Dr. Mauro Tropea received his master’s degree in April 2003 and Ph.D. degree in January 2009 in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy. From May 2008 to October 2008, he was a visiting researcher in the Telecommunication Department at ESA ESTEC Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Since 2003, he has been with the telecommunications group of the DIMES Department. Since September 2018, he has served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the DIMES Department. His research interests include satellite communications, QoS architectures, bio-inspired algorithms, VANETs, FANETs, hierarchical networks, and multicasting.