Workshop 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.

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

Publication

The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM and will be included in the main conference proceedings. As an ACM publication, the proceedings will also be available through the ACM Digital Library.

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