Hari Balakrishnan is a Professor at the EECS Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also leads the Networks and Mobile Systems (NMS) group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.
His research focuses on networked computer systems. Over the past few years, this has included overlay and peer-to-peer networks; Internet architecture, routing, and congestion control; wireless and sensor networks; network security; and distributed data management.
A wide selection of his papers and group's software are available online. Previous papers (pre-1999) papers and software, are also available online.

Gonzalo Camarillo is head of the Advanced Multimedia Research Laboratory, which is part of the NomadicLab, at Ericsson Finland.
His research interests include signaling, multimedia applications, transport protocols, and network security.
His publications are available online.

Jon Crowcroft is presently Marconi  Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory, at the University of Cambridge.
His publications are available online.

Jim Kurose is a Distinguished University Professor (and past Chairman) in the Department of  Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, where he is also co-director of the Networking Research Laboratory and Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA).   He  was previously a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research, INRIA, Institut EURECOM , the University of Paris, LIP6, and Thomson Research Labs.
His research interests include network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. Dr. Kurose has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
With Keith Ross, he is the co-author of the textbook, "Computer Networking, a top down approach featuring the Internet (3rd edition)" published by Addison-Wesley Longman. His publications are available online.

Huw Oliver, of Bristol University, is currently working in collaboration with the Civil Aviation Authority in a software safety project. He was previously the Senior Researcher at Ericsson's Network Management Research Centre, leading a group to develop information modelling and discovery techniques and working with wireless OSS, Wireline Core and Access Networks. Before this, he was a visiting Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, where he taught several MSc courses. He is also former Technical Director, European Research Consortium, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.

Professor Dr. Ioannis Stavrakakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Athens, Greece)

Ioannis Stavrakakis is a professor of Informatics and Telecommunications (with specialization in networking) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the current chairman of IFIP WG6.3 as well as an associate editor for the IEEE/ACM transactions on Networking and the ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks Journal.  
His teaching and research interests are focused on resource allocation protocols and traffic management for communication networks, with recent emphasis on peer-to-peer, wireless, ad hoc and autonomic networking.
His publications are available online.

Ralf Steinmetz is head of the Multimedia Communications laboratory at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He has contributed to over 200 refereed publications, become ICCC Governor; and is a Fellow of both the IEEE and the ACM.
His research interests cover networked multimedia issues with the vision of "seamless multimedia communications"; i.e. network dependability and security, quality of service, content distribution networks, context aware communications and media semantics. At Darmstadt he relates these research issues often very closely to mobility, Internet telephony and telemedia learning.
His publications are available online.

David del Val currently works for Telefónica. He is the former Vice President of Technology at TechFoundries. This is one of the 8 companies that he has co-founded. He also holds 16 patents software which he created within Microsoft is now being used by millions and has been translated into 29 languages. He teaches Entrepreneurship at the Instituto de Empresa.

Lixia Zhang is a professor at UCLA Computer Science Department. She is also a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and co-chairs the IRTF Routing Research Group as well as being a Fellow of ACM and IEEE.
Her research interests include how to Secure Large Scale and Open Systems; cryptographic-based designs to secure distributed systems; Network Architecture Design; Network Protocol Designs; resiliency and security issues in the Internet infrastructure, such as the global routing system and Domain Name System (DNS).
Her publications are available online.

Zhi-Li is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Computer Network, the International Journal.
His current research focuses on Internet inter- and intra-domain routing, wireless ad hoc routing, routing algorithms and architectures for heterogeneous networks, distributed sensor networks, resilient large-scale distributed system design, self-organizing and peer-to-peer systems, security attack detection and prevention, secure networked system design.
His publications are available online.