The National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) DEMOKRITOS is the biggest
research centre in applied sciences and engineering in Greece and it is a self-governing
research organisation, under the supervision of the Greek Government. NCSRD
consists of eight Institutes spanning a broad range of activities, and of divisions
responsible for administrative and technical support. Staff sums up to about 800 persons. It is the
home of the Greek National Host and a major node in the Greek National Research and Technology
Network (GR-Net). NCSRD participates in the project through the Institute of Informatics and
Telecommunications (IIT) that comprises 15 senior researchers, 6 postdoctoral fellows and 12 Phd
Students. IIT has a leading experience in the telecommunication and
informatics areas relevant for the project such as Next Generation, media-oriented network
architectures based on technology convergence, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and IMS-based
management of multimedia services, Real-time network adaptation and dynamic resource allocation
for multimedia provisioning, Virtual Private Network and Network Security over Heterogeneous
Networks, Virtualisation Environments Secure Networking. The following are some of latest EUfunded
competitive research and development projects, in the area of Telecommunications, in
which the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications has participated: LIAISONFP6/
IST(IP), ENTHRONE-I and II-FP6/IST(IP), ATHENA-FP6/IST, IMOSAN-FP6/IST, UNITEIST/
FP6, ADAMANTIUM-ICT/FP7, HURRICANE-ICT/FP7, ALICANTE-ICT/FP7(IP) and
PERSEUS-SEC/FP7(DEMONSTRATION).
Role in the project. In GERYON, NCSRD will undertake the leadership of WP3 and will coordinate the design and development of GEMS. In addition to participating to the system definition/specification phase, NCSRD will focus on the implementation of the TAMS and its submodules (RCM, TMM, SMM, ESMM) on an existing experimental IMS platform. NCSRD will also contribute to the implementation of GEMS Media and Security Gateways and will actively participate in the integration and trials phase.
Short profile of the staff members
Dr. Anastasios KOURTIS received his BS degree in Physics in 1978 and his PhD degree in Telecommunications in 1984, from the University of Athens. From 1986 he is a member of the research stuff in the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the NCSR “Demokritos”. Currently he is a Research Director. His technical and research activities have been in the area of wired and wireless broadband networks, multimedia applications, QoS, data encryption, network management and virtualisation. He has been Project Manager of ATHENA, IMOSAN-FP6/IST and ADAMANTIUM-ICT/FP7 and Technical Manager of REPOSIT-FP5/IST projects.
Dr. Harilaos Koumaras was born in Athens, Greece in 1980. He received his BSc degree in Physics in 2002 from the University of Athens, Physics Department, his MSc in Electronic Automation and Information Systems in 2004, being scholar of the non-profit organization Alexander S Onassis, from the University of Athens, Computer Science Department and his PhD in 2007 at Computer Science from the University of Athens, Computer Science Department, having granted the four-year scholarship of National Centre of Scientific Research “Demokritos”. He has received twice the Greek State Foundations (IKY) scholarship during the academic years 2000-01 and 2003-04. His research interests include IMS value added services, IMS evolution, Mobile Communications, objective/subjective evaluation of the perceived quality of multimedia services, video quality and picture quality evaluation, video traffic modeling, digital terrestrial television and video compression techniques. Currently, he is the author or co-author of 50 scientific papers in international journals, technical books and book chapters, numbering 125 non-self citations.
Spyros Mantzouratos was born in Rhodes, Greece in 1984. He received his undergraduate degree from Applied Mathematics and Science of Physics Department of the National Technical University of Athens at 2009. His Diploma Thesis was in Mobile DHT. Since 2010 he joined Media Networks Laboratory at the National Center of Scientific Research “Demokritos”. Currently he is working toward the PhD, having granted a scholarship from Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR “Demokritos”. His current research interests include Mobile Streaming Services, IMS, VoIP management, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and Self-organizing Networks.
