A. Ahmad, 15?SM'16) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, 2006, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supelec)

F. Yvette and P. , He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan. He has several years of research experience and has authored or co-authored several scientific publications in various refereed international journals and conferences. He has also authored or co-authored several book chapters, and is the Leading Co-Editor of the book Smart Grid as a Solution for Renewable and Efficient Energy published in 2016. He is Associate Editor with IEEE Access and Springer Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences. He received the best research paper award from Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for the years 2015?2016. His research interests include resource allocation in wireless communication systems, energy management in smart grid, and the application of optimization methods to engineering problems. He has also served as the Lead Guest Editor of a special issue on Optimization for Emerging Wireless Networks for the IEEE ACCESS. He is serving as a TPC member for several international conferences He is a member of the, including IEEE GLOBECOM and IEEE PIMRC, and as a reviewer for several renowned international journals, 2006.

A. Rachedi, 15) received the engineering degree in computer science from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne He is currently an Associate Professor, 2002, the M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Savoie 2008, and the Habilitation to Direct Research (H.D.R.) degree in computer science from Paris-Est University, 2003.

F. Marne, His research interests include wireless networking, wireless multihop networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, machine-type communication, Internet of Things, distributed algorithms, the quality of services with security, trust models design, and network performance analysis and evaluation. He supervised multiple Ph.D. and master's students in Paris-Est University. His research efforts have culminated in over 90 refereed journal, conference, and book publications in a wide variety of prestigious international conferences and journals, including the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, the IEEE ICC, and the IEEE GLOBECOM

, He has served as a technical program committee member and a reviewer of many international conferences and journals, He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE ACCESS, and on the Editorial Board for Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

, She is also the Director with the INTERLAB, a Research Laboratory which conducts research funded by government and industry she was appointed as an Adjunct Full Professor with Lulea University, Sweden. Before joining as a Faculty Member, she was a Project Leader on projects targeted at the Aerospace Industry She was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto she was a Visiting Professor with the Centre of Distributed Systems and Software In 2012, she was an Invited Visiting Scholar with the University of California at Berkeley. She has over 200 publications in reputable journals, conferences, and workshops in the area of communication networks. Her research and teaching interests include wireless networks. She particularly works on vehicular communications, cyber physical systems, machine-to-machine communications, and IoT. She has participated as a General Chair, an Editor, a Member of Technical Committee, the Session Chair, or a Program Committee Member of numerous conferences or referenced journals, 2010, she was appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Network of Centers of Excellence Auto21, Canada, and a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of, 1999.