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Call for Papers

Scope

OMNeT++ is a public-source, component-based, modular and open-architecture simulation environment with strong GUI support and an embeddable simulation kernel. Its primary application area is the simulation of communication networks. Because of its generic and flexible architecture it has been successfully used in other areas like the simulation of IT systems, queuing networks, hardware architectures, and business processes. OMNeT++ is rapidly becoming a popular simulation platform in the scientific community as well as in industrial settings. Several open source simulation models have been published, in the field of Internet simulations (IP, IPv6, MPLS, etc), mobility and ad-hoc simulations and other areas. However, such a growing community faces also growing challenges and problems: Integration of different simulation tools, porting of simulation models between different platforms, testing and comparison of applications. Different initiatives were started in the last years for unifying and integrating the already existing simulation models, which involves however also organization and coordination among the different user groups. An important task is making the existing tools and applications easily available.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together OMNeT++ users and their tools, applications and ideas. It intends to provide a forum for presentations of recent developments and novel ideas in the broad context of network simulation with focus on OMNeT++. It will bring together researchers to focus on the important topics of integrating simulation models, coupling different simulation tools, providing better modeling approaches, and contributing to the active modeling and simulation community with respect to identifying some of the most promising candidate solution methods, architectures and techniques to address the various challenges of network simulation. The benefits are two-fold: On the one hand OMNeT++ users get into direct discussion and on the other hand they can meet with developers. Furthermore, the developers can pick up ideas for the future development.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Parallel simulation
Simulation control
Result interpretation and analysis
Debugging
Simulation in the loop
Modeling techniques
Coupling with other simulation/emulation tools
Integration of hardware-specific code
Cross-layer protocol design methodologies
Mobility models
Simulation of wireless networks
Industrial applications
Use of OMNeT++ in other domains

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages, or short papers of up to 3 pages, in ACM conference proceedings format. All accepted papers will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. Detailed submission instructions, together with format files, are available on the website.

Workshop co-chairs:

Andras Varga, Simulcraft Inc.
Falko Dressler, Univ. Erlangen
Andreas Willig, TU Berlin

TPC chair:

Cristina Comaniciu, Stevens Inst.

TPC vice-chair:

Christoph Sommer, Univ. Erlangen
Anna Förster, Univ. Lugano
Andreas Köpke, TU Berlin

Publicity co-chairs:

Isabel Dietrich, Univ. Erlangen
Daniel Willkomm, TU Berlin

Program committee:

Ingmar Baumgart, TU Karlsruhe
Roland Bless, TU Karlsruhe
Cristina Comaniciu, Stevens Inst.
Isabel Dietrich, Univ. Erlangen
Thomas Dreibholz, Univ. Duisburg
Falko Dressler, Univ. Erlangen
Anna Förster, Univ. Lugano
Patrick Haeflinger, Alcatel-Lucent
Raja Jurdak, UCD Dublin
Andreas Köpke, TU Berlin
Andreas Lagemann, TU Cottbus
Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST
Gregory M.P. O'Hare, UCD Dublin
Tom Parker, TU Delft
Dan Pescaru, Univ. of Timisoara
Alfonso A. Quintana, Univ. Málaga
Antonio G. Ruzzelli, UCD Dublin
Günter Schäfer, TU Ilmenau
Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash Univ.
Christoph Sommer, Univ. Erlangen
Michael Tuexen, FH Muenster
Andras Varga, Simulcraft Inc.
Klaus Wehrle, Univ. of Aachen
Andreas Willig, TU Berlin
Daniel Willkomm, TU Berlin
Martina Zitterbart, TU Karlsruhe

Important Dates (all deadlines are 23:59 MET)

Full paper: December 16, 2007 (EXTENDED deadline!)
Notification: January 15, 2008
Final version: February 1, 2008