He received his Laurea degree in Computer Engineering in 1998, from the same University, and the PhD degree in Electronic and Engineering, in 2002. Before that, he was visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Science of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he worked with Prof. Mario Gerla on Wireless Networks and Wireless Access to Internet. Andrea Zanella's major research interest is in the field of protocol design and performance evaluation of WPANs, MANETs, VANETs and WSNs. He was actively involved in a number of European and National research projects and he serves as reviewer for several IEEE journals and international conferences in the ICT area.