Christos Giachoudis (DC7)
High-reliability and energy-efficient scheduling and routing for medical body-area networks
Current work
Ensuring high reliability wireless connections between the medical sensors and an access point, and improving nodes’ energy consumption by exploring MAC layer protocol solutions. Designing of a proof-of-concept demonstration for an optical wireless body area network.
Supervisor: Dr. Ali Khalighi
Co-Supervisors: Prof. Stanislav Zvanovec
List of publications
2026
A. Aslanidis, C. Giachoudis, T. Kamalakis, Pyenlight: A Library for Modeling Communication and Energy Harvesting of Hybrid Optical Wireless /Radio-Frequency Indoor Networks, IEEE 15th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2026 DOI: 10.1109/CSNDSP68462.2026.11654443.
C. Giachoudis, Khalighi, M. A., Zvanovec, S. (2026, July). ”Low-Complexity Line Coding for Baseline Wander Mitigation in OOK-Based Optical WBANs”. In 2026 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing. DOI: 10.1109/CSNDSP68462.2026.11654507.
Giachoudis, C., Khalighi, M. A., Zvanovec, S., Papanikolaou, V. K., Tegos, S. A., & Karagiannidis, G. K. (2026). MAC Protocol Design for Optical Wireless Body‐Area Networks: Latency, Energy Efficiency and Scalability Analysis. IET Networks, 15(1), e70023. DOI: 10.1049/ntw2.70023.
2025
S. K. Modalavalasa, C. Guerra-Yánez, S. R. Teli, C. Giachoudis, S. Zvanovec, T. Kamalakis, Z. Ghassemlooy, "Towards the Development of Digital Twins for OWC Networks," 2025 International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), Split, Croatia, 2025, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.23919/SoftCOM66362.2025.11197393.
A. Pouralizadeh, S. Maravanchery Mana, K. Lennert Bober, V. Jungnickel, A. Tonello, C. Giachoudis, A. Khalighi, “Characterization of LiFi-over-Powerline Channels for Industrial Internet-of-Things Applications”, WFCS conference, Rostock, Germany, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/WFCS63373.2025.11077623.
2024
S.K. Modalavalasa, A.F. Usmani, A. Pouralizadeh, C. Giachoudis, L.M. Giraldo, R. Zamorano-Illanes, Z. Ghassemlooy, S. Zvanovec, V. Jungnickel, A. Khalighi, L. Nero Alves, J. Perez Soler, P. Fonseca, "Evolution of OWC: A Collaborative Contour Across Various Sectors," in 2024 14th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2024), 2024. DOI: 10.1109/CSNDSP60683.2024.10636621.
C. Giachoudis, M.-A. Khalighi, S. Zvanovec, V. K. Papanikolaou, S. A. Tegos, G. K. Karagiannidis, “Investigation of Suitable MAC Protocols for Optical Wireless Body-Area Networks,” Proc. 14th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing – CSNDSP 2024, July 2024, Rome, Italy. DOI: 10.1109/CSNDSP60683.2024.10636608.
C. Giachoudis, V. K. Papanikolaou, K.G. Rallis, M.-A. Khalighi, S. A. Tegos, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis, Robert Schober, George K. Karagiannidis, "On the Application of Slotted ALOHA in Optical Wireless Body Area Networks,”, 7th International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom), Ljubljana, Slovenia, June, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/BalkanCom61808.2024.10557166.
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Background
I hold an Integrated Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), which I completed between September 2018 and July 2023. During my studies, I developed a strong interest in optical communication systems, which led me toward the field of wireless body area networks.
Since September 2023, I have been pursuing a Ph.D. at École Centrale Méditerranée as part of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) project OWIN6G, where my research focuses on optical WBANs. My current work involves designing, modeling, and optimizing optical wireless communication systems for patient monitoring applications, with an emphasis on MAC layer solutions for improved energy consumption, while achieving a certain level of communication reliability.
I am interested in interdisciplinary research and always keen to deepen my understanding of diverse technologies, while contributing to collaborative academic environments.