Formerly associated with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, she retired in 2009 and died in August 2019.
[1] Floyd is best known in the field of congestion control as the inventor of Random Early Detection ("RED") active queue management scheme, thus founding the field of Active Queue Management (AQM) with Van Jacobson.
[3] Floyd devised the now-common method of adding delay jitter to message timers to avoid synchronization.
[6] Floyd, with Vern Paxson, in 1997 identified the lack of knowledge of network topology as the major obstacle in understanding how the Internet works.
[3] She has been involved in the Internet Architecture Board, and was in 2007 one of the top-ten most cited researchers in computer science.