Title:   JiST - Java in Simulation Time
Speaker: Rimon Barr <barr@cs.cornell.edu>
Date:    Monday, 3 March 2003.

Wireless ad hoc networks is an active area of research that is, for
fundamental reasons, dependent on simulation. Yet, existing simulation
approaches for modeling the behaviour of wireless ad hoc networks are
often unsatisfactory. They severely limit the possible scale, level of
detail and duration of the simulation results. The JiST project is
aimed at advancing the state-of-the-art in this regard. 

JiST is a system designed for the efficient execution of discrete
event simulation programs written in a non-domain specific language,
in this case, Java. The system supports the parallel and optimistic
execution of simulation applications over an ordinary compiler and
virtual machine. Most importantly, it does so entirely transparently,
through a binary-level program transformation into "simulation time".

In this talk, I will explain the details of this transformation and
the resulting simulation programming model, present some preliminary
results regarding the efficacy of the approach and (time permitting) a
demo and, finally, discuss some possible applications of this idea and
future work.