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  • 2002 - IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award "For major contributions to the understanding of network congestion, and the development of congestion control mechanisms, enabling the successful scaling of the Internet."

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Van Jacobson is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their work has contributed to the field of computer networking, particularly in understanding and managing network congestion.

Their recognition includes the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award in 2002, which was awarded for major contributions to the understanding of network congestion and the development of congestion control mechanisms enabling the successful scaling of the Internet.

While specific details regarding recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, and fields or subfields of study are not provided, the award highlights a focus on network congestion and congestion control in Internet scalability.

Best Publications

  • RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications

    H. Schulzrinne;S. Casner;R. Frederick;V. Jacobson

  • Congestion avoidance and control

    V. Jacobson

  • Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance

    Sally Floyd;Van Jacobson

  • Networking named content

    Van Jacobson;Diana K. Smetters;James D. Thornton;Michael F. Plass

  • Congestion avoidance and control

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  • SDP: Session Description Protocol

    M. Handley;V. Jacobson

  • Named data networking

    Lixia Zhang;Alexander Afanasyev;Jeffrey Burke;Van Jacobson

  • Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet

    B. Braden;D. Clark;J. Crowcroft;B. Davie

  • Receiver-driven layered multicast

    Steven McCanne;Van Jacobson;Martin Vetterli

  • Link-sharing and resource management models for packet networks

    Sally Floyd;Van Jacobson

  • A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing

    Sally Floyd;Van Jacobson;Ching-Gung Liu;Steven McCanne

  • An Expedited Forwarding PHB

    V. Jacobson;K. Nichols;K. Poduri

  • Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification

    D. Estrin;D. Farinacci;A. Helmy;D. Thaler

  • A Two-bit Differentiated Services Architecture for the Internet

    K. Nichols;V. Jacobson;L. Zhang

  • The BSD packet filter: a new architecture for user-level packet capture

    Steven McCanne;Van Jacobson

  • A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing

    Sally Floyd;Van Jacobson;Steve McCanne;Ching-Gung Liu

  • Named Data Networking (NDN) Project

    Lixia Zhang;Deborah Estrin;Jeffrey Burke;Van Jacobson

  • The PIM architecture for wide-area multicast routing

    Stephen Deering;Deborah L. Estrin;Dino Farinacci;Van Jacobson

  • An analysis of TCP processing overhead

    D.D. Clark;V. Jacobson;J. Romkey;H. Salwen

  • TCP Extensions for High Performance

    V. Jacobson;R. Braden;D. Borman

  • Named Data Networking

    Lixia Zhang;Van Jacobson;St Louis;Lan Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Lixia Zhang
Lixia Zhang University of California, Los Angeles
Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin Cornell University
Sally Floyd
Sally Floyd International Computer Science Institute
Dino Farinacci
Dino Farinacci lispers.net
Diana K. Smetters
Diana K. Smetters Google (United States)
Beichuan Zhang
Beichuan Zhang University of Arizona
Jeff Burke
Jeff Burke University of California, Los Angeles
Ahmed Helmy
Ahmed Helmy University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Lan Wang
Lan Wang University of Memphis
Tarek Abdelzaher
Tarek Abdelzaher University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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