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With a long running goal of one day building an internet with sufficiently low latency and jitter that "you could plug your piano into the wall and play with a drummer across town", he is a persistent and dedicated explainer of how queues across the internet (and wifi) really work, lecturing at MIT,
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His successor Make-Wifi-Fast project solved the WiFi performance anomaly by extending the FQ-Codel algorithm to work on multiple WiFi chips in Linux, reducing latency under load by up to a factor of 50.
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also successfully rolled out the DOCSIS-PIE AQM during the COVID crisis with observed 8-16x reductions in network latency under load across the millions of user devices tested.
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Flickinger, Allen; Klatsky, Carl; Ledesma, Atahualpa; Livingood, Jason; Ozer, Sebnem (2021). "Improving Latency with Active Queue Management (AQM) During COVID-19".
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As one of the instigators of the IETF AQM and Packet Scheduling working group, he is the co-author of RFC8290, and a contributor to RFC8289 (
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In order to complete the make-wifi-fast project, by co-authoring an FCC filing and co-ordinating a worldwide protest with
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Høiland-Jørgensen, T.; et al. (2017). "Ending the Anomaly: Achieving Low Latency and Airtime Fairness in WiFi".
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in most Linux distributions, and on iOS, and OSX. It is also widely used in packet shapers.
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In the early stages of the Bufferbloat project he helped prove that applying advanced
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He has been intensely critical of the academic network research community, extolling
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FQ-CoDel has since become the default network queuing algorithm for
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Proceedings of the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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He serves on the Commons Conservancy board of directors.
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His CeroWrt project showed that advanced algorithms like
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Stanford, and other internet institutions such as APNIC.
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The Flow Queue CoDel Packet Scheduler and AQM algorithm
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code and the value of negative and repeatable results.
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Ocean City, New Jersey
Rutgers University
network engineer
Bufferbloat
Jim Gettys
AQM
Fair Queuing
FQ-CoDel
bittorrent
LEDBAT
CoDel
FQ-CoDel
OpenWrt
IPv6 Launch Day
Ethernet
Wi-Fi
Comcast
Vint Cerf
open access
open source
CODEL
DOCSIS
filksinger
"Bufferbloat.net mailing lists"
"Towards imperceptible latency"
"What's wrong with WiFi"
"Introduction to CoDel"
"Bufferbloat might be solved but it's not over yet"
"Fighting the bufferbloat: on the coexistence of AQM and low priority congestion control"

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