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[35] M. J. Neely, “Energy optimal control for time‑varying level cooperation, age‑of‑information, network coding,
wireless networks,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 52, and stochastic geometry.
no. 7, pp. 2915–2934, July 2006.
From 2013 to 2018, he was an Editor of IEEE COM‑
[36] L. Georgiadis, M. J. Neely, and L. Tassiulas, “Resource MUNICATIONS LETTERS. He is currently an Editor of
allocation and cross‑layer control in wireless net‑ IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE/KICS
works,” Foundations and Trends in Networking, vol. JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS, and
1, no. 1, 2006. IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY.
He is also a Guest Editor of IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS
[37] S. Meyn and R. L. Tweedie, Markov Chains and JOURNAL for the Special Issue Age of Information and
Stochastic Stability. 2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: Cam‑ Data Semantics for Sensing, Communication and Control
bridge University Press, 2010. Co‑Design in IoT.

[38] M. J. Neely, “Queue Stability and Probability Anthony Ephremides (Life
1 Convergence via Lyapunov Optimization,” Fellow, IEEE) received a Ph.D.
ArXiv e‑prints, Aug. 2010. [Online]. Available: degree in electrical engineering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3519 from Princeton University in
1971. Since 1971, he has been
AUTHORS with the University of Maryland,
College Park, MD, USA. He holds
Emmanouil Fountoulakis the Cynthia Kim Professorship
(Graduate Student Member, of information technology at the
IEEE) received a Diploma de‑ Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Uni‑
gree in electronic and computer versity of Maryland, where he is currently a Distinguished
engineering from the Technical University Professor.
University of Crete, Chania,
Greece, in 2016. He has a joint appointment at the Institute for Systems Re‑
search, of which he was among the founding members, in
He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree with the De‑ 1986. He has authored several hundred articles, confer‑
̈
partment of Science and Technology, Linkoping Uni‑ ence presentations, and patents.
versity, Sweden. His research interests include age‑
of‑information, low‑latency communications, energy‑ His research interests lie in the areas of communication
ef icient resource allocation, applied queueing theory, systems and networks and all related disciplines, such
and stochastic control. as information theory, control and optimization, satellite
systems, queueing models, signal processing, and so on.
Nikolaos Pappas (Member, He is especially interested in wireless networks, energy
IEEE) received a B.Sc. degree ef icient systems, and the new notion of age of informa‑
in computer science, an M.Sc. tion.
degree in computer science, a
B.Sc. degree in mathematics,
and a Ph.D. degree in computer
science from the University of Crete, Greece, in 2005,
2007, 2012, and 2012, respectively.
From 2005 to 2012, he was a Graduate Research Assistant
with the Telecommunications and Networks Laboratory,
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research
and Technology‑Hellas, and a Visiting Scholar with the
Institute of Systems Research, University of Maryland at
College Park, College Park, MD, USA. From 2012 to 2014,
he was a Post‑Doctoral Researcher with the Department
́
of Telecommunications, Supelec, France.
Since 2014, he has been with Linkoping University, Nor‑
̈
rkoping, Sweden, as a Marie Curie Fellow (IAPP), where
̈
he is currently an Associate Professor in mobile telecom‑
munications with the Department of Science and Tech‑
nology. His main research interests include the ield of
wireless communication networks with emphasis on the
stability analysis, energy harvesting networks, network‑

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