Biographical note

Professor Isaac Woungang received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of South, Toulon and Var, France. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a software engineer in the Photonic Line Systems Group, Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,. Since 2002, he has been with Ryerson University, where he is now a full professor of Computer Science and Director of the Distributed Applications and Broad band (DABNEL) Lab. Dr. Woungang has published 8 books and over 89 refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences. He has served as Associate Editor of the Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), and the International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley). He has Guest Edited several Special Issues with various reputed journals such as IET Information Security, Mathematical and Computer Modeling (Elsevier), Computer Communications (Elsevier), Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), and Telecommunication Systems (Springer). Since January 2012, he is serving as Chair of Computer Chapter, IEEE Toronto Section.

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Dhurandher received the M. Tech. and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Sciences from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is presently working as Professor and Head in the Department of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas University of Technology (Formerly NSIT), New Delhi, India.. Prior to this, from 1995 to 2000 he worked as a Scientist/Engineer at the Institute for Plasma Research, Gujarat, India which is under the Department of Atomic Energy, India. His current research interests include wireless ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, , opportunistic networks, network security and cognitive radio networks.  He is serving as the Associate Editor of Wiley’s International Journal of Communication Systems. He has served as a Guest Editor for several Special Issues with various reputed journals. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and Fellow of IETE.