Biographical note

Dusit Niyato is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Asia Pacific Best Young Researcher Award and the IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award. Ekram Hossain is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba, Canada and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the co-editor or -author of several books, including Wireless Device-to-Device Communications and Networks (Cambridge, 2015) and Cooperative Cellular Wireless Networks (Cambridge, 2011). Dong In Kim is a Professor with SKKU Fellowship in the School of Information and Communication Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Seoul. He served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2012–15) and in 2014 was the first recipient of the ERC Excellence Award in Wireless Communications from the National Research Foundation of Korea. Vijay Bhargava is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he is currently leading a major research program in 5G Wireless Systems. His previous positions include President of the IEEE's Information Theory and Communications Societies and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Lotfollah Shafai is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Canada. His numerous awards and recognitions include the Canada Council for the Arts Killam Prize in Engineering (2011), and the IEEE Chen-To-Tai Distinguished Educator Award (2009). He was also a Canada Research Chair in Applied Electromagnetics (2001–15).