Program Committee

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Pascal Lorenz
University of Haute Alsace
France

Brief Bio
Pascal Lorenz (lorenz@ieee.org) received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, France, since 1995. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks.He is the author/co-author of 3 books, 3 patents and 200 international publications in refereed journals and conferences. He was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board (2000-2006), Chair of Vertical Issues in Communication Systems Technical Committee Cluster (2008-2009), Chair of the Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (2003-2009) and Chair of the Communications Software Technical Committee (2008-2010). He has served as Co-Program Chair of IEEE WCNC'2012 and ICC'2004, tutorial chair of VTC'2013 Spring and WCNC'2010, track chair of PIMRC'2012, symposium Co-Chair at Globecom 2011-2007 and ICC 2010-2008. He has served as Co-Guest Editor for special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, Networks Magazine, Wireless Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems and LNCS. He is senior member of the IEEE, IARIA fellow and member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences. ... More >>

Adlen Ksentini
Eurecom
France

Brief Bio
Adlen Ksentini is a COMSOC distinguished lecturer. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Cergy-Pontoise in 2005, with a dissertation on QoS provisioning in IEEE 802.11-based networks. From 2006 to 2016, he worked at the University of Rennes 1 as an assistant professor. During this period, he was a member of the Dionysos Team with INRIA, Rennes. Since March 2016, he has been working as an assistant professor in the Communication Systems Department of EURECOM. He has been involved in several national and European projects on QoS and QoE support in future wireless, network virtualization, cloud networking, mobile networks, and more recently on Network Slicing and 5G in the context of H2020 projects 5G!Pagoda and 5GTransformer. He has co-authored over 100 technical journal and international conference papers. He received the best paper award from IEEE IWCMC 2016, IEEE ICC 2012, and ACM MSWiM 2005. He has been awarded the 2017 IEEE Comsoc Fred W. Ellersick (best IEEE communications Magazine’s paper). Adlen Ksentini has given several tutorials in IEEE international conferences, IEEE Globecom 2015, IEEEE CCNC 2017, IEEE ICC 2017, IEEE/IFIP IM 2017. Adlen Ksentini has been acting as TPC Symposium Chair for IEEE ICC 2016/2017, IEEE GLOBECOM 2017, IEEE Cloudnet 2017 and IEEE 5G Forum 2018. He has been acting as Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Area on Communication (JSAC) Series on Network Softwerization, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, and two issues of ComSoc MMTC Letters. He has been on the Technical Program Committees of major IEEE ComSoc, ICC/GLOBECOM, ICME, WCNC, and PIMRC conferences. He is currently the Director of IEEE ComSoc EMEA region and Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Software (TCS).Available soon ... More >>

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Andreas Ahrens, Hochschule Wismar, University of Technology, Business and Design, Germany
Vicente Alarcon-Aquino, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico
Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Luis Bernardo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ali Chehab, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Chi Chung Cheung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Alessandro Cidronali, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Roberto Corvaja, University of Padova, Italy
Carl James Debono, University of Malta, Malta
Panagiotis Fouliras, University of Macedonia, Greece
Janusz Gozdecki, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Fabrizio Granelli, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Aaron Gulliver, University of Victoria, Canada
Brij Gupta, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
Athanassios C. Iossifides, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Seong-Cheol Kim, Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of
Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece
Evan Kotsovinos, Independent Researcher, United States
Gurhan Kucuk, Yeditepe University, Turkey
Wookwon Lee, Gannon University, United States
Jin-Shyan Lee, National Taiwan University of Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China
David Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Koosha Marashi, Romeo Power Technology, United States
Marek Natkaniec, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Amiya Nayak, University of Ottawa, Canada
Cristiano Panazio, Escola Politécnica of São Paulo University, Brazil
Grammati Pantziou, University of West Attica, Greece
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, United International University, Bangladesh
Jordi Pérez-Romero, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Jorge Portilla, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Luis Rizo, ITESO University, Mexico
Jörg Roth, Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany
Farag Sallabi, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
Manuel García Sánchez, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Christopher Silva, The Aerospace Corporation, United States
Mahmoud Smail, Wayne State University, United States
Alvaro Suárez-Sarmiento, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Bert-Jan van Beijnum, University of Twente, Netherlands
César Vargas Rosales, ITESM - Monterrey, Mexico
Rafaela Villalpando-Hernandez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Campus Laguna, Mexico
Shibing Zhang, Nantong University, China