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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.

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.

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.

Rafal Stankiewicz (rafal.stankiewicz@agh.edu.pl) is an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications of AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology in 1999 and 2007, respectively. His research interests focuses on network quality and reliability, quality of experience, performance evaluation and analytical modeling, statistical analysis of telecommunications traffic, cloud computing as well as traffic management concepts for overlay networking. He is an author of several conference and journal research papers and co-author of one book. He was involved in 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs including the following projects: BTI (IP), LION (IP), NOBEL (IP), EuroNGI (NoE), EuroFGI (NoE), EuroNF (NoE), SmoothIT (Strep). He served as technical program committee member for several conferences and as a reviewer of papers submitted to journals (e.g. IEEE Communications Magazine, Computer Networks, Performance Evaluation, and other) ) as well as top scientific conferences in area of telecommunications (e.g. IEEE Globecom and ICC). He is a member of IEEE.

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.

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.

Rafal Stankiewicz (rafal.stankiewicz@agh.edu.pl) is an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications of AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology in 1999 and 2007, respectively. His research interests focuses on network quality and reliability, quality of experience, performance evaluation and analytical modeling, statistical analysis of telecommunications traffic, cloud computing as well as traffic management concepts for overlay networking. He is an author of several conference and journal research papers and co-author of one book. He was involved in 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs including the following projects: BTI (IP), LION (IP), NOBEL (IP), EuroNGI (NoE), EuroFGI (NoE), EuroNF (NoE), SmoothIT (Strep). He served as technical program committee member for several conferences and as a reviewer of papers submitted to journals (e.g. IEEE Communications Magazine, Computer Networks, Performance Evaluation, and other) ) as well as top scientific conferences in area of telecommunications (e.g. IEEE Globecom and ICC). He is a member of IEEE.

Piotr Boryło is working as assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications, AGH University. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology in 2012 and 2016, respectively. The Ph.D. thesis was titled: "Provisioning of Energy-Aware Cloud Services Over Optical Networks". He is interested mainly in traffic engineering and resource provisioning in Software Defined Networks. He worked on cloud services provisioning over optical networks, energy efficiency in networks (green networking) and data centers, network and data center infrastructure integration and fog computing concept.
In 2016 he received prestigious grant under NCBR Lider Program and became a leader of a 3-year project SDNRoute. Also, in 2016, he received a Motorola Solutions Foundation Grant valued 50 000 USD. He was involved in several scientific projects: INDECT (7th Framework Programme), Autonomiczny system inżynierii ruchu i sterowania zasobami operatorskich sieci agregacyjnych Ethernet (NCN), STAR - SwiTching And tRansmission (CHIST-ERA), and individual Dean Grants founded by Polish Ministry of Education. He attended summer school concerning modeling of telecommunication traffic in Valencia and he took research visit in INRIA ENS-Lyon institute where he had been supporting the implementation of his ideas in testbed maintained by INRIA.
He is involved in research and development activities. For example, he was leading the project aimed at developing innovative SDN switch compliance tester with OpenFlow protocol. Now, he is leading works to create Universal Testing Platform of network-based services utilizing virtualization and cloud infrastructure. With one of the most important telecommunication firms (Akamai) he prepared new educational course appreciated by students. He lead commercial trainings in the topic of IP networks.
Despite the young age he is an author of 17 valuable publications, including three from JCR list, one book, four conference papers presented during IEEE ICC and  IEEE GLOBECOM (the impact of those conferences on Telecommunications is comparable to the one of publications from JCR list). He is a reviewer in the journals from JCR list (Journal of Grid Computing, Journal of Network and Systems Management published by Springer, and Optical Fiber Technology) and in Book Reviews column in esteemed IEEE Communications Magazine. He is also a reviewer of grant applications in the NCBR. Active member of IEEE Communications Society, act as Membership Development/Web Visibility Chair in IEEE Communications Society for Europe, Middle East and Africa Region. Privately, he is an enthusiast of climbing and mountains, ultra-marathoner, traveller and active member Club de Haute Montagne Cracovie. 

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.

Jerzy Domżał received the M.S., Ph.D. and Ph.D. Hab. degrees in Telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland in 2003, 2009, and 2016 respectively. Now, he is an Assistant Professor at Department of Telecommunications at AGH University of Science and Technology. He is especially interested in optical networks and services for Future Internet. He worked on network congestion control and traffic engineering issues in the following European Projects: Nobel/Nobel II, SmoothIT, EuroNF, e-Photon/ONe(+), BONE. Now, he is involved in a few research projects, e.g., related to flow-based services for Future Internet. He has served as TPC member for IEEE GLOBECOM (2010-2016), IEEE ICC (2010-2016). He was a Local Organizing Commitee Chair of the ITC'2012 conference. In 2010 and in 2013, he received scholarships for distinguished young researchers from Minister of Science and Higher Education in Poland. In 2011, he received the grant from the National Centre for Research and Development under the LIDER program. In 2011 he received grant from the National Science Centre under the SONATA program. In 2015, he received a science award from POLITYKA magazine. He is also the co-author of many technical papers, one patent, seven patent applications and three books. International trainings: Spain, Barcelona, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, April 2005; Spain, Madrid, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, March 2009, Stanford University, USA, May-June 2012.

Artur Lasoń received his M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology in 1992. In 1992 he was granted a three months scholarship in R&D Centre of ALCATEL SESA, Madrid, Spain. In 1999 he received from AGH Ph.D. degree. In 1992 he joined Department of Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology where he is responsible for lectures, projects and laboratories of the fibre optic communication, data transmission systems and broadband access networks. He was involved in few international research projects: ACTS 038 BBL, IST LION, e-Photon/ONe, BONE NoE, IST NOBEL I/II. He participated also in some grants supported by National Science Council. Main research interests includes optical transport networks and broadband access technologies. Artur Lasoń is the co-author of 4 books (in Polish) and numerous 40 technical papers.

Marcin Niemiec, received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Also, he studied in Carlos III University of Madrid. He joined the Department of Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology in 2009. His research interests focus on security and data protection, especially: security services, symmetric ciphers, cryptanalysis, malware, intrusion detection, and quantum cryptography. Co-organizer of many international meetings, workshops, and conferences. He has/had actively participated in 6th and 7th FP European programs (ePhoton/ONE+, BONE, SmoothIT, INDECT), Eureka-Celtic  (DESYME) and several national projects (Real Time Billing, INSIGMA, Lider, SWOP). He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award from IEEE GLOBECOM 2012. He co-authored over 60 publications and reports (papers, deliverables, book reviews, IETF draft, and book).

Grzegorz Rzym received his M.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications in 2012 and B.Sc. in Acoustic Engineering in 2013, both from AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Telecommunications. Prof. Andrzej Pach is his supervisor. His research interests cover management system design and implementation and virtualization.

My name is Robert Wójcik. I received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. (with honors) degrees in telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland in 2006 and 2011, respectively. The Ph.D. thesis was titled: "Net Neutral Quality of Service Differentiation in Flow-Aware Networks". I work as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Telecommunications of AGH.
I am the co-author of 4 international journal papers, 2 books, 1 book chapter, a patent application and a number of conference papers. I have been involved in several international scientific projects, including: SmoothIT, NoE BONE and Euro-NF. My current research interests focus on Flow-Aware Networking, Quality of Service, Network Neutrality and Overlay networks.

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, DSc. 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. In 2017 he obtained the postdoctoral degree. His current research interests are focused on multimedia data analysis and processing systems, with particular emphasis on Quality of Experience. He (co-)authored approximately 150 scientific publications of which 28 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.

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.

Andrzej Jajszczyk is a full professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees from Poznan University of Technology. He spent several years as a visiting scientist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France. He is the author or co-author of twelve books and over 300 technical papers, as well as 19 patents in the area of telecommunications networking as well as of 70 papers on research funding and higher education. He is an IEEE Fellow. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. He served on editorial boards of various renowned journals, such as Annales des Télécommunications, Journal of Security and Telecommunications, and CIC/IEEE China Communications. He held several positions in IEEE Communications Society, such as Director of Magazines and Vice President – Technical Activities. Since 2016 he is Director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.  He was involved in organization of numerous technical conferences. Andrzej Jajszczyk is President of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Vice-President of the Kyoto-Krakow Foundation. He served as the founding Director of the National Science Centre, a Polish research funding agency. In 2017, he was elected a member of Academia Europaea. Since January 2017 he is a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC).

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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.

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.

Andrzej Jajszczyk is a full professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees from Poznan University of Technology. He spent several years as a visiting scientist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France. He is the author or co-author of twelve books and over 300 technical papers, as well as 19 patents in the area of telecommunications networking as well as of 70 papers on research funding and higher education. He is an IEEE Fellow. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. He served on editorial boards of various renowned journals, such as Annales des Télécommunications, Journal of Security and Telecommunications, and CIC/IEEE China Communications. He held several positions in IEEE Communications Society, such as Director of Magazines and Vice President – Technical Activities. Since 2016 he is Director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.  He was involved in organization of numerous technical conferences. Andrzej Jajszczyk is President of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Vice-President of the Kyoto-Krakow Foundation. He served as the founding Director of the National Science Centre, a Polish research funding agency. In 2017, he was elected a member of Academia Europaea. Since January 2017 he is a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC).

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Rafal Stankiewicz (rafal.stankiewicz@agh.edu.pl) is an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications of AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology in 1999 and 2007, respectively. His research interests focuses on network quality and reliability, quality of experience, performance evaluation and analytical modeling, statistical analysis of telecommunications traffic, cloud computing as well as traffic management concepts for overlay networking. He is an author of several conference and journal research papers and co-author of one book. He was involved in 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs including the following projects: BTI (IP), LION (IP), NOBEL (IP), EuroNGI (NoE), EuroFGI (NoE), EuroNF (NoE), SmoothIT (Strep). He served as technical program committee member for several conferences and as a reviewer of papers submitted to journals (e.g. IEEE Communications Magazine, Computer Networks, Performance Evaluation, and other) ) as well as top scientific conferences in area of telecommunications (e.g. IEEE Globecom and ICC). He is a member of IEEE.

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.

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.

Rafal Stankiewicz (rafal.stankiewicz@agh.edu.pl) is an assistant professor at the Department of Telecommunications of AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology in 1999 and 2007, respectively. His research interests focuses on network quality and reliability, quality of experience, performance evaluation and analytical modeling, statistical analysis of telecommunications traffic, cloud computing as well as traffic management concepts for overlay networking. He is an author of several conference and journal research papers and co-author of one book. He was involved in 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs including the following projects: BTI (IP), LION (IP), NOBEL (IP), EuroNGI (NoE), EuroFGI (NoE), EuroNF (NoE), SmoothIT (Strep). He served as technical program committee member for several conferences and as a reviewer of papers submitted to journals (e.g. IEEE Communications Magazine, Computer Networks, Performance Evaluation, and other) ) as well as top scientific conferences in area of telecommunications (e.g. IEEE Globecom and ICC). He is a member of IEEE.

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.

Piotr Wydrych received his M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Telecommunications, Krakow, Poland in 2009. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate, researcher, and network operations engineer at the abovementioned depart-ment. His research mainly focuses on the optimization of peer-to-peer networks’ behavior. Addi-tionally, he performs research in the fields of service popularity and business continuity plan-ning. He has actively participated in EU FP7 (SmoothIT, SmartenIT) and national 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.

Andrzej Jajszczyk is a full professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees from Poznan University of Technology. He spent several years as a visiting scientist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France. He is the author or co-author of twelve books and over 300 technical papers, as well as 19 patents in the area of telecommunications networking as well as of 70 papers on research funding and higher education. He is an IEEE Fellow. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. He served on editorial boards of various renowned journals, such as Annales des Télécommunications, Journal of Security and Telecommunications, and CIC/IEEE China Communications. He held several positions in IEEE Communications Society, such as Director of Magazines and Vice President – Technical Activities. Since 2016 he is Director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.  He was involved in organization of numerous technical conferences. Andrzej Jajszczyk is President of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Vice-President of the Kyoto-Krakow Foundation. He served as the founding Director of the National Science Centre, a Polish research funding agency. In 2017, he was elected a member of Academia Europaea. Since January 2017 he is a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC).

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