Bruce Davie

Visiting Lecturer
Department of EECS
Room 32-G804
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
The Stata Center, 32 Vassar St.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139

E-mail: username=bdavie domain=mit.edu

Bruce Davie is a former visiting lecturer at MIT, and a Principal Engineer at VMware. He joined VMware via the acquisition of Nicira, where he was Chief Service Provider Architect. Formerly a Fellow at Cisco Systems, for many years he led the team of architects responsible for Multiprotocol Label Switching and IP Quality of Service. He is also an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force and he is the past Chair of SIGCOMM. Prior to joining Cisco he was director of internetworking research and chief scientist at Bell Communications Research. Bruce holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Edinburgh University. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2009. His research interests include routing, network virtualization, transport protocols, and software-defined networks.

Teaching

In 2009 I co-taught 6.829 Computer Networks with Dina Katabi

Previously I co-taught 6.829 Computer Networks with Hari Balakrishnan

In 2007 I taught 6.898 Advanced Topics in Service Provider Networks

Selected Publications

Articles and Conference Papers

D. D. Clark, C. Partridge, R. Braden, B. S. Davie, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, D. Katabi, G. Minshall, K. K. Ramakrishnan, T. Roscoe, I. Stoica, J. Wroclawski, and L. Zhang.
Making the world (of communications) a different place.
Computer Communication Review, 35(3):91-96, 2005.
S. Kandula, D. Katabi, B. Davie, and A. Charny.
Walking the Tightrope: Responsive Yet Stable Traffic Engineering.
In ACM SIGCOMM, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
B. Davie and P. Jacobs.
Technical challenges in the delivery of interprovider qos.
IEEE Communications Magazine, 43(6):112-118, June 2005.
B. Davie, V. Florance, A. Friede, J. R. Sheehan, and J. E. Sisk.
Bringing health-care applications to the internet.
IEEE Internet Computing, 5(3):42-48, 2001.
Y. Rekhter, B. Davie, E. Rosen, G. Swallow, D. Farinacci, and D. Katz.
Tag switching architecture overview.
Proceeedings of the IEEE, 82(12):1973-1983, December 1997.
P. Druschel, L. L. Peterson, and B. S. Davie.
Experience with a high-speed network adaptor: A software perspective.
In Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '94 Symposium, pages 2-13, Aug. 1994.
D. D. Clark, B. S. Davie, D. J. Farber, I. S. Gopal, B. K. Kadaba, W. D. Sincoskie, J. M. Smith, and D. L. Tennenhouse.
The Aurora gigabit testbed.
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 25(6):599-621, 1993.
B. S. Davie.
A host-network interface architecture for ATM.
In Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '91 Symposium, pages 307-316, Sept. 1991.

Books

L. Peterson and B. Davie.
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 4th Edition, 2007.
B. Davie and A. Farrell.
MPLS: Next Steps.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 2008.
B. Davie and Y. Rekhter.
MPLS: Technology and Applications.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 2000.
B. Davie, P. Doolan, and Y. Rekhter.
Switching in IP Networks.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1998.

RFCs

B. Davie, A. Charny, J. Bennett, K. Benson, J. L. Boudec, W. Courtney, S. Davari, V. Firoiu, and D. Stiliadis.
An expedited forwarding PHB (per-hop behavior).
Request for Comments 3246, Mar. 2002.
J. Crowcroft, B. Davie, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge, L. Peterson, K. K. Ramakrishnan, S. Shenker, J. Wroclawski, and L. Zhang.
Recommendations on queue management and congestion avoidance in the internet.
Request for Comments 2309, Apr. 1998.

Personal Information

Ph.D. Edinburgh University, 1988; B.E. (Elec) Melbourne University, 1984 ; High school (Melbourne Grammar), 1980.
From 2004-2010 I was President of the Greater Boston Track Club. I now run for West Valley Track Club in California.
My best running times are here