Simulation Technologies in Networking and Communications

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan earned his PhD in computer engineering in 2009 from Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He earned his BSc in computer science and information technology from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh, in 2003. He is currently an assistant professor in the computer science department at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia. Until June 2010, he was assistant professor at the computer science andengineering department in BRAC University, Bangladesh. Prior to holding this position, he worked as a researcher at the Networking Lab, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, until August 2009. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, network security, and e-services technologies. He is a recipient of several awards, including best paper awards, and has several publications in these areas. He has served as a chair, organizing committee member, and technical program committee member in numerous international conferences/workshops such as GLOBECOM, GreenCom, HPCS, ICA3PP, IWCMC, VTC, HPCC, and IDCS. He was awarded the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award and Certificate of Appreciation for his role in the IEEE GreenCom'13 conference.Dr. Pathan is currently an area editor of IJCNIS; editor of IJCSE, Inderscience; associate editor of IASTED/ACTA Press IJCA and CCS; guest editor of many special issues of top-ranked journals, and editor/author of ten books. One of his books has been included twice in Intel Corporation's Recommended Reading List for Developers, second half of 2013 and first half of 2014. Three other books are included in IEEE Communications Society's (IEEE ComSoc) Best Readings in Communications and Information Systems Security, 2013, and a fifth book is in the process of being translated from English to simplified Chinese. Also, two of his journal papers and one conference paper are included under different categories in IEEE Communications Society's (IEEE