QOSIM

The second International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet (QoSim) is a one-day event held in conjunction with the Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTOOLS 2009), which will be held in Rome, Italy, on March 2-6, 2009.

Simulation has long been the primary evaluation tool used by the networking community for supporting the design and tuning of protocols, architectures and applications. During the last years, the wide-scale deployment of wireless access and the emerging of new access technologies, such as 802.16, Beyond 3G cellular packet systems, and Wireless Mesh Networks, as well as the ever-increasing popularity of applications requiring Quality of Service (QoS), such as Voice over IP and video streaming, have made the thorough and sound assessment of QoS a challenging but indispensable task for the evolution towards a future Internet. Furthermore, emerging user-centric and service-oriented network paradigms require new definitions of QoS and service attributes, closer to the user perception, as well as new simulation models to assess them. Last, but not least, new research directions in networking architectures, advocating a long-term disruptive or “clean slate” (re-)design of the Internet, also demand new simulation tools and techniques to prove the feasibility and assess the performance of the proposed solutions.