Alvaro Suarez SarmientoAlvaro Suarez is a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Las Palmas de Gran, Canaria, Spain. He is Member of the Experts Commission of research of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria from 1999-2002. He, in 1990, started wrking in systolic computing in the Technical University of Catalonia. Then he turned his attention to network computing and heterogeneous computing in 1994 when he returned to the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where he founded the Concurrency and Architecture Group (GAC). His research interests are in parallel and heterogeneous distributed computing, infrastructure wireless networks for collaborative computing and collaborative frameworks. His current research efforts have focused on the management of wireless channel disconnections to prevent abrupt endings of applications. Professor Suarez teaches telecommunications at the beginning, advanced, and graduate levels, and advises graduate theses in the area of wireless communications and parallel and heterogeneous distributed computing. He also gives lectures at European universities. The Multimedia and Ubiquitous Wireless Access Networks and Services conference was lectured at University Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (May 2005). Read More Read Less