Dimitrios Miras
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[Not a lot] About Me
Born in a small beautiful town of southern Greece, Kalamata. Studied (5-year degree) at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of University of Patras, Greece (1990-95). After happily spending the first 25 years of my life in Greece, I decided to 'migrate' to Britain. I then studied (1996-97) Data Communications, Networks and Distributed Systems (MSc), Dept. of Computer Science, UCL, partially founded by "A. Onassis" public benefit foundation.
What I do
I got my PhD degree from UCL in 2004. My PhD thesis looked at quality-aware adaptation techniques for Internet video using realistic methods to measure quality. I'm a member of the UCL Networks Research group.
I am now a postdoc research fellow, involved in the 46PaQ project, which will examine how DIFFSERV, ECN and decentralised reservation can be made to operate together in a very high-speed IPv4 and IPv6 environment to support TCP and UDP-based applications.
Until recently (Dec. '04), I was an RA in the EU MAESTRO and HIGHVIEW (funded by BT) projects at UCL.
Was:
- Research fellow at UCL-CS on the JAVIC project (Nov. 97 - May 99).
- On internship at British Telecom Research Labs, UK, (May 99-Dec. 99) with the Distributed Systems Research Group, working on a component-based system for multi-way (multicast) audio and video.
- Research fellow in the Dept. of Computer Science in UCL (Jan 2000-July 2000).
- After that I had a one-year grant from BT Labs, aka BTexact Technologies. I have been been teaching and tutoring for the last few years as a part-time visiting lecturer in subjects like: S/W development, C/C++, discrete maths, etc. I've also done lab demonstrations, coursework & exam marking, and some consultancy on Internet video to support my glamorous PhD life.
- I've also received an Internet2 fellowship on Application QoS Needs from the QoS Internet2 WG. Click here for more, or here: (pdf).
I'm generally interested in IP networking, performance analysis of IP networks and congestion control and networked multimedia esp. Internet video. In the (not v. recent) past I did some work on MBone audio-video conferencing and particularly Internet Multicast video and on component based middleware for multi-way multimedia communications. I'm currently interested in quality and adaptation issues for Internet video. In the recent past I researched methods to integrate objective video quality evaluation and measurement metrics in TCP-friendly video streaming (supported in part by BT Research ). Most recently, I am involved with performance analysis of IP protocols (TCP, UDP, DCCP) over high-speed (Gbps) networks.