Jean Warland

received his Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley. He is the co-author of “Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction” (Morgan-Claypool 2010), “Scheduling and Congestion Control for Communication and Processing Networks” (Morgan-Claypool, 2010), “High-Performance Communication Networks” (2nd ed, Morgan Kaufman, 2000) and “Sharing Network Resources (Morgan-Claypool, 2014), and the author of An Introduction to Queueing Networks (Prentice Hall, 1988) and Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Amazon, 2014). Prof. Walrand is a Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and of the IEEE and a recipient of the INFORMS Lanchester Prize, the IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2012 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award and the 2013 ACM Sigmetrics Achievement Award.

Ioannis Stavrakakis (Editor-Translator) is a Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), where he also served as Head of the Department. He received his first degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia, USA. He has served as a Professor at Northeastern and Vermont Universities, USA. He has published extensively in the broader area of Computer Networks and has participated as a research coordinator in a large number of research programs funded by the EU. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). website: Ioannis Stavrakakis’ Homepage (uoa.gr)

Lazaros Merakos is a Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications and scientific director of the Networks Center at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA). He received his first degree from the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. He has served as a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He has published extensively in the broader field of Computer Networks and has participated as a research coordinator in a large number of research programs funded by the EU.