********    NSTOOLS 2009   *********
                    ****  Call for Papers  ****

          International Workshop on Network Simulation Tools
                 Pisa, Italy / October 19, 2009
                      http://www.nstools.org/

           **** Submission Deadline  -- June 10, 2009 ****

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 The Network Simulation Tools Workshop (NSTools) is a one-day event
 held in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on
 Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS'09), which
 will be held in Pisa, Italy, on October 19, 2009.

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 **  SCOPE  **

 Simulation tools have been widely used in the Networking community.
 Some simulators have gained big popularity and are used as a validation
 of analytical results and proposed protocols.
 A lot of research is based on the validity of these simulation tools.

 In order to improve credibility on simulations results it is important 
 that the networking community that uses simulation discusses and applies
 some rules that allow repeateability 
 and accuracy.

 The aim of this Network Simulation Tools workshop is to bring
 together academic and industry researchers from the communities of
 Networking, 
 Simulation and Statistics to discuss current and future trends
 in network simulation.

 The workshop is interested in particular in open-source simulators such as
 NS2 and NS3, which have been in the center of the previous workshops 
 (WNS2 2006, NSTools 2007, WNS2 2008) as well as Omnet++.

 **  PAPERS  **

 This workshop does NOT focus on network research results based on
 the USE of simulation tools: we are looking for original contributions
 on the design, validation and performance evaluation of the tools
 themselves. 
 The following topics are of particular interest:

 Development of new simulation environments:

     - new network simulators.
     - experimental test-beds for simulation validation.
     - integrating post-processing and statistical analysis in
 simulators.
     - large-scale network simulations.
     - simulation accuracy evaluations. 
     - statistical analysis tools.

 Others topics:
    
     - comparison of network simulators.
     - interaction between simulation environments.
     - frameworks for improving accuracy and reproductibility of
 simulations.
     - validation of simulators behaviour with experimentation and real
 data from implementations.

   
 **  IMPORTANT DATES  **

 Full Papers due:               June 10, 2009
 Notification of Acceptance:    July 10, 2009
 Camera-ready Manuscripts due:  July 25, 2009
 Conference Date:               October 19, 2009

 **  SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS  **

 Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged
 to submit a PDF version of the full paper in the ACM conference
 proceedings format, which are limited to 10 two-column pages in a
 font no smaller than 10-points. Submitted papers should be uploaded 
 through the Easychair conference management system.

 **  PUBLICATION  **

 All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All
 accepted papers will be made available in Association for Computing
 Machinery (ACM) Digital Library.

 **  WORKSHOP CHAIR  **

 Tania Jimenez, Univ. of Avignon, France

 **  TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE  **

Ahmad Al Hanbali, Univ. of Twente, Holland
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France
Tomas Barros, NIC labs, Chile
Claudio Cicconetti, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Olivier Dalle, INRIA, France
Ralph El-Khoury, Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik, Lebanon
Tom Henderson, Univ. of Washington, USA
Alain Jean-Marie, INRIA, France
Lars Michael Kristense, Bergen University College, Norway
Mathieu Lacage, INRIA, France
Nicolas Montavont, Telecom Bretagne, France
Georgios Paschos, CERTH, Greece. 
George Riley, Georgia Tech, USA
Julio Rojas-Mora, Univ. of Avignon, France
David Ros, Telecom Bretagne, France
Christoph Sommer, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Giorgio Tonella, Univ. Los Andes, Venezuela
Vilmos Simon, Budapest Univ of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Gabriel Wainer, Carleton Univ, Canada
Michele Weigle, Old Dominion Univ, USA