Agostino Forestiero is a research fellow at the Institute of High Performance Computing and Networks of the Italian National Research Council (ICAR-CNR) in Cosenza. He received his Laurea degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy, in 2002 and his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Calabria in 2007. He published more than 30 scientific papers on international journals and conferences. His research interests include Grid Computing, Peerto- Peer Networks and Swarm Intelligence. He is serving as a program committee member of several conferences and is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
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Michela Meo received the Laurea degree in Electronics Engineering in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering in 1997, both from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Since November 1999, she is an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino. She co-authored more than 120 papers, about 40 of which are in international journals. She edited six special issues of international
journals, including ACM Monet, Performance Evaluation, Journal and Computer Networks. She was program co-chair of two editions of ACM
MSWiM, general chair of another edition of ACM MSWiM, program co-chair of IEEE QoS-IP, IEEE MoVeNet 2007, IEEE ISCC 2009 and she was in the program committee of about 50 international conferences, including Sigmetrics, Infocom, ICC and Globecom. Her research interests are in the field of performance evaluation and modeling, traffic classification and characterization, P2P, green networking.

Emilio Leonardi received the Laurea degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino. In 1995, he was with the Department of Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles. In the summer of 1999, he was with the High Speed Networks Research Group, Lucent Technology-Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, and in the summer of 2001, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA. He co-authored over 100 papers published in international journals and presented in leading international conferences. His areas of interest are all-optical networks, queueing theory, and scheduling policies for high-speed switches.

Andrea Ricco is a computer science engineer and collaborator at the Institute for High Performance Networks and Applications of the Italian National Research Council ICAR-CNR, Cosenza (Italy).

Saverio Manti and Pasquale Signoretta, former students at the University of Calabria and now Computer Engineers, also worked at this project.