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8th OMNeT++ Community Summit 2021
Virtual Summit – September 08-10, 2021
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
***** Submission Deadline July 15, 2021 *****
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OMNeT++ is a public-source, component-based, modular and
open-architecture simulation environment with strong GUI support and
an embeddable simulation kernel. It is designed to simulate diverse
discrete event-based systems.
The OMNeT++ Community Summit is an open meeting with time and space
for tutorials, discussions, coding sessions as well as presentations
on recent developments and novel ideas in the broad area of modeling
and simulation, with a focus on the OMNeT++ simulation framework.
The OMNeT++ Community Summit unites users, developers, and
researchers to discuss applications, developments, and ideas on the
topics of integrating simulation models, coupling different
simulation tools and providing more accurate and more efficient
modeling approaches and simulation models.
To facilitate the interaction among participants, the summit employs
a highly interactive presentation format called ConversTation, which
provides much more feedback and useful discussion time than
traditional talks. More information will be provided to presenters
and audience at a due time.
Following the success of previous editions, the 2021 Community Summit
will include a hackathon event. This provides the chance for
developers of simulation models and frameworks to consult OMNeT++ core
developers and fellow developers, to improve the quality and
interoperability of models and frameworks.
Scientific contributions will be reviewed by the technical program
committee and (if accepted and presented at the summit) will be
included in the proceedings, which will be published in arXiv.
The submission copyright will be retained by the authors.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Design, evaluation, validation of simulation models
- Simulative approaches to performance evaluation
- Simulation credibility and validation
- Cross-layer protocol or system design methodologies
- Modeling techniques, including stochastic and hybrid modeling
- Use of discrete event simulation in other domains
- Comparison/integration with other simulation/emulation tools
- Result interpretation and analysis
- Parallel simulation and simulation control
- Simulation in the loop
- Integration of hardware-specific code
- Industrial applications and practical use cases
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SUBMISSION and PARTICIPATION
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We invite researchers and users alike to submit one or more of the
following contribution types:
a) Scientific contributions (up to 8 pages) are full research papers
that describe ongoing work or finalized results. Full papers that are
reviewed and accepted by the TPC and presented at the summit will
appear in the summit proceedings that are published in arXiv.
b) Short abstracts (up to 3 pages) provide overviews of a proposed
presentation or demonstration. Authors may find this format suitable
for design proposals, for preliminary or more narrowly focused work,
for case studies, or to highlight OMNeT++-related results in work that
has been published elsewhere. Short abstracts will be invited as either
a presentation, as a demonstration, or a poster and will be published
on the summit website.
c) Hackathon proposal abstracts (up to 1 page) propose a topic for a
hackathon. This can be the optimization of an ongoing OMNeT++ project,
porting of frameworks to the newest OMNeT++ and INET versions, and many
more. They should be submitted via e-mail to the organizers
including detailed instructions will be distributed separately and made
available on the summit website.
d) Proposals for tutorials, demonstrations, coding sessions, discussion
panels, and other interactive community activities can be submitted via
All submissions should be of interest to the OMNeT++ community. We
welcome case studies that employ OMNeT++ in the evaluation of systems
as well as contributions addressing general questions of OMNeT++-based
simulations. For model-centric submissions, we encourage the author(s)
to publicize source code at the time of submission. Proposals for
individual contributions will be invited depending on the submission
type and based on the expected interest for the OMNeT++ community.
Contributions should be prepared according to the submission guidelines
provided in arXiv. Detailed instructions are available on the summit
website.
The 2021 Community Summit is sponsored and free to attend by everyone.
Registration or publication fees will not be applied.
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DATES and DEADLINES
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- Submission Deadline: July 15, 2021
- Camera-Ready: August 16, 2021
- Author Notification: August 2, 2021
- Hackathon + Summit (to be confirmed): September 8-10, 2021
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ORGANIZERS
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- Virtual Summit Organizer:
+ Rudolf Hornig (OpenSim Kft.)
- Technical Program Organizers
+ Marcel Marek (Brno University of Technology)
+ Giovanni Nardini (University of Pisa)
+ Vladimir Vesely (Brno University of Technology)
- Hackathon Organizers
+ Asanga Udugama (University of Bremen, Germany)