Prof. Alagan Anpalagan received the B.A.Sc. (H), M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University in 2001 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2010. He served the department as Graduate Program Director (2004-09) and the Interim Electrical Engineering Program Director (2009-10). During his sabbatical (2010-11), he was a Visiting Professor at Asian Institute of Technology and Visiting Researcher at Kyoto University. Dr. Anpalagan’s industrial experience includes working at Bell Mobility on 1xRTT system deployment studies (2001), at Nortel Networks on SECORE R&D projects (1997) and at IBM Canada as IIP Intern (1994).Dr. Anpalagan directs a research group working on radio resource management (RRM) and radio access & networking (RAN) areas within the WINCORE Lab. His current research interests include cognitive radio resource allocation and management, wireless cross layer design and optimization, collaborative communication, green communications technologies and QoE-aware femtocells. Dr. Anpalagan serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (2012-), IEEE Communications Letters (2010-) and Springer Wireless Personal Communications (2009-), and past Editor for EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking (2004-2009). He also served as EURASIP Guest Editor for two special issues in Radio Resource Management in 3G+ Systems (2006) and Fairness in Radio Resource Management for Wireless Networks (2008). Dr. Anpalagan served as TPC Co-Chair of: IEEE WPMC’12 Wireless Networks, IEEE PIMRC’11 Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management, IEEE IWCMC’11 Workshop on Cooperative and Cognitive Networks, IEEE CCECE’04/08 and WirelessCom’05 Symposium on Radio Resource Management.Dr. Anpalagan served as IEEE Toronto Section Chair (2006-07), ComSoc Toronto Chapter Chair (2004-05), Chair of IEEE Canada Professional Activities Committee (2009-11). He is the recipient of the Dean’s Teaching Award (2011), Faculty Scholastic, Research and Creativity Award (2010), Faculty Service Award (2010) at Ryerson University. Dr. Anpalagan also completed a course on Project Management for Scientist and Engineers at the University of Oxford CPD Center. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.Dr. Isaac Woungang received his M.S. & Ph. D degrees, all in Mathematics, from the Université de la Méditerranée-Aix Marseille II, France, and Université du Sud, Toulon & Var, France, in 1990 and 1994 respectively. In 1999, he received a M.S degree from the INRS-Materials and Telecommunications, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a software engineer at Nortel Networks. Since 2002, he has been with Ryerson University, where he is now an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Coordinator of the Distributed Applications and Broadband (DABNEL) Lab at Ryerson University. During his sabbatical (2008-09), he was a Visiting Professor at National Ilan University, Taiwan. His current research interests include network resource allocation and management, green communications technologies, network security, computer communication networks, and mobile communication systems. Dr. Woungang has published six (6) book chapters and over seventy (70) refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences, and currently working on two more books.Dr. Woungang serves as Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), Inderscience, U.K, and the International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJICoT), Inderscience, U.K, as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), Wiley, the Computers & Electrical Engineering (C&EE), An International Journal, Elsevier, as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Wireless Networks & Broadcasting Technologies (IGI Global), as Associate Editor of the Journal of Convergence (FTRA, http://ftrai.org/joc/index.htm), as Associate Editor of the Human-centric computing and Information Sciences, Springer. He also served as Guest Editor for several special issues with several journals such as IET Information Security, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (Inderscience); Computer and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Elsevier), Computer Communications (Elsevier); The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), Telecommunication Systems (Springer), International Journal of Communication Systems (Elsevier).Dr. Woungang edited six (6) books in the areas of wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, pervasive computing, and coding theory, published by reputed publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and World Scientific. He is currently working on two more books. Also, he has been serving as Symposium Co-Chair of the 29th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2010), Organizing Chair of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th International workshop on Dependable Network Computing and Mobile Systems (DNCMS), Track Chair, and Program Chair of several International conferences; and in the Program Committees of over a dozen International conferences. Since January 2012, Dr. Woungang serves as Chair of Computer Chapter, IEEE Toronto Section.Mohammad S. Obaidat (Fellow IEEE, Fellow SCS, Fellow AAIA, and Fellow of FTRA) is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at King Abdullah II School of Information Technology (KASIT), University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. He is also a Distinguished Professor at SRM University, India. He has published around 1,200 technical articles, 100 books, and 70 book chapters. He is Editor-in-Chief of three scholarly journals and an editor of numerous international journals. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wiley Security and Privacy Journal. Moreover, he is the founder or co-founder of five International Conferences. His areas of interest are in wireless networks, cyber security, security of e-Systems, computer networks, data analytics, and computer architecture, parallel computing: Architecture, and Algorithms, and performance evaluation of computer networks and systems.

• Cognitive Strategies for Green Two-Tier Cellular Networks: A Critical OverviewA Survey of Contemporary Technologies for Smart Home Energy ManagementEmbedded Computing in the Emerging Smart GridIEEE 802.15.4 Based Wireless Sensor Network Design for Smart Grid CommunicationsSmart Grid Communications NetworksWireless Technologies, Protocols, Issues and StandardsIntercell Interference Coordination: Towards A Greener Cellular Network; Energy-efficient Radio Resource Management for Green Radio SystemsGreen computing and Communication ArchitectureGreen Computing Platforms for Biomedical SystemsGreen Datacenter Infrastructures in the Cloud Computing EraEnergy Efficient Cloud Computing: A Green Migration of the Traditional ITGreen Data Centers; Energy-Efficient Sensor NetworksEnergy Efficient Next Generation Wireless CommunicationsEnergy Efficient MIMO-OFDM SystemsConstrained Green Base Station Deployment with Resource Allocation in Wireless NetworksGreen Broadband Access NetworksOverview of Energy Saving Techniques for Mobile and Wireless Access NetworksTowards Energy-Oriented Telecommunication NetworksEnergy-Efficient Peer-to-Peer Networking and OverlaysPower Management for 4G Broadband Wireless Access NetworksGreen Optical Core NetworksAnalysis and Development of Green-Aware Security Mechanisms for Modern Internet ApplicationsUsing Ant Colony Agents for Designing Energy-Efficient Routing Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor NetworksSmart Grid Communications: Opportunities and ChallengesA Survey on Smart Grid Communications: From an Architecture Overview to Standardization ActivitiesTowards Energy Efficiency in Next Generation Green Mobile Networks: a Queueing Theory Perspective

Prof. Alagan Anpalagan received the B.A.Sc. (H), M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University in 2001 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2010. He served the department as Graduate Program Director (2004-09) and the Interim Electrical Engineering Program Director (2009-10). During his sabbatical (2010-11), he was a Visiting Professor at Asian Institute of Technology and Visiting Researcher at Kyoto University. Dr. Anpalagan’s industrial experience includes working at Bell Mobility on 1xRTT system deployment studies (2001), at Nortel Networks on SECORE R&D projects (1997) and at IBM Canada as IIP Intern (1994).Dr. Anpalagan directs a research group working on radio resource management (RRM) and radio access & networking (RAN) areas within the WINCORE Lab. His current research interests include cognitive radio resource allocation and management, wireless cross layer design and optimization, collaborative communication, green communications technologies and QoE-aware femtocells. Dr. Anpalagan serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (2012-), IEEE Communications Letters (2010-) and Springer Wireless Personal Communications (2009-), and past Editor for EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking (2004-2009). He also served as EURASIP Guest Editor for two special issues in Radio Resource Management in 3G+ Systems (2006) and Fairness in Radio Resource Management for Wireless Networks (2008). Dr. Anpalagan served as TPC Co-Chair of: IEEE WPMC’12 Wireless Networks, IEEE PIMRC’11 Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management, IEEE IWCMC’11 Workshop on Cooperative and Cognitive Networks, IEEE CCECE’04/08 and WirelessCom’05 Symposium on Radio Resource Management.Dr. Anpalagan served as IEEE Toronto Section Chair (2006-07), ComSoc Toronto Chapter Chair (2004-05), Chair of IEEE Canada Professional Activities Committee (2009-11). He is the recipient of the Dean’s Teaching Award (2011), Faculty Scholastic, Research and Creativity Award (2010), Faculty Service Award (2010) at Ryerson University. Dr. Anpalagan also completed a course on Project Management for Scientist and Engineers at the University of Oxford CPD Center. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.Dr. Isaac Woungang received his M.S. & Ph. D degrees, all in Mathematics, from the Université de la Méditerranée-Aix Marseille II, France, and Université du Sud, Toulon & Var, France, in 1990 and 1994 respectively. In 1999, he received a M.S degree from the INRS-Materials and Telecommunications, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a software engineer at Nortel Networks. Since 2002, he has been with Ryerson University, where he is now an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Coordinator of the Distributed Applications and Broadband (DABNEL) Lab at Ryerson University. During his sabbatical (2008-09), he was a Visiting Professor at National Ilan University, Taiwan. His current research interests include network resource allocation and management, green communications technologies, network security, computer communication networks, and mobile communication systems. Dr. Woungang has published six (6) book chapters and over seventy (70) refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences, and currently working on two more books.Dr. Woungang serves as Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), Inderscience, U.K, and the International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJICoT), Inderscience, U.K, as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), Wiley, the Computers & Electrical Engineering (C&EE), An International Journal, Elsevier, as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Wireless Networks & Broadcasting Technologies (IGI Global), as Associate Editor of the Journal of Convergence (FTRA, http://ftrai.org/joc/index.htm), as Associate Editor of the Human-centric computing and Information Sciences, Springer. He also served as Guest Editor for several special issues with several journals such as IET Information Security, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (Inderscience); Computer and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Elsevier), Computer Communications (Elsevier); The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), Telecommunication Systems (Springer), International Journal of Communication Systems (Elsevier).Dr. Woungang edited six (6) books in the areas of wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, pervasive computing, and coding theory, published by reputed publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and World Scientific. He is currently working on two more books. Also, he has been serving as Symposium Co-Chair of the 29th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2010), Organizing Chair of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th International workshop on Dependable Network Computing and Mobile Systems (DNCMS), Track Chair, and Program Chair of several International conferences; and in the Program Committees of over a dozen International conferences. Since January 2012, Dr. Woungang serves as Chair of Computer Chapter, IEEE Toronto Section.Mohammad S. Obaidat (Fellow IEEE, Fellow SCS, Fellow AAIA, and Fellow of FTRA) is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at King Abdullah II School of Information Technology (KASIT), University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. He is also a Distinguished Professor at SRM University, India. He has published around 1,200 technical articles, 100 books, and 70 book chapters. He is Editor-in-Chief of three scholarly journals and an editor of numerous international journals. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wiley Security and Privacy Journal. Moreover, he is the founder or co-founder of five International Conferences. His areas of interest are in wireless networks, cyber security, security of e-Systems, computer networks, data analytics, and computer architecture, parallel computing: Architecture, and Algorithms, and performance evaluation of computer networks and systems.

• Cognitive Strategies for Green Two-Tier Cellular Networks: A Critical OverviewA Survey of Contemporary Technologies for Smart Home Energy ManagementEmbedded Computing in the Emerging Smart GridIEEE 802.15.4 Based Wireless Sensor Network Design for Smart Grid CommunicationsSmart Grid Communications NetworksWireless Technologies, Protocols, Issues and StandardsIntercell Interference Coordination: Towards A Greener Cellular Network; Energy-efficient Radio Resource Management for Green Radio SystemsGreen computing and Communication ArchitectureGreen Computing Platforms for Biomedical SystemsGreen Datacenter Infrastructures in the Cloud Computing EraEnergy Efficient Cloud Computing: A Green Migration of the Traditional ITGreen Data Centers; Energy-Efficient Sensor NetworksEnergy Efficient Next Generation Wireless CommunicationsEnergy Efficient MIMO-OFDM SystemsConstrained Green Base Station Deployment with Resource Allocation in Wireless NetworksGreen Broadband Access NetworksOverview of Energy Saving Techniques for Mobile and Wireless Access NetworksTowards Energy-Oriented Telecommunication NetworksEnergy-Efficient Peer-to-Peer Networking and OverlaysPower Management for 4G Broadband Wireless Access NetworksGreen Optical Core NetworksAnalysis and Development of Green-Aware Security Mechanisms for Modern Internet ApplicationsUsing Ant Colony Agents for Designing Energy-Efficient Routing Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor NetworksSmart Grid Communications: Opportunities and ChallengesA Survey on Smart Grid Communications: From an Architecture Overview to Standardization ActivitiesTowards Energy Efficiency in Next Generation Green Mobile Networks: a Queueing Theory Perspective

Prof. Alagan Anpalagan received the B.A.Sc. (H), M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University in 2001 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2010. He served the department as Graduate Program Director (2004-09) and the Interim Electrical Engineering Program Director (2009-10). During his sabbatical (2010-11), he was a Visiting Professor at Asian Institute of Technology and Visiting Researcher at Kyoto University. Dr. Anpalagan’s industrial experience includes working at Bell Mobility on 1xRTT system deployment studies (2001), at Nortel Networks on SECORE R&D projects (1997) and at IBM Canada as IIP Intern (1994).Dr. Anpalagan directs a research group working on radio resource management (RRM) and radio access & networking (RAN) areas within the WINCORE Lab. His current research interests include cognitive radio resource allocation and management, wireless cross layer design and optimization, collaborative communication, green communications technologies and QoE-aware femtocells. Dr. Anpalagan serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (2012-), IEEE Communications Letters (2010-) and Springer Wireless Personal Communications (2009-), and past Editor for EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking (2004-2009). He also served as EURASIP Guest Editor for two special issues in Radio Resource Management in 3G+ Systems (2006) and Fairness in Radio Resource Management for Wireless Networks (2008). Dr. Anpalagan served as TPC Co-Chair of: IEEE WPMC’12 Wireless Networks, IEEE PIMRC’11 Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management, IEEE IWCMC’11 Workshop on Cooperative and Cognitive Networks, IEEE CCECE’04/08 and WirelessCom’05 Symposium on Radio Resource Management.Dr. Anpalagan served as IEEE Toronto Section Chair (2006-07), ComSoc Toronto Chapter Chair (2004-05), Chair of IEEE Canada Professional Activities Committee (2009-11). He is the recipient of the Dean’s Teaching Award (2011), Faculty Scholastic, Research and Creativity Award (2010), Faculty Service Award (2010) at Ryerson University. Dr. Anpalagan also completed a course on Project Management for Scientist and Engineers at the University of Oxford CPD Center. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.Dr. Isaac Woungang received his M.S. & Ph. D degrees, all in Mathematics, from the Université de la Méditerranée-Aix Marseille II, France, and Université du Sud, Toulon & Var, France, in 1990 and 1994 respectively. In 1999, he received a M.S degree from the INRS-Materials and Telecommunications, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a software engineer at Nortel Networks. Since 2002, he has been with Ryerson University, where he is now an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Coordinator of the Distributed Applications and Broadband (DABNEL) Lab at Ryerson University. During his sabbatical (2008-09), he was a Visiting Professor at National Ilan University, Taiwan. His current research interests include network resource allocation and management, green communications technologies, network security, computer communication networks, and mobile communication systems. Dr. Woungang has published six (6) book chapters and over seventy (70) refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences, and currently working on two more books.Dr. Woungang serves as Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), Inderscience, U.K, and the International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJICoT), Inderscience, U.K, as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), Wiley, the Computers & Electrical Engineering (C&EE), An International Journal, Elsevier, as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Wireless Networks & Broadcasting Technologies (IGI Global), as Associate Editor of the Journal of Convergence (FTRA, http://ftrai.org/joc/index.htm), as Associate Editor of the Human-centric computing and Information Sciences, Springer. He also served as Guest Editor for several special issues with several journals such as IET Information Security, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (Inderscience); Computer and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Elsevier), Computer Communications (Elsevier); The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), Telecommunication Systems (Springer), International Journal of Communication Systems (Elsevier).Dr. Woungang edited six (6) books in the areas of wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, pervasive computing, and coding theory, published by reputed publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and World Scientific. He is currently working on two more books. Also, he has been serving as Symposium Co-Chair of the 29th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2010), Organizing Chair of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th International workshop on Dependable Network Computing and Mobile Systems (DNCMS), Track Chair, and Program Chair of several International conferences; and in the Program Committees of over a dozen International conferences. Since January 2012, Dr. Woungang serves as Chair of Computer Chapter, IEEE Toronto Section.Mohammad S. Obaidat (Fellow IEEE, Fellow SCS, Fellow AAIA, and Fellow of FTRA) is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at King Abdullah II School of Information Technology (KASIT), University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. He is also a Distinguished Professor at SRM University, India. He has published around 1,200 technical articles, 100 books, and 70 book chapters. He is Editor-in-Chief of three scholarly journals and an editor of numerous international journals. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wiley Security and Privacy Journal. Moreover, he is the founder or co-founder of five International Conferences. His areas of interest are in wireless networks, cyber security, security of e-Systems, computer networks, data analytics, and computer architecture, parallel computing: Architecture, and Algorithms, and performance evaluation of computer networks and systems.

• Cognitive Strategies for Green Two-Tier Cellular Networks: A Critical OverviewA Survey of Contemporary Technologies for Smart Home Energy ManagementEmbedded Computing in the Emerging Smart GridIEEE 802.15.4 Based Wireless Sensor Network Design for Smart Grid CommunicationsSmart Grid Communications NetworksWireless Technologies, Protocols, Issues and StandardsIntercell Interference Coordination: Towards A Greener Cellular Network; Energy-efficient Radio Resource Management for Green Radio SystemsGreen computing and Communication ArchitectureGreen Computing Platforms for Biomedical SystemsGreen Datacenter Infrastructures in the Cloud Computing EraEnergy Efficient Cloud Computing: A Green Migration of the Traditional ITGreen Data Centers; Energy-Efficient Sensor NetworksEnergy Efficient Next Generation Wireless CommunicationsEnergy Efficient MIMO-OFDM SystemsConstrained Green Base Station Deployment with Resource Allocation in Wireless NetworksGreen Broadband Access NetworksOverview of Energy Saving Techniques for Mobile and Wireless Access NetworksTowards Energy-Oriented Telecommunication NetworksEnergy-Efficient Peer-to-Peer Networking and OverlaysPower Management for 4G Broadband Wireless Access NetworksGreen Optical Core NetworksAnalysis and Development of Green-Aware Security Mechanisms for Modern Internet ApplicationsUsing Ant Colony Agents for Designing Energy-Efficient Routing Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor NetworksSmart Grid Communications: Opportunities and ChallengesA Survey on Smart Grid Communications: From an Architecture Overview to Standardization ActivitiesTowards Energy Efficiency in Next Generation Green Mobile Networks: a Queueing Theory Perspective