• 23 Jun 2016 – Channel 6: New Solar System Internet Technology (Interview)
• 21 Jun 2016 – New Solar System Internet Technology debuts on ISS - DUTH contribution is acknowledged by NASA
• 28 Sep 2015 – NASA officially thanks SPICE team for its contribution to the Interplanetary Overlay Network (ION) system
• 03 Jun 2015 – The kick-off meeting of SENSKIN project was successfully held in Athens, Greece.
• 26 Feb 2015 – The kick-off meeting of UMOBILE project was successfully held in the premises of the Engineering Department, University College of London, UK.

Nikolaos Bezirgiannidis was born and raised in Orestiada, in 1983. He received a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering  from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2006. He also received his M.Sc. degree in the scientific area of Computer Networks in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in 2010. He is currently a PhD candidate under the advisory of Prof. Vassilis Tsaoussidis in the same department.

 
 
Research Interests 
 

• Delay / Disruption Tolerant Networking
• Routing Protocols
• Transport Protocols in Space Environment

  
Research Projects 
 

• Extending Internet into Space - Phase 2 - ESA/ESOC DTN/IP Testbed Implementation and Evaluation June 2009 - December 2009
• Extending Internet Into Space - Phase 3 - DTN/IP Testbed Implementation and Optimization, Funded by the European Space Agency (ESA),  2010-2011
• SPICE - Space Internetworking Center, FP-7 Project co-funded by European Commission
• Space Data Routers , FP-7 Project co-funded by European Commission 
   

Journals

• N. Bezirgiannidis, S. Burleigh, and V. Tsaoussidis, "Delivery Time Estimation for Space Bundles", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol.49, no.3, pp.1897,1910, July 2013
  doi: 10.1109/TAES.2013.6558026
   

Conferences
 

• N. Bezirgiannidis, F. Tsapeli, S. Diamantopoulos, and V. Tsaoussidis, "Towards Flexibility and Accuracy in Space DTN Communications", in 8th ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks, (CHANTS'13), Miami, Florida, USA, September 30, 2013, to appear.

• G. Papastergiou, N. Bezirgiannidis and V. Tsaoussidis, "On the Performance of Erasure Coding over Space DTNs", 10th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2012), Santorini, Greece, June 5-7, 2012.

• Nikolaos Bezirgiannidis and Vassilis Tsaoussidis, "Packet size and DTN transport service: Evaluation on a DTN Testbed", International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems 2010, Moscow, October 2010. 

Technical Reports

• N. Bezirgiannidis, S. Burleigh, and V. Tsaoussidis, "Delivery Time Estimation for Space Bundles", Technical Report: TR-DUTH-EE-2012-21.

Reviewer Activities 
 

• IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
• Elsevier Computer Networks
• Acta Astronautica
• ACM MobiHoc 2013
• GLOBECOM 2013, ISCC 2013, GLOBECOM 2011, WWIC 2011, Networking 2011, WWIC 2010, E-DTN 2009

 
 
Contact info 
 
Democritus University of Thrace

Xanthi - 67100
 
Telephone: +302541079554 
 
E-mail: nbezirgi (at) ee.duth.gr