Violettas George - Softwarized & Wireless Networks Research Group

About

George Violettas acquired his Ph.D. titled "Next Generation Network Control and Security for the Internet of Things" in 2021 from the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds an M.Sc. Degree in Applied Informatics from the same University and a 4-yrs Bachelor in Computer Science from the Hellenic Open University. He is currently a lecturer at Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was the Head of the ICT Department & Senior Lecturer at the Applied Engineering College (former Technical Trainers College) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has worked for more than 25 years as a Project Manager for big-scale Wireless Networks for the private sector and the Greek government. He currently works with NECOS OC2 (H2020), and he has also worked in UNIC OC4 FED4FIRE+, WiSHFUL OC2 (H2020), and MONROE OC2 (H2020), as a senior researcher.

Specialties: IoT, Cryptography, MS Office, Corel Suite, Windows Family & Server(s), Assembly, (Visual) C(++),(#), Java, Python, HTML, GWT, Joomla, IIS, JavaScript, (my)SQL, UML, Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, XML, Android Programming, Linux.

Research Area

Internet of Things, Security of IoT, Wireless Sensor Networks, Embedded Systems, IoT protocols

Selected Papers

George Violettas, George Simoglou, Sophia Petridou, Lefteris Mamatas, A Softwarized Intrusion Detection System for the RPL-based Internet of Things networks, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 125, 2021, Pages 698-714, ISSN 0167-739X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2021.07.013
Simoglou, G., Violettas, G., Petridou, S., & Mamatas, L. (2021). Intrusion Detection Systems for RPL Security: A Comparative Analysis. Computers & Security, 102219.
G. Violettas, S. Petridou, L. Mamatas, Evolutionary Software Defined Networking-inspired Routing Control Strategies for the Internet of Things, IEEE Access, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 132173-132192, Dec. 2019
T. Theodorou, G. Violettas, P. Valsamas, S. Petridou and L. Mamatas, “A Multi-Protocol Software-Defined Networking Solution for the Internet of Things”, in IEEE Communications Magazine, Series: Telecom Software, Network Virtualization, and Software Defined Networks, Oct. 2019
G. Violettas, S. Petridou, and L. Mamatas, "Routing under heterogeneity and mobility for the Internet of Things: a centralized control approach", IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, 9-13 December 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
G. Violettas, T. Theodorou, S. Petridou, A. Tsioukas, and L. Mamatas, "An Experimentation Facility Enabling Flexible Network Control for the Internet of Things", IEEE INFOCOM 2017, Atlanta, USA.
T. Theodorou, G. Violettas, A. Polychroniadou, and C. K. Georgiadis, “Improved NetArgus-A Suite of Wi-fi Positioning & SNMP Monitor.,” in SIGMAP, 2012, pp. 289–294.
G. E. Violettas, T. L. Theodorou, and C. K. Georgiadis, “NetArgus: An SNMP Monitor & Wi-Fi Positioning, 3-tier Application Suite,” in 2009 Fifth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, 2009, pp. 346–351. (Best Paper Award).