-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: WNS2 2006 (organized within VALUETOOLS 2006, Pisa, Italy) Datum: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:28:13 -0400 Von: Kejie Lu lukejie@ece.uprm.edu Organisation: UPRM An: multicomm@comsoc.org

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CALL FOR PAPERS WNS2 Workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator Pisa, Italy -- October 10, 2006

http://www.wns2.org/

SCOPE -----

In recent years, the ns-2 simulator has become one of the de facto standards (if not the standard) for the simulation of packet-switched networks, as attested by the number of research papers and IETF documents based on it, as well as by the wide scope of the networking technologies it handles. It is widely used in both academia and industry as a means of designing, testing and evaluating new and existing protocols and architectures, and it is also a very useful tool for educational purposes.

The Workshop on ns-2 (WNS2) is a one-day event held in conjunction with VALUETOOLS, the First International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (http://www.valuetools.org/).

The main goals of the WNS2 workshop are: to bring together networking researchers from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances, to identify future directions in network simulation, and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area.

The workshop devotes special interest to the future evolution of ns-2, and its extension in novel research areas and networking technologies and scenarios.

TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------

This workshop is mainly focused on the simulator in itself. We are especially looking for original contributions that go beyond the use of ns-2 "as is", and try to make it evolve. The following topics are of particular interest:

- Development of new simulation models and features, especially in, but not restricted to, the areas of:

* Mobile networks, 3G and 4G networks, WLANs, WPANs, WiMAX... * Delay-tolerant networking. * Congestion-control and transport-layer issues in long-fat networks. * Network mobility (NEMO). * Sensor networks. * Peer-to-peer systems. * Grid computing.

- Large-scale network simulation and model-based simulation approaches.

- Post-processing tools and GUIs for statistical analysis and visualization of simulation results.

Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Validation of ns-2 behavior with experimentation and real data.

- Comparative studies of ns-2 and other network simulation tools, both commercial and freely-available.

- Parallel and distributed versions of ns-2.

- Use of ns-2 in teaching networking concepts and techniques.

IMPORTANT DATES ---------------

Submission Deadline: May 20, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2006 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: July 10, 2006

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------

Technical Program Co-chairs:

Tania Jim¨¦nez (LIA, France) David Ros (GET / ENST Bretagne, France)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE -----------------

Eitan Altman (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Chadi Barakat (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) Armando Caro Jr. (BBN Technologies, USA) Thierry Ernst (Keio University, Japan) Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University, USA) Andrei Gurtov (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland) Qi He (IBM, USA) Polly Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Tom Henderson (Boeing, USA) Kun-chan Lan (NICTA, Australia) Saverio Mascolo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) Nicolas Montavont (GET / ENST Bretagne, France) Giorgio Tonella (USI, Switzerland) Michael Welzl (Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria) Lloyd Wood (Cisco, UK)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages in IEEE conference proceedings format (double-column, 11-point font size). Submissions must be in electronic format (PDF files). More details about the submission process will be available on the Workshop web page: http://www.wns2.org/ .

Papers accepted for oral presentation, as well as papers accepted as posters, will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be distributed to participants in the form of a CD-ROM. The proceedings will also be available on- line through IEEE on IEEEXplore.

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