Stanislav Shalunov

Stanislav Shalunov
Born 1 October 1973
Moscow, Russia
Residence San Francisco
Nationality American
Education University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moscow State University
Known for Netkill, Low Extra Delay Background Transport protocol (LEDBAT)
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Stanislav Shalunov (born 1 Oct 1973) is an Internet architect known for the Low Extra Delay Background (LEDBAT) protocol,[1] which replaces TCP congestion control to avoid creating network delays when the network is 100% used.[2] He began developing LEDBAT for the Internet2 consortium to solve the traffic congestion problem and finished it at BitTorrent. It is now used by companies including Apple and BitTorrent and accounts for between 13% and 20% of all Internet traffic.[3] In 2000, he published Netkill, a tool which can bring down web servers.[4][5] Shalunov graduated from Moscow State University with a Master's in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1995 and earned a Master's in Mathematics with a Computer Science minor at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997.[5][6]

Business career

Shalunov started working on internet transport protocols at Internet2 in 2000.[5] In 2006, he founded Plicto, which was soon acquired by BitTorrent and its implementations, uTP that carriers an estimated 95% of BitTorrent traffic.[3] In 2011, Shalunov co-founded company called Open Garden with Micha Benoliel and Greg Hazel, a startup which lets you share Internet access and bandwidth with all surrounding Open Garden-enabled devices.[7][8][9][10] Open Garden initially introduced a tethering app which allowed users to share internet connectivity between laptops and Android phones[9][10][11] Shalunov believes that routing, as it exist now, is inefficient, and that Open Garden, using mesh networking, is the solution.[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)". Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  2. ↑ "BitTorrent net meltdown delayed". 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "This Is How Your BitTorrent Downloads Move So Fast". 2013-07-29. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  4. ↑ "Netkill - generic remote DoS attack tool". Retrieved 2000-04-25.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "lifeboat Advisory Board". Retrieved 2013-09-05.
  6. ↑ "internet2 Event Speakers". 2013-06-21. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  7. ↑ "Open Garden Lets You Crowdsource Your Mobile Connectivity". 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  8. ↑ "Open Garden Co-founders". Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Open Garden Software Bonds Wi-Fi and Cellular Data Connections". 2013-03-07. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Micha Benoliel's Open Garden". 2012-06-21. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  11. ↑ "Tether your phone wirelessly with Open Garden app". 2013-12-27. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  12. ↑ "Open Garden, A TechCrunch Disrupt NY Battlefield Finalist, Raises $2M Seed Round". 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  13. ↑ "Open Garden Shares Your and Others' Mobile Internet Access with Your Laptop and Tablet". 2012-06-07. Retrieved 2013-09-07.