[ "", "Tao HUANG is an Associate Professor with the Beijing Uni-versity of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China. He has carried out basic research in areas such as network archi-tecture and software-defined networking (SDN), put forward the definition of service-oriented SDN architecture, and led the research and development of a future network innovation experiment platform at BUPT, which has achieved network interconnection in the universities at Beijing, Nanjing, Xi’an, and Chongqing. In addition, he has developed the platform and related systems of SDN and a new generation of content dis-tribution, which have been widely used at CCTV and China Unicom. He has published more than 100 academic papers, has 32 national technology invention patents, submitted 25 inter-national standards proposals, and has published four individual monographs." ]

[ "", "F. Richard YU received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, in 2003. From 2002 to 2006, he worked with Ericsson (Lund, Sweden) and a start-up in California, USA. He joined Carleton University in 2007, where he is currently a Professor. He received the IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2016, the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award in 2013, the Carleton Research Achievement Award in 2012, the Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2011, the Excellent Contribution Award at IEEE/IFIP TrustCom 2010, the Leadership Opportunity Fund Award from the Canada Foundation of Innovation in 2009, and the Best Paper awards at IEEE ICC 2014, Globecom 2012, IEEE/IFIP TrustCom 2009, and International Conference on Networking 2005. His current research interests include cross-layer/cross-system design, security, green IT, and QoS provisioning in wireless-based systems. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Co-Editor-in-Chief forAd Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Lead Series Editor forIEEE Transactions on Vehicular TechnologyandIEEE Communica-tions Surveys & Tutorials. He has served as the Technical Pro-gram Committee (TPC) Co-Chair of numerous conferences." ]

[ "", "Yun-jie LIU is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engi-neering, and Director of the Science and Technology Committee of China Unicom. He took a leading role in the design, construction, and operation of the national public data network, computer Internet, and high-speed broadband, which have been instrumental for the construction of an information society in China. He also played the leading role in the design, construction, and operation of the China UniNet (a unified network platform for multiple services), which provides a feasible solution for network convergence. It has been a successful project imple-mented on a large scale in the evolution to the next-generation network (NGN). He has been a recipient of a first-grade National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology and also the first-grade Ministerial Prize for Progress in Science and Technology. He has obtained two national invention patents and published 59 papers and 7 academic books." ]