David P. Reed has a very impressive CV.<p>Designer of UDP/IP, per above thesis also inventor of MVCC, and a co author of the (imho) important "End-to-end arguments in system design" whitepaper, etc ...<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Reed</a><p>[edit: alt url for OP: <a href="https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/16279/05331643-MIT.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/16279/0533164...</a>]