**About the Editors**

**Carlos Tavares Calafate** (Full Professor) is a member of the Department of Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Valencia (UPV) in Spain. He graduated with honors in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oporto (Portugal) in 2001. He completed his PhD in Informatics at the Technical University of Valencia in 2006, where he has worked since 2002. His research interests include ad hoc and vehicular networks, UAVs, smart cities and IoT, QoS, network protocols, video streaming, and network security. To date, he has published more than 400 articles, several of which have been journals, including IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and IEEE Communications Magazine. He is an associate editor for several international journals, and has participated in the TPC of more than 250 international conferences. He is ranked among the top 100 Spanish researchers in the Computer Science and Electronics field. He is also a founding member of the IEEE SIG on Big Data with Computational Intelligence.

**Mauro Tropea** (Post Doc Researcher) works in the DIMES Department at the University of Calabria in Italy. He received his master's degree in April 2003 and PhD in January 2009, both in computer science engineering, at the University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy. From May 2008 to October 2008, he was a visiting researcher at the Telecommunication Department of ESA ESTEC Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Since 2003, he has been with the telecommunications group of the DIMES Department, and, since September 2018, he has been a postdoctoral researcher there. His research interests include satellite communications, QoS architectures, bio-inspired algorithms, VANETs, FANETs, hierarchical networks, and multicasting.
