ELIAS E. YAACOUB, PhD, is currently a research scientist at the Qatar University Wireless Innovations Center. His research interests include scheduling and interference mitigation in multi-cell OFDMA and LTE networks. He has authored numerous journal and conference papers on these topics. Dr. Yaacoub is a member of the IEEE and a member of the Lebanese Order of Engineers.

ZAHER DAWY, PhD, is an associate professor at the American University of Beirut (AUB). His research interests include cooperative and distributed communications, resource allocation, cellular technologies, and computational biology. He received the IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region in 2011 and the AUB 2008 Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Dawy is a senior member of the IEEE and Chair of the IEEE Communications Society, Lebanon Chapter.