Ekram Hossain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Victoria, Canada, in 2000. His current research interests include design, analysis, and optimization of wireless/mobile communication networks, cognitive radio systems, distributed systems and mobile computing. Dr Hossain serves as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Wireless Communications, and several other international journals. He is a registered professional engineer in the province of Manitoba, Canada.

Vijay K. Bhargava is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society and the IEEE Communications Society and was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was recently appointed as the Director of Journals for the IEEE Communications Society.