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I was born and raised in the beautiful
city of Chania, at the scenic and historic island of Crete, Greece.
After finishing school in 1993, I moved to the second
most beautiful city of Greece, Thessaloniki, where I studied at the
department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). I received my diploma in 1998 and
I came to MIT for graduate studies in 1999.
I earned a MS in June 2001 and I completed my Ph.D. studies on September
2005, after an adventurous journey in the areas of cooperative wireless
communications, distributed sensor networks, signal processing for communication,
time/frequency metrology, materials science and nanotechnology. |
Improving university functions should be top priority, otherwise austerity plan will be useless... Faculty of ECE Dept., TUC, expressed their frustration about the 28-year old university administration legislation and practices that have no similarities to what is happening at top institutions abroad. |
"TEL411 Computer Networks II", Spring 2010. [syllabus] "TEL404 Analysis & Design (Synthesis) of Telecom Modules", Spring 2010. [syllabus] |
"Building the Low-Cost Digital Garden as a Telecom Lab Exercise", submitted for publication, August 2010. A.G. Dimitriou, A. Bletsas and J.N. Sahalos, "Improvements of UHF RFID Coverage with Commodity Hardware", submitted for publication, August 2010. A. Bletsas, A. Lippman and J.N. Sahalos, "Zero-Feedback, Collaborative Beamforming for Emergency Radio: Asymptotic Analysis", Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), best papers from IEEE ISWCS 09, submitted Feb. 2010, revised Sept. 2010. A. Bletsas, A.G. Dimitriou and J.N. Sahalos, "Improving Backscatter Radio Tag Efficiency", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT), Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 1502-1509, June 2010. A. Bletsas, A. Lippman and J.N. Sahalos, "Simple, Zero-Feedback, Distributed Beamforming with Unsynchronized Carriers", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication (JSAC), Special Issue on Simple Sensor Networking Solutions, accepted, to appear in third quarter of 2010. A. Bletsas and J.N. Sahalos, "Hirsch Index Rankings Require Scaling and Higher Moment", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol. 60, Issue 12, pp. 2577-2586, December 2009. A. Bletsas, A.G. Dimitriou and J.N. Sahalos, "Interference-Limited Opportunistic Relaying with Reactive Sensing", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 14-20, January 2010. A. Bletsas, S. Siachalou and J.N. Sahalos, "Anti-collision Backscatter Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 8, No. 10, pp. 5018-5029, October 2009. A. Bletsas, "Orthogonal Opportunistic Relaying for Cooperative Wireless Communications", chapter 7 in "Cooperative Wireless Communications", pp. 73-92, Auerbach Publications, 2009. G. Vannucci, A. Bletsas and D. Leigh, "A Software-Defined Radio System for Backscatter Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 2170-2179, June 2008. A. Bletsas, A. Khisti, M.Z. Win, "Opportunistic Cooperative Diversity with Feedback and Cheap Radios", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 1823-1827, May 2008. A. Bletsas, H. Shin, M.Z. Win, "Cooperative Communications with Outage-Optimal Opportunistic Relaying", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 6, No. 9, pp. 3450-3460, September 2007. 2008 IEEE Communications Society Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications A. Bletsas, H. Shin and M.Z. Win, "Outage Analysis for Cooperative Communication with Multiple Amplify-and-Forward Relays", Electronics Letters (ELL), Vol. 43, No. 6, March 2007. A. Bletsas, H. Shin and M.Z. Win, "Outage Optimality of Amplify-and-Forward Opportunistic Relaying", IEEE Communications Letters (CL), Vol. 11, No. 3, March 2007. A. Bletsas and A. Lippman, "Implementing Cooperative Diversity Antenna Arrays with Commodity Hardware", IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG), Vol. 44, No. 12, pp. 33-40, December 2006. A. Bletsas, A. Khisti, D.P. Reed, A. Lippman, "A Simple Cooperative Diversity Method based on Network Path Selection", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication (JSAC), Special Issue on 4G Wireless Systems (non-invited submission), Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 659-672, March 2006. A. Bletsas, "Evaluation of Kalman Filtering for Network Time Keeping",
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IEEE EUCAP 2010, April 2010, Barcelona, Spain. A. Bletsas, A.G. Dimitriou and J.N. Sahalos, "Backscattering Improvement of UHF RFID Tag Efficiency", IEEE IWAT 2010, March 2010, Lisbon, Portugal. A. Polycarpou, A.G. Dimitriou, A. Bletsas and J.N. Sahalos, "RFID in Healthcare", COST Antenna Systems & Sensors for Information Technology Societies (ASSIST) Workshop, May 2009, Valencia, Spain. A. Bletsas, A.G. Dimitriou, J.N. Sahalos, "Improving Backscatter Radio Tag Efficiency", COST RF/Microwave Communication Subsystems for Emerging Wireless Technologies (RFCSET) Workshop, April 2009, Brno, Czech Republic. A. Bletsas, A. Lippman and J.N. Sahalos, "Simple, Zero-Feedback, Collaborative Beamforming for Emergency Radio", IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), September 2009, Siena, Italy, to appear. Selected as one of the five best papers. A. Bletsas, A.G. Dimitriou, J.N. Sahalos, "Reduced-Delay Interference-Aware Opportunistic Relaying", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2009, Dresden, Germany. A. Bletsas, S. Siachalou, J.N. Sahalos, "Anti-collision Tags for Backscatter Sensor Networks", 38th European Microwave Conference (EuMC), October 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands. A. Bletsas, J.N. Sahalos, "Interference-Aware Opportunistic Relaying with Reactive Spectrum Sensing", invited paper, IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications Conference (PIMRC), September 2008, Cannes, France. E. Vaitsopoulos, A. Bletsas, J.N. Sahalos, "On the RFID Design with Passive Tags and a Butler Matrix Reader", 13th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC), May 2008, Athens, Greece. A. Bletsas, J.N. Sahalos, "Antenna Enhancements for Backscatter Sensor Networks", COST Antenna Systems & Sensors for Information Technology Societies (ASSIST) Workshop, April 2008, Limassol, Cyprus. G. Vannucci, A. Bletsas, D. Leigh, "Implementing Backscatter Radio for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications Conference (PIMRC), September 2007, Athens, Greece. A. Bletsas, A. Khisti, M.Z. Win, "Low Complexity Virtual Antenna Arrays", ACM International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2006), July 2006, Vancouver. A. Bletsas, A. Khisti, "The Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Cooperative Protocols with Relay Selection", MSRI Workshop on the Mathematics of Relaying, April 2006, Berkeley. A. Bletsas, H. Shin, M.Z. Win, "Outage-Optimal Cooperative Communications with Regenerative Relays", invited paper. 40th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2006), March 2006, Princeton. A. Bletsas, H. Shin, M.Z. Win, A. Lippman, "To Relay or Not To Relay? Cooperative Diversity with Opportunistic Relaying", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2006), April 2006, Las Vegas. A. Bletsas, A. Lippman, D.P. Reed, "A Simple Distributed Method for Relay Selection in Cooperative Diversity Wireless Networks, based on Reciprocity and Channel Measurements", Proceedings of IEEE 61st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring 2006), May 30 - June 1 2005, Stockholm, Sweden. A. Bletsas and A. Lippman, "Spontaneous Synchronization in Multi-hop Embedded Sensor Networks: Demonstration of a Server-free Approach" , Proceedings of IEEE Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2005), January 31 - February 2 2005, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 333-341. A. Bletsas
and A. Lippman, "Efficient Collaborative (Viral) Communication in OFDM
Based WLANs", A. Bletsas,
"Evaluation of Kalman Filtering for Network Time Keeping",
B. Hubert, A. Bletsas, J. Jacobson, "Nano-Scale Structures Fabricated
By All-Additive AFM -Assisted Nanoassembly", Materials Research Society
(MRS), San Francisco, April 16-20, 2001. |
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Time Keeping in Myriad Networks: Theories, Solutions
and Applications. Hellenic Text-to-Speech System, |
A. Bletsas, "Natural Spontaneous Order in Wireless Sensor Networks: Time Synchronization Based on Entrainment", Technical Report, MIT Media Lab, December 2003. |
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Common mistakes: my name is not /an/ /gu/ /los/, /an/ /ga/ /los/ or /an/ /gjee/ /los/. It means "messenger" in greek. |
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