Annals of Telecommunications is an international journal publishing original peer-reviewed papers in the field of telecommunications. It covers all the essential branches of modern telecommunications, ranging from digital communications to communication networks and the internet, to software, protocols and services, uses and economics. This large spectrum of topics accounts for the rapid convergence through telecommunications of the underlying technologies in computers, communications, content management towards the emergence of the information and knowledge society. As a consequence, the Journal provides a medium for exchanging research results and technological achievements accomplished by the European and international scientific community from academia and industry.

Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Guy PUJOLLE
Sorbonne Université, France
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Nicolas PUECH
Institut Mines-Télécom, France
Managing Editor
Alexia KAPPELMANN
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Editorial Committee
President
Claude GUÉGUEN
France
Area 1 – Transmission and communication technologies
Area editor
Christophe ROBLIN
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Associate editors
Emmanuel BOUTILLON
Université Bretagne Sud, France
Matti HAMALAINEN
University of Oulu, Finland
Yves JAOUËN
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Pascal PAGANI
IMT Atlantique, France
Tharek Abd. RAHMAN
Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia
Guillaume VILLEMAUD
INSA Lyon, France
Stefan WABNITZ
Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy
Area 2 – Information processing
Area editors
Claude D'AMOURS
University of Ottawa, Canada
Associate editors
Henri MAITRE
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Aline ROUMY
Inria, France
Samir SAOUDI
IMT Atlantique, France
Jean-Pierre TILLICH
INRIA, France
Area 3 – Communication networks
Area editor
André-Luc BEYLOT
IRIT-ENSEEIHT, France
Associate editors
Miguel E.M. CAMPISTA
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sara FORESTI
Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Dominique GAITI
Université de Technologie de Troyes, France
Maryline LAURENT
Télécom SudParis, France
Jong-Hyouk LEE
Sangmyung University, Korea
Thomas NOËL
Université de Strasbourg, France
Harry PERROS
North Carolina State University, USA
Stefano SECCI
Sorbonne Université, France
Neuman SOUZA
Universidade Federal do Cearà, Brazil
Fabrice VALOIS
INSA, Lyon
Area 4 – Telecommunication services
Area editor
Paul GIBSON
Télécom SudParis, France
Associate editors
Stéphan CLEMENÇON
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Frédéric CUPPENS
IMT Atlantique, France
Ana MOREIRA
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Gaël RICHARD
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Area 5 – Telecommunications and the digital society
Area editor
Patrick WAELBROECK
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Associate editors
Laura DRAETTA
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Gérard DUBEY
Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, France
Claire LEVALLOIS-BARTH
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France