Claudio Sacchi was born in Genoa (Italy) in 1965. He received the “Laurea” degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in Space Science and Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1992 and 2003, respectively. From 1996 to 2002, he was a Research Cooperator with the Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE), University of Genoa, and with the National Italian Consortium in Telecommunications (CNIT), managing project activities in the field of multimedia surveillance systems and satellite communications. In August 2002, he joined the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento, Italy, as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in December 2020. He has authored and coauthored more than 140 papers published in international journals and conferences. He is a member of the IEEE ComSoc, IEEE BTS, IEEE VT, and IEEE AESS. His research interests are mainly focused on wideband mobile and satellite transmission systems based on space, time and frequency diversity, MIMO systems, array processing, multi-rate and multi-access wireless communications, EHF broadband aerospace communications, software radio and cognitive radio, radio communications for emergency recovery applications. In 2011, he was a Guest Editor of the special issue of PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE: “Aerospace Communications: History, Trends and Future” and the featured topic special issue of IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE: “Toward the Space 2.0 Era” in 2015. Since 2019, he has been coordinating and chairing the IEEE AESS technical panel: “Glue Technologies for Space Systems” that was awarded by AESS as “Outstanding Panel of the Year” in 2020 and 2021. Since January 1st, 2023, Claudio Sacchi has got the double affiliation with University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM) as Research Professor.
Fabrizio Granelli is a Professor at the Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of the University of Trento (Italy), IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer and Chair of the Joint IEEE VTS/ComSoc Italian Chapter. He got the national full-professorship habilitation in 2017.He received the «Laurea» (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. degree from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Since 2000 he has collaborated with the University of Trento (Italy), currently as coordinator of the Networking Laboratory. Between 2004 and 2015 for a total of six months, he was visiting professor at the State University of Campinas (Brasil) and in 2016 he was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo (Japan). He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the period 2012-15 (2 terms), ComSoc Director for Online Content in 2016-17, Delegate for Education at DISI in 2015-2017, and IEEE ComSoc Director for Educational Services (2018-19). Prof. Granelli is Founder and General Vice-Chair of the First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON’05) and General Chair of the 11th, 15th and 18th IEEE Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Communication Links and Networks (IEEE CAMAD ’06 - ’10 - ’13). He is TPC Co-Chair of GLOBECOM 2007-2009 and 2012 Symposia on “Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling”, TPC Co-Chair of GLOBECOM 2014 Symposium on “Selected Areas in Communications – Green Communications Track” and TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2018 Symposium on “Green Communications and Networking”. He is TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE NFV SDN conference in 2018 and 2019. He was selected a TPC Chair for IEEE Globecom 2022. Since 2019, he is Founding Chair of the Aerial Communication Emerging Technology Initiative of IEEE Communications Society. He is author or co-author of more than 250 papers published in international journals, books and conferences. He is Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He was responsible for more than 2 million of Euros of research funding for the University of Trento, mostly from the European Union and other international bodies.
Riccardo Bassoli is a senior researcher with the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden (Germany). He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in telecommunication engineering from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) in 2008 and 2010 respectively. Next, he received his Ph.D. degree from 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at University of Surrey (UK), in 2016. Between 2011 and 2015, he was also a Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (Portugal) and a vis- iting researcher at Airbus Defence and Space (France). Next, between 2016 and 2019, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Trento (Italy).
Frank H.P. Fitzek is a professor and Head of the Deutsche Telekom
