Network traffic patterns reflect increasingly complex interactions among
people, organizations, and machines. This global information flow is shaped
by network capacity, topology, complex interactions among protocols, and
network controls. The Internet and the large public, private and government
networks reveal dynamic behaviors which differ radically from traditional
telephony; furthermore, traffic patterns evolve rapidly in time as new
distributed services are deployed, and new social groups of users are formed.
Methods for traffic and performance management under such conditions are not
well understood, and their development requires new comprehensive approaches
to modeling and analysis of wireline and wireless networks.
This workshop will focus on current developments in modeling, simulation,
and algorithmic techniques which take into account the observed and measured
behavior of networks. In order to obtain a reasonably complete picture of
the state of the art, and to stimulate further research, the organizers have
invited practitioners of industrial and defense network modeling together with
researchers involved in the analysis and simulations of networks and protocols.
We are particularly interested in identifying areas requiring further research,
and in creating an informal forum for practitioners, researchers, and students
to hear each other and to exchange ideas.
The primary topics covered in the workshop are:
network modeling and simulation practices in industry and military
modeling and simulation of wireless networks
models of traffic sources and aggregated traffic
modeling and simulation of network protocols
parallel simulation techniques for large telecommunication systems
algorithmic analyses of network and protocol models
Invited speakers (as of August 25) :
Jean Bolot, INRIA
Mark Crovella, BU
Mike O'Dell, UUNET
Deborah Estrin, USC
Sally Floyd, LBNL
Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Tech
Mario Gerla, UCLA
David Goodman, WINLAB, Rutgers
Bernardo Huberman, Xerox PARC (TBC)
Tom Leighton, MIT
Serge Plotkin, Stanford (TBC)
Ram Ramaswami, ATT Res.
Frank Reichert, Ericsson Radio Research
Sid Resnik Cornell
Karen Sage, Cisco
Don Towsley, UMass
Ed Waymire, Oregon State
Ward Whitt, AT&T Res.
Walter Willinger, AT&T Res.
Roy Yates, Rutgers
Yechiam Yemini, Columbia
Participation:
Contact the organizers to discuss possibilities to give presentations
and regarding possibilities of financial support.
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