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Piotr Chołda graduated from AGH University of Science and Technology (Krakow, Poland) as a master of science in networking in 2001. Afterwards, he obtained a doctorate in telecommunications in 2006 from the same university. Then, he joined the Department of Telecommunications there, and now he works as an Assistant Professor.
He specializes in design of computer and communications networks. Although his background comes from technology, as he started his research in the reliability modelling and optimization of resilient multi-layer long-haul networks (like the ones based on GMPLS, that is, generalized multi-protocol label switching), later he moved towards to softer problems, like the effective provisioning of services to the network clients. Thus,  he extended his interests to problems embracing the so-called Quality of Recovery (QoR), resilience-based differentiation in communications/computer networks and QoS/QoR for peer-to-peer networking. Recently, Piotr has focused on risk-based communications networking, as he perceives this area as a very promising research field, where the interface between business needs and threats from one side and the resilience technology from the other can be used to obtain a practical equilibrium where the balance between client needs and technological possibilities can be found.
 
Dr. Cholda is the co-author of eleven refereed journal papers and two conference tutorials. He is the recipient of the Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium Best Paper Award from ICC’06. He worked on network recovery problems in some of the 6. and 7. European Projects (IP Nobel/Nobel II, NoE EuroNGI/EuroFGI/EuroNF, SmoothIT). He was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair of NGI 2008 and NGI 2012, a TPC Co-Chair of Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium at ICC 2011, and a TPC Co-Chair of DRCN 2011. Now, he serves as a TPC Co-Chair of NOMS 2014.
He is a member of editorial boards of  IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. He also leads the Book Review Column in IEEE Communications Magazine.
He is a member of the ACM and IEEE.

Janusz Gozdecki received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 1995 and 2010, respectively. In 1995 he joined AGH-UST as a researcher. Now, he works as an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications. His general research interests are in wireless networks and quality of service in IP networks. He is a reviewer for international journals and conferences. He has actively participated in several European projects (BTI, MOBYDICK, DAIDALOS I, DAIDALOS II, CARMEN, MEDUSA, HECTOR, FLAVIA, PROACTIVE) as well as grants supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.Janusz Gozdecki is the co-author of six books and over 60 research papers.

Mirosław Kantor received a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 2001 and 2011, respectively. He works at the Department of Telecommunications at the same university. His research interests focus on techno-economic analysis of telecommunication networks, Internet routing, inter-domain traffic optimization. He is a co-author of more than 20 technical papers.

Prof. Andrzej R. Pach received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D.Hab. in telecommunications and computer networks from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1989. In 1979, he joined the Department of Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor and Chair. He spent his sabbatical leaves at CNET, France and University of Catania, Italy. He is the Vice-President of the Foundation for Progress in Telecommunications and serves as a chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Chapter in Krakow, Poland. He has been a consultant to governmental institutions and telecom operators in modern telecommunication networks. His research interests include design and performance evaluation of broadband networks, especially quality of service and network performance of access networks and wireless LANs. He has/had actively participated in COST, Eureka Celtic, and 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, ICT, and Security). He co-authored more than 250 publications including 6 books. He served as a technical editor to IEEE Communications Magazine and is an editor-in-chief to Digital Communications - Technologies and Services. He has also been appointed as an expert in Information and Communications Technologies by the European Commission.

Krzysztof Wajda received his M.Sc. in telecommunications in 1982 and Ph. D. in automatics in 1990, both from AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland. In 1982 he joined AGH-UST where he is currently an assistant professor. He spent his sabbatical leaves at Kyoto University (Japan, 1 year) and at CNET (France, 6 months). He was involved in a few international projects: COST 242, Leonardo da Vinci (JOINT and ET-NET), Copernicus ISMAN, ACTS 038 BBL, TEMPUS JEP N° 0971, IST LION, IP NOBEL, NoE e-Photon/ONe(+), BONE. At present he works in Future Internet Engineering project, Polish initiative towards NG Internet. He participated also in a few grants supported by National Science Foundation (in 2 was project leader). He serves also as a reviewer of a few journals: IEEE Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems, Performance Evaluation, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems and also international conferences. He has been a consultant to private telecommunication companies. Main research interests: traffic management for broadband networks, performance evaluation, network reliability, control plane, management systems. Dr. Wajda is the author (or coauthor) of 6 books (in Polish) and over 100 technical papers. He is a member of IEEE.

Mateusz Wielgosz is a Ph.D. student, supervised by Prof Andrzej Pach. His scope of interests includes traffic management solutions for peer-to-peer applications and cloud systems, and application of Game-Theoretic framework for modelling and analysis of interactions among participants in those systems.

Katarzyna Kosek-Szott received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications (both with honours) from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 2006 and 2011, respectively. In 2016 she received habilitation degree. Currently she is working as an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology. Her general research interests are focused on wireless networking. The major topics include wireless LANs (especially the newest amendments to the IEEE 802.11 standard).She is a reviewer for international journals and conferences. She has been involved in several European projects: CANALETTO, DAIDALOS II, CONTENT, CARMEN, FLAVIA, PROACTIVE, RESCUE as well as grants supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. She has also co-authored a number of research papers. Since January 2015 she is a member of the editorial board of the Ad Hoc Networks journal published by Elsevier.

Marek Natkaniec received the M.Sc., Ph.D., and Ph.D.Hab. degrees in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 1997, 2002, and 2013 respectively. In 1997 he joined AGH University of Science and Technology as a researcher. Now, he works as an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications. His general research interests are in wireless networks. Particular topics include wireless LANs, protocol design, modeling and performance evaluation of communication networks, quality of service, and cooperation of networks. He has served as a Technical Program Committee member in many international conferences. He is a reviewer for international journals and conferences. He has actively participated in several European projects (MOCOMTEL, PRO-ACCESS, DAIDALOS I, DAIDALOS II, CONTENT, CARMEN, MEDUSA, HECTOR, FLAVIA, PROACTIVE, RESCUE) as well as grants supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He is involved in standardization activities for ETSI. He serves as an expert and a consultant to telecom operators in the area of wireless networks. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Digital Communications - Technologies and Services journal. Since 2005 he is advisor of the students' scientific circle "Telephoners". He is a senior member of IEEE. Marek Natkaniec has co-authored six books and over 100 research papers.

Prof. Andrzej R. Pach received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D.Hab. in telecommunications and computer networks from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1989. In 1979, he joined the Department of Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor and Chair. He spent his sabbatical leaves at CNET, France and University of Catania, Italy. He is the Vice-President of the Foundation for Progress in Telecommunications and serves as a chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Chapter in Krakow, Poland. He has been a consultant to governmental institutions and telecom operators in modern telecommunication networks. His research interests include design and performance evaluation of broadband networks, especially quality of service and network performance of access networks and wireless LANs. He has/had actively participated in COST, Eureka Celtic, and 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, ICT, and Security). He co-authored more than 250 publications including 6 books. He served as a technical editor to IEEE Communications Magazine and is an editor-in-chief to Digital Communications - Technologies and Services. He has also been appointed as an expert in Information and Communications Technologies by the European Commission.

Jarosław Bułat received his M.Sc. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications form the from AGH University of Science and Technology (Krakow, Poland) in 1999 and 2006 respectively. His professional interests are related to digital signal processing in telecommunication, biomedical and video systems and related to computer programming (concurrent systems, mobile systems and massive parallel computation). He has authored and co-authored of 39 scientific journal and conference papers. He has been involved in several national and European projects.

Piotr Chołda graduated from AGH University of Science and Technology (Krakow, Poland) as a master of science in networking in 2001. Afterwards, he obtained a doctorate in telecommunications in 2006 from the same university. Then, he joined the Department of Telecommunications there, and now he works as an Assistant Professor.
He specializes in design of computer and communications networks. Although his background comes from technology, as he started his research in the reliability modelling and optimization of resilient multi-layer long-haul networks (like the ones based on GMPLS, that is, generalized multi-protocol label switching), later he moved towards to softer problems, like the effective provisioning of services to the network clients. Thus,  he extended his interests to problems embracing the so-called Quality of Recovery (QoR), resilience-based differentiation in communications/computer networks and QoS/QoR for peer-to-peer networking. Recently, Piotr has focused on risk-based communications networking, as he perceives this area as a very promising research field, where the interface between business needs and threats from one side and the resilience technology from the other can be used to obtain a practical equilibrium where the balance between client needs and technological possibilities can be found.
 
Dr. Cholda is the co-author of eleven refereed journal papers and two conference tutorials. He is the recipient of the Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium Best Paper Award from ICC’06. He worked on network recovery problems in some of the 6. and 7. European Projects (IP Nobel/Nobel II, NoE EuroNGI/EuroFGI/EuroNF, SmoothIT). He was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair of NGI 2008 and NGI 2012, a TPC Co-Chair of Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium at ICC 2011, and a TPC Co-Chair of DRCN 2011. Now, he serves as a TPC Co-Chair of NOMS 2014.
He is a member of editorial boards of  IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. He also leads the Book Review Column in IEEE Communications Magazine.
He is a member of the ACM and IEEE.

 
Michał Grega received his MSc Eng. in 2006 and Ph.D in 2011 in Telecommunications  from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow. In 2012 he graduated from a post diploma study on project management from Krakow University of Economics receiving an IPMA D certificate. In 2012 he was appointed a Visitiong Scholar at the Berkeley University, CA, USA. 
 
He is a reviewer for international journals and conferences. He was appointed as a reviewer for project proposal at the European Comission. He has actively participated in several European projects (OASIS, GAMA, CONTENT, INDECT, SARACEN) as well as grants supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Michał Grega is the co-author of over 40 research papers.
 

Lucjan Janowski is an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications (AGH University of Science and Technology). He received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications in 2002 and Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications in 2006 both from the AGH University of Science and Technology. During 2007 he worked on a post-doc position in CNRS-LAAS (Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems of CNRS) in France where prepared both malicious traffic analysis and anomaly detection algorithms. In 2010/2011 he spent half a year on a post-doc position in University of Geneva working on QoE for health applicaitons. His main interests are statistics and probabilistic modelling of subjects and subjective rates used in QoE evaluation. He has participated in several commercial and scientific projects. 

Mikołaj Leszczuk, PhD. He started his professional career in 1996 at COMARCH SA as manager of the Multimedia Technology Department, and then at COMARCH Multimedia as the CEO. Since 1999 has been employed at the AGH Department of Telecommunications. In 2000 he moved to Spain for a four-month scholarship at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. After returning to Poland, he was employed at the Department of Telecommunications as a research and teaching assistant, and in 2006, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation as an assistant professor. His current research interests are focused on multimedia data analysis and processing systems, with particular emphasis on Quality of Experience. He (co-)authored approximately 130 scientific publications of which 23 are publications in journals of the JCR database. He has been teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. He has cosupervised 1 PhD student and supervised (promoted) approximately 40 MSc students of various nationalities. He has participated more than 20 major research projects, including FP4, FP5, FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020, OPIE, Culture 2000, PHARE, eContent+, and Eureka!. Between 2009 and 2014, he was the administrator of the major international INDECT research project, dealing with solutions for intelligent surveillance and automatic detection of suspicious behaviour and violence in urban environments. He is a member of VQEG (Video Quality Experts Group, board member), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art). The latter organization collaborates with the VQiPS (Video Quality in Public Safety) working group. More information: http://www.linkedin.com/in/miklesz

Wiesław Ludwin received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and telecommunications engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology AGH, Krakow in 1978 and 1983, respectively. In 2005 he received the Dr Hab. degree in telecommunications and radiocommunications from the Military University of Technology, in Warsaw. From 1978 to 1986 he was with the Institute of Control Systems Engineering and Telecommunications. Since 1986, he has been with Telecommunications Department, where he currently holds a position of professor. His general research interests are in applied radiocommunications. Particular topics include wireless system design for telecommunications and traffic and mobility modelling in cellular networks. He is the author or co-author of three books on wireless networks and more than 50 research papers. The paper "Is Handoff Traffic Really Poissonian?" published in proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, ICUPC'95 held in November 1995 in Tokyo, Japan has been widely referenced.

Prof. Andrzej R. Pach received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D.Hab. in telecommunications and computer networks from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1989. In 1979, he joined the Department of Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor and Chair. He spent his sabbatical leaves at CNET, France and University of Catania, Italy. He is the Vice-President of the Foundation for Progress in Telecommunications and serves as a chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Chapter in Krakow, Poland. He has been a consultant to governmental institutions and telecom operators in modern telecommunication networks. His research interests include design and performance evaluation of broadband networks, especially quality of service and network performance of access networks and wireless LANs. He has/had actively participated in COST, Eureka Celtic, and 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, ICT, and Security). He co-authored more than 250 publications including 6 books. He served as a technical editor to IEEE Communications Magazine and is an editor-in-chief to Digital Communications - Technologies and Services. He has also been appointed as an expert in Information and Communications Technologies by the European Commission.

Zdzislaw Papir is professor at Department of Telecommunications (AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland). He received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1976 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Networks both from the AGH University of Science and Technology. In 1992 he received the Ph.D.Hab. degree from the Technical University of Gdansk. He is currently lecturing on Signal Theory, Modulation and Detection Theory, and Modelling of Telecommunication Networks. In 1979 he joined the Department of Telecommunications at the University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor and Deputy Chair. During 1991-98 he made several visits at universities in Belgium, Germany, Italy, and US working on statistical modelling of telecommunication traffic. During 1994-95 he was serving for the Polish Cable Television as a Network Design Department Manager. He (co)authored five books and about 100 research papers. The book “Telecommunication traffic and packet network congestion” was awarded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He was involved in organization of several international conferences at home and abroad. Between 1999 - 2006 he was a guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine responsible for the Broadband Access Series. He has been participating in several R&D IST European projects (COST, Eureka Celtic, and 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, ICT) being personally responsible for statistical modelling of telecommunication traffic and quality assessment of multimedia communication services. He has also been appointed as an expert in Information and Communications Technologies by the European Commission.

Jacek Wszołek received the M.S. degree in telecommunications from the University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 2003. Between July and September 2003 he worked at Tampere University of Technology, Department of Electronics. In November 2003 he began work as a research assistant in the Department of Telecommunications AGH. His research interests include neural networks, cellular systems and issues related to network management, with particular emphasis on the  Policy-based Management. Jacek Wszołek actively participated in EU projects 6th and 7th Framework Programme, Celtic-Plus, COST and others. At the moment, MSc. Jacek Wszołek participates in an international project HECTOR - Helicopter fuselage Crack monitoring and prognosis through on-board sensor (EDA), and three others national projects.

Tomasz P. Zielinski received the M.S. degree in electronics, the D.Sc. degree (habilitation) in electrical engineering and the the scientific Professor title in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH-UST), Kraków, Poland, in 1982, 1996 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1988. Since 1982 he has been working at the Department of Instrumentation & Measurement AGH-UST as a Research & Teaching Assistant (1982), Associate (1989), Assistant Professor (1996) and Associate Professor (2000). In 2006 he joined the Department of Telecommunications, AGH-UST as a Full Professor. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 scientific journal and conference papers. He is also the author of three monographs (all in Polish): Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Representations of Non-stationary Signals (1996), From Theory to Digital Signal Processing (2002, 2004) and Digital Signal Processing: From Theory to Applications (2005, 2007, 2009). He has been a supervisor of more than 10 Polish research projects and actively participated in a few international programs (EPSR Council UK, ECSON: Engineering and Computational Science for Oncology Network; VECTOR EC FP6: Versatile Endoscopic Capsule for gastrointestinal TumOr Recognition and therapy; NIH, USA: “Efficacy of Laryngeal High-Speed Video-endoscopy”). His research interests include advanced digital signal processing in telecommunication and biomedical systems, especially time-frequency signal analysis. He is an IEEE member.

Katarzyna Kosek-Szott received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications (both with honours) from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 2006 and 2011, respectively. In 2016 she received habilitation degree. Currently she is working as an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology. Her general research interests are focused on wireless networking. The major topics include wireless LANs (especially the newest amendments to the IEEE 802.11 standard).She is a reviewer for international journals and conferences. She has been involved in several European projects: CANALETTO, DAIDALOS II, CONTENT, CARMEN, FLAVIA, PROACTIVE, RESCUE as well as grants supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. She has also co-authored a number of research papers. Since January 2015 she is a member of the editorial board of the Ad Hoc Networks journal published by Elsevier.

Marek Natkaniec received the M.Sc., Ph.D., and Ph.D.Hab. degrees in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 1997, 2002, and 2013 respectively. In 1997 he joined AGH University of Science and Technology as a researcher. Now, he works as an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications. His general research interests are in wireless networks. Particular topics include wireless LANs, protocol design, modeling and performance evaluation of communication networks, quality of service, and cooperation of networks. He has served as a Technical Program Committee member in many international conferences. He is a reviewer for international journals and conferences. He has actively participated in several European projects (MOCOMTEL, PRO-ACCESS, DAIDALOS I, DAIDALOS II, CONTENT, CARMEN, MEDUSA, HECTOR, FLAVIA, PROACTIVE, RESCUE) as well as grants supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He is involved in standardization activities for ETSI. He serves as an expert and a consultant to telecom operators in the area of wireless networks. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Digital Communications - Technologies and Services journal. Since 2005 he is advisor of the students' scientific circle "Telephoners". He is a senior member of IEEE. Marek Natkaniec has co-authored six books and over 100 research papers.

Prof. Andrzej R. Pach received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D.Hab. in telecommunications and computer networks from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1989. In 1979, he joined the Department of Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor and Chair. He spent his sabbatical leaves at CNET, France and University of Catania, Italy. He is the Vice-President of the Foundation for Progress in Telecommunications and serves as a chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Chapter in Krakow, Poland. He has been a consultant to governmental institutions and telecom operators in modern telecommunication networks. His research interests include design and performance evaluation of broadband networks, especially quality of service and network performance of access networks and wireless LANs. He has/had actively participated in COST, Eureka Celtic, and 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, ICT, and Security). He co-authored more than 250 publications including 6 books. He served as a technical editor to IEEE Communications Magazine and is an editor-in-chief to Digital Communications - Technologies and Services. He has also been appointed as an expert in Information and Communications Technologies by the European Commission.

Piotr Chołda graduated from AGH University of Science and Technology (Krakow, Poland) as a master of science in networking in 2001. Afterwards, he obtained a doctorate in telecommunications in 2006 from the same university. Then, he joined the Department of Telecommunications there, and now he works as an Assistant Professor.
He specializes in design of computer and communications networks. Although his background comes from technology, as he started his research in the reliability modelling and optimization of resilient multi-layer long-haul networks (like the ones based on GMPLS, that is, generalized multi-protocol label switching), later he moved towards to softer problems, like the effective provisioning of services to the network clients. Thus,  he extended his interests to problems embracing the so-called Quality of Recovery (QoR), resilience-based differentiation in communications/computer networks and QoS/QoR for peer-to-peer networking. Recently, Piotr has focused on risk-based communications networking, as he perceives this area as a very promising research field, where the interface between business needs and threats from one side and the resilience technology from the other can be used to obtain a practical equilibrium where the balance between client needs and technological possibilities can be found.
 
Dr. Cholda is the co-author of eleven refereed journal papers and two conference tutorials. He is the recipient of the Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium Best Paper Award from ICC’06. He worked on network recovery problems in some of the 6. and 7. European Projects (IP Nobel/Nobel II, NoE EuroNGI/EuroFGI/EuroNF, SmoothIT). He was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair of NGI 2008 and NGI 2012, a TPC Co-Chair of Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium at ICC 2011, and a TPC Co-Chair of DRCN 2011. Now, he serves as a TPC Co-Chair of NOMS 2014.
He is a member of editorial boards of  IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. He also leads the Book Review Column in IEEE Communications Magazine.
He is a member of the ACM and IEEE.

Prof. Andrzej R. Pach received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D.Hab. in telecommunications and computer networks from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1989. In 1979, he joined the Department of Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor and Chair. He spent his sabbatical leaves at CNET, France and University of Catania, Italy. He is the Vice-President of the Foundation for Progress in Telecommunications and serves as a chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Chapter in Krakow, Poland. He has been a consultant to governmental institutions and telecom operators in modern telecommunication networks. His research interests include design and performance evaluation of broadband networks, especially quality of service and network performance of access networks and wireless LANs. He has/had actively participated in COST, Eureka Celtic, and 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, ICT, and Security). He co-authored more than 250 publications including 6 books. He served as a technical editor to IEEE Communications Magazine and is an editor-in-chief to Digital Communications - Technologies and Services. He has also been appointed as an expert in Information and Communications Technologies by the European Commission.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Marek Natkaniec received the M.Sc., Ph.D., and Ph.D.Hab. degrees in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 1997, 2002, and 2013 respectively. In 1997 he joined AGH University of Science and Technology as a researcher. Now, he works as an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications. His general research interests are in wireless networks. Particular topics include wireless LANs, protocol design, modeling and performance evaluation of communication networks, quality of service, and cooperation of networks. He has served as a Technical Program Committee member in many international conferences. He is a reviewer for international journals and conferences. He has actively participated in several European projects (MOCOMTEL, PRO-ACCESS, DAIDALOS I, DAIDALOS II, CONTENT, CARMEN, MEDUSA, HECTOR, FLAVIA, PROACTIVE, RESCUE) as well as grants supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He is involved in standardization activities for ETSI. He serves as an expert and a consultant to telecom operators in the area of wireless networks. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Digital Communications - Technologies and Services journal. Since 2005 he is advisor of the students' scientific circle "Telephoners". He is a senior member of IEEE. Marek Natkaniec has co-authored six books and over 100 research papers.

Prof. Andrzej R. Pach received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D.Hab. in telecommunications and computer networks from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1989. In 1979, he joined the Department of Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor and Chair. He spent his sabbatical leaves at CNET, France and University of Catania, Italy. He is the Vice-President of the Foundation for Progress in Telecommunications and serves as a chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Chapter in Krakow, Poland. He has been a consultant to governmental institutions and telecom operators in modern telecommunication networks. His research interests include design and performance evaluation of broadband networks, especially quality of service and network performance of access networks and wireless LANs. He has/had actively participated in COST, Eureka Celtic, and 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, ICT, and Security). He co-authored more than 250 publications including 6 books. He served as a technical editor to IEEE Communications Magazine and is an editor-in-chief to Digital Communications - Technologies and Services. He has also been appointed as an expert in Information and Communications Technologies by the European Commission.

Szymon Szott received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications (both with honours) from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 2006 and 2011, respectively. Currently he is working as an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications, AGH University. His professional interests are related to wireless networks (in particular: QoS provisioning and security of ad-hoc networks). He is a reviewer for international journals and conferences. He has been involved in several European projects (DAIDALOS II, CONTENT, CARMEN, MEDUSA, FLAVIA, PROACTIVE) as well as grants supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre. He serves as secretary for the ETSI Industry Specification Group “Autonomic network engineering for the self-managing Future Internet” (AFI). He is the co-author of over 30 research papers and one book chapter.

Katarzyna Kosek-Szott received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications (both with honours) from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 2006 and 2011, respectively. In 2016 she received habilitation degree. Currently she is working as an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology. Her general research interests are focused on wireless networking. The major topics include wireless LANs (especially the newest amendments to the IEEE 802.11 standard).She is a reviewer for international journals and conferences. She has been involved in several European projects: CANALETTO, DAIDALOS II, CONTENT, CARMEN, FLAVIA, PROACTIVE, RESCUE as well as grants supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. She has also co-authored a number of research papers. Since January 2015 she is a member of the editorial board of the Ad Hoc Networks journal published by Elsevier.

Marek Natkaniec received the M.Sc., Ph.D., and Ph.D.Hab. degrees in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 1997, 2002, and 2013 respectively. In 1997 he joined AGH University of Science and Technology as a researcher. Now, he works as an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications. His general research interests are in wireless networks. Particular topics include wireless LANs, protocol design, modeling and performance evaluation of communication networks, quality of service, and cooperation of networks. He has served as a Technical Program Committee member in many international conferences. He is a reviewer for international journals and conferences. He has actively participated in several European projects (MOCOMTEL, PRO-ACCESS, DAIDALOS I, DAIDALOS II, CONTENT, CARMEN, MEDUSA, HECTOR, FLAVIA, PROACTIVE, RESCUE) as well as grants supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He is involved in standardization activities for ETSI. He serves as an expert and a consultant to telecom operators in the area of wireless networks. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Digital Communications - Technologies and Services journal. Since 2005 he is advisor of the students' scientific circle "Telephoners". He is a senior member of IEEE. Marek Natkaniec has co-authored six books and over 100 research papers.

Prof. Andrzej R. Pach received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D.Hab. in telecommunications and computer networks from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1989. In 1979, he joined the Department of Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor and Chair. He spent his sabbatical leaves at CNET, France and University of Catania, Italy. He is the Vice-President of the Foundation for Progress in Telecommunications and serves as a chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Chapter in Krakow, Poland. He has been a consultant to governmental institutions and telecom operators in modern telecommunication networks. His research interests include design and performance evaluation of broadband networks, especially quality of service and network performance of access networks and wireless LANs. He has/had actively participated in COST, Eureka Celtic, and 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, ICT, and Security). He co-authored more than 250 publications including 6 books. He served as a technical editor to IEEE Communications Magazine and is an editor-in-chief to Digital Communications - Technologies and Services. He has also been appointed as an expert in Information and Communications Technologies by the European Commission.