Workshop: Internet Simulations with the NS simulator
Organization: the VINT Project.
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Time: Friday, January 23, 1998, 9AM-5PM
Place: Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California
Cost: $30 to cover food and copying charges
(for a set of the slides).
the fee must be received by January 14, 1998
Description:
The workshop is intended to largely repeat the workshop we presented
at SIGCOMM '97 for those individuals unable to attend.
The format and content will be very similar to the previous workshop,
with updates based on functionality added to the ns simulator since
the first workshop.
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 extend its functionality. We will discuss the primary components of the simulator (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.
Outline: Click here for an approximate outline describing what will be covered in the workshop.
Slides from the Sep, 1997 workshop at SIGCOMM:
VINT/ns documentation of the ns simulator: Copies of the documentation will not be distributed at the workshop. However, they are available in postscript format on the web at our documentation web page.