"Paolo Pagano received his Ph.D. degree in High Energy Physics from Trieste University having worked for the COMPASS collaboration at CERN (Geneva, CH). In 2006 he received a Master in IT from ScuolaSuperioreSant'Anna in Pisa (I). From 2009 he is with the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT, http://www.cnit.it), leading the Networks of Embedded Systems area in Pisa(NoES, http://noes.sssup.it). His research activities have a specific focus on Wireless Sensor Networks and Vehicular Networks. He manages research grants in the domain of Intelligent Transport Systems and Smart Plants. He is the director of the new ""Joint Laboratory of Advanced Sensing Networks & Communication in Sea Ports"" with the Livorno Port Authority (http://www.porto.livorno.it/en-us/homepage.aspx). He is participating (on behalf of CNIT) to the standardization committees ISO-TC204/WG16, ETSI-TC-ITS, and ITU Collaboration on ITS. He co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed papers to international journals and conferences."