Dr. Shashi Phoha was the Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Mission-Oriented Sensor Networks. She is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and the head of the Information Sciences and Technology Division of its Applied Research Laboratory. In 2004, she was appointed as the Director of the Information Technology Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She has held senior positions in industry, academia, and government research labs and led major research programs in surveillance sensor networks and Sensor IT for military sensor networks.

Dr. Thomas La Porta is the Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from The Cooper Union, New York, and his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York. He joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Penn State in 2002 as a full professor. He is Director of the Networking Research Center at Penn State.

Christopher Griffin holds a master's degree in mathematics from Penn State and is currently finishing his PhD there. Mr. Griffin has worked as a research engineer at the Information Science and Technology Division of Penn State Applied Research Laboratory for the last six years on several DARPA and/or Army Research Laboratory–sponsored programs.