Workshop on
Models, Methods and Tools
for Reproducible Network Research (MoMeTools)

Karlsruhe, Germany, August 25, 2003
In conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM 2003




Workshop on Models, Methods and Tools for Reproducible Network Research (MoMeTools)


Preliminary Workshop Program

Monday, August 25

09:00-09:10 Opening remarks
Georg Carle, Hartmut Ritter and Klaus Wehrle

09:10-09:45 Invited Talk:
Jay Lepreau
, University of Utah

09:45-10:30 Session 1: TOOLS
  • The Georgia Tech Network Simulator
  • George Riley (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Multi-Protocol Visualization. A Tool Demonstration
  • James Hall, Andrew Moore, Ian Pratt, Ian Leslie (Unversity of Cambridge)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 2: TOPOLOGY MODELLING
  • Extending and Enhancing GT-ITM
  • K. Calvert, J. Eagan, S. Merugu, A. Namjoshi, J. Stasko, E. Zegura (University of Kentucky / Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • On Realistic Network Topologies for Simulation
  • Oliver Heckmann, Michael Piringer, Jens Schmitt, Ralf Steinmetz (Darmstadt University of Technology)
  • Internet Connectivity at the AS-level: An Optimization-Driven Modeling Approach
  • Hyunseok Chang, Sugih Jamin, Walter Willinger (University of Michigan / AT&T Labs-Research)

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Session 3: IMPROVING NETWORK SIMULATION
  • Considering Processing Cost in Network Simulations
  • Ramswamy Ramaswamy, Ning Weng, Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts)
  • TCPivo: A High-Performance Packet Replay Engine
  • Wu-chang Feng, Ashvin Goel, Abdelmajid Bezzaz, Wu-chi Feng, Jonathan Walpole (OGI @ OHSU)

14:30-15:15 Session 4: MODELLING THE INTERNET
  • On Characterizing Affinity and Its Impact on Network Performance
  • Gabriel Lucas, Abhishek Ghose, John Chuang (University of California at Berkeley)
  • A Tool for RApid Model Parameterization and its Applications
  • Kun-chan Lan, John Heidemann (USC/ISI)

15:15-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-16:30 Session 5: MEASUREMENTS AND TESTBEDS
  • A framework for interpreting measurement over Internet
  • Kave Salamatian, Serge Fdida (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
  • vBET: a VM-Based Emulation Testbed
  • Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu (Purdue University, West Lafayette)

16:30-17:00 Session 6: LESSIONS LEARNT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS