If you are interested in the background for this work I would greatly recommend the following two articles from ACM queue

BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet? - discussion with Vint Cerf, Van Jacobson, Nick Weaver, and Jim Gettys

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2076798

Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet - Jim Gettys & Kathleen Nichols

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2071893