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His work redesigning TCP/IP's flow control algorithms (Jacobson's algorithm) to better handle congestion is said to have saved the Internet from collapsing in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
He is also known for the TCP/IP Header Compression protocol described in RFC 1144: Compressing TCP/IP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links, popularly known as Van Jacobson TCP/IP Header Compression. Is co-author of several widely used network diagnostic tools, including traceroute, tcpdump, and pathchar. He was a leader in the development of the multicast backbone (MBone) and the multimedia tools vic, vat, and wb.
In January 2006 at Linux.conf.au, Jacobson presented another idea about network performance improvement, which has since been referred to as network channels.
He joined PARC as a research fellow in August 2006 and also serves as Chief Scientist for Packet Design in the adjacent Xerox complex. Prior to that, he was Chief Scientist at Cisco Systems and group leader for the Network Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Jacobson discussed his ideas on Content-centric networking, the focus of his current work at PARC, in August 2006 as part of the Google Tech Talks.
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