Proceeding from the 2006 workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator

In recent years, the ns-2 simulator has become one of the de facto standards (if not the standard) for the simulation of packet-switched networks. It is widely used in both academia and industry as a means of designing, testing and evaluating new and existing protocols and architectures, and it is also a very useful tool for educational purposes.There is a huge volume of research work done with ns-2, which has appeared in many leading networking conferences and journals. However, in spite of the importance of ns-2 for the networking community, it seems that so far there has been no venue devoted to presenting, discussing and publishing research work on the simulator itself. This is the main rationale behind this Workshop on ns-2 (WNS2).This first edition of the Workshop on ns-2 (WNS2) is a one-day, singletrack event held on October 10, 2006, in conjunction with VALUETOOLS, the First International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools. The program of WNS2 covers a few select topics of interest to the ns-2 research community, such as extending and improving the wireless network simulation capabilities in ns-2, and it also offers a glimpse of things to come with the upcoming ns-3 simulation tool.The workshop received 35 full-paper submissions, of which only 10 papers were accepted after a strict reviewing process involving both the technical program committee members and external reviewers.