Zoe Antoniou

Background

My academic studies took me from my native country of Greece to London. I obtained a Master of Engineering (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine of the University of London. Next stop was Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where I completed the Ph.D. programme of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. My Ph.D. thesis title was "Scheduling Algorithms for QoS Support of Continuous Media Streams".

I was still a graduate student when the opportunity presented itself to join Nokia in May of 1999. From 1999 till the end of 2005 I worked as a Senior Research Engineer in NRC Boston, first in the Broadband Networks Group and, later, in the Pervasive Computing Group. My first years of industrial research were spent on QoS, Transport, Network Planning, Protection and Restoration in the 3G Core, 3G Radio Access Network and IP-RAN. Once in the Pervasive Computing Group, my focus changed quite dramatically to Smart Space Architectures, Intuitive User Interaction, Easy Service Discovery for the non-expert user and the introduction of RFID-enhanced middleware in mobile devices.

Starting in 2006, I joined the NRCC team. This is a different setting, a fusion of academic research and industrial R&D. My plan is to work on middleware, tools and applications that enable mobile devices to play a key role in Smart Spaces, particularly in the areas of Social Networking, Easy Service Discovery and Intuitive User Interaction models.

Research Interests

• Pervasive Computing
• Smart Space Architectures
• Service Discovery
• Social Networking
• Intuitive User Interaction Models
< li>Middleware, Tools and Applications for Mobile Devices for all the above

Publications

Z. Antoniou.

"A Touch is Worth a Thousand Clicks", manuscript under preparation.

Z. Antoniou, G. Krishnamurthi and F. Reynolds.

"Intuitive Service Discovery in RFID-enhanced Networks". Proceedings of IEEE COMSWARE Conference, January 2006.

D. Pavel, D. Trossen and Z. Antoniou.

"Making the World Smaller through Ad-hoc User Communities". Advance magazine, no. 3, June 2005.

Z. Antoniou, S. Mehta and F. Reynolds.

"Boosting Usability through RFID-Enhanced Middleware". Advance Magazine, no. 2, March 2005.

Z. Antoniou and W.S. Soh.

"Restorability Enhancement and Service-oriented Protection in Radio Access Networks". Proceedings of IEEE QShine Conference, October 2004.

W.S. Soh, Z. Antoniou and H.S.Kim.

"Improving Restorability in Radio Access Network". Proceeding of Globecom 2003 Conference, San Francisco, USA, December 2003.

Z. Antoniou and I. Stavrakakis.

"An Efficient, Deadline Credit-based Transport for Prerecorded, Semi-Soft Continuous Media Applications". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 10, Issue 5, October 2002.

S. Dixit, Y. Guo and Z. Antoniou.

"Resource Management and Quality of Service in Third Generation (3G) Wireless Networks". IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2001.

Y. Guo, Z. Antoniou and S. Dixit.

"IP Transport in 3G Radio Access Networks: an MPLS-based approach". Proceedings of WCNC'02 Conference, March 2002 and NERD 2000, November 2000.

Z. Antoniou and I. Stavrakakis.

"End-to-End Deadline Credit Scheduling Policy for Continuous Media Streams". Proceedings of Networking 2000 Conference, IFIP-TC6/European Commission International Conference, Paris, France, May 2000.

Z. Antoniou and I. Stavrakakis.

"Deadline Credit Scheduling Policy for Prerecorded Sources". Proceedings of Globecom '99, December 1999, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Z. Antoniou and I. Stavrakakis.

"Scheduling Algorithms for Application-Level QoS Support of Continuous Media Streams". European Transactions on Telecommunications, ETT Vol. 10, No. 3, May/June 1999.

Z. Antoniou and I. Stavrakakis.

"Efficient QoS Support of Continuous Media Stream Packets with Variable Size and Diverse Deadlines", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT '98), Chalkidiki, Greece, June 21-25, 1998. Extended version in Technical Report TR-CDSP-98-46, Communications and Digital Signal Processing Centre, ECE Department, Northeastern University.

Z. Antoniou and I. Stavrakakis.

"Earliest Due First Scheduling for Application Level QoS Delivery". Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Protocols for Multimedia Systems - Multimedia Networking (PROMS-MmNet '97), pp.172-182, Santiago, Chile, November 24-26, 1997.

Patents

• Antoniou Z, and Strauss J. "Resource Sharing via Close-Proximity Communication", U.S. Patent Pending.
• Kalofonos D.N. and Antoniou Z., "Methods, Systems, and Apparatus for Using Virtual Devices with Peer-to-Peer Groups", U.S. Patent pending.
• Kalofonos D.N., Antoniou Z., and Reynolds F.", "Access Rights Used for Resource Discovery in Peer-to-Peer Networks", U.S. Patent pending.
• Z. Antoniou, "NC 47710: RFID Tag Record for Service Discovery of UPnP Devices and Services ". U.S. Patent pending.
• Z. Antoniou and S. Dixit, "A Service Oriented Protection Scheme For A Radio Access Network". U.S Patent No. 6,965,775: Issued November 15, 2005.
• Y. Guo, Z. Antoniou and S. Dixit, "IP/MPLS based Transport in 3G Radio Access Network". U.S. Patent No. 6,950,398: Issued September 2005.