Katina Kralevska
Background and activities
Katina is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology since January 2018. She was the Deputy Head of Department for 2 years, in the period 2019-2020. 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.
Katina is one of the key scientists in the Digital Transformation project - Trust and Transparency in Digital Society Through Blockchain Technology, and a moderator of the monthly webinars.
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
- Kashif Mehmood (supervisor), Topic: Autonomous intent-driven SLA assurance and decomposition for next generation verticals and networks
- Ali Esmaeily (supervisor), Topic: Network slicing in 5G
- Sahana Sridhar (co-supervisor), Topic: Codes for low-latency communication in B5G
- H. V. Kalpanie Mendis (co-supervisor), Topic: 5G Network Slicing for Smart Distribution Grids
- Aida Akbarzadeh (co-supervisor), Topic: Dependency based risk analysis in Cyber Physical Systems
- Anton Hasselgren (co-supervisor), Topic: Building and maintaining trust in virtual care environments with blockchain
- Mayank Raikwar (co-supervisor), Topic: Innovative cryptography for innovative blockchain services
Supervision of Master students
- Sondre Sørensen Kielland, "Secure Communication with WireGuard - VPN-as-a-Service in Beyond 5G", 2022
- 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
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
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K. Mehmood, D. Palma, K. Kralevska, "Mission-Critical Public Safety Networking: An Intent-Driven Service Orchestration Perspective," WIN 2022 - IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2022
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A. Esmaeily, K. Kralevska, T. Mahmoodi, "Slicing Scheduling for Supporting Critical Traffic in Beyond 5G," in Proceedings of IEEE CCNC 2022
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A. Esmaeily, K. Kralevska, "Small-Scale 5G Testbeds for Network Slicing Deployment: A Systematic Review," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2021
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K. Mehmood, H. V. K. Mendis, K. Kralevska, P. E. Heegaard, "Intent-based Network Management and Orchestration for Smart Distribution Grids," 28th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 21)
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A. Hasselgren, J. H. Rensaa, K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, A. Faxvaag, "Blockchain for increased trust in virtual health care: Proof-of-concept study," Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021; 23(7):e28496
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K. Mehmood, K. Kralevska, D. Palma, "Intent-driven Autonomous Network and Service Management in Future Networks: A Structured Literature Review," under review
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H. V. K. Mendis, P. E. Heegaard, V. C. Giner, F. Y. Li, K. Kralevska, "Transient Performance Modelling of 5G Slicing with Mixed Numerologies for Smart Grid Traffic," in Proc. of IEEE CAMAD 2021
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N. Mital, K. Kralevska, C. Ling, and D. Gündüz, "Functional Broadcast Repair of Multiple Partial Failures in Wireless Distributed Storage Systems", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT)
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A. Hasselgren, K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, A. Faxvaag, "Medical students’ perceptions of a blockchain-based decentralized work history and credentials portfolio: Qualitative feasibility study," JMIR Formative Research. 2021 Oct 22;5(10):e33113
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S. Haga, A. Esmaeily, K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, "5G Network Slice Isolation with WireGuard and Open Source MANO: A VPNaaS Proof-of-Concept," in Proc. IEEE NFV-SDN 2020
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A. Hasselgren, P. K. Wan, M. Horn, K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, A. Faxvaag, "GDPR Compliance for Blockchain Applications in Healthcare," International Conference on Big Data, IOT and Blockchain (BIBC 2020)
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A. Esmaeily, K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, "A Cloud-based SDN/NFV Testbed for End-to-End Network Slicing in 4G/5G," 6th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2020.
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J. H. Rensaa, D. Gligoroski, K. Kralevska, A. Hasselgren, A. Faxvaag, “VerifyMed - A blockchain platform for transparent trust in virtualized healthcare: Proof-of-concept,” in Proc. of the 2nd International Electronics Communication Conference, pp. 73-80. 2020.
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D. J. Vergados, K. Kralevska, Y. Jiang, and A. Michalas, "Local Voting: A New Distributed Bandwidth Reservation Algorithm for 6TiSCH Networks," Computer Networks, vol.180, pp. 107384, 2020
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A. Hasselgren, K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, A. Faxvaag, "GDPR Compliant Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies in the Health Sector," Studies in health technology and informatics, vol. 270, pp. 1293-1294, 2020
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A. Hasselgren, K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, S. A. Pedersen, A. Faxvaag, "Blockchain in healthcare and health sciences – a scoping review," International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol.134, p.104040, 2020
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M. Raikwar, D. Gligoroski, and K. Kralevska, "SoK of Used Cryptography in Blockchain," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 148 550–148 575, 2019
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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
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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
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D. Gligoroski and K. Kralevska, "Expanded Combinatorial Designs as Tool to Model Network Slicing in 5G," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 54879–54887, 2019
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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)
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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)
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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
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D. J. Vergados, K. Kralevska, A. Michalas, and D. D. Vergados, "Evaluation of HTTP/DASH Adaptation Algorithms on Vehicular Networks," Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS 2018)
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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)
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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)
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D. Gligoroski, K. Kralevska, R. E. Jensen, and P. Simonsen, "Network Traffic Driven Storage Repair," International Journal of Big Data Intelligence, 2018
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K. Kralevska and D. Gligoroski, "An Explicit Construction of Systematic MDS Codes with Small Sub-packetization for All-Node Repair," IEEE DataCom 2018
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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
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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
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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
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D. Gligoroski, K. Kralevska, R. E. Jensen, and P. Simonsen "Repair Duality with Locally Repairable and Locally Regenerating Codes," IEEE DataCom 2017
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K. Kralevska, "Applied Erasure Coding in Networks and Distributed Storage," Ph.D. thesis, Dec. 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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K. Kralevska, D. Gligoroski, and H. Øverby, "Balanced XOR-ed Coding," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8115, pp. 161-172, 2013
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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
Additional Activities
- NTNU representative in the EURECOM Consortium
- Program Co-Chair of the 6th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (2021), IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress 2020, IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress 2019
- Member of the Leadership program for Women in Computer Science WeLead and IDUN
- Faculty Board member representing the temporary scientific staff, 2017
Courses
- TTM4180 - Applied Networking
- TTM4905 - Communication Technology, Master's Thesis
- TTM4502 - Communication Technology, Specialization Project