Richard Bennett
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`Curriculum Vitae
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`Contact Information
`E-mail: richard@bennett.com
`Home Address: 869 S. Cole Dr., Lakewood, CO 80228
`Telephone: +1 415-967-2900
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`Employment Experience
`American Enterprise Institute, 2013 – Present, Visiting Fellow.
`Develop policy for Internet, spectrum, and communications networks to serve the public interest,
`enhance social welfare, and promote innovation. Write research reports, blog posts, op-eds, and
`make public appearances at conferences and other gatherings as keynote speaker or panelist.
`Advise policy makers in FCC, Congress, and industry on mobile and broadband network
`technology and regulation.
`Network Technology and Policy Consultant, 1989 -Present
`Design, extend, and teach network systems and technologies such as the Internet, Ethernet, Wi-
`Fi, LTE, DSL and DOCSIS. Develop policy frameworks to enhance innovation potential of
`network systems and advise policy makers. Testify before legislative and regulatory bodies.
`Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, 2011 – Present, Advisor.
`Member of Economist and Regulatory Advisory Board consulting on Internet and broadband
`issues.
`High Tech Forum, June 2010-Present, Founder and Editor
`Edit and contribute to weblog on networking policy and technology aimed at educating policy
`makers and the media on technology issues relevant to contemporary policy debates.
`Expert Witness, 2000 – Present.
`Provide expert analysis, testimony, and reports to law firms engaged in intellectual property
`rights disputes concerning network-related technology inventions.
`Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington, DC. June 2009-
`September 2013, Senior Research Fellow (as independent consultant.)
`Advised policy makers in FCC, Congress, and industry on broadband network technology and
`regulation, the National Broadband Plan, and pro-innovation technology policy. Delivered
`speeches and engaged in panel discussions on network technology and regulation at industry
`gatherings and policy conferences. Wrote studies, white papers, and reports relevant to
`technology policy.
`Actiontec Electronics, Sunnyvale, CA, 2007-2009, Principal Engineer.
`Responsible for system architecture, planning, and implementation of added-value networking
`components of a broadband home router product line sold to Verizon and Qwest. Also developed
`RFP responses and helped close deals.
`Trapeze Networks, Pleasanton, CA, 2005-2007, Principal Engineer.
`Developed architecture and code for an advanced enterprise Wi-Fi system in a fast-paced,
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`venture-backed startup. Also developed intellectual property around packet scheduling for QoS
`and collaborated with OEM customer Nortel's research team.
`Sharp Labs of America, Camas, WA, 2003-2005 (as independent consultant.)
`Devised the principal acceleration scheme for IEEE 802.11n, “Aggregated MPDU.” Designed
`Distributed Reservation Protocol system for Wi-Media Alliance Ultra-Wideband network.
`Represented company on standards committees.
`Airgo Networks, Palo Alto, 2001-2002. Technical Leader.
`Advised on chipset architecture, Access Point design and wireless network simulation for
`802.11abgn chipset.
`Cisco Systems, San Jose, 2000-2001 (as independent consultant.)
`Under very tight deadlines, successfully delivered diagnostics for the two highest-priority
`projects for the flagship 7500 router, a gigabit Ethernet adapter and a SONET adapter.
`3Com Corporation, Santa Clara, 1995-2000, 2001. (as independent consultant.)
`Wrote drivers and diagnostics for 3Com Ethernet adapters from 10BaseT to 1000BaseX (Gigabit
`Ethernet) and helped design new hardware.
`EIT, Palo Alto, CA, 1994-1995 Sr. Member Technical Staff
`Developed real-time video collaboration tools under a grant from DARPA. Designed a protocol
`for real-time route selection and billing at Internet Exchange Points, developed a version of IP
`multicast for the MBONE, and wrote Java programs integrating collaboration tools.
`Photonics Corporation, San Jose, 1991-94. (as independent consultant.)
`In conjunction with business partner IBM, designed a preliminary version of the IEEE 802.11
`MAC protocol for an infrared WLAN. Collaborated on initial design of the Wi-Fi architecture
`and protocols.
`Fremont Communications, Fremont, 1990-1991. Vice-President of Engineering.
`Managed a group of engineers responsible for all technical elements of an award-winning, low-
`cost PC-based fax modem, in a start-up environment.
`Memorex-Telex, Milpitas, 1986-90. Director, Technical Marketing.
`Co-founded the Open Token Foundation, a trade group of LAN vendors that created the testing
`lab now used by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Managed a group of system engineers who designed,
`provisioned, and installed networks for company’s customers.
`Excelan Inc., San Jose, 1985-1986. Lead Software Engineer.
`Represented company at OSI Implementers’ Workshop and contributed to design of multi-
`protocol framework for future development of TCP/IP and OSI protocols. Provided input on
`RFC 1001 and 1002 (NETBIOS over TCP/IP.)
`Tandem Computers, Austin, TX, 1983-1985. Lead Software Engineer.
`Served as Vice-Chair and Editor of 802.3 1Base5 Task Group, developing design of the first
`Ethernet over Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) standard. Developed products and represented
`company on LAN standards committees.
`Texas Instruments, Austin, TX, 1977-1983. Software Engineer/Project Lead
`Designed the device I/O subsystem for a proprietary network OS. Designed and implemented the
`first application for company's Token Ring chipset under contract with IBM. Developed the first
`IBM-compatible PC and several antecedents.
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`Education
`Post-graduate work, University of Texas, Computer Science, Logic, and EE, 1977-78.
`BA, University of Texas, 1975, Philosophy.
`Selected Industry Groups
`• Member, Technical Working Group, Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group
`(2010-present.)
`• Contributor, IETF PCN, Homegate, LEDBAT and ALTO task groups (2008-2011.)
`• Contributor, IEEE 802.11 & 802.11n Wi-Fi Standards, 1990-2 (Photonics), 2004-5
`(Sharp Labs).
`• Team Lead, WiMedia Alliance (2003-4). Contributed wireless multimedia architecture
`for consumer electronics over IETF, IEEE 802.15.3a, and Ultra-Wide Band (UWB).
`• Contributor, IEEE 802.15.3a and MBOA MAC Protocol task group (2003-4.)
`Contributed critiques and enhancements to the standards body developing MAC and
`PHY protocols for Ultra-Wide Band communication and improvements to the vendor
`group.
`• Secretary and Founder, Open Token Foundation (1989). Organized group of Token Ring
`vendors into trade group.
`• Participant, OSI Workshop (1985-86). Wrote interoperability subset specification for
`protocol suites with multiple options, and demonstrated feasibility of open protocols
`• Vice-Chair and Editor, IEEE 802.3 1Base5 task force (1984-86). Wrote first Twisted-Pair
`Ethernet Standard, the proof-of-concept for 10BaseT.
`Selected Publications
`“Inside Obama’s Net Fix”, Washington Examiner cover story, February 23, 2015;
`http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/inside-obamas-net-fix/article/2560377
`“The FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Pander Problem”, US News & World Report, January 8, 2015;
`http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2015/01/08/fcc-chairman-tom-wheeler-
`has-pandered-himself-into-a-corner-on-net-neutrality.
`“Who is winning the broadband race?”, Detroit News, October 30, 2014;
`http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2014/10/30/winning-broadband-race/18138407/.
`“G7 Broadband Dynamics”, TPRC 42, September 12, 2014, Arlington VA;
`http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2418732.
`“Net neutrality advocates need to get their facts straight”, US News & World Report, May 1,
`2014; http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/did-the-fccs-net-neutrality-proposal-go-too-far-or-
`not-far-enough/net-neutrality-advocates-need-to-get-their-facts-straight
`Blueprint for a Federal Spectrum Service: A Very Rough Draft, High Tech Forum, April 24,
`2014; http://www.hightechforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Blueprint-for-a-Federal-
`Spectrum-Service.pdf
`“Wake up, FCC: The Internet Protocol transition is now”, American Enterprise Institute
`Economic Outlook, April 3, 2014;
`http://www.aei.org/outlook/economics/innovation/technology/wake-up-fcc-the-internet-protocol-
`transition-is-now/
`“Time to Give Up the Net-Neutrality Quest”, February 4, 2014, The Wall Street Journal,
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`http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303519404579354801141804482
`“System error: How bad analysis poisons tech policy”, American Enterprise Institute Economic
`Outlook, January 28, 2014;
`http://www.aei.org/outlook/economics/innovation/technology/system-error-how-bad-analysis-
`poisons-tech-policy/
`“Technical Principles of Spectrum Allocation”, TPRC 41, September 28, 2013, Arlington, VA.
`“The Whole Picture: Where America’s Broadband Networks Really Stand” (with Stewart and
`Atkinson), TPRC41, September 29, 2013, Arlington, VA.
`“No Country for Slow Broadband”, June 15, 2013, The New York Times Sunday Review,
`http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/no-country-for-slow-broadband.html
`“Refusing to answer to policy reasons”, December 30, 2011, The Hill’s Congress Blog,
`http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/201755-refusing-to-answer-to-policy-reasons
`Spectrum Policy for Innovation, ITIF, September 2011; http://www.itif.org/files/2011-spectrum-
`policy-innovation.pdf
`Remaking the Internet: Taking Network Architecture to the Next Level, Time Warner Cable
`Research Series, 2011.
`“Innovation and the Internet Demand New Collaboration,” Ericsson Business Review, June,
`2010.
`"Network Management and the Net Neutrality Debate," chapter in The Net Neutrality Debate,
`Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2011.
`Going Mobile: Technology and Policy Issues in the Mobile Internet, Information Technology
`and Innovation Foundation, 2010; http://www.itif.org/files/100302_GoingMobile.pdf.
`Designed for Change: End-to-End Arguments, Internet Innovation, and the Net Neutrality
`Debate, ITIF, 2009; http://www.itif.org/files/2009-designed-for-change.pdf.
`Google's Political Head-fake, San Francisco Chronicle, July 9, 2008 (reprinted in Washington
`Times July 12). Op-Ed on Google's expansion.
`WiMedia MAC Convergence Architecture, WiMedia Alliance 2004, listed co-author.
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`Ethernet History: Nikkei Network, February 2003 (interviewed on development of twisted-pair
`standard)
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`New Challenges in Corporate Connectivity: Dataquest, 1990 (with Glenn Schiller.)
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`Token Ring's First Decade: The Open Token, September-November 1989.
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`Supplements to IEEE CSMA/CD 802.3 Standard: IEEE, 1989, listed co-author.
`Citations
`Quoted dozens of times in FCC filings in the broadband management and Open Internet dockets.
`Issued Patents
`System and method for automatic setup of a network device with secure network transmission of
`setup parameters, 10/27/2009. Method of easy WLAN setup. United States Patent 7,609,837.
`System Clock Synchronization in an Ad Hoc and Infrastructure Wireless Networks, 2/1/2004
`(with Kowalski and Kandala). Method of community clock synchronization. United States Patent
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`7,239,626.
`Systems and methods for implementing an acknowledgment mechanism for transmission of a
`real-time data stream, 12/5/2003 (with Hlasny). Method of reducing packet jitter on TCP. United
`States Patent 7,394,813.
`System and method for aggregation and queuing in a wireless network, 1/18/2011 (with Gast).
`Method of preserving QoS within Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11n-af A-MPDU. United States Patent
`7,873,061
`Other Patent Activity
`Communication medium access control protocol for wireless communication, 11/15/1993
`(Credited to Chen et. al.) US PTO 5,502,724. Allocates network time for Wi-Fi. (note: Photonics
`employees Tom Kurata and Stan Fickes developed this patent with my collaboration.)
`State Description and Retry Strategy for Aggregated 802.11n Frames, 8/11/2004 (with Kowalski
`and Kandala). Prepared for USPTO filing. This is the method used for A-MPDU in 802.11n.
`Patent Litigation
`• Have written expert reports, expert rebuttals patent infringement and validity analysis for
`more than 15 litigants in more than 10 cases involving dozens of patents in the areas of
`Internet protocols, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, network analyzers, and network applications.
`• List of clients available on request.
`Selected Conferences and Public Appearances
`Tech policy 2015: The year ahead, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, January 30,
`2015, panelist and moderator.
`Wireless Technology Association summit “Can Mobile Broadband Realize Its Full Potential?”,
`Washington DC, October 2014, Presenter.
`Wells Fargo 2014 Small Cell Symposium, New York, July 2014, Presenter.
`US Telecom Leadership Committee Retreat, Vail Colorado, June 2014. Keynote speaker.
`Third Way Symposium on Video on the Internet, Washington, DC, June 2014. Presentation.
`Spectrum Beyond Incentive Auctions, Washington, DC, April 2014.
`http://iep.gmu.edu/conference-spectrum-beyond-incentive-auctions/. Presentation.
`Tech policy 2014: The Year Ahead, Washington, DC, January 2014.
`(http://www.aei.org/events/2014/01/17/tech-policy-2014-the-year-ahead/)
`XXI International Conference on Intellectual Property, Yalta, Ukraine, September 2013
`(http://iiiconference.org.ua), keynote speaker.
`U. S. Department of State, U. S. Speakers Program. Kyiv, Ukraine, September, 2013. Speeches
`and lectures on intellectual property rights.
`The Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC,)
`Arlington, 2009 - 2013, presented multiple papers and took part in numerous panel discussions.
`U. S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, hearing on
`“Avoiding the Spectrum Crunch,” April 18, 2012, witness.
`M3AAWG, San Francisco, CA, February 2012, Internet piracy speaker.
`Caribbean Telecommunications Union Ministerial Summit, Barbados, December 2011, keynote.
`Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee “State of the Mobile Net” and “State of the
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`Net” Conferences, 2009-2012.
`Australian Telecom User’s Group Annual Meeting, April 2011, keynote speaker.
`IDA Roundtable in Internet Policy, Singapore, March 2011, invited participant.
`FutureNet Expo, Boston, 2010. Keynote and "Fixing the Internet" panelist.
`Brussels, Telia Sonera Openness Event, 2010, speaker.
`eComm 2009, 2010, San Francisco, CA, speaker and panelist.
`KIT, Karlsruhe, European Commission Open Networks Roundtable, 2010, invited participant.
`U. S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the
`Internet. First US Congress hearing on Internet privacy, April 23, 2009, witness.
`MAAWG, San Francisco, CA, February 19, 2009, Net Neutrality panelist.
`Institute for Policy Innovation events on European network regulation, Brussels and London,
`October 14-15, 2008. Internet Regulation panelist.
`Innovation '08, MAP Network Management event, Santa Clara, CA, June 25, 2008, panelist.
`Supernova 2008, San Francisco, CA, June 18, 2008. Broadband future panel.
`Federal Communications Commission public en banc hearing on broadband network
`management practices, Cambridge, MA, February 25, 2008. Technical experts panel.
`Professional Memberships
`IEEE, IEEE Standards Association, ACM, ISOC.
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