James Aweya was a Senior Systems Architect with the global Telecom company Nortel, Ottawa, Canada, from 1996 to 2009. His work with Nortel involved many areas, including the design of communication networks, protocols and algorithms, switches and routers, and other Telecom and IT equipment. He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada; and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has authored more than 54 international journal papers, 39 conference papers, 43 technical reports, and received 63 U.S. patents, with more patents pending. He was awarded the 2007 Nortel Technology Award of Excellence (TAE) for his pioneering and innovative research on Timing and Synchronization across Packet and TDM Networks. He was also recognized in 2007 as one of Nortel's top 15 innovators. Dr. Aweya is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is presently a Chief Research Scientist at EBTIC (Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, responsible for research in next-generation mobile network architectures, timing and synchronization over packet networks, indoor localization over WiFi networks, cloud RANs, software-defined networks, network function virtualization, and other areas of networking of interest to EBTIC stakeholders and partners.