Andrea Passarella is with IIT-CNR, Italy. Previously, he was a Researcher at the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering (Pisa University, Italy). He is working on opportunistic self-organising networks, with special emphasis on p2p and routing protocols, mobility models, energy management. He serves in the Program Committes, among others, of IEEE WoWMoM, PerCom and MASS. He was the TPC Co-Chair of ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiOpp 2007, and Vice-Chair for ACM REALMAN (2005/06), and IEEE MDC (2006). He is an Associate Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, and is in the Editorial Board of the Inderscience IJAACS Journal.