The Network Simulator ns-2: September 1997 Workshop

Workshop: Internet Simulations with the NS simulator (or, How to Add your Favorite Protocol to NS)

Organization: the VINT Project.

Chairs: Kevin Fall (LBNL), Sally Floyd (LBNL), Kannan Varadhan (USC).

Time: Thursday, September 18, 1997, 1:30PM-6PM, 8PM-10PM. (time subject to some change)

Place: Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France, at SIGCOMM '97.

Description:
The goal of the VINT project, a collaborative project between USC/ISI, LBL/UC Berkeley, and Xerox PARC, is to extend the ns simulator so that network researchers can study the complex interactions between network protocols (e.g., unicast routing, multicast routing, TCP, reliable multicast, integrated services, etc.) in complex topologies and with a rich set of traffic generators.

This workshop is intended for researchers who would like to use ns more actively, or who would like to add new functionality to ns. Guided by the interests of the workshop participants, we will discuss the primary components of ns (the scheduler, connection oriented and connectionless protocols, trace support, routing, topology generation, multicast support, and queue management), and discuss various issues in adding new routing or transport protocols, scheduling algorithms, link layers, applications, or visualization tools to ns.

Cost: None.

Slides: Kevin's Slides (1 slide per page); Kevin's Slides (4 slides per page)
Kannan's Slides (1 slide per page); Kannan's Slides (4 slides per page) .

Registration: Please send email to ns-workshop with the information listed below. If you would like to present a small description of what you have done with ns, please let us know.

Who: View the current workshop registration list.

If you can't make it to the workshop:
We intend to hold other workshops in the United States. We will also make any documentation developed for the workshop available on the web. (Documentation for ns-2 is in progress...) We are also looking into the possibility of making the workshop available on the Mbone, and we will post updated information here.


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