Invented RED

invented Random Early Detection (RED) for congestion control, an active queue management scheme; with Van Jacobson founded the field of Active Queue Management (AQM); devised the now-common method of adding delay jitter to message timers to avoid synchronization; 1997 with Vern Paxson identified the lack of knowledge of network topology as the major obstacle in understanding how the Internet works; co-author on the standard for TCP Selective acknowledgement (SACK), Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) and TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC);

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Category:
Computer Science

Completion Status:
yes

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