Networks & Communications

Track Coordinator: Christoph Sommer, University of Paderborn

The Network and Communication track focuses on technologies for modeling and simulating computer and communication networks, networked systems and applications, wireless and mobile communications, and social networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Distributed and networked applications and systems
  • Future internet architecture, clean-slate network design, software-defined networking
  • Wireless and mobile networks
  • Data center networking
  • Social networking
  • Network security, cyber defense applications
  • Traffic modeling and analysis
  • High-performance network modeling techniques
  • Large-scale network simulation
  • Network simulation tools and software
  • Network emulation, real-time simulation, online simulation, symbiotic simulation
  • Training and education