1. Fachgespräch Simulation and Prototyping Environments for Mobile / Wireless Research – Programm

July 13th and 14th, 2011 / UMIC Research Centre / RWTH Aachen

• On July 13th, beginning at 2 pm, all participants are invited to the UMIC open day in the UMIC building (Mies-van-der-Rohe Str. 15 , 52074 Aachen). Please register for this event by email under gross@umic.rwth-aachen.de .

• The ITG 5.2.4 organization meeting will take place on July 13th at 6 pm in the UMIC building (room to be announced).

• The social event (on own account) will take place on July 13th at 7:30 pm in the Restaurant Magellan (Pontstr. 78, 52062 Aachen, http://www.magellan-ac.de/)

• Below you find the agenda for the workshop on July 14th.

• Here we provide some information on hotels close to the UMIC research centre. The link describes hotels close to the building of Prof. Walke’s group. Note that the UMIC research centre is 300 m away from Prof. Walke’s building.

Please register your participation (UMIC open day / Social event / Workshop participation) until June 30th by email: gross@umic.rwth-aachen.de

Agenda of Open Workshop on July 14th, 2011

Location        RWTH Aachen University, UMIC Research Center
UMIC building (Mies-van-der-Rohe Str. 15, 52074 Aachen), Room 024/025

Abstracts of

8:30     Registration & Coffee

9:00     Welcome and Introduction

**            Session 1: Network Emulation & Simulation Scalability**

9:15     Approaches for evaluating the application performance of future mobile networks, Thomas Werthmann, Christian Blankenhorn, Matthias Kaschub, Christian Müller (Universität Stuttgart, IKR)

9:35     SliceTime – A platform for scalable and accurate network emulation, Elias Weingärtner (RWTH Aachen)

9:55     NET – An Integrated Emulation Environment for Mobile Network Research, Andreas Grau (Universität Stuttgart, IPVS)

10:15   Performance Prediction of Expanded Parallel Discrete Event Simulations, Georg Kunz (RWTH Aachen)

10:45   Coffee break

**            Session 2: Deployment of Models & Prototyping**

11:15   Experiences from Redeploying Simulation-based Code in the Real World, Georg Wittenburg (INRIA, France)

11:35   SANDbed: A Flexible Experiment Environment for WSN, Anton Hergenröder (KIT)

11:55   User Cooperation: Cross-Layer Prototyping and Measurements, *  Patrick Murphy & Chris Hunter (Rice University / Mango Communications)*

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12:30   Lunch Break

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Session 3: Simulation Models and Tools

14:00   An open source product-oriented LTE network simulator based on ns-3, Nicola Baldo (CTTC, Spain)

14:20   From Testbed Measurements to Realistic Simulation: Site-specific Wireless Link Modeling, Ruben Merz (T-Labs Berlin)

14:40   The AMoRE Demonstrator for Real-Time System-Level Simulation of LTE-Advanced Radio Networks, Axel Klein (NSN)

15:00   Advanced Simulation Methods for Smart Grids, Antonello Monti (RWTH Aachen)

15:30 Coffee Break

Session 4: Simulation Models and Tools II

16:00   Optimizing mobility parameters in LTE networks using real drive test measurements, Ralf Weber (Qualcomm)

16:20   Radio System Simulations in faster than realtime, Andreas Lobinger (NSN)

16:40   IMTAphy: An efficient M.2135 Spatial Channel Model and Link-to-System Mapping Implementation for System-Level Simulations of IMT-Advanced Systems, Jan Ellenbeck (TU München)

17:00   Recent EPS Implementations Using ns-3, Sandra Frei (University of Plymouth)

Closing

17:30   Conclusion & Wrap-Up

Demos/ Poster

Posters and demos will be presented during coffee and lunch breaks.

·         The AMoRE Demonstrator for Real-Time System-Level Simulation of LTE-Advanced Radio Networks, Axel Klein (NSN)

·         Parallel LTE Simulation, Georg Kunz / Donald Parruca (RWTH Aachen)

·         User Cooperation: Cross-Layer Prototyping and Measurements, Patrick Murphy / Chris Hunter (Rice University)

·         Analysis of Energy-Efficient Distributed Slotted Aloha, Haidi Yue (RWTH Aachen)

·         Analytical Validation of the IMT-A Compliant LTE-Advanced System Level Simulator openWNS, Maciej Mühleisen (RWTH Aachen)