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ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, Volume 2 (2021), Issue 1

[62] Pankaj Berde, Matteo Gerola, Jonathan Hart, Yuta Albert A. Lysko received an
Higuchi, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Toshio Koide, Bob MSc in Radiophysics from
Lantz, Brian O’Connor, Pavlin Radoslavov, William St‑Petersburg State Technical
Snow, et al. “ONOS: towards an open, distributed University, Russia in 1998 and
SDN OS”. In: Proceedings of the third workshop on a PhD in ICT from Norwegian
Hot topics in software de ined networking. ACM. University of Science and
2014, pp. 1–6. Technology (NTNU), Norway in
2010. Dr Lysko started working
AUTHORS before his irst degree and has
over 25 years of combined industrial and academic
Lusani Mamushiane received experience gained in Russia, Norway and South Africa.
BEng degree in Electrical and From 2007, he is with the Council for Scienti ic and
Electronic Engineering from the Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa, where he is
University of Johannesburg and a Principal Researcher. He is also an Adjunct Professor
MSc in Electrical Engineering with the University of Cape Town and Extraordinary
from the University of Cape Researcher with the North‑West University, South Africa.
Town (UCT), South Africa, in His research interests include networking, especially
2014 and 2019 respectively. software‑de ined networking; numerical modelling;
In 2015, she joined Microsoft where she worked as an wireless communications and especially television white
Electronic and Telecoms Engineer for Intelligent Traf ic spaces (TVWS). He authored and co‑authored a book,
Systems. In 2016 she then joined Advanced and Network two book chapters, three patents, several technology
Architecture Systems research group in Next Generation demonstrators, numerous technical reports, and over
Enterprises and Institutions (NGEI) cluster, CSIR as a 100 research, popular science and news publications.
Researcher. Ms Mamushiane’s research interests include, He has made contributions to national regulations
but not limited to, Optical Networks, Software De ined in South Africa. His work affected TVWS regulations
Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), in the USA. The TVWS work was recognised with a
Intelligent Traf ic Systems and 5G Mobile Architectures national‑level award. Dr Lysko has organised over
and Services. 100 events and 3 international conferences. He has
shared three best paper awards, given numerous invited
talks including a plenary and keynote talks, and served
Joyce B. Mwangama received on multiple national and international funding and
BSc degree in Electrical and research/standardization panels/committees. He is an
Computer Engineering and MSc
award‑winning volunteer and a Fellow of South African
in Electrical Engineering from
Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) and a Senior
the University of Cape Town
member of IEEE. He also represented South Africa in
(UCT), South Africa, in 2008
two EU Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
and 2011 respectively. In 2015, Actions IRACON and VISTA.
she joined the Department
of Electrical Engineering
as a Lecturer and received
a PhD degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University
of Cape in 2017. Her current research interests include
Future Internet Technologies, 5G Mobile Network
Architectures and Services, Software De ined Networks,
Network Function Virtualization, Machine‑to‑Machine
Communications and the Internet of Things. Dr
Mwangama is a member of the IEEE and the South
African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE).

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