Research About Ns Itself

• John Heidemann, Nirupama Bulusu, Jeremy Elson, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Kun-chan Lan, Ya Xu, Wei Ye, Deborah Estrin, and Ramesh Govindan. Effects of Detail in Wireless Network Simulation. Submitted to SCS Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference, September, 2000.
• Lee Breslau, Deborah Estrin, Kevin Fall, Sally Floyd, John Heidemann, Ahmed Helmy, Polly Huang, Steven McCanne, Kannan Varadhan, Ya Xu, and Haobo Yu. Advances in Network Simulation. IEEE Computer, 33 (5 ), pp. 59-67, May, 2000. Superceeds USC tech report 99-702b.
• Sandeep Bajaj, Lee Breslau, Deborah Estrin, Kevin Fall, Sally Floyd, Padma Haldar, Mark Handley, Ahmed Helmy, John Heidemann, Polly Huang, Satish Kumar, Steven McCanne, Reza Rejaie, Puneet Sharma, Kannan Varadhan, Ya Xu, Haobo Yu, and Daniel Zappala.
Improving Simulation for Network Research. Technical Report 99-702, University of Southern California, March, 1999. (Superceeds an older tech report 98-678: ``Virtual InterNetwork Testbed: Status and Research Agenda''.)
• Deborah Estrin, Mark Handley, John Heidemann, Steven McCanne, Ya Xu, and Haobo Yu.
Network Visualization with the VINT Network Animator Nam. Technical Report 99-703, University of Southern California, March, 1999.
• Kevin Fall. Jan 1999.
Network Emulation in the Vint/NS Simulator
This paper provides a short description of the issues involved in implementing the emulation facility in the NS simulator. The current version is a draft; it was submitted in Dec., 1998 to ISCC '99.
• Huang, P., Estrin, D., and Heidemann, J.
Enabling Large-scale Simulations: Selective Abstraction Approach to The Study of Multicast Protocols ,
Submitted for review to Sixth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '98)
• George F. Riley, Mostafa H. Ammar, and Richard Fujimoto
Stateless Routing in Network Simulations.
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, p. to appear. San Francisco, CA, USA, IEEE. August, 2000.

Research using Ns

TCP

• Steven H. Low, Larry Peterson, and Limin Wang
Understanding TCP Vegas: A Duality Model
It presents a model of the TCP Vegas congestion control mechanism as a distributed optimization algorithm. Source code are availabe here.
• NJamshid Mahdavi,
The Rate-Halving Algorithm for TCP Congestion Control
It includes a copy of the current working draft, a tarfile with sources for the "ns" simulator, and a page with some sample comparisons between RH, Reno, and NewReno.
• Neal Cardwell, Stefan Savage, Tom Anderson (University of Washington). Oct, 1998.
Modeling the Performance of Short TCP Connections
This paper uses ns simulations and some experiments to compare a few different closed-form models: a parameterized short flow model that assumes zero packet loss, an adaptation of the steady-state model from [Padhye et al 98], and a model for short flows that assumes random loss.
• Bikram Bakshi, Krishna, P., Pradhan, D.K., and Vaidya, N.H.
(Texas A&M University) Performance of TCP over Wireless Networks ,
17th Intl. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Baltimore, May, 1997.
(This paper was based on work done using ns version 1)
• H. Balakrishnan, V.N. Padmanabhan, R.H. Katz
The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance,
Proc. Third ACM/IEEE Mobicom Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 1997.
• H. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan, M. Stemm, R. Katz
TCP Behavior of a Busy Web Server: Analysis and Improvements,
Technical Report UCB/CSD-97-966. (Extended version of paper to appear in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, CA, March 1998).
Simulations were done using ns-1, but the relevant modules have since been ported and worked on in ns-2.
• Floyd, S. and Fall, K.
Router Mechanisms to Support End-to-End Congestion Control ,
LBNL Technical Report
• Henderson, T. and Katz, R.
On Improving the Fairness of TCP Congestion Avoidance ,
Proc. IEEE Globecom `98.
• Fall, K., and Floyd, S.
Simulation-based Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and SACK TCP ,
Computer Communications Review, July 1996. (Abstract)
This study uses the script ``test-sack'' from the ns distribution.
(This paper was based on work done using ns version 1)
• Floyd, S.
Issues of TCP with SACK ,
Technical report, January 1996.
(This paper was based on work done using ns version 1)
• Mathis, M., and Mahdavi, J.
(Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center) Forward Acknowledgement: Refining TCP Congestion Control,
SIGCOMM 96, August 1996, Stanford, CA.
(This paper was based on work done using ns version 1)
• Vikram Visweswaraiah and John Heidemann.
Improving Restart of Idle TCP Connections.
Technical Report 97-661, University of Southern California, November, 1997.
• Reuven Cohen and Srinivas Ramanathan.
TCP for High Performance in Hybrid Fiber Coaxial Broad-Band Access Networks.
Journal Ton; Year 1998; Vol.6; Number 1; Month Feb; Pages 15-29;
• T. V. Lakshman, U. Madhow, B. Suter
Window-based error recovery and flow control with a slow acknowledgement channel: a study of TCP/IP performance INFOCOM'97
This paper is based on work with modified versions of ns-1.
• B. Suter, T. V. Lakshman, D. Stiliadis, A. Choudhury
Design Considerations for Supporting TCP with Per-flow Queueing INFOCOM'98
This paper is based on work with modified versions of ns-1.

Diff-serve/int-serve

• Philippe Oechslin, Jon Crowcroft.
Differentiated End to End Internet Services using a Weighted Proportional Fair Sharing TCP
This paper has been submitted to ACM CCR.
Code used for the work done in this paper is based on ns2.1b1 and is available from the contributed code page under "Contributed code to ns-2".
• D. Clark, W. Fang
"Explicit Allocation of Best Effort Packet Delivery Service"
ACM Transactions on Networking, August, 1998.
This paper use ns-1 to evaluate the algorithms to be used in interior routers and edge routers. I am in the process of porting modules to ns-2.
• Michael Welzl, "A Stateless QoS Signaling Protocol for the Internet", ICPADS'00 (International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - IEEE Computer Society), Iwate, Japan, 4-7 July 2000.

Scheduling or queue management in routers

• A. Legout, and E. W. Biersack
Revisiting the Fair Queueing Paradigm for End-to-End Congestion Control.
To appear in IEEE Network Magazine, 2002
• Ziegler, T., and Clausen, H.D.
Congestion Avoidance with BUC (Buffer Utilization Control Gateways) and RFCN (Reverse Feedback Congestion Notification) ,
Submitted to International Phoenix Conference for Computers and Communication (IPCCC), Scottsdale, Arizona, Feb, 1997.
(This paper was based on work done using ns version 1)
• Sanneck, H., and Carle, G.
Predictive Loss Pattern Queue Management for Internet Routers,
Internet Routing and Quality of Service, S. Civanlar, P. Doolan, J. Luciani, R.Onvural, Editors, Proceedings SPIE Vol.3529A, Boston, MA, November 1998

Multimedia

• McCanne, S., Jacobson, V., and Vetterli, M.
Receiver-driven Layered Multicast,
SIGCOMM '96, August 1996, Stanford, CA.
(This paper was based on work done using ns version 1)
• McCanne, S.
Scalable Compression and Transmission of Internet Multicast Video,
Ph.D. Dissertation, December 1996, University of California, Berkeley.
• Isidor Kouvelas, Vicky Hardman and Jon Crowcroft
Network Adaptive Continuous-Media Applications Through Self Organised Transcoding
This paper has been submitted to NOSDAV '98.
Code used for the work done in this paper is based on ns2.1b1 and is available from the contributed code page under "Contributed code to ns-2".
• Reza Rejaie, Mark Handley and Deborah Estrin
Quality Adaptation for Congestion Controlled Video Playback over the Internet,
SIGCOMM'99, Boston, MA, Sep 1999.
• Michael Welzl,
"Adaptive Multimedia Communication over Satellite Routed IP",
ICC 2000 (International Conference on Communications - IEEE Communications Society), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 18-22 June 2000.

Multicast

• Oznur Ozkasap, Zhen Xiao, Kenneth P. Birman
Scalability of Two Reliable Multicast Protocols
Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, TR99-1745, May 17, 1999.

• Kenneth P. Birman, Mark Hayden, Oznur Ozkasap, Zhen Xiao, Mihai Budiu, Yaron Minsky
Bimodal Multicast
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, May 1999, 17(2), pp.41-88. Also available as Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, TR99-1745, May 11, 1999.
• Oznur Ozkasap, Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman, Zhen Xiao
Efficient Buffering in Reliable Multicast Protocols
Proceedings of NGC99 (Networked Group Communication), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1736, Springer Verlag, pp. 188-203, November 1999, Pisa, Italy.
Also available as Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, TR99-1757, July 12, 1999.
• Varadhan, K., Estrin, D., and Floyd, S.
Impact of Network Dynamics on End-to-End Protocols: Case Studies in Reliable Multicast , ( Abstract )
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, July 1998.
Athens, Greece.
• Helmy, A., and Estrin, D.
`STRESS' Testing Applied to a Multicast Routing Protocol ,
Tech Report USC-CS-TR 97-657, Department of Computer Science, University fo Southern California.
(Also submitted for review to infocom '98).
• Lorenzo Vicisano, Luigi Rizzo (Pisa) and Jon Crowcroft.
TCP-like Congestion Control for Layered Multicast Data Transfer.
This paper has been accepted for INFOCOM '98.
Code used for the work done in this paper is based on ns2.1b1 and is available from the contributed code page under "Contributed code to ns-2".
• C. Haenle, M. Hofmann.
A Comparison of Reliable Multicast Protocols using the Network Simulator ns-2.
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Boston, MA, USA, October 11-14, 1998.
• A. Legout, E. W. Biersack.
PLM: Fast Convergence for Cumulative Layered Multicast Transmission Schemes.
In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS'2000, Santa Clara, California, USA, June 2000.
• A. Legout, and E. W. Biersack.
Pathological Behaviors for RLM and RLC
In Proceedings of NOSSDAV'2000, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June 2000.

Internet Traffic Modeling

• Anja Feldmann, Anna C. Gilbert, Polly Huang and Walter Willinger.
Dynamics of IP traffic: A study of the role of variability and the impact of control,
SIGCOMM'99, Boston, MA, Sep 1999.

Web Caching

• Haobo Yu, Lee Breslau and Scott Shenker.
A Scalable Web Cache Consistency Architecture,
SIGCOMM'99, Boston, MA, Sep 1999.

Wireless Sensor Networks

• Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Ramesh Govindan, and Deborah Estrin.
Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks,
MobiCOM 2000, Boston, MA, Aug 2000.

Wireless-Networked Mobile Robots

• Wei Ye, Richard T. Vaughan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin, and Maja J. Mataric
Evaluating Control Strategies for Wireless-Networked Robots Using an  Integrated Robot and Network Simulation
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2001), Seoul, Korea, May, 2001.

Satellite Networks

• M.W. Koyabe
, Appropriate and Robust Reliable Multicast Transport Techniques for Satellite Networks experiencing persistent link fades.
PhD. Thesis, Electronics Research Group, Department of Engineering, Aberdeen University, UK.

• M.W. Koyabe, G. Fairhurst
Performance of Reliable Multicast Protocols via Satellite at EHF with Persistent Fades
7th Ka-Band Utilization Conference, 26-28th September 2001, Santa Margherita Ligure, Genoa, Italy.


• Lloyd Wood
Internetworking with satellite constellations
PhD thesis, Centre for Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey, February 2001.


• Thomas R. Henderson and Randy H. Katz, UC Berkeley
Network Simulation for LEO Satellite Networks
18th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), Oakland, CA, April 10-14, 2000.


• Thomas R. Henderson and Randy H. Katz, UC Berkeley
On Distributed, Geographic-based Packet Routing for LEO Satellite Networks
Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2000, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2000.


• Thomas R. Henderson and Randy H. Katz, UC Berkeley
Transport protocols for Internet-compatible satellite networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 345-359, February 1999.


• Lloyd Wood, George Pavlou and Barry Evans
Effects on TCP of routing strategies in satellite constellations
Special issues on Satellite-Based Internet Technology and Services, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 172-81, March, 2001.


• Lloyd Wood, George Pavlou and Barry Evans
Managing diversity with handover to provide classes of service in satellite constellation networks
Proceedings of AIAA International Communication Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC '01), vol. 3, session 35, no. 194, Toulouse, France, 17-20 April 2001.


• Merkourios Karaliopoulos, Rahim Tafazolli and Barry Evans
TCP Performance on Split Connection GEO Satellite Links
Proceedings of the 19th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC '01), Toulouse, France, 17-20 April 2001.


• Merkourios Karaliopoulos, Rahim Tafazolli and Barry Evans
Enhancing TCP's performance over GEO satellite links with split- connections and link level retransmissions
London Communications Symposium, London, UK, 14-15 September 2000.


• Dennis P. Connors, Gregory J. Pottie, UCLA, USA
The Performance of HTTP Over Satellite Random Access Channels
Proceedings of 2000 Western MultiConference (WMC2000), January 23-27, 2000.