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About the Authors
William C. Y. Lee, Ph.D., honorary dean of the School
of Advanced Communications, Peking University, and
formerly chief scientist of V o dafone Plc, is one of the
original pioneers who developed wireless technology,
and the Lee propagation point-to-point model in 1978,
at Bell Labs. World-renowned for his development of
commercial COMA technology, Dr. Lee is a technologist,
innovator, teacher, and writer. He is an honorable
professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, SouthwestJiao Tong University (Chengdu),
and Taiwan National Chiao T u ng University. Dr. Lee has
written four prominent books and been granted more
than 40 patents in the area of mobile communications.
In 2014, he received the IEEE Vehicular Technology
Society's Hall of Fame Award, the society's most
prestigious award.
David J. Y. Lee, MBA, Ph.D., is a senior software
development manager at Cisco Systems. Before that, he
was a mobile solutions manager at Cisco. Dr. Lee was
previously the vice president of product marketing and
operations at Exio Communications and the director of
strategic technology at Vodafone. He was also the RF
director for Vodafone Romania, responsible for the
nationwide planning, deployment, and optimization of
the GSM network. Dr. Lee participated in many
network optimization and merger and acquisition
activities while with Vodafone in the United States,
Europe, and Asia. He has had 10+ patents granted and
50+ papers published. Dr. Lee also worked at Motorola
and Bell Labs.