Thomas M. Chen received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, he worked on high-speed networks research at GTE Laboratories (now Verizon) in Waltham, Massachusetts. He contributed to the national ATM standards and the Industry consortium ATM Forum. In 1997, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, as an Associate Professor. At SMU, he led the research in network security, network protocols, and traffic control. He joined Swansea University, Wales, UK, in 2008 as a professor of networking.

He is the co-author of ATM Switching Systems, Artech House (1995) and the co-editor of Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications, Auerbach Publications (2008) and Mathematical Foundations for Signal Processing, Communications, and Networking, CRC Press (2012). He was formerly the Editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Surveys, IEEE Communications Magazine, and IEEE Network. He was also formerly the Technical Editor for IEEE Press books and the Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. He has served as a member-at-large in the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors and as a Treasurer for the IEEE Computer Society's Security and Privacy group. He currently serves as the Associate Editor for the International Journal of Security and Networks, Journal on Security and Communication Networks, and International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics. He received the IEEE Communications Society's Fred Ellersick Best Paper award in 1996.

P. Victer Paul is a research scholar pursuing a PhD in the field of Computer Science, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India. He has completed his B.Tech. in Information Technology (2007) from SMVEC with a university rank and M.Tech. in Network and Internet Engineering (2011) from Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India, with a University gold medal. He is a recipient of the INSPIRE fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He has around six years of professional experience in Industry and Research. Currently, he is working in the fields of Wireless Communications, Evolutionary Computing, and Distributed Systems. He is one of the researchers proficient in using and optimizing the OMNeT++ simulation tool and has developed a number of projects in the same. He has published around 20 research papers in various forums such as conferences and journals at national and international levels.