Lajos Hanzo (http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk) FREng, FIEEE, FIET, DSc received his degree in electronics in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983. During his 34-year career in telecommunications he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he holds the chair in telecommunications. He has co-authored 19 John Wiley - IEEE Press books on mobile radio communications totalling in excess of 10 000, published 684 research papers at IEEE Xplore, acted as TPC Chair of IEEE conferences, presented keynote lectures and been awarded a number of distinctions. Currently he is directing an academic research team, working on a range of research projects in the field of wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK, the European IST Programme and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. He is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer as well as a Governor of both the IEEE ComSoc and the VTS. He is the acting Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press. For further information on research in progress and associated publications please refer to http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk

Ian F. Akyildiz received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently, he is the Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Director of Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunication Group at Georgia Tech. Dr. Akyildiz is also an Honorary Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, since June 2008. Also since March 2009, he is an Honorary Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a Visiting Professor with King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, starting January 2010. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) in 2003, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal (Elsevier) in 2008, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Nano Communication Networks (NANO-COMNET) Journal (Elsevier) in 2010. Dr. Akyildiz serves on the advisory boards of several research centers, journals, conferences and publication companies. Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE FELLOW (1996) and an ACM FELLOW (1997). He received numerous awards from IEEE and ACM. His current research interests are in Nanonetworks, Cognitive Radio Networks, and Wireless Sensor Networks.

Kwang-Cheng Chen received B.S. from the National Taiwan University in 1983, M.S. and Ph.D from the University of Maryland, College Park, United States, in 1987 and 1989, all in electrical engineering. From 1987 to 1998, Dr. Chen worked with SSE, COMSAT, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and National Tsing Hua University, in mobile communications and networks. Since 1998, Dr. Chen has been with National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, and is the Distinguished Professor and Director for the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, and Director for the Communication Research Center, National Taiwan University. Dr. Chen actively involves the technical organization of numerous leading IEEE conferences, including as the Technical Program Committee Chair of 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications, TPC co-chair for IEEE Globecom 2002, General Co-Chair for 2007 IEEE Mobile WiMAX Symposium in Orlando, 2009 IEEE Mobile WiMAX Symposium in Napa Valley, IEEE 2010 Spring Vehicular Technology Conference, and IEEE 2010 Workshop on Social Networks. He has served editorship with a few IEEE journals and many international journals including, and served various positions in IEEE. Dr. Chen also actively participate various wireless international standards. He has authored and co-authored over 200 technical papers and 18 granted US patents. He co-edits (with R. DeMarca) the book Mobile WiMAX published by Wiley 2008, and authors a book Principles of Communications published by River 2009, and co-author (with R.Prasad) another book Cognitive Radio Networks published by Wiley 2009. Dr. Chen is an IEEE Fellow and received numerous awards and honors. Dr. Chen’s research interests include wireless communications and networks, future computation/communication, and cognitive science.

Gerhard Fettweis earned his PhD degree from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) in 1990. He is an IEEE Fellow, and active in organizing conferences (e.g. IEEE ICC 2009) and workshops. From 1990 to 1991, he was Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, developing signal processing innovations for IBM’s disk drive products. From 1991 to 1994, he was a Scientist with TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA, responsible for signal processor development projects for cellular phone chip-sets. Since 1994, he holds the Vodafone Chair at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. During this time, the chair has spunout eight start-ups: Systemonic, Radioplan, Signalion, InCircuit, Dresden Silicon, Freedelity, RadioOpt, Blue Wonder Communications.

Gerd Ascheid, SM-IEEE received the Dipl.-Ing. (1977) and Dr.-Ing. (1984) degrees in EE (Communications Eng.) from RWTH Aachen University. In 1988 he started as a co-founder CADIS GmbH which successfully brought the system simulation tool COSSAP to the market. In 1994 CADIS GmbH was acquired by SYNOPSYS, a California-based EDA market leader, where his last position was Senior Director (Executive Management), Wireless & Broadband Communications Service Line. Design projects at Synopsys ranged from spacecraft transponders to UMTS physical layer. Since April 2003 Gerd Ascheid holds the chair for Integrated Signal Processing of RWTH Aachen University (www.iss.rwth-aachen.de). He is also coordinator of the research cluster on Ultra-high speed Mobile Information and Communication (UMIC Research Centre, www.umic.rwth-aachen.de) at RWTH Aachen University. His main research interest is in physical layer algorithms and energy efficient MPSoC for wireless communication.

Ian F. Akyildiz received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently, he is the Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Director of Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunication Group at Georgia Tech. Dr. Akyildiz is also an Honorary Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, since June 2008. Also since March 2009, he is an Honorary Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a Visiting Professor with King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, starting January 2010. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) in 2003, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal (Elsevier) in 2008, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Nano Communication Networks (NANO-COMNET) Journal (Elsevier) in 2010. Dr. Akyildiz serves on the advisory boards of several research centers, journals, conferences and publication companies. Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE FELLOW (1996) and an ACM FELLOW (1997). He received numerous awards from IEEE and ACM. His current research interests are in Nanonetworks, Cognitive Radio Networks, and Wireless Sensor Networks.

Fumiyuki Adachi received the B.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1973 and 1984, respectively. In April 1973, he joined the Electrical Communications Laboratories of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (now NTT) and conducted various types of research related to digital cellular mobile communications. From October 1984 to September 1985, he was a United Kingdom SERC Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at Liverpool University. From July 1992 to December 1999, he was with NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. (now NTT DoCoMo, Inc.), where he led a research group on wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) for 3G cellular systems (IMT-2000). Since January 2000, he has been with Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, where he is a Professor of Electrical and Communication Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering. His research interests are in broadband wireless access techniques including equalization, MIMO diversity/multiplexing, distributed antenna network. He is an IEEE Fellow and was a co-recipient of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Transactions Best Paper of the Year Award 1980 and again 1990 and also a recipient of Avant Garde award 2000. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE) and was a recipient of IEICE Achievement Award 2002 and a co-recipient of the IEICE Transactions Best Paper of the Year Award 1996 and again 1998. He was a recipient of Thomson Scientific Research Front Award 2004 and Ericsson Telecommunications Award 2008.

Lin-Nan Lee heads the Advance Development Group which performs research and development in source coding, channel coding, modulation, multiple access and networking technologies at Hughes. He and his group have made many significant contributions to the design and engineering of Hughes satellite and wireless communications products and technology. Among the most notable are, high-quality voice coding at low data rates, turbo codes, interference cancellation, low-cost electronic scanning antenna for Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT) and algorithms for Ground Based Beam Forming (GBBF). The group actively participated in the third generation wireless communications standards process in both U.S. and Europe, and has been successful in introducing the turbo codes, channel access protocols and several other key technologies into the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards. Subsequently, the group also introduced low-density parity check (LDPC) codes into the next generation Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) as the next generation satellite broadcast standard (DVB-S2), and contributed in IEEE802.11.n Standards under his leadership.
Lin-Nan Lee received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Norte Dame, all in Electrical Engineering, in 1970, 1972, and 1976, respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation on concatenated codes with feedback formed the basis for turbo codes, in which a great deal of interest has been gathered in recent years. During 1975-1977, he was with the Linkabit Corporation. There, he co-developed the Priority Oriented Demand Assignment (PODA), packet-based satellite multiple access protocol as a first attempt to address the quality of service (QoS) issues of packet-switched networks such an the present-day Internet.
During 1978-1992, he worked for Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT), serving in various research and development positions in the COMSAT Laboratory, and as Chief Scientist of COMSAT System Division. His major research areas at COMSAT spanned across conditional access, channel coding, digital signal processing, and high-definition television. In recognition of his accomplishments, he has been awarded the COMSAT Exceptional Invention Award, the 1985 COMSAT Research Award, and the 1988 COMSAT Research Award.
Dr. Lee is a Fellow of IEEE. He has authored or co-authored over 30 US patents, more than two dozen journal and conference papers, and chapters of two books.

Halim Yanikomeroglu is an Associate Professor at Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa. Dr. Yanikomeroglu’s research interests cover many aspects of the physical, medium access, and networking layers of wireless communications with a special emphasis on multihop/relay/mesh networks and cooperative communications. Dr. Yanikomeroglu has co-authored around 100 papers in these research areas in the last 5 years and also has given several tutorials in leading international conferences.

Dr. Yanikomeroglu has been involved in the organization of several conferences; most recently, he served as the Technical Program Chair of IEEE WCNC 2008, and he is serving as the General Co-Chair of IEEE VTC2010-Fall.