Activities

Editorial Positions

1. Elected member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE, (effective 1 January 2016 through 31 December 2018).
2. Co-guest Editor of a Special Issue of Elsevier Computer Communications Journal on "Wireless Green Communications and Networking", 2013.
   
3. Series co-Editor for the Series on Adhoc and Sensor Networks for IEEE Communications Magazine from April 2004 to Dec 2005.
4. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, from January 2003 to December 2006.
5. Associate Editor, Telecommunication Systems, from April 1995 to December 2004.
6. Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine, November 1997-December 2001.
7. Area Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys, December 1997-present.
8. Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue of Computer Networks on Broadband Satellite Systems:  A Network Perspective, Vol. 39, Issue 1, May 2002.
9. Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue of International Journal of Satellite Communications on "Broadband Satellite Networking," Vol. 19, Issue 5, September 2001.
10. Editorial Liaison for Special Issue of IEEE Communications on "Network Traffic Measurements and Experiments, May 2000.

Chairs

1. Keynote Chair and member of the Technical Program Committee of ACM E-energy 2016, Waterloo, Canada, June 2016.
2. TPC co-Chair, 27th International Teletraffic Congress, Ghent, Belgium, Sept. 2015.
3. General co-Chair of ACM E-energy 2013, Berkeley, USA, May 2013.
4. Co-Chair of the First ACM CoNEXT UrbaNe Workshop, Nice, Dec 2012.
5. TPC co-Chair of the 14th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, Brest, Oct 2011.
6. Co-chair of the SIGCOMM 2011 Workshop on "Green Networking and Energy Systems", Toronto, August 2011.
   
7. General Co-Chair, 4th International Conference on Network Control and Optimization (NETCOOP), 22-24 November 2010, Ghent, Belgium.
8. Co-organizer of the Workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Networks, Fields Institute, Toronto, May 8-9, 2008.
9. General co-Chair of the IEEE International Workshop On Foundations And Algorithms For Wireless Networking (FAWN), Pisa, Italy, March 2006.
10. Keynote and Panel Co-Chair, IFIP International Conferences on Networking (Networking 2005), Waterloo, Canada, May 2005.
11. Tutorial Co-Chair,  IEEE ICC, 2003.
12. Panel Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM, 2003.
13. Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE / ACM MOBICOM, September 2002.
14. Keynote Speaker Chair, IEEE INFOCOM, 2001.
15. Chair, Mini-Conference on Broadband Satellite Networking, IFIP Networking 2000, Paris, France, May 2000.
16. Panel Chair, IEEE INFOCOM, "Multimedia Satellite:  The Reality Behind the Propaganda," New York, March 1999.
17. Vice General Chair, IEEE INFOCOM, New York, March 1999.
18. Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, March 1998.
19. Co-Chair, Third IFIP Workshop, "Traffic Management," Montreal, Canada, September 1997.

Program Committees

1. Member, ACM Greenmetrics Organizing Committee, Juan Les Pins, June 2016.
2. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), July 2015.
3. Poster co-Chair, ACM MobiHoc,  Hangzhou, China, June 2015.
4. Member of the Technical Program Committee of E-energy, Cambridge, June 2014.
5. Member of the Technical Program Committee of  Med-Hoc-Net, Piran, Slovenia, June 2014
6. Member of the Technical Program Committee of ACM GreenMetrics workshop. Austin, USA, June 2014.
   
7. Member of the Technical Program Committee of WiOpt, Hammamet, May 2014.
8. Member of the Technical Program Committee of E-energy, Madrid, May 2012.
   
9. Member of the Technical Program Committee of WiOpt, Princeton, May 2011.
   
10. Member of the Technical Program Committee for the networking track of ICDCN  (International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking), Bangalore, India, January 2-5, 2011
11. Member of the Technical Program Committee, Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2010), Philadelphia, USA, Nov. 2010.
12. Member of the Technical Program Committee, The 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 2010.
13. Member of the Technical Program Committee, The 6th International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WinMee 2010), May 2010, Avignon, France.
14. Member of the Technical Program Committee, the 21st ITC Specialist Seminar on Multimedia Applications - Traffic, Performance and QoE, Japan, March 2010.
15. Member of the Technical Program Committee, The 9th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, MedHocNet'10, Juan Les Pins, France, June 2010.
16. Member of the Technical Program Committee, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'2010), Sydney, April, 2010.
17. Technical Program Committee, The 8th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, MedHocNet'09, Haifa, Israel, June 2009.
18. Technical Program Committee, 21st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC21), Paris, Sept 2009.
19. Technical Program Committee, The Seven Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks (WiOpt'09), Seoul, Korea, June 2009.
20. Technical Program Committee, Wireless Networks and Cognitive Radio Track, IEEE VTC 08 –Fall, Calgary, Sept. 2008.
21. Technical Program Committee, The Eight Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks (WiOpt'08), Berlin, Germany, April 2008.
22. Technical Program Committee, The Second Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks (WiOpt'04), Cambridge, UK, March 2004.
23. Technical Program Committee, EW '04 (5th European Wireless Conference Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G), Barcelona, Spain, February 2004.
24. Organizing Committee,  IEEE ICC, 2003.
25. Organizing Committee, IEEE INFOCOM, 2003.
26. Organizing Committee, IEEE / ACM MOBICOM, September 2002.
27. Organizing Committee, IEEE INFOCOM, 2001.
28. Technical Program Committee, IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, December 2000.
29. Technical Program Committee, P&Qnet (International Conference on the Performance and QoS of Next Generation Networking), Jagoya, Japan, November 2000.
30. Technical Program Committee, IFIP Networking 2000,  Paris, France, May 2000.
31. Scientific Program Committee, IFIP Broadband Communications, Hong Kong, November 1999.
32. Organizer, ITC 16, Hot Topic Session, Edinburgh, June 1999.
33. Technical Program Committee, ITC 16, Edinburgh, June 1999.
34. Technical Program Committee, IFIP WG 6.2 Conference, "Broadband Communications," Stuttgart, April 1998.
35. Organizing Committee, IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, March 1998.
36. Technical Program Committee, IEEE INFOCOM, Kobe, Japan, March 1997.
37. Technical Program Committee, IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, March 1996.

Others (since 2005)

• Member of the Electrical & Electronic Engineering Panel of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2014.
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French Technological Research Institute B<>COM dedicated to digital technologies since Jan. 2014.
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Orange Group (formerly France-Telecom) from February 2007 to mid 2015. President of the Board from January 2013 to mid 2015.
• Chair of the Wireless Sector Committee of the Natural Resources and Applied Sciences (NRAS) Endowment Research Program, Province of British Columbia, April 2010.
  
• Member of the Emerging Technologies Committee of IEEE Communications Society since June 2009.
• Member of the Committee of Visitors for the Computer and Network Systems Division in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation, May 11-13, 2009.
• Several times scientific expert for the European Commission, since July 1999. Co-author of the Synthesis Report for the FIRE program, 2007.
• Member of the NSERC Strategic Grant Committee, 2007.
• Member of the Scientific Board of the France-Telecom Group since February 2007.
• Member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, Center of Excellence (Q2S), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) 2007.
• Elected Member at Large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society for a 2 year term starting January 2007.
• Member of the Board of Director of Syngene, one of the largest Custom Research Companies (CRC) in India since 2003.
• Member of the Experts Panel on Telecommunications of the French Research Agency (ANR), 2006, 2007.
• Member of the Board of Governors, University of Waterloo, from June 2006 to August 2007.
• Member of the Advisory Board of the European Network of Excellence Euro-NGI (Next Generation Internet), since January 2006.
• External expert for PROMPT (Partenariat de Recherche Orientee en Micro-electronique, Photonique, et Telecommunications), since December 2005.
• Member of University of Waterloo Senate from May 05 to August 2007.

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