" Franco Davoli received the 'laurea' degree in Electronic Engineering in 1975 from the University of Genoa, Italy. Since 1990 he has been Full Professor of Telecommunication Networks at the University of Genoa, where he is with the Department of Communications, Computer and Systems Science (DIST). From 1989 to 1991 and from 1993 to 1996 he was also teaching classes in Telecommunication Networks at the University of Parma, Italy. His past research activities have included adaptive and decentralized control, large scale systems, routing and multiple access in packet-switched communication networks, packet radio networks. His current research interests are in bandwidth allocation, admission control and routing in multiservice networks, wireless mobile and satellite networks and multimedia communications and services. He has co-authored over 210 scientific publications in international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. In 2004, he has been the recipient of an Erskine Fellowship from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, as Visiting Professor. He has been a Principal Investigator in a large number of research projects, and has served in several positions in the Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), including the direction of the National Laboratory for Multimedia Communications in Naples in the period 2002-2004; he is currently Vice-President of the CNIT Management Committee. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.