DAVIDE GRILLO received his Doctor degree in Statistics from the University of Rome, Italy, in 1965.
From 1965 to 2000, he was with Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, where he was leader of Traffic Theory
and Performance Evaluation Group and manager, Personal Communications. Since 2001 he is a consultant to
Alcatel Italia on personal communications and wired access systems. He was a visiting scientist and a
consultant at the Siemens Central Laboratory, Munich, Germany, the Department of Information Technology
at the University of Dortmund, Germany, and the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland. He has
been involved in several research areas, including telephone network operation and control; switching
exchange architecture; packet switching networks; LAN/MAN architecture, interconnection and control; and
resource allocation strategies in the radio subsystem of mobile networks. He has been for many years an
active member of Study Group 2 of ITU-T for questions on traffic engineering and coordinator for the E.750
series of Recommendations on traffic engineering for personal communications. He is editor of the ITD-D
guidelines for the transition to IMT-2000 systems in developing countries. He was a Technical Editor of
IEEE Personal Communications and International Division Editor, Wireless Communications, of Journal of
Communications and Networks where he is now Advisor.