| Organization: |
The VINT Project.
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| Brought to you by: |
Kevin Fall (LBNL),
Kannan Varadhan (USC/ISI).
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| Time: |
Friday, August 7, 1998, 9AM--5PM
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| Place: |
George Mason University, Arlington Campus
(near Washington D.C.) 4001 North Fairfax Drive Suite 450 Arlington, VA 22201. You can find maps to the workshop site on the GMU web page. In addition, you may find some notes helpful. A list of nearby hotels is available from the ISI-East web page .
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| Cost: |
US $50 to cover food and copying charges
(for a set of the slides). US $25 for full time students. Please mail your cheques to: USC-Information" Sciences Institute
Attn: VINT ns_Workshop
c/o Joe Kemp
4676 Admiralty Way
Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695.
The fee must be received by July 31, 1998
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| Registration Forms: |
You can
download a copy of the registration form
.
Please complete the registration form
and email it to
<[email protected]>.
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| Description: |
The workshop is intended to largely repeat the earlier workshops
presented at Cannes, France (1997) and
Los Angeles, California (January 1998) earlier.
The format and content will be very similar to the previous workshops,
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.
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| Outline: |
The following is an approximate outline
describing the major items that we expect to cover in this workshop:
VINT: goals, accomplishments, status (Kevin/Kannan) ns architecture/history/perspective (Kevin) Target audience, workshop outline (Kevin) ns Major components (high-level) (Kevin) Software structure, status (high-level) (Kevin) A simple example simulation (Kevin) Kits / Modules / ??? (simulation resources for researchers) BASIC simulator, scheduler, packets (Kevin) topology, nodes, links, routing (Kannan) protocols, agents, queues (Kevin) math, stats, monitors, traces (Kevin) EMULATION (Kevin) DEVELOPER OTcl/C++ Linkage (Kannan and/or Kevin) debugging (Kannan) [break for 1/2 hr] "ADVANCED" topo gen, GT-ITM, scripts, (Kannan) traffic gen session-level stuff? --> topology and traffic generation kits Multicast and RM (Kannan) multisim, mcast routing SRM --> multicast starter kit Wireless/LANs Implementation Issues/Discussion constructing a complex object (e.g CBQ) (Kevin) ns execution performance/profiling/mem future directions and wish-lists open discussion |
| Kevin's slides | 1 slide per page | 4 slides per page |
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| Kevin's slides | 1 slide per page | 4 slides per page |
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| Kannan's slides | 1 slide per page | 4 slides per page |