Katina Kralevska

Deputy Head of Department and Associate Professor

Department of Information Security and Communication Technology Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

katinak@ntnu.no +47 73412861 +47 73592670

Elektro A, A271, Gløshaugen, O. S. Bragstads plass 2

Katina is the Deputy Head of the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology since January 2019. She received the MSc. degree in wireless and mobile communications from the Institute of Telecommunications, Ss. Cyril and Methodis University - Skopje, Macedonia, in 2012 and the Ph.D. degree from Department of Telematics, NTNU - Trondheim, Norway, in 2016.

She was a visitor in the ISN research group at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College - London, UK during autumn semester 2017.

She is a co-founder at MemoScale AS. MemoScale is a provider of software solutions for data protection and compression in storage systems.

Supervision of PhD students

Ali Esmaeily (supervisor), Topic: Network slicing in 5G
H. V. Kalpanie Mendis (co-supervisor), Topic: 5G for smart distribution grid operations
Mayank Raikwar (co-supervisor), Topic: Innovative cryptography for innovative blockchain services
Anton Hasselgren (co-supervisor), Topic: Building and maintaining trust in virtual care environments with blockchain

Supervision of Master students

Simen Haga, "Towards 5G network slice isolation with WireGuard and Open Source MANO", 2020
Jens-Andreas Hanssen Rensaa, "VerifyMed - Application of blockchain technology to improve trust in virtualized healthcare services", 2020
Shamim Biswas, "Enhancing the Privacy of Decentralized Identifiers with Ring Signatures", 2020
Mathias Kjølleberg Førland, "SDN - a crucial security component towards 5G", 2019
Krishna Shingala, "An alternative to the Public Key Infrastructure for the Internet of Things", 2019
Ingvild Hovdelien Midthaug, "Hadoop, and its mechanisms for reliable storage", 2018
Tewelde Degefa Assefa, "QoS performance of LTE networks with network coding", 2015

Teaching

TTM4180 Applied Networking

Fundings

H2020 EIC SME INSTRUMENT-2-2018-2020
0.7 mil. NOK from Innovation Norway, 2016
4.3 mil. NOK from the Research Council of Norway, Program on Commercializing R&D Results (FORNY 2020), 2015
2.5 mil. NOK from the Research Council of Norway, Program on Commercializing R&D Results (FORNY 2020), 2014
1.1 mil. NOK from NTNU Discovery, 2013
0.5 mil. NOK from Brukerstyrt Regional Innovasjonsarena (BRIA), 2013

Publications

A. Esmaeily, K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, "A Cloud-based SDN/NFV Testbed for End-to-End Network Slicing in 4G/5G," IEEE NetSoft 2020 Workshop on Advances in Slicing for Softwarized Infrastructures (S4SI)
J. H. Rensaa, D. Gligoroski, K. Kralevska, A. Hasselgren, A. Faxvaag, “VerifyMed - A blockchain platform for transparent trust in virtualized healthcare: Proof-of-concept”, Blockchain and Internet of Things Conference (BIOTC 2020)
D. J. Vergados, K. Kralevska, Y. Jiang, and A. Michalas, "Local Voting: A New Distributed Bandwidth Reservation Algorithm for 6TiSCH Networks," to appear in Computer Networks
A. Hasselgren, A. Faxvaag, K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, S. A. Pedersen, "Blockchain in healthcare and health sciences – a scoping review," International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol.134, p.104040, 2020
M. Raikwar, D. Gligoroski, and K. Kralevska, "SoK of Used Cryptography in Blockchain," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 148 550–148 575, 2019.
M. Førland, K.Kralevska, M. Garau, D. Gligoroski, "Preventing DDoS with SDN in 5G," IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop on 5G Wireless Security (IEEE 5G-Security), 2019.
K. Kralevska, M. Garau, M. Førland, D. Gligoroski, "Towards 5G Intrusion Detection Scenarios with OMNeT++," in Proceedings of 6th International OMNeT++ Community Summit, ser. EPiC Series in Computing, vol. 66. EasyChair, pp. 44–51, 2019.
D. Gligoroski and K. Kralevska, "Expanded Combinatorial Designs as Tool to Model Network Slicing in 5G," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 54879–54887, 2019
K. Mendis, P. Heegaard, and K. Kralevska, "5G Network Slicing for Smart Distribution Grid Operations,” 25th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2019)
N. Mital, K. Kralevska, C. Ling, and D. Gündüz, "Practical Functional Regenerating Codes for Broadcast Repair of Multiple Nodes," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2019)
K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, R. E. Jensen, and H. Øverby, "HashTag Erasure Codes: From Theory to Practice," IEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 516-529, Dec. 2018
D. J. Vergados, A. Michalas, K. Kralevska, and D. D. Vergados, "Evaluation of HTTP/DASH Adaptation Algorithms on Vehicular Networks," Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS 2018)
N. Mital, K. Kralevska, D. Gündüz, and C. Ling, "Storage-Repair Bandwidth Trade-off for Wireless Caching with Partial Failure and Broadcast Repair," IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2018)
L. Jaccheri, S. Khodambashi, K. De Moor, O. Ozgobek, and K. Kralevska, "Who Will Be the Leaders in Top Academic Positions in Entertainment Computing?,” International Conference on Entertainment Computing Workshop (IFIP-ICEC’18)
D. Gligoroski, K. Kralevska, R. E. Jensen, and P. Simonsen, "Network Traffic Driven Storage Repair," International Journal of Big Data Intelligence, 2018
K. Kralevska and D. Gligoroski, "An Explicit Construction of Systematic MDS Codes with Small Sub-packetization for All-Node Repair," IEEE DataCom 2018
K. Kralevska, D. J. Vergados, Y. Jiang, and A. Michalas, "A Load Balancing Algorithm for Resource Allocation in IEEE 802.15.4e Networks," IEEE PerCom 2018
D. J. Vergados, N. Amelina, Y. Jiang, K. Kralevska, and O. Granichin, "Towards Optimal Distributed Node Scheduling in a Multihop Wireless Network through Local Voting," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 400-414, Jan. 2018
D. J. Vergados, N. Amelina, Y. Jiang, K. Kralevska, and O. Granichin, "Local Voting : Optimal Distributed Node Scheduling Algorithm for Multihop Wireless Networks," In IEEE Conf. on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), pp. 1014–1015, 2017
D. Gligoroski, K. Kralevska, R. E. Jensen, and P. Simonsen "Repair Duality with Locally Repairable and Locally Regenerating Codes ," IEEE DataCom 2017
K. Kralevska, "Applied Erasure Coding in Networks and Distributed Storage," Ph.D. thesis, Dec. 2016
K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, and H. Øverby, "Balanced Locally Repairable Codes," In Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing (ISTC), pp. 280-284, Sept. 2016
K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, and H. Øverby, "General Sub-packetized Access Optimal Regenerating Codes," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 1281-1284, July 2016
T. D. Assefa, K. Kralevska, and Y. Jiang, "Performance Analysis of LTE Networks with Random Network Coding," In Proceedings of 39th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), pp. 601-606, May 2016
G. Biczók, Y. Chen, K. Kralevska, and H. Øverby, "Combining Forward Error Correction and Network Coding in Bufferless Networks: a Case Study for Optical Packet Switching," IEEE 17th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2016
K. Kralevska, H. Øverby, and D. Gligoroski, "Coded Packet Transport for Optical Packet/Burst Switched Networks," In Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1 - 6, Dec. 2015
D. Gligoroski, K. Kralevska, and H. Øverby, "Minimal Header Overhead for Random Linear Network Coding," In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communication Workshop (ICCW), pp. 680 - 685, June 2015
K. Kralevska, H. Øverby, and D. Gligoroski, "Joint Balanced Source and Network Coding," 22nd Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), Telecommunication Society 2014, ISBN 978-1-4799-6190-0, pp. 589-592
D. Gligoroski and K. Kralevska, "Families of Optimal Binary Non-MDS Erasure Codes," IEEE Proceedings on International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), ISBN 978-1-4799-5186-4, pp. 3150-3154, 2014
K. Kralevska, Z. Hadzi-Velkov, and H. Øverby, "Asymptotic Performance of Bidirectional Dual-Hop Amplify-and-Forward Systems," Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 231, pp. 283-289, 2014
K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, and H. Øverby, "Balanced XOR-ed Coding," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8115, pp. 161-172, 2013
K. Kralevska and Z. Hadzi-Velkov, "Asymptotic Performance of Amplify-and-Forward Relay Systems with On-off Relaying," Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol. 150, pp. 119-127, 2012

Patents

Systematic coding technique for erasure correction, US Patent App. 16/065,478 (granted)
Systematic coding technique, GB Patent 2,538,110 B (granted)
Systematic coding technique for distributed storage systems, WO Patent 2016180727A1 (granted)
Network coding over gf (2), US Patent App. 14/902,251 (granted)
Systematic coding technique, US Patent 9,430,443 (granted)
Coding in galois fields with reduced complexity, US Patent WO2015197413A1 (granted)
Network coding over gf (2), US Patent App. 20160373210A1 (granted)
Locally Repairable Erasure Codes, Application No. GB1608441.0 (pending)
Regenerating - Locally Repairable Codes, Application No. GB1613575.8 (pending)
Regenerating - Locally Repairable Codes, Application No. GB1616704.1 (pending)

Media coverage

[WhitePaper]PerformanceOfErasureCodingOnAMD_EPYC.pdf

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theregister.co.uk

ekonomit.se

lemondeinformatique.fr

Additional Activities

NTNU representative in the EURECOM Consortium
Program Co-Chair of IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress 2020 to be held in Calgary during June 22-26, 2020
Program Co-Chair, IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress 2019, Fukuoka, Japan
TPC member, IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop on 5G Wireless Security 2019, Waikoloa, HI, USA
Faculty Board member representing the temporary scientific staff, 2017
Member of the Leadership program for Women in Computer Science WeLead