QoSim 2008
1st International Workshop on the
Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation
in the Future Internet
- Held in conjunction with
SIMUTools 2008 -
Presentation and Scope
The first 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 First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTOOLS
2008), which will be held in Marseille, France, on March 3, 2008.
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. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for a journal special issue.
