Zhanlin Ji
College of Computer and Automatic Control, Hebei United University, P.R.China
China

Zhanlin Ji received his MEng, M.Sc and PhD degree from Dublin City University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and University of Limerick in 2005, 2006 and 2010, respectively. His Ph.D research was focused on the Wireless Billboard Channels’ (WBC) design, development and testing for use in the Ubiquitous Consumer Wireless World (UCWW). Since 2010, he is a lecturer at the Hebei United University, China. His research interests include UCWW, WBCs, Software Engineering, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Information Retrieval and Management, Content awareness, Personalization, Multiagents systems, Java EE architectures, Medical image analysis and processing, Machine Vision, Broadcasting.

Ivan Ganchev
Telecommunications Research Centre, ECE DEPT, University of Limerick, Ireland
Ireland

Ivan Ganchev received his DipEng and PhD degrees from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications in 1989 and 1994, respectively. He is an Associate Professor from the University of Plovdiv and an ITU-T Invited Expert. Currently he is lecturing in the University of Limerick (Ireland), where he also acts as a Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Research Centre. Previously Dr Ganchev served as a member of the Academic Network for Wireless Internet Research in Europe (ANWIRE) and two European Science Foundation ‘COoperation in the field of Science and Technology research’ Actions: ‘Modelling and Simulation Tools for Research in Emerging Multi-service Telecommunications’, and “Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks”, (COST 285 & 290). Currently he is a member of the COST Action IC0906, ”Wireless Networking for Moving Objects” (WiNeMO). His research interests include: simulation and modeling of complex telecommunication systems, new communications paradigms for wireless next generation networks (NGN), always best connected & best served (ABC&S), third-party authentication, authorization and accounting (3P-AAA), wireless billboard channels (WBC), Internet tomography. Dr Ganchev served on the Technical Program Committee of a number of prestigious international conferences, including IEEE Globecom (2006), IEEE VTC (2007-2010), and IEEE ISWCS (2006-2010).

Mairtin O’Droma
Telecommunications Research Centre, ECE DEPT, University of Limerick, Ireland
Ireland

Mairtin O’Droma received his BE and PhD degrees from the National University of Ireland in 1973 and 1978, respectively. He is a Senior Academic and Director of the Telecommunications Research Centre at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is an IEEE Subject Matter Expert, an ITU-T Invited Expert, a Fellow of the IET and Chair of Ireland’s Royal Irish Academy’s Communications and Radio Science Committee. His previous activities include: founding partner and steering committee member, TARGET -Top Amplifier Research Groups in a European Team-, the EU FP6 Network of Excellence IST-507893, 2004-2008, and section head of the RF power linearization and amplifier modeling research strand; founding partner and steering committee member, ANWIRE -Academic Network for Wireless Internet Research in Europe, the EU FP5 Thematic Network of Excellence IST-38835, 2002-2004; member of two European Science Foundation ‘COoperation in the field of Science and Technology research’ Actions: ‘Modelling and Simulation Tools for Research in Emerging Multi-service Telecommunications’, and “Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks”, (COST 285 & 290). Currently he is delegate (Ireland) to the COST Action IC0906, ”Wireless Networking for Moving Objects” (WiNeMO). His research interests include: wireless NGN infrastructural innovations and new paradigms; complex wireless telecommunication systems simulation and behavioral modeling, linearization & efficiency techniques in multimode, multicarrier broadband nonlinear microwave and mm-wave transmit power amplifiers; smart antenna and MIMO channels. Dr O’Droma served on the Technical Program Committee of numerous IEEE and other international conferences and workshops.