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## **About the Editor**

**Andras Farago** received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, in 1976, 1979 and 1981, respectively. In 1996, he obtained the distinguished title "Doctor of Sciences" from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Until 1997, he was faculty member at the Department of Telecommunications and Telematics, Technical University of Budapest. He also worked as a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1991/92, and spent a sabbatical year at Boston University in 1996. In 1998, he permanently moved to the USA, and became Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of ACM, and of the IFIP Working Group 6.3 "Performance of Communication Systems". He serves as Editor for the journal Wireless Networks. His principal research interest is in the analysis, modeling, design, and optimization of networks, as well as the related mathematical background, including algorithms, graph theory and computational complexity. Dr. Farago's research was funded by five grants from the National Science Foundation, and he has authored or co-authored over 250 research papers.
