QoSim 2009 - QoSim 2009 2nd International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet

QoSim 2009
2nd International Workshop on the
Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation
in the Future Internet

- Held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2009 -

!!! Submission deadline extended to November 30, 2008 !!!


The second International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet (QoSim) is a one-day event held in conjunction with the Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTOOLS 2009), which will be held in Rome, Italy, on March 2-6, 2009.

Simulation has long been the primary evaluation tool used by the networking community for supporting the design and tuning of protocols, architectures and applications. During the last years, the wide-scale deployment of wireless access and the emerging of new access technologies, such as 802.16, Beyond 3G cellular packet systems, and Wireless Mesh Networks, as well as the ever-increasing popularity of applications requiring Quality of Service (QoS), such as Voice over IP and video streaming, have made the thorough and sound assessment of QoS a challenging but indispensable task for the evolution towards a future Internet. Furthermore, emerging user-centric and service-oriented network paradigms require new definitions of QoS and service attributes, closer to the user perception, as well as new simulation models to assess them. Last, but not least, new research directions in networking architectures, advocating a long-term disruptive or ¡°clean slate¡± (re-)design of the Internet, also demand new simulation tools and techniques to prove the feasibility and assess the performance of the proposed solutions.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry researchers and practitioners from both the networking and the simulation communities to discuss current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices for the Future Internet and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. The workshop values both theoretical and practical research contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Emerging access technologies (WiMax, 3.5G, Wireless Mesh Networks, 802.11x, etc.)
Disruptive network paradigms (bio-inspired, autonomic, opportunistic networking, etc.)
Multi-layer network architectures
Cross-layer simulation
End-to-end simulation of heterogeneous, mobile and multi-domain networks
Fluid-flow simulation for assessing QoS in large scale networks
New and emerging services and applications
QoS negotiation, service chain negotiation and Service Level Agreements
QoS components (scheduling algorithms, admission control schemes, QoS routing and traffic engineering schemes, etc.)
Scalability analysis
Traffic modeling
All accepted papers will be made available in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library

Best papers, after further reviews, will be considered for publication in a special issue of Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation, International.