Kostas E. Psannis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. Dr Kostas Psannis was awarded, in the year 2006, a research grant (IISF) sponsored by Ministry of Education Science and Technology, Japan. (Grant No. 2006.1.3.916). From 2004 he is (Visiting) Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Management, University of Macedonia, Greece.  From 2005 he is (Visiting) Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Telecommunications, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. From 2002 to 2004, he was Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan. Dr Psannis has extensive research, development and consulting experience in the area of telecommunications technologies. Since 1999 has participated in several R&D funded projects as Research Assistant in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, UK. From 2001 to 2002 he was awarded the British Chevening scholarship sponsored by the British Government. He has several publications as a lead author in Conferences & peer review journals. Kostas received a degree in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), and the PhD degree from the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering of Brunel University (UK). Kostas E. Psannis is a member of the IEEE, IEICE, ACM, IEE, and WSEAS.

Yutaka Ishibashi received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 1981, 1983, and 1990, respectively. From 1983 to 1993, he was with NTT Laboratories. In 1993, as an Associate Professor, he joined Nagoya Institute of Technology, in which he is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering. From June 2000 to March 2001, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. His research interests include networked multimedia applications, media synchronization algorithms, and QoS control. Dr. Ishibashi is a member of the IEEE, ACM, Information Processing Society of Japan, the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, and the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

Marios Hadjinicolaou received the BSc degree from London University, the MSc and PhD degrees from Brunel University, U.K., all in Electronic Engineering. He joined Brunel University in August 1986 as a research fellow and in 1996 as a Lecturer. His research interests include video coding and networking, multimedia systems, performance management of networks and computer-aided design for digital systems. He has published more than 50 technical papers in journals and conferences.