Computer Networks a Systems Approach (5th Ed)

Larry Peterson is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at Princeton University. He also serves as Chief Scientist of the Open Networking Foundation, where he works on the Aether edge cloud project. His research focuses on the design, implementation, and deployment of Internet-scale distributed systems, including the widely used PlanetLab and MeasurementLab platforms. He co-founded CoBlitz LLC to license CDN technology developed on PlanetLab. CoBlitz was acquired by Verivue in 2010, and subsequently by Akamai in 2012. He is a co-author of the best selling networking textbook Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (6e).
Peterson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, the 2010 recipient of the IEEE Kobayashi Computer and Communication Award, and the 2013 recipient of the ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Contributions Award. He received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 1985.

Bruce Davie is a computer scientist noted for his contributions tothe field of networking.
He is a former VP and CTO for the Asia Pacific region at VMware. He joined VMware during the acquisition of Software Defined Networking (SDN) startup Nicira. Prior to that, he was a Fellow at Cisco Systems, leading a team of architects responsible for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). Davie has over 30 years of networking industry experience and has co-authored 17 RFCs. He was recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2009 and chaired ACM SIGCOMM from 2009 to 2013. He was also a visiting lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for five years. Davie is the author of multiple books and the holder of more than 40 U.S. Patents.