Petros Belimpasakis

Background and Personal Info

I joined Nokia Research Center in year 2000. I've been working mainly on the area of home networks and related technologies on many different internal and external projects (e.g. IST Future Home and Celtic Feel@Home). Since the beginning of 2005 I've been leading a group of research projects around user created content sharing in the extended home domain. I am currently a Principal Member of Research Staff in the "Extended Home" team of the Smart Spaces Laboratory, located in Tampere, Finland.

Research Interests

• Home networking protocols and services
• Remote access to home networks
• Mashups of home data with external services
• Content sharing technologie
• Standardization activities of DLNA & UPnP

Publications

Conferences

• P. Belimpasakis, S. A. Awan and E. Berki, "Mobile Content Sharing Utilizing the Home Infrastructure". Accepted for publication at the Second IEEE Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2008), Cardiff, Wales, UK, September 2008.
• P. Belimpasakis, J-P. Luoma and M. Börzsei, "Content Sharing Middleware for Mobile Devices". Proceedings of the First International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications (MOBILWARE 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2008. (abstract)
• S. A. Awan, P. Belimpasakis, E. Berki, R. Walsh, "Automated Content Sharing in Extended Home through Mobile Devices - A quality solution for group communication". Proceedings of the 15th Software Quality Management Conference (SQM 2007), Tampere, Finland, August 2007. (abstract)
• P. Belimpasakis, A. Saaranen and R. Walsh, "Home DNS: Experiences with Seamless Remote Access to Home Services". Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2007), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007. (abstract)
• P. Belimpasakis, V. Stirbu, "Remote Access to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Devices Utilizing the Atom Publishing Protocol". Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2007), Athens, Greece, June 2007. (abstract)
• P. Belimpasakis and R. Walsh, "User Created Content in the Extended Home". Proceedings of the 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communication Summit, Myconos, Greece, June 2006. (paper)
• P. Belimpasakis and R. Walsh, "A Resource-efficient Mobile Blogging System". Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN 2006), Berlin, Germany, May 2006. (presentation)

Invited Presentations

• P. Belimpasakis, "Digital Content: Driving the Evolution of Home Networks". Invited speaker in the 7th COST 290 meeting: "Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks", Split, Croatia, 29th September 2006. (event)
• P. Belimpasakis, "The Home as a Gateway for User Created Content Sharing". Invited speaker in IST Workshop on "Research Priorities for Home and Extended Home Networking" (event), Brussels, Belgium, 28th June 2006. (presentation)

Technical White Papers and Reports

• N. Achilleopoulos, F. Alvarez, P. Belimpasakis, P. Daras, C. Guerrero Lopez, I. Laso, M. Pelt, and J.C. Point (Eds.), "User Centric Media - Future and Challenges in European Research", Coordinated by Networked Media Unit of the DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission, November 2007. ISBN 978-92-79-06865-2. (pdf)
• P. Belimpasakis, "Remote Access to Home Services Utilizing Dynamic DNS and Web Technologies", MSc Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, November 2006. (pdf)

Patents

As a result of my work at Nokia, I am the primary inventor or co-inventor of the following pending patents:

• US patent Appl. No. 11/469597 (esp@cenet)
  "System and method for content functionallity"
  P. Belimpasakis
• US patent Appl. No. 11/798943 (esp@cenet)
  "Network access with a portable memory device"
  P. Belimpasakis, M. Luomi and T. Savolainen
• US patent Appl. No. 11/389637 (esp@cenet)
  "System and method for using web syndication feeds as a change log for synchronization in a UPnP audio/video environment"
  V. Stirbu and P. Belimpasakis
• US patent Appl. No. 11/279281 (esp@cenet)
  "Method, Apparatus, Network Entity and Computer Program Product for Sharing Content"
  P. Belimpasakis and C. Ionescu
• US patent Appl. No. 11/276595 (esp@cenet)
  "System for Uniform Addressing of Home Resources Regardless of Remote Client's Network Location"
  P. Belimpasakis and H. Hakulinen
• US patent Appl. No. 11/566132 (esp@cenet)
  "System and Method for Using Web Syndication Protocols as an Out-of-band UPnP Service Discovery System"
  V. Stirbu and P. Belimpasakis
• US patent Appl. No. 11/281278 (esp@cenet)
  "Intermediary, Source and Methods for Sharing Content"
  P. Belimpasakis
• International PCT Patent Appl. No. PCT/FI2004/000657 (esp@cenet)
  "Bridging Data Network Communications"
  P. Belimpasakis, I. Koskinen and P. Ujfalusi
• US patent Appl. No. 10/783798 (esp@cenet)
  "System and Method for Device Discovery"
  M. Grundström and P. Belimpasakis
• US patent Appl. No. 10/675913 (esp@cenet)
  "Transport Layer Communication"
  P. Belimpasakis
• US patent Appl. No. 10/098848 (esp@cenet)
  "System and Method for the Reception of Content Items"
  P. Belimpasakis, R. Walsh and T. Paila
• plus 3 more, not public yet...

Other Activities

Supervisions

• MSc thesis of Shahzad Akhtar Awan, entitled "Automated Content Sharing in Extended Homes through Mobile Devices" (pdf), University of Tampere (UTA), June 2008.

Memberships

• Member of IEEE and the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2007, NGMAST 2008)
• Member of the Technical Program Commitee of the International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking (FMN 2008)
• Member of the Industry Advisory Board of the IST Content Network of Excellence

Education

• Currently working towards my doctoral degree in Information Technology...
• MSc degree in Information Technology, from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland
  
  • Major: Communications Engineering. Minor: Software Engineering
• BSc degree in Mathematics, from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece