Publications

2004

1. The mistaken axioms of wireless-network research,
   David Kotz, Calvin Newport, Bob Gray, Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, and Chip Elliott,
   Submitted to MobiHoc 2004.

2. Simulation validation using direct execution of wireless ad-hoc routing protocols,
   Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, David M. Nicol, Robert S. Gray, Calvin C. Newport, David F. Kotz, and Luiz Felipe Perrone,
   In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'04),
   Kufstein, Austria, May 16-19, 2004. To appear.
   [Compressed Postscript] [Abstract]

2003

3. Development of an internet backbone topology for large-scale network simulations,
   Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, and David M. Nicol.
   Preceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference,
   New Orleans, LA, December 7-10, 2003.
   [Compressed PDF] [Abstract]

4. Simulation of large-scale networks using SSF,
   David M. Nicol, Jason Liu, Michael Liljenstam, and Guanhua Yan.
   Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference,
   New Orleans, LA, December 7-10, 2003.
   [Compressed PDF] [Abstract]

5. Multiscale modeling and simulation of worm effects on the internet routing infrastructure,
   David M. Nicol, Michael Liljenstam, and Jason Liu.
   The 13th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation (Performance TOOLS 2003),
   Urbana, IL, September 2-5, 2003.
   [Compressed PDF] [Abstract]

6. An implementation of the SSF Scalable Simulation Framework on the Cray MTA,
   Robert R. Henry, Simon H. Kahan, Jason Liu, and David M. Nicol,
   Proceedings the 17th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'03),
   San Diego, CA, June 10-13, 2003, pp. 77-85.
   [Compressed PDF] [Abstract]

2002

7. Composite synchronization in parallel discrete-event simulation,
   David M. Nicol and Jason Liu,
   IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
   Volume 13, Number 5, May 2002, pp. 433-446.
   [Compressed Postscript] [Abstract]

8. Lookahead revisited in wireless network simulations,
   Jason Liu and David M. Nicol,
   Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'02),
   Washington, D.C., May 12-15, 2002, pp. 79-88.
   [Compressed Postscript] [Abstract]

2001

9. Towards high performance modeling of the 802.11 wireless protocol,
   Jason Liu, David M. Nicol, L. Felipe Perrone, and Michael Liljenstam,
   Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'01),
   Arlington, VA, December 9-12, 2001, pp. 1315-1320.
   [Compressed Postscript] [Abstract]

10. Simulation modeling of large-scale ad-hoc sensor networks,
    Jason Liu, L. Felipe Perrone, David M. Nicol, Michael Liljenstam, Chip Elliott, and David Pearson,
    European Simulation Interoperability Workshop 2001,
    London, England, June 25-27, 2001.
    [Compressed PDF] [Abstract]

11. Lock-free scheduling of logical processes in parallel simulation,
    Jason Liu, David M. Nicol, and King Tan,
    Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'01),
    Lake Arrowhead, CA, May 15-18, 2001, pp. 22-31.
    [Compressed Postscript] [Abstract]

12. Learning not to share,
    Jason Liu and David M. Nicol,
    Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'01),
    Lake Arrowhead, CA, May 15-18, 2001, pp. 46-55.
    [Compressed Postscript] [Abstract]

2000 and Before

13. Safe timestamps and large-scale modeling,
    David M. Nicol, Jason Liu, and James Cowie,
    Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'00),
    Bologna, Italy, May 28-31, 2000, pp. 71-78.
    [Compressed PDF] [Abstract]

14. Towards realistic million-node Internet simulations,
    James Cowie, Hongbo Liu, Jason Liu, David Nicol and Andy Ogielski,
    Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99),
    Las Vegas, NV, June 28-July 1, 1999.
    [Compressed PDF] [Abstract]

15. Performance prediction of a parallel simulator,
    Jason Liu, David M. Nicol, Brian J. Premore, and Anna L. Poplawski,
    Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'99),
    Atlanta, GA, May 1-4, 1999, pp. 156-164.
    [Compressed Postscript] [Abstract]

16. The dark side of risk (what your mother never told you about Time Warp),
    David M. Nicol and Jason Liu,
    Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'97),
    Lockenhaus, Austria, May 10-13, 1997, pp. 188-195.
    [Compressed Postscript] [Abstract]

17. Parallelizable execution-driven simulation of threaded distributed memory parallel computations,
    David M. Nicol and Jason Liu,
    Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'96),
    San Jose, CA, February 1-4, 1996, pp. 174-178.
    [Compressed Postscript] [Abstract]

Thesis

• Improvements in conservative parallel simulation of large-scale models,
  Xiaowen (Jason) Liu,
  Ph.D. Thesis, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, February 2003.
  [Compressed Postscript] [Abstract]

Technical Reports

1. Lock-free scheduling of logical processes in parallel simulation,
   Xiaowen Liu, David M. Nicol, and King Tan,
   TR2001-385, Dartmouth College, Computer Science. January 2001.

2. Automatic video pause detection filter,
   Xiaowen Liu, Charles B. Owen, and Fillia Makedon,
   PCS-TR97-307, Dartmouth College, Computer Science. February 1997.

3. A critique of the Telecommunications Description Language (TeD),
   Brian J. Premore, David M. Nicol, and Xiaowen Liu,
   PCS-TR96-299, Dartmouth College, Computer Science. November 1996.

4. The dark side of risk (what your mother never told you about Time Warp),
   David M. Nicol and Xiaowen Liu,
   PCS-TR96-298, Dartmouth College, Computer Science. November 1996.

White Papers

1. DaSSF 3.1 User's Manual,
   Jason Liu and David M. Nicol.
   Documentation Draft. April 2001.

2. DaSSF: Dartmouth Implementation of SSF,
   David M. Nicol and Jason Liu.
   Documentation Draft. November 1998.