Vaios Koumaras

Vaios Koumaras received his BSc degree in Computer Information Systems from the American College of Greece and his MBA in IT Project Management from the City University, USA. Since 1997, he has worked in several positions as Computer Analyst and Software Developer, participating in major IT projects. For more than 15 years, he holded the position of senior R&D software engineer and project manager, with participation and collaboration in R&D IT projects of numerous companies worldwide, mainly in marine software including the applicability of IoT in the shipping sector. Moreover, Mr. Koumaras is specialized in the management of IT projects concerning IoT applicability and data operability along with the design and development of chatbot apps both for commercial and research purposes (especially in IoT and 5G enabled industry environments). Since 2017, Mr. Koumaras is the Managing Director of INFOLYSiS and one of its co-founders.

Publications

5G Network Programmability Enabling Industry 4.0 Transformation
5G Network Programmability Enabling Industry 4.0 Transformation
George Makropoulos, Dimitrios Fragkos, Harilaos Koumaras, Nancy Alonistioti, Alexandros Kaloxylos, Vaios Koumaras, Theoni Dounia, Christos Sakkas, Dimitris Tsolkas. © 2023. 19 pages.
The 5G system aims at enabling innovative services of vertical industries by utilizing network programmability to its full extension. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project...
Interoperability Provision of IoT Data Protocols on Top of Virtualized Infrastructure
Interoperability Provision of IoT Data Protocols on Top of Virtualized Infrastructure
Vaios Koumaras, Marianna Kapari, Angeliki Papaioannou, George Theodoropoulos, Ioannis Stergiou, Christos Sakkas, Harilaos Koumaras. © 2021. 15 pages.
This article focuses on IoT interoperability challenges that limit the applicability of IoT-related services due to the variety of IoT data protocols utilized by different...
IoT Interoperability on Top of SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks
IoT Interoperability on Top of SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks
Vaios Koumaras, Marianna Kapari, Angeliki Papaioannou, George Theodoropoulos, Ioannis Stergiou, Christos Sakkas, Harilaos Koumaras. © 2019. 26 pages.
The ubiquity of the internet led to a diverse number of devices referred to as the “things” to have online access. The internet of things (IoT) framework's infrastructure is...