Paolo Giaccone is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino. He graduated from Politecnico di Torino with 110/110 summa cum laude degree in Telecommunication Engineering in May 1998. Between June and September 1998, he was technical consultant of the High-Speed Networks Research Department at Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies) in Holmdel (NJ,USA). During 2000 and 2002 he visited multiple times the Information Systems Networking Lab of Prof. Balaji Prabhakar at the Electrical Engineering Department of Stanford University.