Christos Douligeris is currently Associate Professor of Informatics at the University of Pireaus, Greece. He has authored ten books in Greek, more than seventy refereed journal articles, and more than 100 papers for conferences. He has served in various editorial roles for IEEE Communications Society magazines and is currently Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters and the Technical Editor for IEEE Network Magazine. He is a senior member of the IEEE Communications Society and an IEEE Standards Association voting member for LAN, MAN, and wireless standards. He is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Dimitrios N. Serpanos is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Patras, Greece. During his career, Professor Serpanos taught in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Crete and worked for the IBM Corporation at the T. J. Watson Research Center in the area of high-bandwidth systems. He holds two patents and is the author of more than 100 technical articles and papers, as well as the coeditor of Enterprise Networking. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the ACM, and the Technical Chamber of Greece, as well as an Educational Member of USENIX.