Emilio Leonardi is currently an Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica of Politecnico di Torino. He received a Dr.Ing degree in Electronics Engineering in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering in 1995 both from Politecnico di Torino. In 1995, he visited the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in summer 1999 he joined the High Speed Networks Research Group, at Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, Holmdel (NJ); in summer 2001, the Electrical Engineering Department of the Stanford University and finally in summer 2003, the IP Group at Sprint, Advanced Technologies Laboratories, Burlingame CA. He participated in several national and European projects such as IST-SONATA and IST-DAVID amd the NoE e-Photon-ONe, Euro-FGI. He has also been involved in several consulting and research project with private industries, including Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs., IBM, British Telecom, Alcatel and TILAB. He is the scientific coordinator of the European 7-th FP STREP project "NAPA-WINE" on P2P streaming applications, involving 11 European research institutions, operators and manufacturers. He has co-authored over 200 papers published in international journals and presented in leading international conferences, all of them in the area of telecommunication networks. He participated to the program committees of several conferences including: IEEE infocom, IEEE Globecom and IEEE ICC. He was guest editor of two special issues of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communications focused on high speed switches and routers. His research interests are in the field of: Performance evaluation of Wireless Networks, P2P Streaming Systems, Queueing Theory, Packet Switching Architectures.

Yong Liu graduated with Ph.D degree from the ECE Dept. at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2002. He worked as a Postdoc in computer networks research group at UMass from February 2002 to February 2005. He joined ECE department of Polytechnic Institute of New York University as an assistant professor in March 2005. His current research interest includes: overlay/P2P networks, multimedia networking, network measurement, and robust network design. Yong Liu is the recipient of the Best Paper Award of IEEE INFOCOM 2009, and the 2008 Multimedia Communications Best Paper Award of IEEE Communications Society. More information about his research and teaching is available at: http://eeweb.poly.edu/faculty/yongliu/

I'm a PhD student at KTH in Stockholm since 2007. I received my computer engineering degree from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2006. My main areas of interest are distributed systems, peer-to-peer and security. I am especially interested in distributed hash tables (DHTs) and topology-aware content distribution. I'm involved in the P2P-Next project. Currently, our main focus is to integrate a fast, topology-aware DHT into the BitTorrent framework. http://www.tslab.ssvl.kth.se/raul

Prof. Renato Lo Cigno is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications (DISI) of the University of Trento, Italy, where he is one of the founding members of the Networking research group. He received a degree in Electronic Engineering with a specialization in Telecommunications from Politecnico di Torino in 1988, the same institution where he worked until 2002. From 1998 to 2001 he has been several times at the CS department of UCLA, CA, as visiting researcher for a total of more than one year. On the first visit he was supported by CNR grant No.203.15.8, and was awarded a final prize for scientific productivity. In 2001/2002 he was scientific director of INLAB, the Integrated Networking Laboratory of CSP Piemonte, now "NGN Lab" (http://www.csp.it/en/what-we-do/next-generation-networks). Renato Lo Cigno participated in several research projects funded by ESA (TOPSIM development and validation), the EU (Cost 242,247,257, Copernicus ATMIN, IST Helinet, Napoleon, and Discreet (http://ist-discreet.org)) and the Italian Ministry of University and research (MIUR) (MQOS, Planet-IP, EURO, and others). He has been the National Coordinator of the PROFILES project (http://profiles.dit.unitn.it), and he was Coordinator for Trento University in the MIUR TWELVE project (http://twelve.unitn.it). He is involved in the 7-th framework project "Napa-Wine" financed in the first call 1.5 "Networked Media" as coordinator of the Work Package devoted to the P2PTV client study and development. Renato Lo Cigno is member of the IEEE and ACM. Currently he serves in the Editorial Board of Computer Networks (Elsevier) and has been involved as Chair or TPC members of major international conferences in networking. He has co-authored over 120 papers in networking published in refereed international journals and conferences. His interest are in development, design, and performance analysis of networking systems and protocols, with particular attention to changes in communication paradigms from client/server models, to peer-to-peer models, to pervasive/ubiquitous. Since 1996 he has collaborated frequently with automatic control scientists and researchers on topics related to network control and access optimization, cooperation that lead to several publications in top international forums.

Nikolaos Laoutaris is a senior researcher at the Internet research group of Telefonica Research in Barcelona. Prior to joining the Barcelona lab he was a postdoc fellow at Harvard University and a Marie Curie postdoc fellow at Boston University. He got his PhD in computer science from the University of Athens in 2004. His general research interests are on system, algorithmic, economic, and performance evaluation aspects of computer networks and distributed systems with emphasis on content distribution, overlay networks, P2P, and multimedia communications. For more details: http://research.tid.es/nikos/

György Dan received the M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary in 1999 and the M.Sc. degree in business administration from the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary in 2003. He worked as a consultant in the field of access networks, streaming media and videoconferencing 1999-2001. He received his Ph.D. in Telecommunications in 2006 from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where he currently works as an assistant professor. He was visiting researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science in 2008. His research interests include the design and analysis of distributed and peer-to-peer systems.

Emanuele Quacchio received the Master Degree in Electronic Engineering from Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy in 2003. He worked two years as a researcher in the Dept. of Electronics of the same university and joined STMicroelectronics at the AST-system R&D group in 2006, where he is currently working as a Senior System Engineer. His activities are mainly focused on embedded SW development for STB/mobile platforms, video compression standards and streaming protocols. He published and co-authored several papers on the principal journals of engineering and conferences. Since 2006 he has participated to a number of EU funded projects (ASTRALS, SEA, P2PNext, COAST).

David Griffin is a Principal Research Associate in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London. He has a BSc from Loughborough University and a PhD from UCL, both in Electrical Engineering. He has had a significant involvement in EU research programmes in RACE, ACTS, IST and ICT projects with both technical research contributions and project management activities. His research interests are in the planning, management and dynamic control for providing QoS in multiservice networks, p2p networking and novel routing paradigms for the Future Internet. He is the project manager of the ENVISION project and coordinator of the Future Media Networks cluster.
More information at: http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~dgriffin/.

Ernst Biersack studied Computer Science at the Technische Universität München and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Dipl. Inform. (M.S.) and Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) degrees in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, and his Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches from the University of Nice, France. From March 1989 to February 1992 he was a Member of Technical Staff with the Computer Communications Research Group of Bell Communications Research, Morristown, US. Since March 1992 he has been a Professor in Telecommunications at Eurecom, in Sophia Antipolis, France. His current Research is on Peer-to-Peer Systems and Network Tomography.
His home page can be found at: http://www.eurecom.fr/~btroup/erbi_page.html

M. Telek received the M. Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from theTechnical University of Budapest in 1987. In the same year he joined the Hungarian Post Research Institute where he studied the modelling, analysis and planning aspects of communication networks. Since 1990 he has been with the Department of Telecommunications of the Technical University of Budapest, where he is a full professor now. He received the C.Sc. and D.Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1995 and 2004, respectively. His current research interest includes stochastic performance modeling and analysis of computer and communication systems.

Marco Mellia received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, in 2001. In 1999, he was with the Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Since April 2001, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department, Politecnico di Torino. He has coauthored over 150 papers published in international journals and conferences, and he participated in the program committees of several conferences including IEEE INFOCOM and ACM SIGCOMM. He is the Work Package coordinator of the Napa-Wine project. His research interests are in the fields of traffic measurement, P2P applications, and energy-aware network design.