Abdulkarim Oloyede is a Lecturer at the University of Ilorin and Kwara State University, where he teaches Internet protocols to undergraduate and graduate students, and also conducts research on the performance of EIGRP and OSPF using OPNET. He holds a PhD in Electronics Engineering and a MSc in Telecommunications. He is currently a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for Nigeria at the ITU and is also the Vice-Chair for the ITU-D Telecommunication Development Advisory Group (TDAG). Abdulkarim has been widely published in a number of academic journals and is very interested in the OSPF working group at the IETF.