August 14, 2020By Lila Jones
2020 Networking Systems Award from SIGCOMM goes to networking system developed in part by USC ISI team.
The research contributions of John Heidemann,
a USC Viterbi research professor of computer science and a principal scientist at the USC
Information Sciences Institute (ISI), and Yuri Pradkin, a systems programmer at ISI, were recently recognized in the
2020 Networking Systems Award from
SIGCOMM.
The award - from the Association
for Computing Machinery's Special Interest
Group on Data Communications, or SIGCOMM - serves to recognize the development of a networking system that has had a
significant impact on the world of computer networking, and this year, it was given to a series of networking simulators referred
to as "ns."
"It was a very happy surprise for me to hear about this award," said Heidemann, who led ns development from 2000 to 2004. "I'm
honored that we at USC were able to play a part."
The ns family of simulators - which include ns-1, ns-2, and ns-3 - allow researchers to test out ideas in a simulated computer
network before laboratory or testbed experiments. Heidemann and Pradkin were credited as major contributors, along with a number of
USC Ph.D. students, to the development of ns-2, which built off of the earlier ns-1.
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