My name is Konstantinos Pelechrinis and I joined the faculty of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2010. Prior I received my Phd degree from the Computer Science department at the University of California at Riverside, under the supervision of Prof. Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy. Before joining UCR, I obtained my Diploma degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the National Techincal University of Athens, where I worked with Prof. Vasileios Maglaris at the Network Management and Optimal Design Laboratory.
PhD, University of California, Riverside, Computer Science, 2008 - 2010 (Advisor: Srikanth V.
Krishnamurthy - GPA: 4.0/4.0)
PhD Thesis: Security and Performance Considerations in Wireless Networks
MSc, University of California, Riverside, Computer Science, 2006-2008 (Advisor: Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy -
GPA: 4.0/4.0)
Master Thesis: Design of a measurement driven anti-jamming system.
Diploma, National Technical University of Athens, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001-2006 (Advisor:
Vasileios Maglaris - GPA: 9.42/10.0)
Dimploma Thesis: Analysis of Intrusion Detection Systems - theoretical aspects and statistical modeling of
data fusion algorithms.
Wireless network systems (e.g., 802.11, 3G, wireless home networks, multihomed wireless devices)
Wireless networks security: Jamming detection/prevention and trust establishment
Location based social networks
In more detail, my research interestes include computer networking and, in particular, wireless and mobile networks.
I am involved in: (a) protocol design, (b) real world experimentation, and (c) performance analysis for wireless network systems.
I am extremely interested in the desing and implementation of practical systems, based on analytical frameworks.
Currently, I am also interested in social computing and in particular, in location based social networks (LBSNs).
I am involved in: (a) studying the effect of LBSNs on bussinesses and (b) securing the new bussiness model paradigm introduced by these systems.
Following is a selected list of publications. A full publication list can be found here.
Journals:
K. Pelechrinis, I. Broustis, S.V. Krishnamurthy and C. Gkantsidis, "A Measurement Driven Anti-Jamming System for 802.11 Networks", in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 19 Issue 4, August 2011.
K. Pelechrinis, G. Yan, S. Eidenbenz and S.V. Krishnamurthy, "Detection of Selfish Manipulation of Carrier Sensing in 802.11 Networks", in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, June 2011.
K.Pelechrinis, M.Iliofotou and S.V.Krishnamurthy, "Denial of Service Attacks in Wireless Networks: The case of Jammers", in IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials, pp(99):1{13, April 2011.
K.Pelechrinis, C.Koufogiannakis and S.V.Krishnamurthy, "On the Efficacy of Frequency Hopping in Coping with Jamming Attacks in 802.11 Networks", in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume 9 Issue 10, October 2010.
L.K.Law, K.Pelechrinis, S.V.Krishnamurthy and M.Faloutsos, "Downlink Capacity of Hybrid Cellular - Ad hoc Networks", in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networkingi, Vol 18, Issue 1, p. 243-256, February 2010.
Conferences:
S. Singh, M. Shahbazi, K. Pelechrinis, K. Sundaresan, S. Krishnamurthy and S. Addepalli, "A Case for Adaptive Sub-carrier Level Power Allocation in OFDMA Networks", in ACM MobiHoc 2012, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA, June, 2012.
M. Arslan, K. Pelechrinis, I. Broustis, S. V. Krishnamurthy, S. Addepalli and K. Papagiannaki, "Auto-configuration of 802.11n WLANs", in ACM CoNEXT 2010, Philadelphia, PA, USA, December 2010.
E.Gelal, K.Pelechrinis, I.Broustis, S.V.Krishnamurthy, S.Mohammed, A.Chockalingam and S.Kasera, "On the Impact of MIMO Diversity on Higher Layer Performance", in IEEE ICDCS 2010, Genoa, Italy, June, 2010.
E.Gelal, K.Pelechrinis, T.S.Kim, I.Broustis, S.V.Krishnamurthy and B.Rao, "Topology Control for Effective Interference Cancellation in Multi-User MIMO Networks", in IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, California, USA
K.Pelechrinis, I.Broustis, S.V.Krishnamurthy and C.Gkantsidis, "ARES: an Anti-jamming REinforcement System for 802.11 Networks", in ACM CoNEXT 2009, Rome, Italy, December 2009.
K.Pelechrinis, C.Koufogiannakis and S.V.Krishnamurthy, "Gamming the Jammer: Is Frequency Hopping Effective?", in WiOpt 2009, Seoul, Korea, June 2009.
K.Pelechrinis, G.Yan, S.Eidenbenz and S.V.Krishnamurthy, "Detecting Selfish Exploitation of Carrier Sensing in 802.11 Networks", in IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
