For several years, the IKR Simulation Library has been intensively used in various fields of communications research, e.g. on photonic, IP, ATM, and mobile networks. The following list shows its flexible and successful application in various research projects, including selected publications.

High-speed, photonic networks

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• Selected Publications
  QoS in Optical Burst Switched Networks - A new Performance Analysis of the Assured Horizon Framework
  Evaluation of reservation mechanisms for optical burst switching
  Optimized Combination of Converter Pools and FDL Buffers for Contention Resolution in Optical Burst Switching
  Comparison of Contention Resolution Strategies in OBS Network Scenarios
  Performance analysis of the CSMA/CA MAC protocol in the DBORN optical MAN network architecture
  Dimensioning of SDH/WDM Multilayer Networks
  Dynamic routing and resource allocation in WDM transport networks

Mobile communication networks

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  Protocol Interference between Up- and Downlink Channels in HSDPA
  A simple model for the IP packet service time in UMTS networks
  Performance of TCP and HTTP Proxies in UMTS Networks
  Impact of GPRS on the signalling of a GSM-based network
  Designing Macroscopic Diversity Cellular Systems
  User Modelling and Performance Evaluation of Distributed Location Management for Personal Communications Services

TCP/IP and ATM networks

• Selected Publications
  The Sensitivity of TCP to Sudden Delay Variations in Mobile Networks
  A new scheduling mechanism to provide relative differentiation for real-time IP traffic
  Evaluation of effective bandwidth schemes for self-similar traffic
  A simulation study on traffic aggregation in multi-service networks
  A Detailed Experimental Performance Evaluation of TCP over UBR
  Traffic Management in an ATM Multi-Service Switch for Workgroups

Automotive Networks

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  Modeling and Performance Evaluation of a Manual Logon System for Electronic Fee Collection
  Building a hierarchical CAN simulator using an object-oriented environment

IKR SimLib Design

• Selected Publications
  An object-oriented library for simulation of complex hierarchical systems
  IKREmuLib: A Library for Seamless Integration of Simulation and Emulation [an error occurred while processing this directive]
  VMSimInt: A Network Simulation Tool Supporting Integration of Arbitrary Kernels and Applications

Reference Scenarios for Transport Networks Research

Results of network planning and performance evaluation studies carried out by different research groups are only comparable if they are based on the same or at least similar network scenarios. Therefore, the MultiTeraNet project partners T-Systems Nova, Marconi ONDATA GmbH and the University of Stuttgart have defined following three different optical transport network reference scenarios.

• a hypothetical German backbone network
• a pan-European network defined in European COST 266 project among other networks and denoted as basic network (BN).
• a US network based on a former NSF network topology which has been used in many studies that have been published over the last couple of years

The reference scenarios are defined in terms of network and traffic parameters. Detailed information on each of the networks including cable length and traffic matrices as well as sample dimensioning results can be found in the appendix.

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