Title:   JiST: Java in Simulation Time
            for Scalable Simulation of Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Speaker: Rimon Barr <barr@cs.cornell.edu>
Date:    Wednesday, 24 September 2003

Wireless ad hoc networks is an active area of research that is, for
fundamental reasons, dependent on simulation. Yet, existing simulation
approaches for modelling 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. It transforms a virtual machine (the Java Virtual
Machine, in our case) into a simulation platform, thus merging the traditional
systems and languages approaches to simulation.

In this talk, I will explain the details of the "simulation time"
transformation and the resulting programming model, as well as demonstrate
both its flexibility and efficiency. I will also discuss SWANS, a wireless
network simulator constructed atop JiST, and present some initial results.