The IEEE VTS & AESS Joint Greece Chapter appreciates and would like to congratulate all the contestants for their valuable participation in the IEEE VTS & AESS Joint Greece Chapter Final/Diploma Thesis Competition. The TPC realized that the quality of the submissions to the contest was exceptionally high and would like to include all the submissions to the final round. However, due to time limitations the TPC had to accept only 8 submissions. Therefore, the ones with the highest rates from peer reviewing will be presented on February 17th, 2012.

The 8 submissions with the highest rates are given below in alphabetical order:

Student Name	Affiliation	Thesis Title
Chaloulos Konstantinos	National Technical University of Athens	Fuzzy Power Control for Local Multipoint Distribution Service
Destounis Apostolos	National Technical University of Athens	Optimal Control of Multibeam Satellite Antennas for Satellite Communication Networks Operating in Ka Band (20-30GHz)
Kampianakis Eleftherios	Technical University of Crete	Custom Over The Air Programmable Embedded Radios
Kimionis John	Technical University of Crete	Design and Implementation of Backscatter Links with Software Defined Radio for Wireless Sensor Network Applications
Kokkinogenis Stefanos	University of Western Macedonia	Base station management for energy saving in mobile access networks
Kyriakopoulos Constantine	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Design, Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Multiple-antenna Push System with Adaptation to User Demand
Polatoglou Marianna	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Adaptive push-based data broadcasting in asymmetric wireless environments with low computational complexity
Poulios Giorgos	University of Piraeus	Machine Learning Techniques for Cognitive Networks

The above authors have been informed by e-mails for the submission procedure of the final-phase of the competition.

The rest participants are given below in alphabetical order:

Student Name	Affiliation	Thesis Title
Anastasiadou Nikoletta	Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki	Digital TV Coverage Measurements Processing
Fuschelberger David	Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi	Implementation of a Visible Light Communication Transceiver Prototype
Karagiorgis Vasileios	Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki	Studying the impact of security mechanisms on the performance of the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol
Makris Ioannis	Hellenic Open University	Development of a Distributed Management System for Urban Bus Mobile Network
Maximides Ronis	Democrecian University of Thrace	Design of an Embedded Mobile Phone Radiator for Simultaneous GSM Support and Digital Video Reception
Pachatouridis Konstantinos	Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki	Design and implementation of a real-time cooperative system for the estimation of traffic conditions on the road network using mobile phone devices with GPS enabled receivers
Papadakis Emmanouil	University of Piraeus	Study and Evaluation of Multiplexing Schemes in LTE-Advanced Networks
Papadopoulos Georgios Z.	Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki	On the Enhancement of IEEE 802.11 Overlapping APs Capacity Sharing
Seizis Christos	University of Western Macedonia	Wireless Indoor Networks Modeling with Applications to Modern Networks
Sianna Aikaterini	University of Peloponnisos	Antenna Characteristics Simulation and Experimental Study
Tsiachris Sotirios	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Junction-Based Geographic Routing Algorithm for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

We would also like to express our deep appreciation to the reviewers for their outstanding and timely contribution to the review process. The reviewers' list is given below in alphabetical order:

Antonis Dimitriou	George Koutitas	Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
Dimitrios Efstathiou	Thomas Lagkas	Aggeliki Sgora
Costas Hilas	Aggeliki Moneda	Dimitrios Stratogiannis
Melina Ioannidou	Ioannis Papadimitriou	Georgios Tsiropoulos
Athanassios Iossifides	George Papadopoulos	Vassilis Vitsas
Eirini Karapistoli	Anastasios Politis	Traianos Yioultsis
Georgios Koltsidas

We will be very glad to meet you all in the awards ceremony on Friday 17th of February 2012 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. For the details of the event you will be informed with a new announcement.