in collaboration with
ACM/SIGSIM

April 14 - 17, 2008

Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel
Ottawa, Canada

Group Code for Reservations: SMS

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General Chair
Dr. Hassan Rajaei
Bowling Green State University, USA
 

Vice General Chair
Gabriel A. Wainer
Carleton University,  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  

Program Chair
Michael J. Chinni
US ARMY - RDECOM - ARDEC
    

Tutorials Chair
Prof. Axel Lehmann
Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
  

Poster Chair
Abdolreza Abhari
Ryerson University,  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  

Awards Chair
Dr. Maurice J. Ades
Westinghouse Savannah River Company, USA
  

Exhibits & Publicity Chair
David Long
SAGETEA Group
  

Sponsored by
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
P.O. Box 17900
San Diego, CA  92177-7900
Tel: 858-277-3888
Fax: 858-277-3930
E-mail: scs@scs.org
http://www.scs.org

in collaboration with
ACM/SIGSIM

Spring Simulation Multiconference 2008 (SpringSim'08)

11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS)

Final Program

General Chairs:

• Dr. Aftab Ahmad, Norfolk State University, USA
• Arnold Bragg, RTI International

Program Chair:

• Hala ElAarag, Stetson University, USA

Program-at-a-Glance

• Opening Address: Aftab Ahmad, CNS'08 chair
  • Announcements of Best paper award and CNS'09 chairs
• Session 1: Modeling, Verification and Validation
  • Session Chair: Hala ElAarag, Stetson University, USA
• Session 2: Sensor and Wireless Networks
  • Session Chair: Arnold Bragg, RTI International, USA
• Session 3: Simulation Methods
  • Session Chair: Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University, USA
• Tutorial: The Network Simulator NS3, part I
  • George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Tutorial: The Network Simulator NS3, part II
  • George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Session 4: Quality of Service
  • Session Chair: Max Ehammer, University of Salzburg, Austria
• Session 5: Advanced Communication Methodologies
  • Session Chair: Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Resaerch Lab, NY, USA
• Session 6: Internet Modeling and Simulation
  • Session Chair: Abdolrezza Abhari, Ryerson University, Canada
• Session 7: Advanced Networking Frameworks
  • Session Chair: Mohiuddin Ahmed, International Islamic University, Malaysia
• Session 8: Wireless Networks
  • Session Chair: Lev Sofman, Alcatel-Lucent North America, USA
• Session 9: Performance Modeling
  • Session Chair: Yelena Rykalova, Boston University

• Monday, April 14, 2008; 10:15 - 10:30; Opening Address
  Aftab Ahmad, CNS'08 chair
  • Announcements of Best paper award and CNS'09 chairs
     
• Monday, April 14, 2008; 10:30 - 12:00; Session 1: Modeling, Verification and Validation
  Session Chair: Hala ElAarag, Stetson University, USA
  • Interconnection Networks with Heterogeneous Activity or Finite Buffers: Beyond Jackson's Theorem
    • Yelena Rykalova, Lev B. Levitin and Richard Brower; Boston University, USA
  • Exact Planning of GMPLS-Based Transport Networks with Conversion and Regeneration Capabilities
    • Nabil Naas and Hussein Mouftah; University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Sniffing Out Correct Error Frame Model of ns-2 Simulator
    • JengFarn Lee and MengChang Chen; National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
  • A Comparison of TCP Behaviour at High Speeds Using ns-2 and Linux
    • Martin Bateman, Saleem Bhatti, Greg Bigwood, Devan Rehunathan, Colin Allison, Tristan Henderson; University of St Andrews, UK
    • Dimitrios Miras, University College London, UK
       
• Monday, April 14, 2008; 1:30 - 3:00; Session 2: Sensor and Wireless Networks
  Session Chair: Arnold Bragg; RTI International, USA
  • A Simulation Framework for Camera Sensor Networks Research
    • Faisal Qureshi; University of Toronto
    • Demetri Terzopoulos; University of California Los Angeles
  • An Ad-hoc Network Based Framework for Monitoring Brain Function
    • Salah Sharieh, Alexander Ferwon, Vladislav Toronov and Abdolreza Abhari; Ryerson University
  • Multi-path Channel Estimation Methods for UMTS TDD
    • HACHAICHI CHAIEB hela; Ecole Natione d'Ingenieurs de Tunis, Tunisia
       
• Monday, April 14, 2008; 3:30 - 5:00; Session 3: Simulation Methods
  Session Chair: Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University, USA
  • Real time simulation model to test small scale fading effect for wideband systems
    • Saqer Alhloul; Anglia Ruskin University, UK
  • A Quantitative Study of Recency and Frequency based Web Cache Replacement Strategies
    • Sam Romano and Hala ElAarag; Stetson University, USA
  • Optimal Cache Partitioning in IPTV Network
    • Lev Sofman, Bill Krogfoss and Anshul Agrawal; Alcatel-Lucent, USA
       
• Tuesday April 15, 2008; 8:30-10:00; Tutorial: The Network Simulator NS3, part I
  • George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology
     
• Tuesday April 15, 2008; 10:30-12:00; Tutorial: The Network Simulator NS3, part II
  • George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology
     
• Tuesday April 15, 2008; 1:30-3:00; Session 4: Quality of Service
  Session Chair: Max Ehammer, University of Salzburg, Austria
  • A pricing strategy for campus networks
    • Hong Li; NYC College of Technology, CUNY
    • Hsinrong Wei; Baruch College, CUNY
    • Marcos Pinto; NYC College of Technology, USA
  • Restoration Objectives for Internet Backbone Links
    • Qiang Ye; University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
    • Mike MacGregor; University of Alberta, Canada
  • QoS-LI: QoS Loss Inference in Disadvantaged Networks - Part II
    • Vidyaraman Sankaranarayanan, Shambhu Upadhyaya, University at Buffalo, USA
    • Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Labs, USA
        
• Tuesday April 15, 2008; 3:30-5:00; Session 5: Advanced Communication Methodologies
  Session Chair: Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Resaerch Lab, NY, USA
  • Distributed Lightpath Control and Management Simulator for Survivable Wavelength-Routing Networks
    • Emad Alsukhni and Hussein Mouftah; University of Ottawa, Canada
  • First Response Communication Sandbox
    • Dirk Bradler, Immanuel Schweizer, Kamill Panitzek and Max Mühlhäuser; University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany
  • A Testbed for Performance Analysis of 'See-What-I-See' Video Calls and Quality Feedback
    • Omneya Issa and Jean-Charles Gregoire; IIT, Montreal, Canada
       
• Wednesday April 16, 2008; 8:30-10:00; Session 6: Internet Modeling and Simulation
  Session Chair: Abdolrezza Abhari, Ryerson University, Canada
  • Simulation and Performance Evaulation of AMR-WB with Adaptive Rate Control for VoIP on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
    • Hongqi Zhang, Jiying Zhao and Oliver Yang; University of Ottawa, Canada
  • CPU dimensioning on performance of Asterisk VoIP PBX
    • Mohiuddin Ahmed and Abdul Malik Mansor; International Islamic University, Malaysia
  • A Shared- Edit &View Web-Based Simulation Framework
    • Hassan Rajaei; Bowling Green State University, USA
        
• Wednesday April 16, 2008; 10:30-12:00; Session 7: Advanced Networking Frameworks
  Session Chair: Mohiuddin Ahmed, International Islamic University, Malaysia
  • TraCI: An Interface for Coupling Road Traffic and Network Simulators
    • Axel Wegener, Horst Hellbrück, Stefan Fischer; University of Luebeck, Germany
    • Michal Piorkowski, Maxim Raya, Jean-Pierre Hubaux; EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
  • OvlVis: Visualization of Peer-to-Peer networks in simulation and testbed environments
    • Konrad Juenemann and Jochen Dinger; University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
  • A Generic Framework for Measuring Performance Metrics of Network Protection Algorithms
    • Sadrul Habib Chowdhury and Oliver W W Yang; University of Ottawa, Canada
        
• Wednesday April 16, 2008; 1:30-3:00; Session 8: Wireless Networks
  Session Chair: Lev Sofman, Alcatel-Lucent North America, USA
  • Simulation Based Performance Evaluation of ICI Mitigation Schemes for Broadband Wireless Access Networks
    • Xueqin Xiang; Tongji University, Shanghai, China
    • Yusheng Ji; The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
    • Fuqiang Liu; Tongji University, Shanghai, China
  • Performance Analysis of Quality of Service in IEEE 802.11e Wireless LANs
    • Fei Peng; University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Applying SOA Concepts to the Simulation of Aeronautical Wireless Communication
    • Max Ehammer, Thomas Graeupl and Carl Herbert Rokitansky; University of Salzburg, Austria
        
• Wednesday April 16, 2008; 3:30-5:00; Session 9: Performance Modeling
  Session Chair: Yelena Rykalova, Boston University
  • Delay Analysis of Real-Time Data Dissemination
    • Gidon Gershinsky, Avi Harpaz, Nir Naaman, Harel Paz and Konstantin Shagin; IBM Haifa Research Laboratory
  • Suboptimal Real Time Congestion Control of TCP Flows in Computer Networks
    • NasirUddin Ahmed and Xuhua Ouyang; University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Modeling Host-based Detection and Active Worm Containment
    • Frank Akujobi, Ioannis Lambadaris and Evangelos Kranakis; Carleton University, Canada