Computer Networking

While working as a consulting engineer at DEC in 1984 she was tasked with developing a straightforward protocol that enabled network bridges to locate loops in a local area network (LAN).

PHY-Level Collision Avoidance (PLCA) is a component of the Ethernet reconciliation sublayer (between the PHY and the MAC) defined within IEEE 802.3 clause 148.

research focuses on routing in wired and wireless networks

particularly in wireless networking

communication protocols for network routing and channel access

contributions to computer networking

which led to the ARPANET

Cohen developed an ultra-high-speed network

influenced modern router design

very high-speed wireless networks

best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol in 2001

William Richard (Rich) Stevens (February 5, 1951, September 1, 1999) was a Northern Rhodesia-born American author of computer science books, in particular books on Unix and TCP/IP.

George Sadowsky (born September 30, 1936) is an American computer scientist who has worked in a number of entities related to promotion of the Internet worldwide.

He is credited with making the fundamental decision to use the TCP/IP protocol.

Bill founded one of the earliest Internet service providers, and is best known for his 1989 development of the anycast routing technique that is now ubiquitous in Internet content distribution networks and the domain name system.

In networking, he worked on the project CYCLADES with an intermediate stint on the Arpanet team.

In 1974 he co-founded Network Systems Corporation, which manufactured computer networks connecting mainframes and minicomputers, including HYPERchannel.

Along with his work on the programming language APL, he was also instrumental in the development of IPSANET, a private packet switching data network.

His academic work has focused on network architecture and software-defined networking.

He is active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a member of the working groups for the HTTP/2 and QUIC network protocols, and contributed to several technical Requests for Comments (RFCs).

He was chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) from 2001 until 2005, succeeding Fred Baker.

Computer networks, Wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things, and Information and Communications Technology

The token bucket is an algorithm used in packet-switched and telecommunications networks.

When ARPA issued a Request for Proposal for the ARPANET, he joined the group that wrote the winning proposal.

She was director of UNAM's Instituto de Astronomía (1990-1998) and a leading member of the team that succeeded in establishing the first connection to the Internet in Mexico in 1989.

Scott Bradner is a senior figure in the area of Internet governance.

Larry Melvin Masinter is an early internet pioneer and ACM Fellow.

He was one of the pioneers of telecommunications.

is a leaky bucket-type scheduling algorithm for the network scheduler that is used in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks

Weighted round robin (WRR) is a network scheduler for data flows, but also used to schedule processes.

It is used in packet-switched computer networks and telecommunications networks

used in European eight-bit PCM digital communications systems

His research interests include the design and analysis of high performance routers and switching systems

Weighted fair queueing (WFQ) is a network scheduling algorithm.

is a scheduling algorithm for the network scheduler

Proportional-fair scheduling is a compromise-based scheduling algorithm.

Users read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more topic categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to the Internet forums that were developed after the introduction of the World Wide Web.

BITNET was a co-operative university computer network in the United States founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University.

The CYCLADES computer network (French pronunciation: [siklad]) was a French research network created in the early 1970s.

FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems (BBSes).

Computer Science Network (CSNET) was a computer network that began operation in 1981 in the United States.

Gopher ( ) is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks.

BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner.

Roger Anthony Scantlebury (born August 1936) is a British computer scientist and Internet pioneer who worked at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and later at Logica.

Michael J. Freedman is an American computer scientist who is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he works on distributed systems, networking, and security.

Stefan Savage (born 1969) is an American computer science researcher, currently a Professor in the Systems and Networking Group at the University of California, San Diego.

He started networking research at Microsoft.

He is known for his contributions to software-defined networking, wireless networks and digital agriculture.

The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is a network protocol that builds a loop-free logical topology for Ethernet networks.

Telenet was an American commercial packet-switched network which went into service in August 16, 1975.

He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing and its application to all manner of activities; and also as an Internet pioneer with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built.

Glen Jacob Culler (July 7, 1927, May 3, 2003) was an American professor of electrical engineering and an important early innovator in the development of the Internet.

Her group operated the Network Information Center (NIC) for the ARPANET as it evolved into the Defense Data Network (DDN) and the Internet.

Kimberly C. "KC" Claffy is director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis at the University of California, San Diego.

As the inventor and founder of multilingual internationalized domain names (IDN) and a pioneer of the Internet, he was inducted into the Internet Society of 2012 along with the founding fathers of the Internet in the first Internet Hall of Fame.

Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and the head of the university's Mobile Intelligence Lab, where his research focuses on the applications of wireless technology.

He specialised in computer networks and created the university's Research Unit in Networking in 1972.

Estrin worked with Vinton Cerf on the Transmission Control Protocol project at Stanford University in the 1970s.

Mark Reed Crispin (July 19, 1956 in Camden, New Jersey, December 28, 2012 in Poulsbo, Washington) is best known as the father of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), having invented it in 1985 during his time at the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory.

He is best known for his time as Director of DARPA, during which, among other things, he personally made the decision to authorize the creation of the ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet.

He was one of the founders of the company Bolt, Beranek and Newman, which built the ARPANET, a forerunner of the Internet.

Susan Estrada is in the Internet Hall of Fame for founding CERFnet, one of the original regional IP networks, in 1988.

Rémi Després (born January 16, 1943) is a French engineer and entrepreneur known for his contributions on data networking.

Daniel Harple (born July 23, 1959) is an American entrepreneur, investor, inventor, and engineer best known for his role in the creation of several Internet standards, among them, Real Time Streaming Protocol used in entertainment and communications systems such as YouTube, RealPlayer, QuickTime, Skype, and others.

Borka Jerman Blažič (born (1947-03-28)28 March 1947) is a Slovenian Internet pioneer, and the President of the Internet Society - Slovenia.

Her research focuses on analysis of computer networks, and in particular network routing, performance measurement, and network management.

Bruce Jay Nelson (January 19, 1952, September 19, 1999) was an American computer scientist best known as the inventor of the remote procedure call concept for computer network communications.

David Corydon Walden (June 7, 1942, April 27, 2022) was an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer who contributed to the engineering development of the ARPANET, a precursor of the modern Internet.

Henning Schulzrinne is a German-American computer engineer who led research and development of the voice over IP network protocols.

Kurose's main area of teaching is computer networking.

Jarkko Oikarinen (born 16 August 1967) is a Finnish IT professional and the inventor of the first Internet chat network, called Internet Relay Chat (IRC), where he is known as WiZ.

Peterson is an American computer scientist, known primarily as the Director of the PlanetLab Consortium, co-author (with Bruce Davie) of the networking textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach," and for his research on the TCP Vegas congestion control algorithm and the x-kernel operating system.

Postel Chair in Networking in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

He is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, was a pioneer of software-defined networking, and was a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Nicira Networks.

Leonard X. Bosack (born 1952) is a co-founder of Cisco Systems, an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology, and services.

Thomas Daniel Jennings (born 1955) is a Los Angeles-based artist and computer programmer, known for his work that led to FidoNet (the first message and file networking bulletin board system, or BBS), and for his work at Phoenix Software on MS-DOS integration and interoperability.

Nancy Jane Hafkin is a pioneer of networking and development information and electronic communications in Africa, spurring the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from 1987 until 1997.

Ion Stoica (born 1964 or 1965) is a Romanian-American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking.