Dr Walid Dabbous is a senior researcher at INRIA and professor at the Ecole Polytechnique. His research interests include: Future Internet Architecture and Protocols, Networking Experimental Platforms and Simulators, Experimental Methodology for Networking Protocols, Securing Internet coordinate systems, Large scale virtual environments, Large scale reliable multicast protocols, Group communications, Internet Satellite Networking, Quality of Service support, Buffer management mechanisms in routers, Flexible protocol architecture, High performance communication protocols, Unicast and Multicast Congestion control, Audio and video conferencing over the Internet. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the Lebanese University in Beirut in 1986 (Electrical Engineering Department). He obtained his DEA and his Doctorat d'Université from the University of Paris XI in 1987 and 1991 respectively. He joined the RODEO Team within INRIA in 1987. He is a staff researcher at INRIA since 1991, and leader of the RODEO (then Planète) team since 1996.