Welcome to the Modeling and Networking Systems Research Group

Current Projects

• Parallel Real-time Immersive network Modeling Environment (PRIME).
• Aquatic Network Experimentation Testbed (AQUANET).
• Performance Realization, Evaluation, and Simulation Testbed for Applications with Grid Enablement (PRESTAGE).
• Superscaling Network Emulation.
• Realistic, Scalable and Flexible Testbed for Large Scale Routing Experiments.
• Distributed Virtual Testbed for High-Speed TCP Variants.
• Internal Project TWiki Page (group member only).

Recent Publications

• SVEET! A scalable virtualized evaluation environment for TCP, Miguel Erazo, Yue Li, and Jason Liu, The 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom'09).
• A fluid background traffic model, Ting Li and Jason Liu, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09).
• Real-Time Security Exercises on a Realistic Interdomain Routing Experiment Platform, Yue Li, Michael Liljenstam, and Jason Liu, 23rd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'09).
• Model-driven network emulation with virtual time machine, Jason Liu and Raju Rangaswami, unpublished manuscript.
• Real-time network simulation support for scalable routing experiments, Yue Li, Jason Liu, and Raju Rangaswami, International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling. To appear. (This is an extended journal paper of our PADS'08 paper, with new large-scale routing experiments conducted on OpenVZ.)
• A real-time network simulation infrastructure based on OpenVPN, Jason Liu, Yue Li, Nathanael Van Vorst, Scott Mann, Keith Hellman, Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software. To appear. (This is an extended journal paper of our INFOCOM'07 paper, with a new performance analysis of the software infrastructure and a new case study of using the software infrastructure to conduct routing experiments.)
• Immersive real-time large-scale network simulation: a research summary, Jason Liu, NSFNGS Workshop, in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'08), Miami, FL, April 14-18, 2008.
• Toward scalable routing experiments with real-time network simulation, Yue Li, Jason Liu, and Raju Rangaswami. 22nd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'08), Rome, Italy, June 3-6, 2008.
• Interval branching, Patrick Peschlow, Peter Martini, and Jason Liu. 22nd Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'08), Rome, Italy, June 3-6, 2008.
• A primer for real-time simulation of large-scale networks, Jason Liu, 41st Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS'08), part of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference, Ottawa, Canada. April 14-16, 2008. pp. 85-94.
• On the performance of a hybrid network traffic model, Jason Liu and Yue Li, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory. 16(6):656-669, 2008.
• Parallel hybrid network traffic models, Jason Liu and Yue Li, SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International. To appear. (This is an extended journal paper of our PADS'07 paper.)
• Parallel simulation of hybrid network traffic models, Jason Liu. 21st ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS'07), San Diego, CA, June 12-15, 2007.
• An open and scalable emulation infrastructure for large-scale real-time network simulations, Jason Liu, Scott Mann, Nathanael Van Vorst, and Keith Hellman. INFOCOM 2007 MiniSymposium, Anchorage, Alaska, May 6-12, 2007. (Here's an extended version of this paper.)
• Packet-level integration of fluid TCP models in real-time network simulation, Jason Liu. 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'06), Monterey, CA, December 2-5, 2006.

Current Participants

• Jason Liu, faculty.
• Raju Rangaswami, faculty.
• Yue Li, Postdoc student.
• Miguel Erazo, Ph.D. student.
• Ting Li, Ph.D. student.
• Nathanael Van Vorst, Ph.D. student.
• Ying He, visiting Ph.D. student.