Auteur: Apostolis Salkintzis

Apostolis K. Salkintzis, Motorola Inc., Greece * Received his Diploma in 1991 and his Ph.D. degree in 1997, both from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece * Worked as a research Engineer at the Democritus University, studying mobile data networks and working on research projects dealing with the design and implementation of wireless data networks and protocols. * Was a Sessional Lecturer at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1999. * Has been with Motorola Inc., since Sept. 1999, working on the design and standardization of modern telecommunication networks, focusing in particular on GPRS, UMTS and WLANs. * Is a member of the IEEE and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. Nikos Passas, University of Athens, Greece * Received his Diploma (honours) from the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece. * Has been with the Communication Networks Laboratory of the University of Athens, working as a sessional lecturer and research associate since 1995.