NAOAKI YAMANAKA is Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor, and Research Group Leader, NT Network Innovation Laboratories, Tokyo. Japan. He has more than 20 years of backbone research and development experience and is the recipient of several awards given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for best transaction paper and best conference paper. The author of numerous professional publications, Dr. Yamanaka is technical editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, Broadband Network Area Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and editor of !EICE Transactions, as well as TAC Chair of the Asia Pacific Board of the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Yamanaka is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). He received the B.E. (1981), M.E. (1983), and Ph.D. (1991) degrees in engineering from Keio University, Japan.
