**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Sangheon Pack** received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2000 and 2005, respectively, both in computer engineering. In 2007, he joined the faculty of Korea University, Seoul, Korea, where he is currently a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering. From 2005 to 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Broadband Communications Research Group, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. He was the recipient of IEEE/Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE) Joint Award for IT Young Engineers Award 2017, Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) Young Information Scientist Award 2017, Korea University TechnoComplex (KUTC) Crimson Professor 2015, Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS) Haedong Young Scholar Award 2013, LG Yonam Foundation Overseas Research Professor Program in 2012, and IEEE ComSoc APB Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2009. He was the head of the Department of Samsung IT Convergence at Korea University in 2012, and he is the Department Head of Hyundai Automotive Convergence in Korea University. In 2003, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin, Germany. He served as a TPC vice-chair for information systems of IEEE WCNC 2020, a track chair of IEEE CCNC 2019, a TPC chair of EAI Qshine 2016, a publication co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2014 and ACM MobiHoc 2015, a co-chair of IEEE VTC 2010-Fall transportation track, a co-chair of IEEE WCSP 2013 wireless networking symposium, a TPC vice-chair of ICOIN 2013, and a publicity co-chair of IEEE SECON 2012. He is an editor of IEEE Internet of Things (IoT), Journal of Communications Networks (JCN), IET Communications, and he is a Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE). He is a senior member of the IEEE. His research interests include softwarized networking (SDN/NFV), 5G/6G mobile core networks, mobile edge computing/ programmable data plane, and vehicular networking.
