The meeting ran from 9:00am to 5:00pm or 5:30pm, Eastern Daylight Time.

Monday, June 26: NR Sidelink and V2X tutorials and discussions

09:00-10:30 EDT, Tutorial: Recent Updates to NR Sidelink Sensing, Scheduling, and HARQ Models, Tom Henderson (University of Washington) and Samantha Gamboa (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)/Prometheus Computing); slides; video

11:00-12:30, Tutorial: NR C-V2X: ns-3 Operations, Validation, and Experimentation, Liu Cao and Collin Brady (University of Washington); slides; video

13:30-15:00, Tutorial: Proximity Services (ProSe) Support for 5G NR Simulations, Aziza Ben Mosbah and Samantha Gamboa (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)/Prometheus Computing); slides; simulation commands; video

15:30-17:30, Panel discussion on 5G sidelink: Panelists will share their experiences or plans with 5G sidelink simulations, testbeds, or other related engineering activities.

Organizers: Sumit Roy (University of Washington) and Richard Rouil (NIST)

Panelists:

  • Tugba Erpek, representing the National Spectrum Consortium Working Group on Sidelink
  • Vijitha Weerackody (JHU-APL)
  • DJ Shyy (MITRE)
  • Viji Raveendran (Qualcomm)
  • Bo Ryu (EpiSci)

Tuesday, June 27: Various meetings, invited talks, and tutorials

9:00-10:00 EDT, Tutorial: Bridging ns-3 and O-RAN: a tutorial on ns-O-RAN, Andrea Lacava and Michele Polese (Northeastern University); slides; video

10:30-12:30, Invited talks: Invited talks related to AI/ML-based integrations with ns-3

  • NetAIGym: Democratizing “Network AI” Research & Development via Simulation-as-a-Service, Jing Zhu (Intel); slides; video
  • Integration of Machine Learning with ns-3: Challenges and Opportunities, Eduardo Nuno Almeida (INESC TEC and Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal); slides; video
  • Multi-BSS Wi-Fi Simulations in ns-3, Sumit Roy (University of Washington); slides; video

13:30-14:00, Invited talk: Signal Processing with NS3, Dr. Colin Funai, Dr. Bishal Thapa (Raytheon BBN)

14:00-15:00: Meeting with US National Science Foundation and industry regarding next steps for ns-3 funding

  • NSF: Thyaga Nandagopal, Deep Medhi, Chaitanya Baru
  • DoD: Mark Norton (ANSER)
  • Federal Labs: Vijitha Weerakody and Kent Benson (Johns Hopkins APL)
  • University participants: Sumit Roy, Tom Henderson (UW), Lingjia Liu (Virginia Tech), Michele Polese (Northeastern), others TBD
  • Company participants: Colin Funai (Raytheon BBN), Carlos Cordeiro (Intel), Marcos Martinez Vasquez (MaxLinear)

15:30-16:00: Invited talk: Using ns-3 for research on NTN, reinforcement learning-based scheduling, UAV networking, IPC, and dynamic spectrum access, Dr. Lingjia Liu and students (Virginia Tech)

16:00-17:00: Tutorial: Updates to the ns-3 NetSimulyzer, Evan Black (NIST)

Wednesday, June 28: WNS3 paper presentations and lightning talks

All papers awarded with the ACM Artifacts Evaluated badge are indicated with the badge symbol. Four papers were also credited with having exemplary artifacts.

Introductions and keynote talk (9:00-10:00 EDT)

Keynote: Michael Welzl, University of Oslo: A TCP person’s ns-3 experience report; video; slides

Abstract: I’m a TCP insider but an ns-3 outsider. A few years ago, I decided to use ns-3 for the first time because it seemed to be the best tool for my purposes - more suitable than ns-2, which I am used to, or real-life tests. This talk will get into both the good and bad sides of my ns-3 experience. First, I will elaborate on difficulties in getting a TCP “Hello World” to work, which, I hope, will shine a constructive light on possible improvements of either the code or the documentation, or both. Then, I will describe what we eventually managed to pull off with ns-3’s emulation capabilities, which I personally found to be an astounding testament of this simulator’s abilities. This talk will end with a look at the role that ns-3 could play for the future of TCP (and related) research.

Paper Session 1 (10:00-10:30): MIMO

Session chair: Yuchen Liu

  • badge Matteo Pagin, Sandra Lagén, Biljana Bojović, Michele Polese and Michele Zorzi, Improving the efficiency of MIMO simulations in ns-3; video; slides

Paper Session 2 (11:00-12:30): Channel Modeling

Session chair: Helder Fontes

  • badge Jingyuan Zhang and Douglas M. Blough, Implementation and Evaluation of IEEE 802.11ax Channel Sounding Frame Exchange in ns-3; video; slides

  • Hitesh Poddar, Tomoki Yoshimura, Matteo Pagin, Theodore S Rappaport, Art Ishii and Michele Zorzi, ns-3 Implementation of Sub-Terahertz and MillimeterWave Drop-based NYU Channel Model (NYUSIM); video; slides

  • Mattia Sandri, Matteo Pagin, Marco Giordani and Michele Zorzi, Implementation of a Channel Model for Non-Terrestrial Networks in ns-3; video; slides

Paper Session 3 (13:30-15:00): 5G and THz communications

Session chair: Manuel Ricardo

  • badge Andrea Lacava, Matteo Bordin, Michele Polese, Rajarajan Sivaraj, Tommaso Zugno, Francesca Cuomo and Tommaso Melodia, ns-O-RAN: Simulating O-RAN 5G Systems in ns-3; video; slides

  • badge Katerina Koutlia, Sandra Lagen and Biljana Bojovic, Enabling QoS Provisioning Support for Delay-Critical Traffic and Multi-Flow Handling in ns-3 5G-LENA; video; slides

  • badge Farhan Siddiqui and Bikash Mazumdar Link Discovery Extension to NS-3’s Terahertz Communication Module; video; slides

Short Papers and Invited Talk (15:30-17:00)

Session chair: Michael Welzl

  • Liu Cao, Lyutianyang Zhang and Sumit Roy, Efficient PHY Layer Abstraction for 5G NR Sidelink in ns-3; video; slides

  • badge (Exemplary Artifacts) Juan V. Leon Rosas, Thomas R. Henderson and Sumit Roy, Verification of ns-3 Wi-Fi Rate Adaptation Models on AWGN Channels; video; slides

  • Aditya R. Rudra, Sharvani Laxmi Somayaji, Satvik Singh, Saurabh Dhananjay Mokashi, Abhinaba Rakshit, Dayma Khan and Mohit P. Tahiliani, Linux-like Socket Statistics Utility for ns-3; video; slides

Invited talk: From Traces to Transformation: Leveraging ns-3 as a Digital Twin for Next-generation Networks, Helder Fontes (INESC TEC and Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal); video; slides

Thursday, June 29: WNS3 paper presentations and lightning talks

Lightning Talks (09:00-10:30 EDT)

Session chair: Yuchen Liu

session video

  • Alberto Gallegos Ramonet, Extending and Improving Personal Area Networks on ns-3; slides

  • Gabriel Ferreira, ns-3 Performance and the SPEC CPUv8 Benchmark Suite; slides

  • Gabriel Ferreira, Pip Packaging and Educational Use of ns-3; slides

  • Jared Ivey, Towards Efficient Distributed Simulation of Next-Generation Wireless Use Cases in ns-3; slides

  • Ang Deng, A Mobility Model Incorporating Obstacle Avoidance For Evaluation of Proactive Scheduling Algorithms in the mmWave Band; slides

  • Gongbing Hong, ns-3 Implementation of ABB CoDel Queue Discipline; slides

Paper Session 4 (11:00-12:30): Machine Learning and Applications

Session chair: Alberto Gallegos

  • badge (Exemplary Artifacts) Wesley Garey, Tanguy Ropitault, Richard Rouil, Evan Black and Weichao Gao, O-RAN with Machine Learning in ns-3; slides

  • (Awarded Best Paper) badge (Exemplary Artifacts) Eduardo Nuno Almeida, Helder Fontes, Rui Campos and Manuel Ricardo, Position-Based Machine Learning Propagation Loss Model Enabling Fast Digital Twins of Wireless Networks in ns-3; video; slides

  • Peter Detzner, Jana Gödeke, Lars Tönning, Patrick Laskowski, Maximilian Hörstrup, Oliver Stolz, Marius Brehler and Sören Kerner, SOLA: A Decentralized Communication Middleware Developed with ns-3; slides

Paper Session 5 (13:30-15:00) Network and IoT models

Session chair: Eduardo Almeida

  • badge (Exemplary Artifacts) Shengjie Shu, Wenjun Yang, Jianping Pan and Lin Cai, A Multipath Extension to the QUIC Module for ns-3; video; slides

  • Rui Pedro Monteiro and João Marco Silva, Flexcomm Simulator: Exploring Energy Flexibility in Software Defined Networks with ns-3; video; slides

  • badge Alberto Gallegos Ramonet, Alexander Guzman Urbina and Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Evaluation and extension of ns-3 battery framework; video; slides

Outbrief on WNS3 Artifacts Review (15:30-15:45)

Ns-3 Consortium Annual Meeting (15:45-17:00)

The annual business meeting of the ns-3 Consortium.

Friday, June 30: Maintainer and software development discussions

Friday will be an informal day (mainly for in-person attendees, but a Zoom meeting is provided for remote attendees). There is no registration needed for this day. A wiki page will be used to list the agenda and meeting outcomes.