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Giuseppe Bianchi received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering from Polytechnic of Milano, Italy, in 1990, and a specialization degree in Information Technology from Cefriel, Milano, in 1991. He spent 1992 as Visiting Researcher at the Washington University of St. Louis, MO, and 1997 as Visiting Professor at Columbia University, NY. He has been Assistant Professor at Polytechnic of Milano from 1993 to 1998, and Associate Professor at the University of Palermo from 1998 to 2003. Since November 2003, he is Associate Professor at the University of Roma Tor Vergata. He was co-organized of the international workshop WMI2001 and WMASH2003, and served as TCP member for over 20 conferences. He holds managing positions in a number of national and european research projects. His research activity, documented in about 80 international publications, include wireless access protocols and network architectures, QoS support in both wireless and wired IP networks, and performance evaluation.
Parviz Kermani holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UCLA. Since 1978, he has been with IBM at T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, where he has been involved in number of diverse research projects spanning from theoretical works to product developments, all in computer communication areas. He has made many contributions to number of IBM communication products for which IBM holds patents. Dr. Kermani is a senior member of IEEE and has many publications in diverse fields of computers and communications. He has chaired technical sessions in number of international conferences. He is also an adjunct professor at the graduate center of Polytechnic University in Westchester, New York, where he teaches graduate courses in computer communication networks. His current interests are in the area of mobile computing, personal system communications, and Internet security, distributed and pervasive computing systems, Multimedia distribution and distance learning.
Sung-Ju Lee is a research scientist at the Mobile & Media Systems Lab (MMSL) of HP Labs. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Lee published over thirty five papers in the field of computer networks. He is an associate editor-in-chief for ACM SIGMOBILE’s Mobile Computing & Communications Review (MC2R) and serves on the editorial board of Elsevier Science’s Ad Hoc Networks Journal. He was a co-guest editor of the Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing’s special issue on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking, was a co-TPC chair for the first ACM workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH 2003), serves as a technical program committee and organizing committee member of various networking related conferences including ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, and IEEE INFOCOM. He is a member of ACM, ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Computer Society. His research interests include mobile networking & computing, ad hoc networks, energy efficient protocols, streaming media distribution networks, public WLAN Hotspot networks, overlay networks, and adaptive service infrastructure.
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Bianchi, G., Kermani, P. & Ju Lee, S. Guest Editorial. Mobile Netw Appl 10, 263–264 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-005-6420-6
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