Kostas Sdrolias

Contact Info

Athens University of Economics and Business,
Department of Computer Science,
76 Patission St., 4th floor (Antoniadou wing),
Athens 10434, Greece

Office: Network Economics and Systems Theory Lab
Tel.: +30 210-8203154
E-mail: sdrolias@aueb.gr

Studies

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Department of Computer Science, under the supervision of Professor Costas Courcoubetis.
I am a member of the Network Economics and Services Group (NES Group).

Research Interests

  • Network economics
  • Pricing mechanisms
  • Game theory
  • Multi-sided markets

Academic experience

Teaching assistant
  • Graduate courses
    • Network Economics, MSc program in Computer Science, AUEB
      Instructor: Professor Costas Courcoubetis. (Spring 2013-2016)
  • Undergraduate courses
    • Introduction to Computer Science, Department of Informatics, AUEB
      Instructors: Professor Costas Courcoubetis, Assistant Professor Iordanis Koutsopoulos. (Fall 2012-2015)

Software

  • PeeringCalc-An open software tool for deriving bandwidth peering prices.

Publications

Journals

  • C. Courcoubetis, L. Gyarmati, N. Laoutaris, P. Rodriguez, K. Sdrolias. “Negotiating Premium Peering Prices: A Quantitative Model with Applications ”. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, vol. 16, no.2, pp. 14:1--14:22, April 2016. [pdf]

International Conferences and Workshops

  • C. Courcoubetis, K. Sdrolias, R. Weber. “Pricing the fast-lanes: A qualitative study on the implications of paid peering agreements ”. IEEE ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016 (to appear).
  • L. Gyarmati, N. Laoutaris, K. Sdrolias, P. Rodriguez, C. Courcoubetis. “From advertising profits to bandwidth prices-A quantitative methodology for negotiating premium peering ”. W-PIN+NetEcon 2014: The joint Workshop on Pricing and Incentives in Networks and Systems, in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS, Austin, USA, 2014. [pdf]
  • C. Courcoubetis, K. Sdrolias, R. Weber. “Revenue Models, Price Differentiation and Network Neutrality Implications in the Internet ”. W-PIN+NetEcon 2013: The joint Workshop on Pricing and Incentives in Networks and Systems, in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS, Pittsburgh, USA, 2013. [pdf]