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Raúl Aquino Santos graduated from the University of Colima with a BE in Electrical Engineering and received his MS degree in Telecommunications from the Centre for Scientific Research and High- er Education in Ensenada, Mexico, in 1990. He holds a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Sheffield, England. Since 2005, he has been with the Col- lege of Telematics, at the University of Colima, where he is currently a Research-Professor in telecommunications networks. His current research interests include wireless and sensor networks.

Victor Rangel Licea received the B.Eng (Hons) degree in Computer Engineering at the Engineering Faculty from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1996, the M.Sc in Telematics at the University of Sheffield, UK, in 1998, and the Ph.D. in performance analysis and traffic scheduling in cable networks in 2002, from the University of Sheffield. Since 2002, he has been with the School of Engineering, UNAM, where he is currently a Research-Professor in telecommunications networks. His research focuses on fixed, mesh, and mobile broadband wireless access networks, QoS over IP, traffic shaping, scheduling, handoff procedures, and performance optimization for IEEE 802.16 (wimax)-based networks. He has published more than 40 research papers in journals and international conferences, as well as directed more than 35 research master and bachelor theses. He currently has 1 Ph.D. student, 1 post-doc student, and 8 master students. Dr. Rangel has participated in the Technical Program Commit- tee (TPC) and as a reviewer in more than 10 international conferences. He is a member of the National Research System (SNI).

Arthur Edwards Block received his Masters degree in Education from the University of Houston in 1985. He has been a Researcher-Professor at the University of Colima since 1985, where he has served in various capacities. He has been with the School of Telematics since 1998. His primary areas of research are Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), distance learning, collaborative learning, multimodal learning, and mobile learning. The primary focus of his research is presently in the area of mobile collaborative learning.

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Luis Alonso earned his PhD in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications of the UPC, and he reached the PhD degree in 2001. In 2006, he obtained a permanent tenured position in the Uni- versity, becoming an Associate Professor within the Radio Communications Research Group. In 2009, he co-founded the Wireless Communications and Technologies Research Group (WiComTec), to which currently belongs. He participates in several research programs, networks of excellence, COST actions, and integrated projects funded by the European Union and the Spanish Government, always working About the Contributors

on the design and analysis of different mechanisms and techniques to improve wireless communications systems. He has been collaborating with some telecommunications companies as Telefónica, Alcatel, Abertis, and Sener, working as a consultant for several research projects. He is external audit expert for TUV Rheinland. He is currently the Project Coordinator of two European Projects (Marie Curie ITN and IAPP), funded by the European Union, and he has been the Project Coordinator of other three European Projects (Marie Curie Actions ToK, IEF, and IAPP) as well. He has been the Scientist in Charge of a project carried out in coordination with ADIF, which is the Spanish Railway Infrastructure Administrator, related to wireless communications in the high-speed railway transportation system. He has also been the Scientist in Charge of one three-year Research Project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. He is author of more than 30 research papers in international journals and magazines, 1 book, 12 chapters in books, and more than 100 papers in international congresses and symposiums. His current research interests are still within the field of medium access protocols, radio resource management, cross-layer optimization, cooperative transmissions, cognitive radio, network coding, and QoS features for all kind of wireless communications systems.

Omar Álvarez Cárdenas was born in Colima on November 4th 1969. He graduated in 1993 as a Communications and Electronic Engineer at the University of Colima. In 1999, he completed his Master of Science in Telematics at the University of Colima. Actually is a research-professor at the School of Telematics with research interest in wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, metro ethernet networks, quality of service, modeling and simulating networks, and mobile computing.

Angelos Antonopoulos received his PhD degree from the Signal Theory and Communications (TSC) Department of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in December 2012, while he holds an MSc degree from the Information and Communication Systems Engineering Department (ICSDE) of the University of the Aegean (2007). Since 2008, he has been involved in several national and European projects (ICARUS, CO2Green, Green-T, Greenet, etc.). He is currently working at the Smart Energy Efficient Communication Technologies (SMARTECH) area of the Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia (CTTC) and his main research interests include MAC protocols, RRM algorithms, network coding, and energy-efficient network planning.

Habib Badri Ghavifekr received the B.S. degree from Tabriz University, Iran, and continued his study in Germany and received the M.S. degree (Diploma Engineer) from Technical University of Berlin, in 1995, both in electrical engineering. Immediately after that, he joined the Institute for Microperipheric at the Technical University of Berlin (nowadays BeCAP: Berliner Center for Advanced Packaging) as a scientific assistant and in 1998 the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (FhG-IZM) as a research assistant. In 2003, he received his PhD in electrical engineering from Technical University of Berlin. Since 2005, he is an assistant professor at Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran. His research interests are microsystem technologies, microelectronic packaging, MEMS, and electronic measurement systems for industrial applications.

Alexandra Bousia received her B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer and Communication Engineering from the Department of Computer and Communication Engineering in University of Thessaly, in 2008 and 2009, respectively. She is currently working towards the PhD degree in Wireless Communications

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at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), and she is working as a Marie Curie researched in the same department. Since 2011, she has been involved in several national and European research funded projects (Greenet, CO2Green, Green-T, Geocom). Her research interests include wireless networks, MAC protocols, energy efficient communication protocols and RRM algorithms.

Zheng Chang received the B.Eng. Degree from Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2007, and M.Sc. (Communications Engineering) from Helsinki University of Technology (Now Aalto Univer- sity), Espoo, Finland, in 2009. During 2008-2009, he was with the Department of Communications and Networking, Helsinki University of Technology. Since August 2010, he has been a Ph.D. student of University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. Currently, he is also working in Magister Solutions Ltd. His research interests include signal processing, radio resource allocation for wireless systems, green communications, and WLAN.

Yue Chen, BS, MS, PhD, MIET, MIEEE, joined the Networks group at QMUL in 2000 and continued as a member of staff in 2003 after obtaining her PhD in wireless communications. She is a senior lecturer and has been involved in a numerous number of research activities, including the IST project SHUFFLE. Her current research interests include intelligent radio resource management for wireless networks, MAC and network layer protocol design, scheduling and load balancing optimization, CoMP, cognitive radio, LTE-A networks, machine-to-machine communications, and intelligent transport system.

Zaher Dawy received the B.E. degree in computer and communications engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon, in 1998, and the M.E. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in communications engineering from Munich University of Technology (TUM), Munich, Germany, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. Since September 2004, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AUB, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research and teaching interests include distributed and cooperative communications, cellular technologies, radio network planning and optimization, radio resource management, context-aware mobile computing, mobile solutions for smart cities, computational genomics, and bioinformatics. Dr. Dawy is an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and an Executive Editor for Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.

Arthur Edwards received his master’s degree in Education from the University of Houston in 1985. He has been a researcher-professor at the University of Colima since 1985, where he has served in various capacities. He has been with the School of Telematics since 1998. His primary areas of research are Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), distance learning, collaborative learning, multimodal leaning and mobile learning. The primary focus of his research is presently in the area of mobile collaborative learning.

Laura Victoria Escamilla del Río was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México in 1985, currently lives in Villa de Álvarez, Colima, México. She graduated in 2010 as a Telematic´s Engineer at the Univer- sity of Colima, where she is now studying a Master in Computer Science. Currently, she is developing projects related to control system in domotics environments and wireless communications networks.

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Juan Michel Garcia Díaz was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, on January 12, 1986, and currently lives in Villa de Alvarez, Colima, Mexico. He graduated in 2008 as a Computer Systems Engineer at the University of Colima, where he is now studying the Master of Computer Science. He is currently developing projects related to vehicular networks and multimodal interfaces. He is also interested in wireless communications networks.

Mario García-Lozano received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Barcelona-TECH), Spain, in 2001 and 2009, respectively. From 1999 to 2002, he was a member of the technical staff at Retevision, Spain, where he worked on the radio planning of LMDS networks. In 2002, he joined the Department of Signal Theory and Communica- tions at UPC, where he currently lectures as a tenured associate professor. He has actively participated in several research projects funded by the European Union and the Spanish government. He has also worked as a consultant in projects funded by private telecommunication companies and institutions. His research activities are focused in the field of radio network planning and radio resource management issues both for cellular and broadcasting networks.

David González was born in Chitré, Herrera, Republic of Panama. He received his BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering degree from the University of Panamá in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he worked as Telecommunication Engineer at Cable Onda, a cable TV operator in Panamá, where he was involved in the integration of VoIP services. During this period, he also participated at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá as part-time assistant professor. In 2007, he received his MS degree (with em- phasis in cellular networks) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), where he is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications. David has participated in the European COST Actions 2100 and IC1004. His research interests include intercell interference coordination and radio resource management for OFDMA cellular networks.

Mark A. Gregory was born in Melbourne, Australia, and received a PhD and a Master of Engi- neering from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2008 and 1992, respectively, and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 1984. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is a retired Army officer who spent four years working on major defense projects and a director of an engineering consultancy. Dr. Gregory is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. and his research interests include cyber-security, fiber network design and operation, wireless networks, and technical risk. Dr. Gregory received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation in 2009.

Elli Kartsakli received her PhD in Wireless Telecommunications from the Technical University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTECH) in February 2012. She holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engi- neering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2003), and an MSc in Mobile and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey, UK (2004). Since 2009, she has participated in several national and European projects. Her research interests include wireless networking, channel access protocols and energy efficient communication protocols.

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Kok Keong (Michael) Chai, BEng, MSc, PhD, MIEEE, joined Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), UK, as a Joint Programme Lecturer in 2008. His research field is in the areas of next generation wireless networks with particular focus on intelligent radio resource management for next generation wireless networks, machine-to-machine communications, and Internet of things in intelligent transport systems. The innovations in his work include QoS-aware packet scheduling in OFDMA-Based LTE-A Networks, efficient ad hoc routing protocols for vehicular networks, and dynamic radio resource allocation for vehicular networks.

Md. Abdul Latif Sarker received the B.S. (Hons) and M.S. Degrees in Applied Physics, Electronics, and Communication Engineering from Islamic University in Bangladesh in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He is currently doing research towards the Ph.D. degree of Electronic Engineering as a researcher at the Institute of Information and Communication at Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea, since 2010. His research interests include the areas of MIMO-LTE Advanced, Jacket Matrices, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).

Moon Ho Lee is a professor and former chair of the Department of Electronics Engineering at Chonbuk National University, Korea. He received the Ph.D. degree from Chonnam National University, Korea, in 1984, and from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1990, both Electrical Engineering. He was in the University of Minnesota, USA, from 1985 to 1986, as a post-doctor. He was conferred an honorary doctorate from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2010. He has been working in Namyang MBC broadcasting with chief engineer from 1970 to 1980; after that he joined to Chonbuk National University as a Professor. Dr. Lee has made significant original contributions in the areas of mobile communication code design, channel coding, and multi-dimensional source, and channel coding. He has authored 40 books, 160 SCI papers in international journals, and 260 papers in domestic journals, and delivered 410 papers at international conferences. Dr. Lee is a member of the National Academy of Engineering in Korea and a Foreign Fellow of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is the inventor of Jacket Matrix.

Mohammad Faiz Liew Abdullah received BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering (Communication) in 1997, Dip Education in 1999, and MEng by research in Optical Fiber Communication in 2000 from University of Technology Malaysia (UTM). He completed his PhD in August 2007 from The University of Warwick, United Kingdom, in Wireless Optical Communication Engineering. He started his career as a lecturer at Polytechnic Seberang Prai (PSP) in 1999, and was transferred to UTHM in 2000 (formerly known as PLSP). At present, he is Assist Professor in the Department of Communication Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). He had 12-years’ experience of teaching in higher education, which involved the subjects optical fiber communication, advanced optical communication, advanced digital signal processing, etc. His research area of interest are wireless and optical communication and robotic in communication.

Wenfeng Ma was born in 1974. He received the B.S. degree, M.S. degree, and Ph.D. degree from PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 1996, 1998, and 2003, respectively. He is an associate professor with the Nanjing Institute of Communication Engineering, China. His research interests include new generation wireless mobile communication system, radio resource management, and network coding in wireless communication.

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Margarita Glenda Mayoral Baldivia was born in Colima, México, on July 6th. She graduated in Degree in Computer, and in 1998, she completed his Master of Science in Telematics at the University of Colima. Currently, she is a Research-Professor at School of Telematics with research interest in security network, wireless communications. She is Main Contact of Program Networking Academy de Cisco.

Hadi Mirzajani received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from Azad University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, in 2010. Immediately after that, he joined the microsystems research group at Electrical Engineering department in Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran, as a Master of Science student. In that period, he was involved in designing numerous RF MEMS devices and components for wireless communication applications under supervision of Dr. Habib Badri Ghavifekr. After graduation from M.Sc. in September 2012, he continued his studies as a PhD candidate. He is now pursuing his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering with the focus on Radio Frequency Microelectromechanical Systems Technology under supervision of Dr. Habib Badri Ghavifekr in microsystems research group at Electrical Engineering department in Sahand University of Technology. He is the author and coauthor of numerous journal and conference papers in the fields of microsystems and microelectromechanical systems technology. He is also the reviewer of a number of journals and conferences in his fields of interest. His main research interests include RF MEMS/NEMS technology, micro/nanofabrication, MEMS-enabled reconfigurable antennas, smart and miniaturized antennas, and radio frequency integrated circuits.

Asish K. Mukhopadhyay is M.Tech (ECE) from IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D(Engg) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is the Director of Bengal Institute of Tech and Management, Santiniketan, and the Chairman, Computer Society of India, Durgapur Chapter. With more than 38 years of experience in teaching, research, administration, he served institutions like IIT Kharagpur, NERIST Itanagar, CEMK, Kolaghat, NiT, Kolkata, BCREC, Durgapur, BCETW, Durgapur, holding various positions such as Principal, Dean, HoD, etc. His current area of research includes next generation wireless and mobile networks. He has about 65 research publications in national/international journals and conference proceedings and delivered many key note/theme lectures in conferences. He is honorary Life Fellow of ACEEE, Life Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (I), Sr. Member, IEEE, Sr. Life Member, CSI; Life Member of ISTE, SSI, and IETE.

Esmaeil Najafi Aghdam was born in Zonouz, Iran, in 1964. He received the B.E. degree from University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran, in 1990, and the M.S. degree from Amir-Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1994, both in electronic engineering. In 1995, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran, as a Lecturer. In 2002, he started his PhD program dealing with a high-performance bandpass Delta Sigma ADC. The research program was directed by Prof. P. Benabes at SUPELEC, France. Since 2006, he is an Assis- tant Professor at Sahand University of Technology. His current research interests include mixed mode electronic circuits, Delta Sigma Converters, RF design, Ultrasonic circuits and Electronic measurement.

Mohammadhossein Norouzibeirami received B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering in 2005 from PNU bonab University and M.Sc. degree in Computer Software Engineering in 2008 from Islamic Azad University (IAU) Qazvin branch, Iran. He is a Faculty member at IAU Osku branch since 2008. His research interests are algorithm, resource allocation, data mining, and fuzzy logic.

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Rehana Kausar, BEng, MSc, PhD, MIEEE, MIMAP, joined Queen Mary University of London in 2009 as a research student and teacher assistant. She had two MSc degrees, in Physics and Data Communications and Networks, with distinction. Her interests are Radio Resource Management in the next generation wireless networks, in particular cross-layer design adaptive scheduling architectures based on 3GPP specifications, mainly Release 8 and 10. The innovations in her work are QoS-aware packet scheduling architecture, service-specific queue-sorting algorithms, and an intelligent time do- main scheduling algorithm for a fair resource allocation in terms of throughput and packet drop rate in LTE-Advanced networks.

Kyeong J. Kim received the M.S. Degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Tech- nology (KAIST) in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2000. After receiving his degrees, he joined the Nokia Research Center in Dallas as a senior research engineer. From 2005 to 2009, he worked with the Nokia Corporation in Dallas as an L1 specialist. His research has focused on the transceiver design, resource management, and scheduling in the cooperative wireless communication systems. Now he is working with Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Anup Kumar Bhattacharjee completed B.E. (E&TC) in 1983, M.E.Tel.E. in 1985 from Jadavpur University. He completed Ph.D. (Engg.) in 1989. He has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 150 research papers in various international journals and conferences of repute. He guided 6 PhD students successfully. His areas of interests are Antenna, EM Theory, Radar Engg., Microwave Circuits, Microwave Devices, and Satellite Communication.

Farukh M. Rahman, with 8 years of experience in Telecommunication Industry, has a combined resource of academic knowledge and relevant industry experience. He completed his Bachelor of Elec- trical and Electronic Engineering from IUT, Bangladesh, in 2001. Then he completed his Masters of Engineering in Information Technology from RMIT University, Australia, in the year 2005. Since then, he is working with the leading telecommunication companies of Australia and performed various roles within network and IT operations, escalated project and incident management, etc. Currently, he is working as a member of a large-scale program of work under National Broadband Network migration for Special Services. Farukh has sheer interest towards innovative researches and is currently pursuing PhD in Communication Engineering. His area of research is developing an optimum routing technique for MANET within LTE cellular network and already achieved few IEEE publications.

Tapani Ristaniemi received his M.Sc. in 1995 (Mathematics), Ph.Lic. in 1997 (Applied Mathemat- ics) and Ph.D. in 2000 (Wireless Communications), all from the University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. In 2001, he was appointed as Professor in the Department of Mathematical Information Tech- nology, University of Jyväskylä. In 2004, he moved to the Department of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, where he was appointed as Professor in Wire- less Communications. In 2006, he moved back to University of Jyväskylä to take up his appointment as Professor in Computer Science. He is an Adjunct Professor of Tampere University of Technology. In 2013, he was a Visiting Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has authored or co-authored over 150 publications in journals,

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conference proceedings and invited sessions. He served as a Guest Editor of IEEE Wireless Communi- cations in 2011 and currently he is an Editorial Board Member of Wireless Networks and International Journal of Communication Systems. His research interests are in the areas of brain and communication signal processing and wireless communication systems research. Besides academic activities, Professor Ristaniemi is also active in the industry. In 2005, he co-founded a start-up Magister Solutions Ltd. in Finland, specialized in wireless system R&D for telecom and space industries in Europe. Currently, he serves as a consultant and a Member of the Board of Directors.

Silvia Ruiz Boqué received her MSc and PhD degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, in 1986 and 1989, respectively. She is responsible of the Wireless Communications and Technologies Research Team (WiComTec, UPC) specialized in radio network planning and optimization field, where she has many international publications and books that are fruit of the collaboration in several European projects and COST Actions.

Yasser Sadri received B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering in 2004 and M.Sc. degree in Computer Software Engineering in 2010 from Islamic Azad University (IAU) Shabestar branch, Iran. He is a main member of IAU Young Researchers club since 2003. He also has worked as an assistant to mechanize information system in zakarya hospital, Tabriz. Yasser is a Lecturer at IAU since 2010. His research interests are scheduling methods, resource allocation, next generation wireless networks, WiMAX networks, artificial intelligence, and fuzzy systems.

Sajal Saha is currently working as Assistant professor in the department of computer application, Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India, since August 2004. He received his ME degree in In- formation Technology from West Bengal University of Technology (2007), MCA degree from Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim (2004) and BSc (Physics) degree from Calcutta University (2001). His current research area includes Overlay based heterogeneous networks, Mobile IP route optimization, Remote Sensing, and GIS. Shri Saha is the recipient of Silver medal for securing 2nd position in ME examination. He has nine years of professional experience in educational and research field. He contributed significantly in the area of Mobile computing for the last five years. He published 20 papers in refereed international and national journals and conferences of repute. Total citation count of all his papers are 12 until now and h-index: 2. He authored a book titled GIS and Remote Sensing: Applications in Flood Damage Assessment published by Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.

Christos Verikoukis received degree in Physics and M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He got his PhD from the Technical University of Catalonia in 2000. Since February 2004, he is a senior research associate in Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia (CTTC). Before joining CTTC, he was research associate and projects coordinator in the Southeastern Europe Telecommunications & Informatics Re- search Institute in Greece. He has been involved in several European (FP5 IST, FP6 IST & Marie-Curie, FP7 ICT & People, EUREKA) and national (in Spain and in Greece) research funded projects, while in some of them he has served at the Project or the Technical Manager. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers, 10 chapters in different books, and 2 books. His research interests include MAC protocols, RRM algorithms, cross-layer techniques, and cooperative and cognitive communications for wireless systems.

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Kui Xu was born in China. He received the B.S. degree, M.S., degree and Ph.D. degree from PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2004, 2006, and 2009. He is currently a lecturer in the Wireless Communications Department, Institution of Communications Engineering, PLAUST. His research interests include multicarrier modulation, synchronization, signal processing in communications, network coding, and blind source separation. He received the 2010 ten excellent doctor degree dissertation award of PLAUST.

Youyun Xu was born in 1966. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering in 1999. He is currently a professor with the Nanjing Institute of Communication Engineering, China. He is also a part-time professor with the Institute of Wireless Communication Technology of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China. He has more than 20 years of professional experience of teaching and researching in communication theory and engineering. Now, his research interests are focusing on new generation wireless mobile communication systems (IMT-advanced and related), advanced channel coding and modulation techniques, multi-user information theory and radio resource management, wireless sensor networks, cognitive radio networks, etc. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a senior member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.

Elias Yaacoub received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Lebanese University in 2002, the M.E. degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2005, and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from AUB in 2010. He worked as a Research Assistant in the American University of Beirut from 2004 to 2005, and in the Munich University of Technology in Spring 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he worked as a Telecommunications Engineer with Dar Al-Handasah, Shair, and Partners. Since November 2010, he is a Research Scientist at the QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC), rebranded to QMIC (Qatar Mobility Innovations Center) in July 2012. His research interests include wireless communications, antenna theory, sensor networks, energy efficiency in wireless networks, video streaming over wireless networks, and bioinformatics.

Dongmei Zhang was born in 1972. She received her B.E. and M.E. degrees in communication engineering in 1993 and 2005, respectively. She is an associate professor with the Nanjing Institute of Communication Engineering, China. Her research interests include new generation wireless mobile communication system, radio resource management, and network coding in wireless communication.

Nizar Zorba holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from JUST University (Jordan, 2002), a MSc in Data Communications by the University of Zaragoza (Spain, 2004), an MBA by the University of Zaragoza (Spain, 2005), and a PhD in Signal Processing for Communications by UPC-Barcelona (Spain, 2007). He is currently a research scientist at QMIC. He led and participated in more than 20 research projects (European, Qatari, and Spanish funded). He is author of 6 patents, 2 books, 5 book chapters and more than 80 peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. His research interests are QoS/ QoE in wireless systems, energy efficiency, and resource optimization in WLAN and LTE systems.

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Aws Zuheer Yonis has strong expertise in wireless access technologies and mobile communications such as LTE, LTE-Advanced, WiMAX, and applications to communication systems. His educational attainments are B.Eng. from Technical College of Mosul in Iraq, MSc. and PhD. from Faculty of Elec- trical and Electronic Engineering at University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia in Malaysia. He became an engineer at college of electronic engineering at university of Mosul, Iraq, in 2006. He has published a book and many papers in international journals and conferences. He is member of IEEE, IAENG, SCIEI, SIE, CBEES, SDIWC, IACSIT, and Syndicate of Iraqi Engineers.

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