Raj Jain

Raj Jain (born 17 August 1951) is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Raj Jain
Prof. Raj Jain.
Born (1951-08-17) August 17, 1951
Satna, Vindhya Pradesh, India
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materIISc, Harvard
Known forThe Art of Performance Analysis
DEC-bit
AwardsCDAC-ACCS Foundation Award
ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis
Ohio State University
MIT

Education

Dr. Jain obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1978, an M.E. in Automation from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India in 1974, and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Awdhesh Pratap Singh University, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1972.

Affiliations

Until 2005 he was the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Nayna Networks, Inc. – a next generation telecommunications systems company in San Jose, CA. Prior to that he was a professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation in Littleton, Massachusetts. He was also a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, 1985, and 1987. He has been a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri since 2005.

Research contributions

Dr. Jain is the co-inventor of the DEC-bit scheme for congestion avoidance in computer networks[1] which has been adapted for implementation in Frame Relay networks as forward explicit congestion notification (FECN), ATM Networks as Explicit Forward Congestion Indication (EFCI), and TCP/IP networks as Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN).

He is also the co-inventor of the Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) principle used for traffic management in computer networks and Jain's fairness index.[2][3]

His work on timeout based congestion control influenced the design of the slow start algorithm in TCP/IP networks.[4] [5]

Publications

He is author of four books. His second book The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis published by Wiley Interscience won the 1991 Best Advanced How-to Book, Systems award from Computer Press Association.[6]

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References
  1. DEC-bit Patent
  2. Analysis of the increase and decrease algorithms for congestion avoidance in computer networks
  3. A Quantitative Measure Of Fairness And Discrimination For Resource Allocation In Shared Computer Systems
  4. A timeout-based congestion control scheme for window flow-controlled networks
  5. Congestion avoidance and control
  6. The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling
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