Navid Ghazisaidi is a Member of Technical Staff at Verizon, Palo Alto, CA, USA. From 2011 to 2013 he was an R&D Systems Manager and Staff Research Member with Ericsson, San Jose, CA, and Huawei, Santa Clara, CA, respectively. He received his PhD degree in Telecommunications from the University of Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada and has published/presented over 35 patents, book chapters, and journal/conference papers in systems and networking areas.