Azzedine Boukerche is a Full Professor and holds a Canada Research Chair position at the University of Ottawa. He is the Founding Director of PARADISE Research Laboratory at Ottawa U.ق Prior to this, he held a faculty position at the University of North Texas, USA, and he worked as a Senior Scientist at the Simulation Sciences Division, Metron Corporation located in San Diego. He was also employed as a faculty memberقat the School of Computer Science McGill University, andق taught at Polytechnic of Montreal. He spent a year at the JPL/NASA-California Institute of Technology where he contributed to a project centered about the specification and verification of the software used to control interplanetary spacecraft operated by JPL/NASA Laboratory.

He was the recipient of the Best Research Paper Award at IEEE/ACM PADS'97, and the recipient of the 3rd National Award for Telecommunication Software 1999 for his work on a distributed security systems on mobile phone operations,ق and has been nominated for the best paper award at the IEEE/ACM PADS'99, ACM MSWiM 2001, and ACM MobiWac 2004. Dr. A. Boukerche is a holder of an Early Career Research Excellence Award (previously known as Premier of Ontarion Research Excellence Award), Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award, and Glinski Research Excellence Award. He is a Co-Founder of QShine Int'l Conference, on Quality of Service for Wireless/Wired Heterogeneous Networks (QShine 2004), served as a General Chair for several conferences, such asق ACM/IEEE MASCOST 1998, IEEE DS-RT 1999-2000, ACM MSWiM 2000; Program Chair for ACM/IFIPS Europar 2002, IEEE/SCS Annual Simulation Symposium ANNS 2002, ACM WWW'02, IEEE/ACM MASCOTS 2002, IEEE Wireless Local Networks WLN 03-04; IEEE WMAN 04-05, ACM MSWiM 98-99, and TPC member of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences.

Dr. A. Boukerche serves as is a Steering Committee Chair of IEEE/ACM MSWiM, IEEE DS-RT, ACM PE-WASUN, and as a General Chairق and Program Chair for several conference, includingققIEEE GLOBECOM 2006 Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking, the 8th ACM/IEEE Symposium on modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems, and the 9th ACM/IEEE Symposium on distributed simulation and real-time application, as panel Chair for ACM MobiCom 2008. Dr. A. Boukerche serves as an Associate Editor forق ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Wiley In't Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Area: Ad hoc and Sensor Networks), and the SCS Transactions on simulation. He also serves as a Steering Committee Chair for the ACM Modeling, Analysis and Simulation for Wireless and Mobile Systems Symposium, the ACM Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks and the IEEE/ACM Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications Symposium (DS-RT).

Nizar Bouabdallah receivedقa B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering from Ecole Superieur des Communications (Sup'Com), Tunis, Tunisia, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in network and computer science from University of Paris VI, Paris, France, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He joined Alcatel Research Laboratories, Marcoussis, France, in 2002, while working on his Ph.D. degree. In 2005, he was with the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He is currently a researcher at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique). In 2007, he spent six months as a Visiting Researcher at the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. His research interests include optical networking, wireless and sensor networks, performance evaluation, network planning and modeling, as well as control and management architectures.

Chunxiao (Tricia) Chiganقis presently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan Tech. Her research interests include Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless Network Security, and Adaptive Network Protocol Design for Cognitive Radio Networks. She has published more than 40 refereed journal articles and conference papers in these areas. Her research has been supported by the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), the US Army Communications-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC), the Innovation Center of EATON Corporation, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prior to joining Michigan Tech, Dr. Chigan was a visiting scholar with the department of High Performance Communications System at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (Holmdel, NJ). She received the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York, Stony Brook, in 2000 and 2002 respectively. Dr. Chigan has actively served as a TPC member for numerous IEEE and International conferences including IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, and IEEE WCNC. She is a member of IEEE, IEEE Communication Society, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. She also severedقon the panel for several National Science Foundation programs. Dr. Chigan is a recipient of Michigan Tech Research Excellent Fund (REF) Award (2004), and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2007)."

Ashfaq A. Khokhar received his M.S. in computer engineering from Syracuse University, in 1989 and Ph.D. in computer engineering from University of Southern California, in 1993. After his Ph.D., he spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. In 1995, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, where he first served as Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor. In Fall 2000, Dr. Khokhar joined UIC in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he currently serves on the rank of Professor. Dr. Khokhar has published over 120 technical papers and book chapters in refereed conferences and journals in the area of wireless networks, multimedia systems, data mining, and high performance computing. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 1998. His paper entitled "Scalable S-to-P Broadcasting in Message Passing MPPs" has won the Outstanding Paper award in the International Conference on Parallel Processing in 1996. He has served as the Program Chair of the 17th Parallel and Distributed Computing Conference (PDCS), 2004, Vice Program Chair for the 33rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2004, and General Chair of the Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology, 2004.