Jamshid Mahdavi is a Research Scientist with Novell. Jamshid has been working in the field of networking since 1991, and has focused on TCP performance issues for the last five years. For most of this time, Jamshid was a coordinator at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, where he was also involved with the NLANR project and the deployment and use of the vBNS backbone.
Jamshid has been actively involved in developing IETF standards in the area of TCP. Jamshid is one of the co-authors on RFC2018 (TCP Selective Acknowledgments), and has also made contributions to the tcp-impl and ippm working groups.
Jamshid is currently working to bring high performance TCP capabilities to Novell's high-speed Directory-Enabled Internet products, which include Netware5 and Novell Internet Caching Service (ICS for short). Jamshid's current research is focused on finishing and standardizing the Rate Halving algorithm for TCP, and on better understanding the underlying principles of congestion control which are an important part of TCP.
updated 23 Aug 1999