BIOGRAPHY Giovanni E. Corazza is a Full Professor at DEIS, Univer- sity of Bologna, and leads Wireless Communications inside the Advanced Research Centre for Electronic Systems ARCES. He was Chairman of the School for Telecommunications in the years 2000-2003. He is the Chairman of the Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems Task Force ASMS TF and of the Integral Satcom Initiative ISI, a European Technology Platform with more than 140 Member Organizations from 24 countries. Since 1997, he is Editor for Spread Spectrum for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. In the years 1989-1990 he was with the Canadian aerospace company COM DEV (Ontario), where he worked on the development of microwave