless networks

  1. Interference-aware Fair Rate Control in Wireless Sensor Networks, Sumit Rangwala, Ramakrishna Gummandi, Ramesh Govindan, and Konstantinos Psounis, in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, pp. 63-74, Pisa, Italy, September 2006. (acceptance rate 12%)
  2. Understanding Congestion Control in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks, Sumit Rangwala, Apoorva Jindal, Ki-Young Jang, Konstantinos Psounis, and Ramesh Govindan, in Proceedings of ACM MOBICOM, pp. 291-302, San Fransisco, California, September 2008. (acceptance rate 12%)
  3. Characterizing the Achievable Rate Region of Wireless Multi-hop Networks with 802.11 Scheduling, Apoorva Jindal and Konstantinos Psounis, accepted to appear at IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October 2008.

Network downscaling - enabling scalable network performance prediction and analysis

  1. SHRiNK: Enabling Scaleable Performance Prediction and Efficient Simulation of Networks, Rong Pan, Konstantinos Psounis, Balaji Prabhakar, and Damon Wischik. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 975-988, October 2005.
  2. Performance Preserving Topological Downscaling of Internet-like Networks, Fragkiskos papadopoulos, Konstantinos Psounis, and Ramesh Govindan, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), special issue on Sampling the Internet: Techniques and Applications , Vol. 24, No. 12, pp. 2313-2326, December 2006.
  3. Efficient Identification of Uncongested Internet Links for Topology Downscaling, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos and Konstantinos Psounis, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Vol. 37, Issue 5, pp. 39-52, October 2007.

Teaching

Usually in Spring: EE650 "Advanced topics in computer networks".
Usually in Fall: EE465 "Probabilistic methods in computer systems modelling".

Awards and CV

Awards/Grants
Curriculum Vitae in pdf

Links

The Third ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2008)
The First USC Invited Workshop on Theory & Practice in Wireless Networks

Personal

Sports and hobbies

Psounis Konstantinos
telephone: 213-7404453
email: kpsounis at usc dot edu
address: RTH 409, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 3710 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, US