
Nikos D. Sidiropoulos
Professor,
Telecommunications Division
Department of
Electronic & Computer Engineering
Kounoupidiana Campus
Chania -
Phone: +30-28210-37227
Fax: +30-28210-37542
E-mail: nikos@telecom.tuc.gr
2008-2009
IEEE SPS DL Topics:
IEEE
Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer Program Information

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Research:
Prof. Sidiropoulos’ current research interests are primarily in signal processing for communications,
convex optimization, cross-layer resource allocation for wireless networks, and multiway analysis –
i.e., linear algebra for data arrays indexed by three or more variables.
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(69) E. Matskani, N.D. Sidiropoulos, and L. Tassiulas, \Adaptive Convex
Approximation
Algorithms for Back-pressure Power Control", submitted to IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing.
(68) I. Mitliagkas, N.D. Sidiropoulos, and A. Swami, \Joint Power and Admission
Control for Ad-hoc and Cognitive Underlay Networks: Convex Approximation
and Distributed
Implementation", submitted to IEEE Trans.
on Wireless Communications.
(67) D. Nion, N.D. Sidiropoulos, \Tensor Algebra and
Multi-dimensional Harmonic
Retrieval in Signal Processing for MIMO Radar", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,
58(11):5693-5705, Nov. 2010. PDF
(66) D. Angelosante, G.B. Giannakis,
and N.D. Sidiropoulos, \Estimating Multiple
Frequency-Hopping Signal Parameters via Sparse Linear Regression", IEEE Trans. on
Signal Processing, 58(10):5044-5056, Oct. 2010. PDF
(65) A.B. Gershman, N.D. Sidiropoulos,
``Convex
Optimization-based Beamforming: From Receive to
Transmit and Network Designs'',
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, special issue on Convex Optimization
for Signal Processing,
pp. 62-75, May 2010. PDF
(64) A. Abdelkader, A.B. Gershman, and N.D. Sidiropoulos,``Multiple-Antenna Multicasting
Using Channel Orthogonalization and Local
Refinement'', IEEE Trans. on Signal
Processing,
58(7):3922-3927, July 2010. PDF
(63) D.
Decomposition of a
Third-Order Tensor’’, IEEE Trans. on
Signal Processing, 57(6):2299-2310,
June 2009. PDF
(62) A. Valyrakis,
and Particle Filtering
Algorithms for Tracking a Frequency-Hopped Signal’’, IEEE
Trans. on Signal
Processing, 57(8):3108-3118, Aug. 2009. PDF
(61) V. Ntranos, N.D. Sidiropoulos, L. Tassiulas,
``On Multicast Beamforming for
Minimum Outage’’, IEEE Trans. on
Wireless Communications, 8(6):3172-3181, June
2009. PDF
(60) D. Nion, K.
PARAFAC-Based Blind
Separation of Convolutive Speech Mixtures’’, IEEE
Trans. on Audio,
Speech and Language Processing, 18(6):1193-1207,
Aug. 2010. PDF
(59)
E. Matskani, N.D.
Sidiropoulos, Z.-Q. Luo,
L. Tassiulas, ``Efficient Batch and
Adaptive Approximation
Algorithms for Joint Multicast Beamforming and
Admission
Control’’, IEEE Trans. on
Signal Processing, 57(12):4882-4894, Dec. 2009. PDF
(58) K.T. Phan, S.A.
Sharing in Wireless
Networks via QoS-Aware Secondary Multicast Beamforming’’, IEEE
Trans. on Signal
Processing, 57(6):2323-2335, June 2009. PDF
(57)
E. Sayag, A. Leshem, N.D. Sidiropoulos,
``Finite Word Length Effects on Transmission
Rate
in Zero Forcing Linear Precoding for Multichannel DSL’’, IEEE Trans. on Signal
Processing, 57(4):1469-1482, Apr. 2009. PDF
(56) E. Tsakonas, N.D. Sidiropoulos, A. Swami, ``Optimal Particle Filters for
Tracking a
Time-Varying Harmonic
or Chirp Signal’’, IEEE Trans. on
Signal Processing, 56(10):4598-4610,
Oct. 2008. PDF
(55) E. Matskani, N.D. Sidiropoulos, Z.-Q.
Luo, L. Tassiulas, ``Convex Approximation
Techniques for Joint Multiuser Downlink Beamforming
and Admission Control’’, IEEE
Trans. on Wireless
Communications, 7(7):2682-2693,
July 2008. PDF
(54)
E. Karipidis, N.D.
Sidiropoulos, Z.-Q. Luo,
``Far-field Multicast Beamforming for
Uniform Linear Antenna Arrays’’, IEEE Trans. on
Signal Processing, 55(10):4916-4927,
Oct. 2007. PDF
(53) A. Ribeiro, N.D. Sidiropoulos, G.B. Giannakis,
``Optimal Distributed Stochastic Routing
Algorithms for
Wireless Multihop Networks’’, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications,
7(11):4261-4272, Nov. 2008. PDF
(52) G. Latsoudas, N.D. Sidiropoulos, ``A Fast and Effective Multidimensional
Scaling
Approach for Node
Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks’’, IEEE Trans. on Signal
Processing, 55(10): 5121 –
5127, Oct. 2007. PDF
(51)
E. Karipidis, N.D.
Sidiropoulos, Z.-Q. Luo,
``Quality of Service and Max-min-fair
Transmit Beamforming to Multiple Co-channel Multicast Groups’’, IEEE Trans. on
Signal
Processing, 56(3):1268-1279, Mar.
2008. PDF
(50) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
Z.-Q. Luo, ``A Semidefinite
Relaxation Approach to MIMO
Detection for High-Order QAM Constellations’’, IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
13(9):525-528, Sep. 2006. PDF
(49) Z.-Q.
Quadratic Optimization with Homogeneous Quadratic
Constraints’’,
Optimization,
18(1):1-28,
Feb. 2007. PDF
(48)
Wireline Random Access Throughput in Wireless Networking via
User Cooperation’’,
IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 53(2):732-758, Feb. 2007. PDF
(47) A. Stegeman, and N.D. Sidiropoulos, ``On Kruskal's
uniqueness condition for the
Candecomp/Parafac decomposition’’, Linear Algebra and its Applications,
420:540-552, 2007. PDF
(46) E. Karipidis, N.D. Sidiropoulos, A. Leshem, Li Youming, R. Tarafi, and M. Ouzzif,
“Crosstalk
Models for Short VDSL2 Lines from Measured 30 MHz Data’’, EURASIP
Journal
on Applied Signal Processing, special issue on DSL, 2006, Article ID 85859. PDF
(45) E. Karipidis, N.D. Sidiropoulos, A. Leshem, L. Youming, “Experimental
Evaluation of
Capacity Statistics for Short VDSL Loops”, IEEE Trans. on Communications,
53(7):1119—1122,
July 2005. PDF
(44) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
T.N. Davidson, Z-Q (Tom) Luo, “Transmit Beamforming for
Physical Layer Multicasting”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 54(6), Part 1, pp.
2239-2251,
June 2006. PDF
(43) R. Bro, R.A.
Data with Linearly
Dependent Loadings’’, J. Chemometrics, 2009 (DOI: 10.1002/cem.1206). PDF
(42) G. Dimic, N.D. Sidiropoulos, “On Downlink Beamforming with Greedy User
Selection:
Performance Analysis and a Simple New Algorithm”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,
53(10):3857-3868, Oct.
2005. This paper received the IEEE Signal Processing Society
2007
(senior) best paper award. PDF
(41) X. Liu, N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and A. Swami, “Joint Hop Timing
and Frequency
Estimation for Collision Resolution in
Frequency-Hopped Networks”, IEEE
Trans. on Wireless Communications, 4(6):3063-3074, Nov. 2005. PDF
(40) G. Latsoudas, N.D. Sidiropoulos, “A Hybrid Probabilistic Data Association -
Sphere Decoding Detector for Multiple-Input
Multiple-Output Systems”, IEEE
Signal
Processing Letters, 12(4):309-312, Apr. 2005. PDF
(39) T. Jiang, and N.D. Sidiropoulos,
“Blind Identification of Out of
Cell Users in
DS-CDMA”,
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (JASP), special issue on
Advances in Smart Antennas, 2004(9):1212-1224, Aug.
2004. PDF
(38) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
A. Swami, and B. Sadler, “Quasi-ML
Period Estimation from
Incomplete Timing Data”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 53(2):733-739, Feb. 2005. PDF
(37) Y. Rong, S.A. Vorobyov, A.B. Gershman, and N.D.
Sidiropoulos, “Blind Spatial
Signature Estimation via Time-Varying User Power
Loading and Parallel Factor Analysis”,
IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 53(5):1697-1710, May 2005. PDF
(36)
Fitting of Multilinear
Models”, IEEE Trans. on Signal
Processing, 53(8):2678—2689,
Aug. 2005. PDF
(35) G. Dimic, N.D. Sidiropoulos, and R. Zhang, “Signal Processing and Queueing
Tools for MAC-PHYS Cross-Layer Design”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, special
issue on signal processing and queueing
aspects of network protocols, p. 40-50, Sept.
2004. PDF
(34) T. Jiang, and N.D. Sidiropoulos,
“Kruskal’s
Permutation Lemma and the Identification
of CANDECOMP/PARAFAC and Bilinear Models with Constant
Modulus Constraints”,
IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 52(9):2625-2636, Sept. 2004. PDF
(33) J. M.F. ten Berge, N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and R. Rocci, “Typical Rank and INDSCAL
Dimensionality for Symmetric Three-way Arrays of
Order Ix2x2 or Ix3x3”, Linear
Algebra
and its Applications, 388:363-377, Sep. 2004. PDF
(32) A. Stamoulis, N.D. Sidiropoulos, and G. Giannakis,
“Time-Varying Fair Queueing
Scheduling for Multicode
CDMA Based on Dynamic Programming”,
IEEE Trans. on
Wireless Communications, 3(2):512-523, Mar. 2004. PDF
(31) T. Jiang, N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and G.B. Giannakis, “Kalman
Filtering for Power
Estimation in
2(1):151-161, Jan. 2003. PDF
(30) G. Dimic, N.D. Sidiropoulos, and L. Tassiulas,
“Wireless Networks with
Retransmission
Diversity Access Mechanisms: Stable Throughput and
Delay Properties”, IEEE
Trans. Signal Processing, 51(8):2019-2030, Aug. 2003 (special issue on signal
processing
for networking). PDF
(29) R. Zhang, N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and M. Tsatsanis, “Collision Resolution in Packet
Radio Networks Using Rotational Invariance Techniques”, IEEE Trans. on Communications,
50(1):146-155, Jan. 2002. PDF
(28) J. M.F. ten Berge, and N.D. Sidiropoulos, “On Uniqueness in CANDECOMP /
PARAFAC”,
Psychometrika, 67(3):399-409, Sep. 2002. PDF
(27) X. Liu, N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and A. Swami, “Blind
High-Resolution Localization
and Tracking of Multiple Frequency Hopped Signals”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,
50(4):889–901,
Apr. 2002. PDF
(26) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and R. Budampati, “Khatri-Rao Space-Time Codes”, IEEE
Trans. on Signal Processing, special issue on signal processing techniques for
space-time
coded transmissions, 50(10):2396-2407, Oct. 2002. PDF
(25) R. Bro, N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and A.K. Smilde, “Maximum Likelihood Fitting Using
Ordinary Least Squares Algorithms”, J. of Chemometrics,
16:387-400, Sep. 2002. PDF
(24) X. Liu, and N.D. Sidiropoulos,
“Almost Sure Identifiability
of Constant Modulus
Multidimensional Harmonic Retrieval”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,
50(9):2366-
2368, Sep. 2002. PDF
(23) T. Jiang, N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and J. M.F. ten Berge, “Almost
Sure Identifiability
of Multidimensional Harmonic Retrieval”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,
49(9):1849-
1859, Sep. 2001. PDF
(22) M.S. Pattichis, A.C. Bovik, J.W. Havlicek, and N.D.
Sidiropoulos, “Multidimensional
Orthogonal FM Transforms”, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 10(3):448
-464,
Mar. 2001. PDF
(21) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and Xiangqian Liu, “Identifiability Results for Blind Beamforming
in Incoherent Multipath with
Small Delay Spread”, IEEE
Trans. on Signal Processing,
49(1):228-236, Jan. 2001. PDF
(20) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
“Generalizing Caratheodory’s Uniqueness of
Harmonic Parameterization
to N Dimensions”, IEEE Trans. Information Theory,
47(4):1687-1690, May 2001. PDF
(19) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and G. Z. Dimic, “Blind Multiuser Detection
in W-CDMA
Systems with Large Delay Spread”, IEEE Signal Proc. Letters, 8(9):87-89, Mar.
2001. PDF
(18) X. Liu, and N.D. Sidiropoulos,
“Cramer-Rao
Lower Bounds for Low-rank Decomposition
of Multidimensional Arrays”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,
49(9):2074-2086,
Sep. 2001. PDF
(17) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
G.B. Giannakis, and R. Bro, “Blind PARAFAC Receivers for
DS-CDMA Systems”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 48(3):810–823, March 2000. PDF
(16) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
R. Bro, and G.B. Giannakis, “Parallel Factor Analysis in Sensor
Array Processing”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 48(8):2377-2388, Aug. 2000. This
paper received the IEEE Signal Processing
Society 2001 (senior) best paper award. PDF
(15) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and R. Bro, “On the Uniqueness of Multilinear Decomposition
of N-way Arrays”, J. Chemometrics, 14(3):229-239, May 2000
(special cross-disciplinary
issue on multi-way analysis). PDF
(14) Tao Li, and N.D. Sidiropoulos,
“Blind Digital Signal Separation
Using Successive
Interference Cancellation Iterative Least Squares”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,
48(11):3146-3152, Nov. 2000. PDF
(13) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
and R. Bro, “Mathematical
Programming Algorithms for Regression
- based Nonlinear Filtering in RN”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 47,
No. 3, pp. 771–782,
Mar. 1999. PDF
(12) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
M.S. Pattichis, A.C. Bovik,
and J.W. Havlicek, “COPERM:
Transform-Domain Energy Compaction by Optimal
Permutation”, IEEE Trans. on
Signal
Processing,
Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 1679–1688,
June 1999. PDF
(11) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
“On the Tractability of Estimating
the Germ Process of Certain
Germ-Grain Random Set Models and Related Problems”, Pattern Recognition, special
issue on random sets, Vol. 32, No. 9, pp. 1667–1674, 1999. PDF
(10) F. Korn, N.D. Sidiropoulos, C. Faloutsos,
Effective Retrieval of Medical Tumor Shapes”, IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering,
Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 889–904, Nov.-Dec. 1998. PDF
(9) R. Bro and N.D. Sidiropoulos,
“Least Squares Regression Under Unimodality and
Non-negativity Constraints”, Journal of Chemometrics,
Vol. 12, pp. 223-247, 1998. PDF
(8) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
J.S. Baras, and
Constraints”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 45,
No. 12, pp. 3096-3104, Dec. 1997.
PDF
(7) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
“Fast Digital Locally Monotonic
Regression”, IEEE Trans. on
Signal Processing, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 389-395, Feb. 1997. PDF
(6) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
“The Viterbi
Optimal Runlength-Constrained Approximation
Nonlinear Filter”, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 586-598,
March
1996. PDF
(5) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
J.S. Baras, and C.A. Berenstein,
“Further results on MAP Optimality
and Strong Consistency of Certain Classes of
Morphological Filters”, IEEE
Trans.
on Image Processing, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 762-764, May 1996. PDF
(4) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
D. Meleas, and T. Stragas, “MAP Signal Estimation in Noisy
Sequences of Morphologically Smooth
Images”, IEEE Trans. on Image
Processing, Vol.
5, No. 6, pp. 1088-1093, June 1996. PDF
(3) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
J.S. Baras, and
Binary Images Corrupted by Union/Intersection Noise”, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing,
Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 382-403, 1994. PDF
(2) N.D. Sidiropoulos,
J.S. Baras, and
Generating Functional for Discrete Random Sets, and
Statistical Inference for Intensity in
the Discrete Boolean Random Set Model”, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision,
Vol. 4, pp. 273-290, 1994. PDF
(1)
Using Morphological Shape Decomposition”, Computer Vision and Image Processing, L.
Shapiro and A. Rosenfeld, Editors (collection of
refereed papers from J. Computer Vision,
Graphics, and Image Processing), Academic Press, 1992. PDF
Plenary talks:
N.D.
Sidiropoulos, “Cross-layer Wireless Networking: Complexity, Approximation, and
Opportunities for SP Research”, plenary lecture at IEEE SPAWC 2010, June 20-23, 2010,
N.D. Sidiropoulos, “Low-Rank Decomposition of Multi-Way Arrays: A Signal
Processing Perspective”, plenary lecture at IEEE SAM 2004, July 18-21, Sitges,
N.D. Sidiropoulos, “Links Between Multidimensional Low-Rank and Harmonic
Decomposition”, invited presentation at Numerical Multilinear Algebra and Applications
mini-symposium
at SIAM50 Anniversary and 2002 Annual Meeting,
PA, July 8-12, 2002. PDF
Tutorials:
N.D.
Sidiropoulos, “Linear Algebra for Three-way Arrays: A Signal Processing
Perspective”, IEEE ICASSP 2005 tutorial
TUT-14, March 19, 2005, Philadelphia, PA,
N.D.
Sidiropoulos, “Linear Algebra for Three-way Arrays: A Signal Processing
Perspective”, IEEE
ISSPIT 2003 tutorial, Dec. 14, 2003,
Research
honors & awards:
Factor Analysis in Sensor Array Processing”, by N.D. Sidiropoulos, R. Bro, and G.
Giannakis, published in the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, August 2000.
Beamforming with Greedy User Selection: Performance Analysis and a Simple New Algorithm”,
by G. Dimic and N.D. Sidiropoulos, published in the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Oct. 2005.
Participation
in EC research projects:
Participation
in National Projects:
(GSRT), joint with G. Giannakis, Univ. of Minnesota.
Professional
Service:
Associate Editor: IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2000 - 2002); IEEE Trans. Signal
Processing (2000 - 2006)
Chair of Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCOM-TC),
IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2007 – 2008 (vice-chair, 2005 – 2006) http://ewh.ieee.org/tc/spcom/
Technical Committee Member:
IEEE Signal Processing Society (2000 – 2008).
IEEE Signal Processing Society (2004 – 2009). http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~willett/
Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE CAMSAP 2005 Workshop, held in
General Co-Chair (with R. Rao, RIT) for IEEE CAMSAP 2007 Workshop,
Technical Program Committee co- Chair (with
B. Sadler, ARL) for IEEE SAM 2008
Workshop, July 21-23,
Chair:
TRICAP 2006 (cross-disciplinary three-way analysis workshop), held in
Former graduate
students:
Multilinear Regression”.
Member of Technical Staff, Philips Wireless,
Low Rank and Harmonic Analysis with Applications in Spread Spectrum Communications”.
Assistant Professor at the
Professor,
with Applications in Signal Processing and Wireless Communications”. Post-Doctoral
Researcher in Prof. Ottersten’s
group at KTH,
Mathematical Analyst, Bear Stearns,
June – October 2008, Analyst at JP Morgan,
Bank of Scotland, stationed in
Schemes for Multiple Access and Multiuser Downlink Transmission in Wireless Networks”.
Senior
Researcher and Group Leader, Institute Mihailo Pupin,
Dec. 2005 – Goran on Serbian public TV! - .mpg video
Technical Staff at
Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks”. Member of Technical Staff at Wind
Cellular,
Athens-Greece.
Downlink Beamforming and Admission
Control”.
Frequency Hopping”. Officer in the Greek
Air Force Corps of Engineers.
Multicast Groups”. Post-Doc with Erik Larsson, Sep. 2008 – Dec. 2009; now Assistant
Professor
at
Branch & Bound and Gradual Admissions”. Member of technical staff at Nokia -
Center,
Cognitive
Underlay Networks: Convex Approximation and Distributed Implementation”.
Currently pursuing Ph.D. at UT Austin.
Thimios Tsakonas,
currently pursuing Ph.D. at KTH,
Current
graduate students:
Post-Doc:
decomposition,
blind speech separation, and MIMO radar, funded by the French DGA. After TUC,
he joined
K.U. Leuven,
Software:
COMFAC: Matlab
code for LS fitting of the complex PARAFAC model in 3-D
TALS: Plain-vanilla Matlab code for LS fitting of the complex PARAFAC model in 3-D
QALS: Plain-vanilla Matlab code for LS fitting of the complex PARAFAC model in 4-D
testCDMA.m: simple PARAFAC-CDMA demo
MDF.m: Multi-Dimensional Folding algorithm for 2-D
harmonic retrieval
MDE.m: Multi-Dimensional Embedding algorithm for the
retrieval of 2-D damped harmonics
3-way
links: