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A. Ali and B. Sc, Next in 2009, he received a Master diploma in Information Technology (Informatique) with speciality in Mobile Networks. H is presently a final year Ph.D. candidate in Information Technology, Telecommunications and Electronics jointly with Institute of Telecom SudParis and UPMC (Paris VI) Between he served as an Audit Officer in the office of Auditor General of Pakistan. His current research interests are in the areas of delay/disruption tolerant networks, wireless mobile ad hoc networks and network coding. arshadbio.txt Eitan Altman Eitan Altman received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (1984), the B.A. degree in physics (1984) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (1990), all from the Technion- Israel Institute, Haifa. In (1990) he further received his B.Mus. degree in music composition in Tel- Aviv university. Since 1990, Dr. Altman has been a researcher at INRIA (National research institute in computer science and control) in Sophia-Antipolis, France. He has been in the editorial boards of several scientific journals: Wireless Networks (WINET) His areas of interest include networking, stochastic control and game theory, Mathematics and Physics from Punjab University Computer Networks (COMNET), Computer Communications (Comcom), J. Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (JDEDS), SIAM J. of Control and Optimisation (SICON), Stochastic Models, and Journal of Economy Dynamic and Control (JEDC). He received the best paper award in the Networking IFIP Wireless Days 2009 conferences, and is a coauthor of two papers that have received the best student paper awards More informaion can be found at www-sop.inria.fr/members, 1997.