413 About the Contributors 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 telecom- munications 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 re- search 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. * * * 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 manage- ment, 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 414 About the Contributors 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 contin- ued 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 plan- ning 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 vari- ous 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.