Proceedings

The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Schedule

The virtual workshop will span five days (June 21-25) from 9am-1pm EDT (1300-1700 UTC) each day.

Monday, June 21: Tutorials

Tutorials are further described (and materials and video links provided) on the tutorial page.

1300 UTC, Tutorial 1: Tom Henderson, Using ns-3 with the Powder wireless testbed

1500 UTC, Tutorial 2: Hao Yin (University of Washington) and Pengyu Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Machine Learning in ns-3: ns3-ai module, Introduction and Hands-on Example

Tuesday, June 22: Tutorials

Tutorials are further described (and materials and video links provided) on the tutorial page.

1300 UTC, Tutorial 3: Davide Magrin, Doing Research with ns-3 and SEM

1400 UTC, Tutorial 4: Tom Henderson, How to contribute code to ns-3

1500 UTC, Tutorial 5: Sian Jin and Tom Henderson (University of Washington), Efficient PHY Layer Abstraction in ns-3: Principles and Implementation

Wednesday, June 23: Paper presentations and short talks

Paper Session 1 (1300 UTC): Wi-Fi/IoT session 1

Session Chair: Leonardo Lanante, Kyushu Institute of Technology

  • Hany Assasa, Nina Grosheva, Tanguy Ropitault, Steve Blandino, Nada Golmie and Joerg Widmer, Implementation and Evaluation of a WLAN IEEE 802.11ay Model in Network Simulator ns-3 (Awarded Best Paper); video; slides
  • Davide Magrin, Stefano Avallone, Sumit Roy and Michele Zorzi, Validation of the ns-3 802.11ax OFDMA Implementation; video; slides
  • Sian Jin, Sumit Roy and Thomas R. Henderson, EESM-log-AR: An Efficient Error Model for OFDM MIMO Systems over Time-Varying Channels in ns-3; video; slides

Paper Session 2 (1430 UTC): Wi-Fi/IoT session 2

Session Chair: Getachew Redietab, Orange

  • Yuchen Liu, Shelby Crisp and Douglas Blough, Performance Study of Statistical and Deterministic Channel Models for mmWave Wi-Fi Networks in ns-3; video; slides
  • Vitor Lamela, Helder Fontes, Jose Ruela, Manuel Ricardo and Rui Campos, Reproducible MIMO Operation in ns-3 using Trace-based Wi-Fi Rate Adaptation; video; slides
  • Martina Capuzzo, Carmen Delgado, Jeroen Famaey and Andrea Zanella, An ns-3 implementation of a battery-less node for energy-harvesting Internet of Things; video; slides

Lightning talks (1600 UTC): Session 1

Session Chair: Stefano Avallone, University of Naples Federico II

  • Luca Lusvarghi, Assessing NR-V2X Mode 2 Achievable Performance with a Custom ns-3 Module
  • Narayan G, Dhanasekar M, Shanthanu S Rai, Leslie Monis, Mohit P. Tahiliani, Validating Congestion Control Mechanisms and Queue Disciplines in ns-3 using NeST
  • Mads Smed Enggaard Thomassen, Kasper Stenholt Winkler, Davide Magrin, Michele Albano, Towards simulating the full LORAWAN protocol
  • Mohammad Afhamisis, Maria Rita Palattella, Sebastian Barillaro, Simulating a Satellite LoRaWAN Network with ns-3

Thursday, June 24: Paper presentations and short talks

Paper Session 3 (1300 UTC): 5G

Session Chair: Richard Rouil, NIST

  • Katerina Koutlia, Biljana Bojovic, Sandra Lagen and Lorenza Giupponi, Novel Radio Environment Map for the ns-3 NR Simulator; video; slides
  • Tommaso Zugno, Matteo Drago, Sandra Lagen, Zoraze Ali and Michele Zorzi, Extending the ns-3 Spatial Channel Model for Vehicular Scenarios; video; slides
  • Biljana Bojovic, Sandra Lagen and Lorenza Giupponi, Realistic beamforming design using SRS-based channel estimate for ns-3 5G-LENA module; video; slides

Paper Session 4 (1430 UTC): Applications and Tools

Session Chair: Mohit Tahiliani, NITK Surathkal

  • Mattia Lecci, Andrea Zanella and Michele Zorzi, An ns-3 Implementation of a Bursty Traffic Framework for Virtual Reality Sources; video; slides
  • Evan Black, Samantha Gamboa and Richard Rouil, NetSimulyzer: a 3D Network Simulation Analyzer for ns-3; video; slides
  • Cedrik Schüler, Manuel Patchou, Benjamin Sliwa and Christian Wietfeld, Robust Machine Learning-Enabled Routing for Highly Mobile Vehicular Networks with PARRoT in ns-3; video; slides

Lightning talks (1600 UTC): Session 2

Session Chair: Michele Polese, Northeastern University

  • Jianfei Shao, Minh Vu, Mingrui Zhang, Lisong Xu, Symbolic NS-3 for efficient exhaustive testing
  • Ben Newton, Clipping for More Efficient Large-Scale Simulations in ns-3
  • Jacob Fenger, Path towards Faster PDES of wireless networks: Load-balancing with Charades

Friday, June 25: Tutorial and consortium meeting

Tutorials are further described (and materials and video links provided) on the tutorial page.

1300 UTC, Tutorial 6: Evan Black, An Intro to the NetSimulyzer Visualizer

1500 UTC, ns-3 Consortium Annual Meeting