I'm a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow and the current chair of the Internet Research Task Force.
My research interests are on network transport protocols, with a particular focus on transport protocols for real-time and interactive multimedia, and on network protocol design, implementation, and specification. My current research is into post-Sockets APIs and transport services, the implications of QUIC on real-time applications and network operations, and improving the way we specify network protocol standards.
I'm a long-time participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). I co-chair the RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques working group, and was previously co-chair of the Audio/Video Transport and Multiparty Multimedia Session Control working groups. I played a key role in helping to develop globally deployed standard multimedia transport and signalling protocols such as RTP, SDP, and the WebRTC media transport layer.
I received my BEng in Electronic Engineering in 1992, and my DPhil in 1996, both from the Department of Electronics at the University of York. I'm a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM and IET.
Recent Updates:
- 20 July 2019 research Improving protocol standards at IETF 105
- 14 July 2019 research RTP Congestion Control Feedback: Update from IETF 104 (Prague) Hackathon
- 8 July 2019 standards Submitted internet-draft: draft-ietf-taps-impl-04
- 8 July 2019 standards Submitted internet-draft: draft-ietf-taps-interface-04
- 8 July 2019 standards Submitted internet-draft: draft-ietf-taps-arch-04
- 8 July 2019 standards Submitted internet-draft: draft-ietf-avtcore-cc-feedback-message-04
- 8 July 2019 standards Submitted internet-draft: draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams-00
- 6 July 2019 research Streamlining Social Decision Making for Improved Internet Standards
- 5 July 2019 research Improving protocol standards at the 31st Multi-Service Networks Workshop
- 4 July 2019 standards Talk about IRTF at 31st Multi-Service Networks workshop
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