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Bob Briscoe

• 3 IETF standardization groups have developed from my research: Low Latency Low Loss Scalable Throughput (L4S; 2016-...), Congestion Exposure (ConEx; 2010-16) & Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN; 2007-12);
• Launched and led (with Greg White) the working group that added Low Latency Support to DOCSIS (Data over Cable System Interface Spec.) based on my research (2017-19)
  
• Convenor and first Chair of the Security Expert Group of the ETSI Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Industry Specification Group (ISG);
• 70 invited talks in international fora over the last 20 years, including 21 keynotes and 6 expert panels.
• Initiated & directed CRN (Comms Research Network ) - partnership between Cambridge Uni, MIT & industry;
• Incubated Qariba, a start-up based on my research (2000-3), then absorbed into BT's broadband service;
• Helped initiate various workshop series, e.g. EU FP7 Eiffel Future Internet support action, the ACM ReArch workshops, the ACM Capacity Sharing workshops;
• Reviewer for IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, Wiley, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Comms Rvw, Royal Soc., etc.

• Comcast Innovation Award (3 times: 2019, 2021 & 2022)
  
• Special award for most patents filed (48) in BT's history (2013) (subsequently reached 50);
• Initiated the Trilogy Project (with Philip Eardley), which won the European Future Internet Award for its outstanding contribution to the Internet architecture and protocols (2011);
• BT's Gordon Radley Award for Best Author of Innovation (2007) & (2008)
• BT's Sir Alan Rudge Award for Innovation (Medal winner 2001)

• A Survey of Latency Reducing Techniques and their Merits, Briscoe, B, Brunstrom, A, Petlund, A, Hayes, D, Ros, D, Tsang, I-J, Gjessing, S, Fairhurst, G, Griwodz, C, Welzl, M, IEEE Comms Surveys & Tutorials (2015)
• Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable throughput (L4S) Internet Service: Architecture, Briscoe, B, De Schepper, K, Bagnulo, M, White, G, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) draft (2022) (work in progress)
• PI²: A Linearized AQM for both Classic and Scalable TCP, De Schepper, K, Bondarenko, O, Tsang, I-J, Briscoe, B, In: Proc. ACM CoNEXT 2016 pp.105-119 (2016)
  
• Paced Chirping: Rapid flow start with very low queuing delay, Joakim Misund and Bob Briscoe, in Proc. IEEE Global Internet Symposium (May 2019)
• Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Security Problem Statement, Briscoe, B (Ed), ETSI NFV ISG GS NFV-SEC 001 v1.1.1 (Oct 2014)
• Pre-Congestion Notification - New QoS Support for Differentiated Services IP Networks, Menth, M, Briscoe, B and Tsou, T, IEEE Communications Magazine 50(3):94--103 (Mar 2012)
• Flow Rate Fairness: Dismantling a Religion, Briscoe, B, ACM CCR 37(2) 63--74 (Apr 2007)
• Metcalfe's Law is Wrong, Briscoe, B, Odlyzko, A & Tilly, B, IEEE Spectrum Jul 2006, 26-31
• The Implications of Pervasive Computing on Network Design, Briscoe, B, Ch. in: Intelligent Spaces, Comp. Comms & Netwks Vol.XVIII Springer Verlag (2006)
• Policing Congestion Response in an Internetwork using Re-feedback  Briscoe, B, Jacquet, A, Di Cairano-Gilfedder, C, Salvatori, A, Soppera, A and Koyabe, M, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM'05, CCR 35(4) (2005)
• TESLA: Multicast Source Authentication Transform Introduction, Perrig, A, Canetti, R, Song, D, Tygar, D and Briscoe, B, RFC Editor RFC 4082 (Jun 2005)
• MARKS: Zero Side-Effect Multicast Key Management using Arbitrarily Revealed Key Sequences, Briscoe, B, in Proc 1st Int'l W'kshp on Networked Group Comm'n (NGC'99) LNCS 1736:301--319 (Nov 1999)
• Nark: Receiver-based Multicast Non-repudiation and Key Management, Briscoe, B & Fairman, I, in Proc 1st ACM Conf. on E-Commerce (EC'99) (Nov 1999)

Applied Research

Defence against Patent Litigation

Technology Transfer

Communications Systems

Networks & Infrastructure Research

The Edge Lab

Distributed Systems Research

Technical Services for BT R&D