Joseph D. Touch
- Director, Postel Center for Experimental Networking, Information Sciences Institute
- Research assistant professor of Computer Science and EE/Systems, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Expertise Summary
Expert on the Internet and Internet development
Expertise
- satellite Internets
- future Internet projects and research
- network neutrality
- Internet privacy
- clean slate Internet research
- Internet architecture
- Internet engineering
- Internet protocols (especially TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS)
- high-speed networks
- virtual networks (VPNs, overlays)
- communication latency
- Web servers and caches (including multicast Web caching)
- optical networks
- interplanetary networks
- empirical protocol and system performance analysis
- computer networking systems
- geographic networks
- network interface hardware (network interfaces, router architectures)
Additional Information
- Participates in Internet standards (IETF)
- Serves on numerous IEEE, ACM and independent conference steering committees in future Internet and computer communications
- Developed components of an all-optical router, and is a task co-leader of the NSF CIAN ERC (optical access network research center)
- Developing a network protocol system for a distributed satellite cluster
- Served as an adviser to a DOD satellite Internet project
- Developed the new TCP security protocol TCP-AO with a team in the IETF
- ACM Distinguished Scientist